2+ week, 4+ day ago   (211+ words) BlackRock has made it a lot cheaper for bitcoin whales to swap self-custody for shares in its Nasdaq-listed spot BTC ETF, IBIT, a shift that’s accelerating due to crypto crime, according to a report by Bloomberg. The minimum value of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (529+ words) The pivot from bitcoin BTC$64,709.85 mining into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (AI/HPC) looks to have been one of the decade’s better capital allocation decisions. While the shift has been underway for several years, the payback has become particularly…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (500+ words) Crypto’s accelerating wave of shutdowns is less a mystery than the delayed consequence of how the industry funded itself during the boom years, according to Ryan Kirkley, CEO of Global Settlement Network. More than 100 crypto projects have shut down, filed…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (339+ words) South Korea ordered domestic access to popular prediction market Polymarket blocked, becoming the latest of more than 30 jurisdictions to restrict the platform over gambling concerns. The Korea Media and Communications Standards Commission approved the move after finding that Polymarket facilitates…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (383+ words) Kraken parent Payward has joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, giving the crypto company access to Claude Mythos 5, an artificial intelligence model designed to find and fix software vulnerabilities. Project Glasswing is Anthropic’s initiative that allows selected firms to use restricted frontier…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (109+ words) A community built on verification spent five years outsourcing its judgment to one man, writes Foundation CEO Zach Herbert. Zach Herbert is co-founder and CEO of Foundation. Bitcoin was engineered on the assumption that experts and institutions will eventually fail,…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (116+ words) DoubleZero Edge is partnering with Kalshi to deliver Wall Street-grade market data to the world's largest CFTC-regulated prediction market. Co-Founder Austin Federa joins Jennifer Sanasie on Markets Outlook to unpack why professional infrastructure took so long to reach crypto, what…...

1+ mon, 14+ min ago   (330+ words) Prediction market giant Kalshi is in advanced discussions with Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management for a new $750 million funding round at a $40 billion valuation, The Information reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Sequoia, which is already an existing investor…...

1+ mon, 9+ hour ago   (336+ words) More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto companies have asked the largest AI labs to give open-source security researchers early access to their most capable models, arguing that the people defending a trillion dollars of infrastructure are working with weaker…...