Treasury Scrambles Bank CEOs to DC After AI Cracks Decade-Old Vulnerabilities
When a new AI model can find vulnerabilities that have been sitting in bank code for decades, the Treasury Secretary doesn't send an email.
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Ethereum Dev Calls Crypto Politicians Grifters, Runs for Congress Anyway
An Ethereum developer who thinks most crypto politicians are grifters just threw his hat in the ring for Congress. Joe "CupOJoseph" Schiarizzi, an Ethereum developer, is running as a Democrat in Virginia's new 7th district
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SEC's Top Market Regulator Now Runs the Crypto Firm He Once Oversaw
The revolving door between Washington and crypto just installed a president at the company trying to make Wall Street assets programmable. Brett Redfearn, former SEC Division of Trading and Markets director, is now president of Securitize, the tokenization infrastructure company prepping for an IPO
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UK Cops Freeze $12M Before Crypto Scammers Could Cash Out
Law enforcement just proved it can move faster than crypto scammers, and that changes the game. Operation Atlantic froze $12 million in crypto tied to approval phishing scams and identified over 20,000 victims across three countries.
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BlackRock's Tokenization Partner Hires Its Former SEC Regulator
The company that tokenized BlackRock's money market fund just hired the guy who used to regulate trading at the SEC. Brett Redfearn, former SEC Trading and Markets director, joins Securitize as president as the firm prepares to go public
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Tom Lee Parks 4% of All Ethereum on NYSE Balance Sheet
Tom Lee's Bitmine just moved 4% of Ethereum's total supply onto the NYSE balance sheet with a $4 billion buyback war chest, and the stock is still eating dirt.
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AI Couple Called 20,000 Gas Stations in One Weekend to Break Big Oil's Pricing Cartel
A couple just called 20,000 gas stations with an AI agent they built in a weekend, and the real story isn't the gas prices. Matt Cortland and John Fleming built Gas Index using Claude Code, an AI phone agent that called 20,000 US gas stations to collect real-time pricing data
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Polygon Spins Out $100M Stablecoin Unit While Crypto Bros Chase Memecoins
Polygon is spinning off a stablecoin payments business and raising up to $100 million to do it, betting that the real money in crypto isn't speculation but boring old transactions. Polygon Labs is in early fundraising talks to raise $50-100 million by selling equity in a new stablecoin payments unit
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Treasury Just Killed the Point of Stablecoins With Banking-Style Compliance Rules
The Treasury just drew the compliance line for stablecoins, and it looks a lot like the rules that made banking boring. The U.S. Treasury released joint proposed rules under the GENIUS Act requiring stablecoin issuers to build full AML/CFT and sanctions compliance programs
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Anthropic's New AI Found Thousands of Zero-Days It Won't Release
Anthropic just shipped an AI so good at finding security holes that it can't measure whether it's safe to release. Claude Mythos identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system, browser, and critically, the cryptography libraries that DeFi runs on
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Bitcoin Has 10 Years Before Quantum Computers Break It, Says Bernstein
Wall Street just told Bitcoin holders to stop panicking about quantum computers and start planning an upgrade. Bernstein analysts say quantum computing poses a real but manageable threat to Bitcoin, framing it as a multi-year upgrade cycle rather than an existential crisis
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Nasdaq Company Puts Real Shares On-Chain, Not Crypto Wrappers
A Nasdaq-listed company just put its actual shares on-chain, not a derivative or a wrapper, the real thing. Securitize is tokenizing Currenc Group's ordinary shares on both Ethereum and Solana, making them tradable on public blockchains
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SBF Texted CZ for Billions Like He Was Asking to Borrow a Charger
The world's richest crypto founder just published the receipts on how the industry's biggest fraud went down, and it reads like a case study in what happens when money moves faster than trust.
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FBI Names the Age Group Losing Billions to Crypto Scams
Crypto fraud just cost Americans $11.4 billion in a single year, and the FBI data shows exactly who's getting cleaned out. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center logged $11.366 billion in crypto-related fraud losses in 2025, a 22% jump from 2024
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Bitcoin Hits $72K the Moment Trump Pauses Iran Strikes
Bitcoin just jumped 5% because a president hit pause on airstrikes, and that tells you everything about what crypto actually is in 2025. Bitcoin rose above $72K after Trump announced a two-week pause on Iran military strikes following talks with Pakistan's PM
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North Korean Operative Infiltrated Solana DEX, Company Orders Full Withdrawal
A Solana DEX just told everyone to pull their money because they hired a North Korean operative, and that sentence contains every nightmare about decentralized finance in 15 words.
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CME Group Bets $7 Trillion Infrastructure on Two Chains Retail Ignored
The world's largest derivatives exchange just bet on two alt-L1s most retail hasn't heard of. CME Group is adding Avalanche and Sui futures contracts to its crypto derivatives suite, pending regulatory approval
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North Korea's Been Writing Your DeFi Code Since 2019
North Korean operatives have been writing the code for your favorite DeFi protocols since 2019, and last week's $280 million Drift hack might be just the warmup act.
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Polymarket Abandons Bridged Tokens for Native USDC After $20B in Bets
Polymarket is ripping out its plumbing and installing native infrastructure, which tells you everything about where prediction markets are headed. Polymarket is overhauling its exchange stack and replacing USDC.e with a USDC-backed native token in the coming weeks
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Bitcoin's Quantum Problem Isn't Code—It's 1.7 Million Sleeping Wallets
Bitcoin's quantum threat isn't a code problem, it's a people problem. Grayscale's head of research says Bitcoin's quantum challenges are "more social than technical", with the real risk being whether the community can agree on fixes.
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