Key Takeaways Coinbase won an Aug. 11 ADGM license to arrange and custody tokenized securities. Apple’s 1st Coinbase certificate shows how regulated stocks could move onchain. Coinbase targets non-U.S. markets as its 2 UAE hubs expand stocks and derivatives. The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Abu Dhabi Global Market, or ADGM, granted Coinbase a Financial…
The House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill on July 21 by a 220-205 vote, pushing the government’s spending deadline from September 30 to December 4 and pulling it clear of this fall’s midterm elections, sparking a frenzy of Government shutdown probability conversations. The move triggered an immediate repricing in prediction markets tracking a…
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 million bounty for a working general proof of the hypothesis, which remains unclaimed. Contemporary AI models still can’t solve it either —…
ENS DAO has approved and executed a governance proposal that turns the ENS Foundation into a full-time operating body with a five-seat board, a professional staff, and control over a roughly $65 million endowment. Summary ENS said the “Next Era of ENS DAO” proposal has completed on-chain execution after receiving tokenholder approval. Five voting directors…
A ladder just became the latest proving ground in the race to build humanoid robots that can move through the human world. Figure CEO Brett Adcock released a video showing the company’s Figure 03 robot gripping and climbing a short ladder. Adcock described the demonstration as “fully autonomous,” although Figure has not published success rates…
Key Takeaways Cryptoquant analysts estimate Strategy’s cumulative realized losses from 2026 bitcoin sales have topped $102 million. The company still holds roughly 840,000 BTC, with unrealized losses near $10.6 billion. Strategy’s preferred-stock dividend obligations have nearly quadrupled to $1.2 billion annually. A Pattern of Selling Below Cost Strategy has sold bitcoin at least four times…
Bitcoin Core developer and BIP Editor Mark “Murch” Erhardt formally called for Luke Dashjr removal from the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) editorial team on Aug. 9, escalating a dispute over Dashjr’s handling of BIP110 and the proposal’s recent chain split. The motion, posted to the Bitcoin Development Mailing List and backed by GitHub pull request…
Anthropic’s Claude will start watermarking AI-generated content in compliance with EU rules, the company announced on Tuesday. In a Claude support document, Anthropic wrote that it has signed the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, and explains how it plans to put those rules into practice. SEE ALSO:…
Chainlink price rose 4.5% to $8.67 on Aug. 11 after Standard Chartered initiated coverage with a $200 target for 2030, while technical indicators pointed to improving short-term momentum. Summary Chainlink gained 4.5% to $8.67, breaking above the daily chart’s $8.48 Fibonacci level. Standard Chartered projected LINK could reach $200 by 2030 as asset tokenization expands….
As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday, disclosing vulnerabilities in the video conferencing platform Zoom that could have been exploited to take over targets’ devices. Anyone on a call that involved…
