Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT to audit each data center mission looking for a grid connection earlier than regulators approve any new initiatives. The order places AI infrastructure tied to Bitcoin miners below scrutiny, whereas the audit verifies every mission’s energy sourcing, water use, cooling plans, and possession. The…
The US Senate is operating out of time to advance the CLARITY Act, but Bitwise says a decisive failure might finally take away an impediment weighing on crypto markets. Senate leaders face a narrowing window on Wednesday to file for cloture if they need to protect a likelihood of voting on the digital asset market…
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) has disclosed that frontier AI brokers engaged in sustained, unsanctioned exercise concentrating on actual folks and organizations on the open web throughout a managed cybersecurity analysis. The incident, detected on July 28, 2026, concerned 19 unauthorized actions throughout 10 of 122 check runs. Among these, 17 circumstances originated from…
Stablecoins have lengthy occupied an ungainly center floor — too speculative for mainstream finance, too gradual to scale for the funds trade. That rigidity is now breaking open. With the GENIUS Act reshaping the U.S. regulatory panorama, main banks transferring towards tokenized deposit networks, and stablecoin transaction quantity hitting file highs at the same time…
A newly proposed Ethereum staking reward cut, outlined in Ethereum Improvement Proposal 8361 (EIP-8361), would decrease validators’ yield from 2.6% to about 1.2%, a 54% discount phased in over 18 months. The mechanism is a burn: validators lose a bigger share of their consensus reward as the overall quantity of staked ETH climbs, and the…
Samsung Electronics unveiled its next-generation AI reminiscence portfolio on the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2026 convention in Santa Clara, California, presenting a complete expertise roadmap designed to satisfy the quick rising calls for of high-performance computing and synthetic intelligence infrastructure. The firm showcased roughly 30 reminiscence and storage applied sciences at an AI…
The Coldcard hardware wallet exploit has resulted within the theft of at the least 1,596 BTC from about 7,300 addresses as customers proceed transferring funds from doubtlessly susceptible wallets. Galaxy Research stated the confirmed losses got here from three main assault waves and 14 smaller incidents. The agency has additionally recognized a potential fourth wave…
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflows rebounded to $170.1 million on Aug. 3 after a $265.4 million web outflow within the earlier buying and selling session on July 31. Seven of the 12 listed funds attracted money, whereas 5 had been flat. BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for almost two-thirds of the overall. The Bitcoin ETF influx rebound…
BitMEX co-founder and head of crypto funding agency Maelstrom, Arthur Hayes printed a brand new essay, Situationship, arguing that the AI funding growth resembles an actual property buildout reasonably than a standard know-how cycle. He mentioned extreme funding in knowledge facilities and associated infrastructure might make an eventual AI bubble burst extra just like the…
Aave founder Stani Kulechov has publicly opposed the newly submitted Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 8361, titled “Tapered Issuance Burn,” arguing that the measure would undermine Ethereum’s competitiveness as an funding asset quite than obtain its supposed targets. In a commentary on social media platform X, he defined that the proposal would cap Ethereum staking rewards…