Justin Drake wants the industry to prepare for AI-assisted attacks on wallet cryptography. Vitalik Buterin warns against rushed migrations. Here's what is known, what remains hypothetical and how Ethereum plans to adapt.
Haiku 5.5 cuts short-prompt token prices by 90%, while Anthropic estimates average running costs fall 75%. The difference matters for businesses paying for agents at scale.
Iran is reportedly exploring Bitcoin-backed systems tied to shipping and trade settlement, highlighting how crypto is increasingly being viewed as alternative financial infrastructure operating outside traditional banking networks like SWIFT and the dollar-clearing system.
DMND and Rootstock launched a new Stratum V2 integration that allows Bitcoin miners to build their own block templates and receive Rootstock merge-mining rewards directly without pool intermediaries.
Monarq Asset Management, Flare, and Upshift launched MXRPY, a multi-strategy XRP yield vault combining options, arbitrage, and onchain XRPFi strategies through a single managed product.
MoonPay launched Headless Onramps, enabling one-tap crypto purchases through Apple Pay, Google Pay, and cards across 100+ countries with fully embedded checkout flows.
At Consensus 2026, CertiK warned that crypto’s biggest vulnerability may no longer be regulation — but the growing security risks created by AI, institutional adoption, and rapidly scaling onchain infrastructure.
As institutions and AI systems move on-chain, blockchain’s biggest challenge may no longer be transactions — but making data usable. At Consensus 2026, The Graph outlined why indexing, querying, and trusted access to blockchain data could become core infrastructure for the next phase of crypto adoption.