SEC proposes transfer agent rule, sets event to figure out round-the-clock U.S. trading
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued an agenda for its 24-trading roundtable and proposed a new transfer-agent rule with blockchain implications.
Stopping a blockchain doesn’t always recover stolen funds – What actually happened when 3 networks pulled the plug
Three blockchain networks stopped producing blocks within four days. Each blockchain halt used different emergency powers, and Cronos alone also replaced part of its canonical history. Cronos said validators halted the network by consensus after an exploit affected Tectonic, restored the chain to state from before the incident, and resumed production from block 90,896,189. The…
Zcash May Have a Bigger Role to Play as AI Threatens Financial Privacy: Grayscale
Artificial intelligence could usher in a new wave of concern over financial privacy, according to a Grayscale research report. The firm’s Head of Research, Zach Pandl, expects AI to create new privacy threats and drive demand for new solutions. He sees Zcash as one potential option. Zcash For Blockchain Privacy Public attention to financial privacy…
A validator reward failure on Core DAO triggers exchange transfer blocks and leaves token issuance in question
Core DAO validator rewards exceeded the protocol’s intended levels for a small group of validators, the project said, creating an unresolved supply question for the CORE token as two exchanges restricted transfers. Core DAO said it had identified the root cause and was working on mitigations. It said user assets were safe. It described the…
Former US Rep. George Santos Banned From Kalshi for Life After Betting on Himself
Prediction-market exchange Kalshi has permanently banned former US Rep. George Santos from accessing the platform after its Compliance Department found “reasonable cause to believe” that he engaged in insider trading and market manipulation. The lifetime ban, effective August 28, 2026, is the first permanent penalty of its kind imposed by Kalshi on a user. Penalty…
How recovery of 61 BTC unlocked a potential $432M treasure hunt for early Bitcoin users
CEL Solicitors says it has traced more than 5,500 BTC that it believes belong to former users of Intersango, an early Bitcoin exchange that disappeared more than a decade ago. At Bitcoin’s current price near $78,824, those coins carry a value of roughly $433.5 million. One former UK customer has already recovered 61 BTC from…
OpenAI update shows new safeguards would have cut off 700 rogue AI agent swam 24 hours faster
OpenAI’s postmortem on the Hugging Face incident says chain-of-thought monitoring it now deploys would have paged security more than a day before the July 11 breach of Hugging Face systems. The company also says its largest planned frontier reinforcement-learning run remains on hold while smaller tests assess model behavior, validate safeguards and build more evidence…
Solana’s 7% Pullback Isn’t Slowing Demand: Here’s the $150 Setup
Solana was trading near $102 on Tuesday, down more than 7% from its recent seven-month high of nearly $110. The recent price weakness has not stopped signs of stronger demand from building across the network. According to Ali Martinez, Solana recorded an average of 9.5 million new addresses per day over the past week, a…
Optimism pushes network speeds to 200 ms, but standard data feeds are dropping key information
Optimism is targeting 200 ms subblocks on OP Mainnet, cutting the preconfirmation interval from 250 milliseconds in a rolling change targeted for Aug. 31. Subblocks, formerly called Flashblocks, are incremental updates the sequencer sends while it is still building a normal block, giving apps feedback before that block is sealed. Related Reading Coinbase-backed Base unveils…
XRP Price Prediction: Investors Face $750M Paper Loss, But Is It Time to Buy the Blood?
XRP is sitting exactly where the market’s patience is being tested hardest with a undicided price prediction. Five major US spot XRP ETFs are collectively underwater by $746.1 million on a cost basis of roughly $1.7 billion, but investors kept buying anyway. SEC filings show Bitwise, Canary Capital, Franklin Templeton, 21Shares, and Grayscale recorded about…