Summary: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed an OpenAI agent accessed non-public files on a government portal in June, marking the first known AI breach of state infrastructure.
Summary: Bitcoin dropped 2% to $84,357 on Wednesday while the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield climbed above 5%, its highest level since 2007.
Summary: 21Shares listed Europe's first physically backed Zcash exchange-traded product on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam, charging a 2.5% annual management fee.
Summary: Coinbase introduced fixed-rate USDC loans against Bitcoin collateral, marking the first enterprise-scale deployment of Morpho Midnight.
Summary: Three EU financial authorities jointly warned that quantum advances could undermine blockchain cryptography, citing Google research suggesting fewer qubits are needed for attacks.
Summary: Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, China's growing self-sufficiency and persistent trade deficits with the U.S. limit Washington's leverage despite ongoing tariff pressures.
Summary: Blockchain security firm SlowMist identified malicious modules in the FomoPeek iOS app that exploited kernel vulnerabilities to steal nearly $580,000 in crypto assets.
Summary: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is reportedly a leading candidate to become President Donald Trump’s next artificial intelligence czar, according to Semafor.
Summary: BlackRock research suggests broad AI adoption and machine-to-machine payments could significantly increase demand for stablecoins and tokenized compute assets.
Summary: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday as France convenes a meeting examining artificial intelligence risks to international security.
Summary: The Federal Reserve Board approved BancFirst Corporation's application to acquire and merge with Spirit BankCorp, Inc., based in Bristow, Oklahoma.
Summary: White-hat actors moved 40.71 BTC tied to the Coldcard exploit into a transaction labeled as a crypto recovery trust, representing a small fraction of the total theft.
Summary: OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna minutes after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, cutting API prices by half compared to previous promotional rates.
Summary: Asset manager 21shares listed a physically backed Zcash ETP on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam, following the recent US launch of the Grayscale Zcash ETF.
Summary: White hats transferred 52.37 Bitcoin rescued from wallets exposed by a Coldcard vulnerability to the Wyoming-based Crypto Recovery Trust, according to Galaxy Digital research head Alex Thorn.
Summary: The total cryptocurrency market capitalization briefly surpassed $3 trillion on Tuesday as Bitcoin traded near $86,000 and open interest in perpetual futures reached nearly $160 billion.
Summary: Ben Nadareski of Solstice argues that increased liquidity and institutional adoption are stabilizing crypto markets, reducing the extreme volatility seen in previous cycles.
Summary: US spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted nearly $1 billion in net inflows on Monday, marking their highest daily total for the year.
Summary: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is confirmed for the Thursday dinner in Washington, while China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet disclosed which executives will accompany President Xi.
Summary: Bitcoin rose nearly 7% to over $86,000 after the crypto market structure bill stalled due to Democratic concerns over Trump family conflicts of interest.