Cryptocurrencies

Vitalik Buterin ran Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on his laptop and says local AI now handles a large share of tasks.

Meme coin launchpads accounted for roughly 82% of the $410.8 million in decentralized exchange volume that Circle’s Arc network cleared on its first day of public mainnet. Circle built Arc for financial markets, real-time money movement, and agentic economic activity. Instead, speculative traders set the tone on the

Several altcoins have marked major gains today, which is rather unexpected given yesterday's rate hike and CLARITY Act's failure.

Tokenized stock total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols climbed 1,961% over the past year to $247.8 million. Token Terminal published the figures on Thursday. Binance Research links the growth to wider onchain infrastructure. Lending, smart contract deployment, and stock-paired markets now

South Korea refers 18 Polymarket users to prosecutors after a probe into $12.7 million in bets tied to the prediction market.

Two House committees advanced crypto legislation on Wednesday, approving a bill to establish a Strategic Bitcoin (BTC) Reserve and a separate measure setting federal tax rules for digital assets. The votes arrived one day after the Senate failed to invoke cloture on the CLARITY Act. The vote stalled a key effort to

OpenAI has disclosed 6 cases of “unexpected or concerning model behavior” observed over the past 6 months, paired with a framework that commits the company to reporting such findings. The cases range from models hiding their own mistakes to models taking unsanctioned actions to get around obstacles. OpenAI Publishes 6

XRP whales moved early as 85 new millionaire wallets appeared before the dramatic August breakout.

Kraken parent Payward plans Hyperliquid perpetual futures for US clients, using CFTC-regulated Bitnomial to comply.

Senate records confirm seven Democrats voted against the CLARITY Act, then said they remain committed to passing it. Here's why that's not new.