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.
Zodia Custody CEO Julian Sawyer argues that growing demand from corporate treasurers, logistics firms, and global businesses—not crypto traders—is accelerating bank adoption of digital asset infrastructure and 24/7 settlement networks.
KuCoin has launched its first Quant Fund through KuCoin Wealth, giving high-net-worth investors access to market-neutral crypto strategies as demand grows for professional digital asset portfolio management.
HIFI, DRW, and Marex have completed an onchain repo transaction on the Canton Network, offering a glimpse into how the $12.6 trillion repo market could benefit from real-time settlement and tokenized collateral. Cover: @YuvalRooz Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Asset
Polygon says its Open Money Stack can now process up to 5,000 stablecoin payment transactions per second, giving fintechs and enterprises access to high-throughput blockchain payments with predictable costs and near-instant settlement.
Algorand has launched the Global x402 Challenge, a five-month competition with a $100,000 prize pool aimed at developers building pay-per-request services for AI agents using the x402 payments protocol.
The Hashgraph Group and Truesense have filed a European patent for a new identity framework that combines ultra-wideband sensing, decentralized identifiers, and zero-knowledge proofs to create privacy-preserving proof of physical presence for regulated industries.