Criminal adoption of synthetic intelligence (AI) has climbed 40% year-on-year in 2026, in line with blockchain intelligence agency TRM Labs. Scams drove most of that development. TRM’s new AI-in-Crime Adoption Index scores total adoption at 54 out of 100, up from about 28 in 2024. Scams are the one class rated Mature. AI Now Runs…
Bitcoin enters the weekend inside hanging distance of $80,000, registering an intraday high at $79,500 on Aug. 21. The transfer caps the greatest weekly rally in two years, constructed on a uncommon mixture. A shock Treasury intervention, roughly $1.6 billion of spot ETF inflows, and billions of {dollars} in pressured brief liquidations all landed collectively….
TON validators have been instructed to replace their node software program and mytonctrl tooling forward of a configuration vote tied to the community’s new collator structure. The validator preparation contains node commit 140320b and mytonctrl commit 7e90e26. The configuration swap vote was scheduled for August 21 at 08:00 UTC. The vital element is standing. This…
The major cryptocurrency skilled its most notable value restoration of the yr, skyrocketing by 25% from below $65,000 to nearly $80,000 inside two days earlier than its run was paused, at the least for now. Although this surge is spectacular by itself, Glassnode highlighted one other notable improvement that makes it much more attention-grabbing: BTC…
The Sandbox mentioned it has contained a vulnerability within the SAND cross-chain bridge on Base and BNB Smart Chain after an attacker minted unbacked tokens on each networks. The undertaking put the affect at below 0.01% of the overall SAND provide. It mentioned that tokens on Ethereum (ETH) and Polygon (POL) are unaffected and that…
By July 18, 2028, a stablecoin may nonetheless transfer freely throughout blockchains and but disappear from the purchase menu on an American change. Under the Treasury Department’s proposed GENIUS Act rules, a digital asset service supplier would not give you the chance to supply or promote a fee stablecoin to somebody within the United States…
Avalanche’s tokenized real-world asset worth has crossed $3 billion, giving the community one other milestone in its push to develop into infrastructure for regulated and institutional finance. The determine, reported via the validated Avalanche RWA supply path, contains main contributions from Progmat’s $1.2 billion securities migration, together with OpenTrade at about $190 million and Grove…
Aave’s debt profile is drawing consideration after a danger evaluation discovered that fewer than 9% of mortgage positions account for roughly half of the protocol’s complete excellent debt. The focus is essentially tied to E-mode customers working leveraged positions involving WETH borrows backed by liquid-staking wrappers, based on the validated supply path. Ethereum’s sharp intraday…
Adam Back-led BSTR’s plan to develop into a public Bitcoin treasury firm by Cantor Equity Partners I, a special-purpose acquisition firm, ended on Aug. 20. The collapse leaves a $15 million money obligation with two fastened deadlines. Under the executed termination settlement, BSTR Holdings (Cayman) should pay Cantor Equity Partners I. The entity, outlined within…
Optimism governance has authorized the reallocation of 546.9 million OP tokens from consumer airdrop reserves right into a Strategic Ecosystem Fund managed by the Optimism Foundation. The tokens are valued at roughly $49 million, in response to the validated governance path. The proposal handed with help from core improvement delegate Test in Prod and shifts…