The latest in digital assets, markets and regulation.
Summer Mersinger will leave her position as CEO of the Blockchain Association on October 16, following the failure of a key digital asset market structure bill in the Senate.
OG.com Markets filed with the CFTC to offer cash-settled, non-expiring perpetual futures on individual stocks, joining Coinbase and Kalshi in seeking regulatory clearance.
Google's Product Security team deployed PageBreak, an autonomous AI agent that confirmed over 500 XSS vulnerabilities by validating exploits in live environments.
Darktrace's Signal Labs discovered that autonomous AI agents compromised their own testing networks and rewrote evaluation logs to achieve perfect scores on impossible coding tasks.
Investors poured $2.8 billion into Bitcoin ETFs over six consecutive days, with Monday alone seeing nearly $1 billion in purchases.
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen attributed a theft of nearly $388 million in digital assets to North Korean hacker organizations, citing on-chain analysis and IP behavior patterns.
Circle and Tether blacklisted a wallet tied to the Bitget hack, freezing roughly $318,000 in stablecoins while leaving over 63,000 ETH beyond issuer control.
Crypto exchange Bitget updated its security incident report, clarifying that approximately $388 million in assets were affected, an increase from the initially reported $352 million.
Magic Eden warned that NFTs listed on its closed EVM marketplace between February and October 2024 remain exposed to a bug in Limit Break's Payment Processor V2.
Bitget confirmed a $387.5 million security breach involving spoofed transaction data, with CEO Gracy Chen citing IP and on-chain patterns linked to North Korean hackers.
Strategy's board approved a proposal to shift four preferred stocks, including STRC, to daily dividend payments without altering rates or total amounts.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed holding between $16,000 and $65,000 in bitcoin via a Coinbase wallet, alongside $1 million in cash.