DeFi - The Wire by FourthWeb - AI, RWA, & Web3 / Web4 Intelligence (Page 151)

AI Agent Economy Apr 12, 2026

Trump's $500B AI Chip Plan Blocked by 12 Overworked Bureaucrats

Trump wants to flood the world with American AI chips, but the Bureau of Industry and Security can't process the paperwork fast enough to make it happen.

Real World Assets Apr 11, 2026

Ether Machine walks away from $1.6B SPAC after $50M breakup fee

A $1.6 billion bet on corporate crypto just walked away from the public markets, and it cost $50 million just to say goodbye. The Ether Machine and Dynamix mutually terminated their SPAC merger, citing "unfavorable market conditions" in a deal that valued the combined entity at $1.6 billion.

AI Agent Economy Apr 11, 2026

OpenAI's AI Skips the Manual, Controls Adobe Software on Its Own

An AI just learned to drive desktop software without reading the manual. Peter Gostev used OpenAI's Codex to automate photo denoising in Adobe Lightroom by having the AI figure out how to batch-process 50 images without prior knowledge of the workflow.

Real World Assets Apr 11, 2026

Jordi Visser: The Economy Split in Two and You're Trading the Wrong Half

The economy didn't break in 2022, it split in two, and most investors are still trading the wrong half. Jordi Visser says we're living through unprecedented market volatility driven by AI reshaping economic structures since 2022

Human Imperative Apr 11, 2026

Anthropic Built an AI Hacker Too Dangerous to Release

Anthropic just built an AI so good at hacking that they won't release it to the public. Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview can autonomously find deep security vulnerabilities in code and build exploits to gain admin access, making it too dangerous for public release.

Real World Assets Apr 11, 2026

Bitwise Bets Millions on Hyperliquid Before Most Investors Know It Exists

Bitwise just filed the paperwork that usually comes right before an ETF launches, and this one's for Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetuals exchange most people still haven't heard of.

Real World Assets Apr 11, 2026

Trump's Crypto Project Borrows Money Using Its Own Plummeting Token as Collateral

When the president's DeFi project uses its own token as collateral to borrow against itself, you're watching tokenomics eat its own tail in real time.

Real World Assets Apr 11, 2026

Crypto Whales Dumped $2.1B Before You Read the CPI Headline

Crypto whales are already positioned for the CPI print while retail investors are still reading headlines about the ceasefire.

AI Agent Economy Apr 11, 2026

Anthropic's Mythos AI Is Too Dangerous to Release. Security Experts Disagree.

Anthropic says its new AI is too dangerous to release, but the smartest people in the room aren't buying it. Anthropic announced it's withholding its Mythos AI model from public release, claiming it could let non-experts exploit major operating system vulnerabilities

AI Agent Economy Apr 11, 2026

Anthropic Banned Its Own User for Building an AI Agent Too Well

Anthropic just showed us what happens when AI agents get too good at using AI models: the model maker pulls the plug. Anthropic temporarily banned the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source tool that lets developers build AI agents on top of Claude, right after raising prices on OpenClaw traffic.

Real World Assets Apr 11, 2026

Bitcoin Jumps $72K After Inflation Data Proves Macro Traders Right

Bitcoin just proved it still trades like a macro asset, not a religion. U.S. March CPI came in at 3.3% year-over-year, missing Wall Street's 3.4% forecast, while core CPI printed 2.6% versus 2.7% expected

Real World Assets Apr 11, 2026

AI Agents Just Solved Crypto's $127 Million Execution Problem

AI agents can now reason through DeFi strategies, but until this week they couldn't execute them without risking $127 million race condition failures.

Real World Assets Apr 10, 2026

Trump's Money Chiefs Tell Congress Crypto Can't Wait

The people who actually run money in America just told Congress to stop stalling on crypto rules.

AI Agent Economy Apr 10, 2026

Custom GPTs Let You Clone Your Best Work. Most People Will Still Use ChatGPT Wrong.

OpenAI just handed every knowledge worker the tools to clone their best workflows—most will still outsource to ChatGPT like it's a search bar. OpenAI launched custom GPTs and a new Skills feature that let users build reusable AI workflows and purpose-built assistants without code

Real World Assets Apr 10, 2026

DeFi's Permissionless Promise Is Breaking and No One Sees It

DeFi is staring down threats that could unravel the entire promise of permissionless finance, and most users have no idea how exposed they are.

Real World Assets Apr 10, 2026

Ethereum Flashes First Buy Signal Since 2022 as $2.2B Options Expire

Ethereum derivatives just flashed a buy signal that hasn't appeared in three years, and it's happening the same day $2.2 billion in crypto options expire.

Real World Assets Apr 10, 2026

TON Just Became Faster Than Solana and Nobody Noticed

TON just went from slow-motion blockchain to blink-and-you-miss-it fast, and if you're still thinking of it as "that Telegram token," you're about to miss the point. TON's Catchain 2.0 upgrade dropped transaction finality from 10 seconds to under 1 second, a 10x speed boost that went live April 10.

Real World Assets Apr 10, 2026

Trump Crypto Venture Borrows $75M Against Its Own Token, Locks Depositors Out

The Trump family's crypto project just borrowed $75 million against its own token, drained a lending pool dry, and left depositors unable to withdraw while insisting everything is going exactly as planned.