‘Don’t rush anything’: Vitalik Buterin warns against hasty wallet migrations amid growing AI threats
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that the crypto industry should take risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously.
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Samsung to launch USDC transfers on Solana for US Galaxy users
The South Korean tech giant said the feature is built into Samsung Wallet, with fiat on- and off-ramps, rather than a separate crypto app.
Solana’s Orca merges with Loopscale in push to finance AI, robotics and defense
Orca and Loopscale unite as Formation, targeting financing for AI, energy, robotics and defense.
Grayscale says crypto ETF market is entering new phase as Zcash ETF tops $1 billion
Grayscale's Krista Lynch says SEC listing standards cover about 15 tokens, letting crypto ETF issuers get selective beyond bitcoin and ether.
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake calls for ‘bunker mode’ planning over private key recovery risk
Justin Drake recommended moving crypto assets to fresh addresses that keep their public keys hidden behind a hash.
Hunter Biden says LAPTOP market maker should ‘buy it all back and burn it’
A commissioned report details thin liquidity and market-maker-linked gains during LAPTOP’s launch.
Moody’s gives Sky Protocol B3 rating as institutional interest in USDS grows
Moody's assigned Sky a B3 issuer rating with a stable outlook, its first rating of a stablecoin protocol. Sky is also rated B- by S&P.
NEAR’s Polosukhin sees shrinking need for centralized exchanges as onchain tools expand
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin said users no longer need centralized exchanges for "a lot" of crypto activity.
Jito’s JTX plans mobile app this fall, eyes perps integration later this winter
Jito’s JTX plans a mobile app, equities feature, and perpetual futures as it expands beyond spot trading on Solana.
‘Every single exchange’ will have to adopt public blockchain infrastructure to compete, Hyperliquid Policy Center CEO says
Chervinsky says that beyond regulated perps, onchain markets need to enter the U.S. regulatory perimeter, a step he expects will happen soon.
Robinhood adds $25 million worth of bitcoin to balance sheet as it deepens crypto push
Robinhood SVP Johann Kerbrat says the purchase was intended to signal the company's commitment to the crypto sector.
Bitcoin briefly slides below $84,000 as crypto long liquidations reach $487 million
Crypto liquidations amounted to $555.6 million over the past 24 hours, including $487.2 million in long positions, according to CoinGlass.