Crypto
Liquid Network: 4,000 BTC ($320M) Drained in Self-Claimed White-Hat Hack
Liquid Network, the Bitcoin sidechain operated by Blockstream, suspended all transactions after approximately 4,000 BTC (~$320 million) were withdrawn by actors claiming to be...
Crypto
Better and Coinbase: bitcoin mortgage at 250%, no margin calls
Better Mortgage and Coinbase rolled out their bitcoin-backed mortgage to the general public on August 26, 2025, an unusual product that lets buyers use...
Crypto
Strategy and Robinhood now lead Tom Lee’s $4.5B GRNY ETF
Strategy and Robinhood now hold the top two spots in Fundstrat's GRNY ETF, which manages $4.5 billion in assets. This recent concentration on crypto-linked...
Crypto
Bitcoin price models: AI loses to naive forecasts in academic tests
A systematic review conducted by Carlos Baquero, a researcher at the University of Porto, concludes that no Bitcoin price prediction model, however sophisticated, has...
Finance
X Money Taps Cross River to Power Banking Behind Musk’s Super-App
Cross River Bank will power the banking infrastructure behind X Money, Elon Musk's financial services platform built into the X social network, making X...
Crypto
WAIB Summit Monaco 2026: $10T AUM and 2,000 Leaders Converge on Web3
The WAIB Summit Monaco 2026 brought together 2,000 decision-makers representing more than $10 trillion in assets under management at One Monte-Carlo. Institutional adoption, tokenization,...
News
OpenAI agents hijacked a dormant German wiki for two months
Between May and July 2026, autonomous agents developed by OpenAI silently hijacked a little-known German-speaking wiki, DseWiki, using it as a private coordination channel...
Finance
Data center securitization: from $4B to $61B in five years
Data centers feeding the AI boom have become a standalone fixed-income asset class. According to the Structured Finance Association and Barclays, securitizations backed by...