Astra is the first OpenAI model to reach its “Critical” cybersecurity threshold, meaning it can find previously unknown vulnerabilities and develop ways to exploit them across hardened systems.
Every large-cap token fell over the past 24 hours, and the high-beta majors gave up roughly triple what bitcoin did.
Bitcoin’s hashrate has spent 316 days below its record as miners redirect power toward AI. The seven-day network average stood near 914 exahashes per second on Aug. 31, about 20.6% below its October 2025 peak of 1,151.6 EH/s. The stretch without a new high is the longest in a decade, exceeding the previous 252-day maximum…
BTC trades choppy as $90 oil and rising bond yields weigh on stocks and gold.
Goldman Sachs, Jane Street Group, and Millennium Management were the three largest reported holders of spot XRP ETFs in second-quarter 13F filings, according to Bloomberg Intelligence data shared by James Seyffart on August 31. The filings show that institutional exposure has grown alongside a sharp increase in XRP ETF inflows, even as the Ripple token…
Robinhood Chain revenue from applications totaled between $2.66 million and $2.82 million over a rolling 24-hour window early on Sept. 1, creating an eye-catching measure of network activity with no disclosed bridge to Robinhood’s corporate accounts. DefiLlama tracks application revenue, chain revenue and chain fees as separate layers. Its dashboard showed $963,612 of chain revenue…
The Pocket Bitcoin breach exposed more than email addresses and support conversations for 291 customers, the company said. Some copied records linked real-world identities to public Bitcoin activity. The finding expands the scope described in the Swiss non-custodial Bitcoin service’s Aug. 21 disclosure. In an Aug. 31 update, Pocket Bitcoin said correspondence with partner banks…
July and August have been quite successful for the self-proclaimed Dogecoin killer, with its price closing both months in the green. Nonetheless, certain important elements suggest that September may not be as beneficial and could deliver a move south. The Worrying Signals The first concerning element on the list is Shiba Inu’s burn rate, which…
Adjusted USDC transfer volume reached $32 trillion in 2026 through Coin Metrics’ August measurement, with each dollar of supply turning over 741 times at an annualized rate. Those figures signal reach and settlement intensity. Circle’s second-quarter revenue, however, remained dominated by yield on the assets backing USDC. For the three months ended June 30, reserve…