Stablecoins make sending money easy until someone needs to spend it
When you send money to someone abroad, the confirmation on your phone is only your half of the transaction: the other half belongs to the person who has to use it. Their rent may be due in local currency. Their nearest cash collection point may be across…
Revolut Leaks Passports, Bitcoin Transaction Histories to Fake Government Request
The fintech company fulfilled a fraudulent information request sent from a government agency’s own email domain, exposing ID documents and full crypto transaction histories for a “limited” number of users.
GPT-6 Astra Users Say OpenAI’s Newest Model Got Dumber. It Happened Before, Too
A week after launch, complaints are rolling in from users that GPT-6 Astra has been nerfed. OpenAI’s last model went through the same cycle in July.
Crypto Billionaires Hand Reform UK $97M in Record Donations
Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave £36 million, and between them beat what every UK party raised last year.
GTA Mod Adds Flock Cameras—And Lets Players Destroy Them
The surveillance mod on GTA V brings the privacy fight to Los Santos, where players can demolish the cameras tracking them.
ChatGPT Images 2.5 vs Nano Banana 2: Which One is Better?
OpenAI’s new image model promises sharper detail and more precise editing. We ran it against Google’s Nano Banana 2 across six categories to see how it compares.
Why Nasdaq surveillance cannot settle the fight over 24/7 tokenized markets
Nasdaq’s agreement to invest $100 million in Payward, Kraken’s parent company, adds a planned surveillance rollout to a push into tokenized and always-on markets. One day earlier, Citadel Securities asked U.S. regulators to keep products tied…
L-BTC resumes trading with reserves covering just 85% of supply
SideSwap reopened its markets on Liquid while the network’s route back to Bitcoin remained closed. The split gives Liquid Bitcoin a market price before holders regain the process that converts L-BTC into BTC. At 22:55 UTC on Sept. 10, a Blockstream…
US Bank moves USBDC across borders on Stellar, but only inside its own walls
U.S. Bank has completed a live cross-border payment pilot using USBDC, its proprietary U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin. The transaction demonstrated in a limited test that the lender could move its own token between bank entities on a public blockchain…
Banks get cross-exchange crypto hedge relief under Canada’s new 2027 capital rule
Canada’s banking regulator has finalized a narrow change to its crypto capital rules that should reduce capital overstatement for some market-neutral positions without broadly easing how banks must treat digital-asset risk. The Office of the…