OpenAI Asks Congress Whether an AI Slowdown Would Be Legal
The company is seeking clarity on antitrust rules as researchers call for restraint and experts warn that competition encourages companies to overlook risks.
Robinhood Crypto Trading Volume Jumps 61% in August
Fresh operating data shows crypto trading bouncing back, but the company’s fastest-growing business these days isn’t traditional trading at all.
Bitwise to Close Dogecoin ETF Before Its First Anniversary
BWOW will stop trading October 14, with cash payments to remaining shareholders expected October 22.
Bitcoin tests critical $76,000 support cluster during macro energy shock
Bitcoin fell below $77,000 on Sept. 10 as oil rose above $100, and a global bond selloff pushed traders toward another Fed hike. BTC reached an intraday low of $76,676.07, Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.7%, and the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 4.93%…
Strategy erased nearly $8 billion of net debt in 11 months and put S&P’s junk rating on the clock
Strategy, the largest Bitcoin treasury firm, is making a case for an escape from its B- junk credit rating after building billions of dollars in liquidity and reducing debt. On Sept. 10, Strategy’s head of investor relations, Chaitanya Jain, said the…
This XRP project is shutting down after wallet flaw exposed 4,000 accounts and drained $450,000
XRP Healthcare, an healthcare platform build on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), is winding down operations after a wallet flaw exposed thousands of accounts and led to roughly $450,000 in losses. On Sept. 10, the project said the Sept. 3 XRPH Wallet incident…
OpenAI’s math breakthrough exposes the next weak link in crypto security
OpenAI’s latest mathematics breakthrough could bring automated theorem proving closer to smart-contract security workflows. On Sept. 8, the AI company said that roughly 10,000 concurrent AI agents produced a solution addressing the Navier-Stokes…
Senate Republicans Release Revised Clarity Act Ahead of September 15 Vote
The draft adds registration requirements for controlled trading protocols and leaves its ethics provisions largely unchanged.
DeepSeek’s New Model Nearly Matches GPT-6 Astra on Design—at 1.4% of the Cost
OpenDesign put 13 AI models through the same design tasks. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash landed a point and a half behind GPT-6 Astra and roughly 70 times cheaper.
MetaMask and Consensys split exposes the gap between Ethereum adoption and ETH demand
Consensys announced plans on Sept. 9 to operate MetaMask separately from its Ethereum infrastructure business, giving the consumer wallet and the protocol builder distinct management and investment priorities. For holders of ether, the split puts a…