Bitcoin Starts the Week Flat, But Chainlink Is Flying—Here's Why
LINK hit an eight-month high after Bottomline, a top-three SWIFT services provider moving $16 trillion a year, tapped Chainlink to connect 600-plus banks to blockchain settlement.
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Ethereum Proposal Would Let Users Pay Gas Without Holding ETH
EIP-8141 has been a draft since January, and its authors pitch it first as a defense against quantum computers.
Irish Gangs Are Renting Private Vaults to Hide Crypto Keys
Keys are going into rented boxes alongside cash, watches and passports, Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau says.
Coldcard Hacker Moves $7.7M, Nearly Half of Third-Wave Bitcoin Haul
The attacker built 293 separate vaults for the stolen Bitcoin and is emptying them in order of size, largest first.
'Purported White-Hat Hackers' Withdraw $320M in Bitcoin From Liquid
Blockstream and the hackers are engaging with each other through PGP-signed messages in Bitcoin transactions.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Is Shockingly Good at Almost Everything
Early testers spent OpenAI's launch weekend pushing Astra through 3D cities, playable games, Bach chorales and research papers.
XRP Gets Another Boost Through Ripple Deal With Florida Athletics
The multi-year deal will place the XRP logo on the field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium starting this season, extending Ripple's push into college athletics.
Stablecoins Won't Scale Without Banks
With a growing number of institutions exploring stablecoins, the bottleneck is regulated infrastructure they can trust.
This Crypto Project Just Funded 1,000 Student Loans Entirely On-Chain
The team behind Pencil Finance says the financing supported thousands of Southeast Asian students, but it did not disclose borrower costs, defaults, or investor returns.
Ancient Bitcoin Wallet That Turned $120 Into $3 Million Wakes Up
At least four more decade-old wallets moved a combined $15.7 million between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4, with one batch of coins sent to Coinbase in a likely sign of a sale.
What Is Robinhood Chain? The Ethereum Layer-2 Network for Tokenized Stocks and Meme Coins
Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum layer-2 network built with Arbitrum technology for tokenized assets, crypto apps, and on-chain financial products.
Update Your Browser: Google Patches Chrome Flaw Hackers Were Already Using
The update fixes a high-severity flaw in Chrome’s V8 engine, but Google has not revealed who is using it or whom they targeted.