Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team spent the previous yr instructing AI agents to behave like skilled DeFi attackers. The agents discovered to fork blockchains, write exploit scripts, drain liquidity swimming pools, and pocket the proceeds, all in Docker containers the place no actual funds have been in danger. On Dec. 1, the crew published results that…
The typical knowledge says veteran holders don’t promote into weak point. They accumulate via drawdowns, harvest beneficial properties throughout euphoria, and in any other case sit nonetheless whereas newer cohorts churn. Late 2025 is testing that mannequin. Across Ethereum, XRP, and pockets of the DeFi stack, dormant whales are shifting provide to exchanges as mid-term…
Bitcoin (BTC) jumped 11% from its Dec. 1 lows at $83,822.76 to over $93,000 in a single day, pushed by a convergence of macro and micro developments. The Federal Reserve formally ended quantitative tightening (QT) on Dec. 1, coinciding with the New York Fed conducting roughly $25 billion in morning repo operations and one other…
XRP spot ETFs have posted one among the most constant influx streaks of this quarter, attracting roughly $756 million throughout eleven consecutive buying and selling periods since their Nov. 13 launch. Yet the power in the ETF demand contrasts with XRP’s price efficiency. According to CryptoSlate’s knowledge, the token has fallen about 20% over the…
Jerome Powell stepped in entrance of cameras on Dec. 1 on the Hoover Institution’s George Shultz memorial occasion with three audiences watching: bond merchants pricing an 87% probability of a December price lower, a divided Federal Open Market Committee bracing for attainable dissents, and a Bitcoin market that simply bled $4.3 billion from US spot…
Solana’s memecoin buying and selling registered $13.9 billion in month-to-month quantity final month, the bottom print since February 2024, when the mania hadn’t but caught fireplace. At the identical time, Polymarket clocked $3.7 billion in quantity, its greatest month since launch, whereas Kalshi posted $4.25 billion in quantity, its second-best efficiency. Together, the 2 largest…
Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade prompts Dec. 3, deploying a collection of modifications designed to extend rollup throughput, tighten fuel markets, and add native assist for passkey-style signatures. The fork introduces PeerDAS data-availability sampling, doubles the default block fuel restrict, and prepares the community for blob-only parameter expansions scheduled for later this month and January. Fusaka is…
On Dec. 2, Vanguard will reportedly open its huge brokerage platform to spot Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This strategic volte-face ends the asset supervisor’s steadfast isolation from the $3 trillion digital asset market. For years, Vanguard stood as probably the most outstanding holdout of the crypto area, pushed by a philosophy…
When Upbit detected unauthorized withdrawals of roughly $36 million in Solana tokens from a sizzling pockets on Nov. 27, CEO Oh Kyung-seok went on file inside hours. He stated: “The whole quantity will likely be lined by Upbit’s holdings, with no impression on buyer belongings.” Six years earlier, Upbit stated the similar factor after shedding…
According to a report from South Korean safety agency AhnLab, state-linked hacking organizations just like the North Korea-backed Lazarus Group relied closely on spear phishing to steal funds and collect intelligence during the last 12 months. The group usually posed as convention organizers, job contacts or colleagues to trick individuals into opening recordsdata or operating…