EU watchdogs warn of impersonation scams amid MiCA licensing shakeout
Criminals are reportedly using fake websites and falsified documents to target customers searching for licensed crypto providers.Fraudsters are impersonating financial...
Month: August 2026
Fed’s Cook says she’d support rate hike if disinflation stalls
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said she is “prepared to act” if inflation remains too high above the Fed’s target...
ElizaOS token sinks 19% to record low after founder declares it ‘dead’
Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters said the project transferred its remaining treasury to settle a tokenholder lawsuit and will continue...
Meta latest AI firm to see model go rogue during testing
The incident reportedly stemmed from a misconfigured testing environment, adding Meta to a growing list of AI firms whose models...
Bitcoin, Ether and Solana Losses Deepen as GSR Cuts ETH Exposure
TLDR: GSR raised Bitcoin allocation while lowering Ether exposure as crypto trading activity continued slowing this week. Bitcoin, Ether, and...
China Says It Cracked the Chipmaking Tech the West Spent Billions Trying to Keep From It
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics built a laser-produced plasma EUV light-source...
Mastercard Closes $1.8B BVNK Deal in Stablecoin Payments Bet
Mastercard has completed its acquisition of stablecoin payments company BVNK, adding onchain settlement and wallet infrastructure to its global network....
Eliza Labs Founder Declares ELIZAOS AI-Agent Token ‘Dead’ After Lawsuit
Shaw Walters, founder of Eliza Labs, says the ELIZAOS token is finished after a class-action settlement exhausted the project’s treasury,...
US and UK Reveal Digital Asset Plan to Modernize Finance
American and British regulators are expanding cooperation on crypto, tokenization, payments, artificial intelligence, and financial resilience. The initiative connects new...
Mysten Labs tech chief joins Anthropic to work on AI security
Mysten Labs’ co-founder Sam Blackshear said he is joining Anthropic as AI shifts the balance between attackers and defenders.Sam Blackshear,...
Bitcoin Red Team reports 5K findings in sweeping security audit
“There’s a lot of chaos right now in the ecosystem. We absolutely understand that many people are being bombarded with...
Block raises 2026 outlook on strong quarter, says AI touches nearly all code
Cash App and Square drove better-than-expected results, while the company said it expanded its use of AI across software engineering.Fintech...
Taiwan plans Travel Rule for domestic crypto transfers from October
Taiwan’s regulator plans to apply the Travel Rule to domestic VASP transfers from October before extending it to overseas platforms...
Missouri trio charged over alleged Bitcoin kidnapping plot
The defendants allegedly traveled from Missouri to Connecticut to kidnap a Bitcoin holder and force him to transfer cryptocurrency before...
Cloudflare introduces wallets for AI agents, plans stablecoin payments
Cloudflare introduced programmable Wallets for AI agents and said payment features using stablecoins will launch in a future update.Cloudflare introduced...
