ASX shareholder plans to sue former directors over failed blockchain project
ASX’s failed blockchain-based CHESS overhaul faces renewed governance scrutiny after the exchange admitted misleading the market.
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Securitize falls 20% after earnings miss as tokenization revenue falls short
Securitize (SECZ) shares plunged 20% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the tokenization firm fell short of Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations in its first earnings report since going public last month.
Arizona crypto ATM law helps 35 scam victims recover $171K
Arizona’s crypto ATM law has helped 35 scam victims receive full refunds totaling $171,332 since the measure took effect in September 2025, according to the state’s attorney general.
Hawaii crypto ATM ban to take effect on Oct. 1
Hawaii will join Minnesota, Tennessee and Indiana in becoming the fourth US state to completely ban the use of cryptocurrency ATMs and kiosks in response to scams.
'Inner Thoughts' of Every Major AI Model Exposed in Massive Exploit
Security researchers have found a way to read the encrypted "inner thoughts" of every major AI reasoning model—and uncovered 62 live API keys and 33 passwords buried in session logs that developers had shared publicly o…
Why Ethereum Price Could Skyrocket to $3,000 Within Days or Weeks
In the next few months, Ethereum could rise to $3,000 and beyond within a matter of days or weeks.
Goldman Sachs to acquire ETF manager NEOS in $2.25B deal
The deal would add NEOS’ $30 billion ETF business, including Bitcoin- and Ether-linked income funds, to Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Prediction markets should dial back faulty filings for incentives to boost trading: CFTC
Like any regulated trading platform under authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, prediction markets firms try to encourage heavy traders and for firms to act as market makers in ways that can deepen part…
SpaceXAI Wants Grok Bot to Do Your Job—But It Needs Access to Your Accounts
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is joining the race to build AI agents that can navigate software and complete work for users.
The AI-Generated Pattern Hides You From Surveillance Cameras—Including Flock
Bill Swearingen spent the past year running one experiment over and over from his home in Kansas City, where he co-founded the SecKC security meetup. About 31 million tests later, he says he can produce patterns on dema…
NYC council announces probe into ‘predatory marketing practices’ on prediction markets
Council Speaker Julie Menin sent letters to four companies offering prediction market services to New Yorkers as part of an investigation into their marketing practices.
XRP News: Why One Analyst Calls XRP ‘Gold With Internet Speed’
XRP was built to solve a problem gold never could, according to Vet, a contributor to the XRP Ledger Foundation, an XRP Ledger dUNL validator, and co-founder of XRP Café. In a recent interview, he laid out why he belie…
Goldman Sachs' $2.25B NEOS Deal Hands It Ready-Made Bitcoin Income ETF Business
Goldman Sachs is buying its way into crypto income funds, striking a deal worth up to $2.25 billion to acquire NEOS Investments, the ETF specialist behind one of the market's largest Bitcoin covered-call products.
China’s DeepSeek Upgrades V4 Pro: Claude Fable Is Only 5% Better at 4,500% the Price
DeepSeek shipped the finished version of its flagship on Wednesday with no blog post and no announcement. The tell was a table cell: the model version listed for “deepseek-v4-pro” on the API pricing page now reads DeepS…
After Coldcard Was Hacked, $15 Billion in Bitcoin Moved to Safety
Casa CEO Nick Neuman says the mass Bitcoin migration after the $130M Coldcard exploit proves distributed self-custody is Bitcoin's immune system—not its vulnerability.
Fidelity Files to Let Its Ethereum ETF Stake and Pay Investors
Fidelity has asked the SEC for permission to turn its spot Ethereum ETF into a yield-bearing product. The Boston asset manager filed a pre-effective amendment to its registration statement on Aug. 11, adding disclosure …
SimpleSwap Review 2026: Is SimpleSwap Legit and Safe?
SimpleSwap is a self-custodial multi-source swap aggregator that handles the complexity of wallet-to-wallet crypto exchanges. Instead of comparing rates across multiple exchanges or building swap routes manually, you ge…
Kraken adds S&P 500 to funded trading program, commodities to follow
Kraken’s funded trading program adds round-the-clock exposure to the US equity benchmark as it builds out its multi-asset offering.
Wintermute plans $1 billion AI push beyond crypto: Bloomberg
Crypto market maker Wintermute plans to invest about $1 billion in high-frequency trading and artificial intelligence data-center infrastructure over five years as it expands into stocks, commodities and foreign exchang…
FlightAware drops Kalshi lawsuit one day after filing
Following the initial lawsuit, at least one of Kalshi’s event contracts was changed to list “Primary Source Agency” as the entity behind verifying flight cancellation data.
Why Bitcoin Barely Moved Even as US Inflation Cools to 3.4%
U.S. inflation in July slowed as expected, and markets—including Bitcoin—took it in stride.
Bank of England tests stablecoin, digital pound interoperability in cross-border payments
The Digital Pound Lab is testing a cross-border trade finance flow combining stablecoin payments with simulated digital pound settlement.
Goldman Sachs leaps into bitcoin income ETFs with $2.25 billion NEOS buyout
Goldman Sachs is acquiring NEOS Investments, the firm behind BTCI, a $1.1 billion bitcoin synthetic exchange-traded fund (ETF) that yields roughly 27%, according to a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg.
Bitwise cuts 14% of staff while still expecting growth
Crypto companies from including Coinbase, BitGo, Robinhood, Polygon and Pump.fun have announced workforce reductions this year, citing a variety of reasons, including shifting to AI and market forces.