How Optimism’s draft manual silently strips tokenholder elections
The Foundation’s proposed rewrite would end cohort elections and seat nominees unless a veto reaches 20% of active votable OP supply. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in…
3 payment rules control Aave’s native Bitcoin market, but only WBTC settles them
Babylon’s proposed direct route can bypass pool funding, while fees, borrower surplus and WBTC-denominated debt retain separate payment requirements. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get…
Crypto traders value Anthropic at $1.9 trillion as investor warns its IPO could mark the top of the AI bubble
Anthropic filed for a Nasdaq IPO Monday, reporting a quarterly operating profit as crypto markets valued it near $2 trillion. The Claude developer submitted its S-1 registration statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Oct. 26,…
Canada’s Draft Stablecoin Rules Cap Redemption Fees at 1% and Ban Yield
Ottawa opened a 60-day consultation on draft rules requiring one-to-one reserves and fast redemption from stablecoin issuers, while keeping the ban on paying holders interest.
OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra, Its Half-Good AI Model at Half the Price
OpenAI’s mid-tier model now operates apps and screens more like a person would, with API prices 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra and an error rate that OpenAI says fell sharply.
Unitree Stock Jumps as Investors Bet Chatbot AI Will Finally Give Robots a Brain
Unitree’s shares have jumped about 60% in under two weeks as investors bet OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra will give robots the brains they lack, turning the stock into an AI proxy.
August updates block critical private key leak in crypto wallet Vultisig
An already-compromised signer could recover the key through many malicious ECDSA messages when the application ignored a critical stop condition. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The…
NBA Embraces the CFTC on Prediction Markets as the NFL Fights It in Court
The agreement, which follows similar deals with MLB and NHL, establishes information-sharing to guard against insider trading as sports betting migrates to CFTC-regulated venues.
South Korea Arrests Seven in First Big AI-Assisted Hacking Case
Police in Seoul say a 32-year-old with no IT background used AI tools to break into about 90 hospitals, schools and companies, then pressed victims for roughly $270,000 combined.
Ripple connects XRP Ledger to a £22 billion investment giant while chasing the next wave of corporate money
Ripple expanded its institutional reach Monday as Aviva added another tokenized fund share class to the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The British asset manager invested £50 million ($66 million) in a blockchain-based share class of its Sterling Liquidity Fund,…
