6 Polymarket traders net $1M on US-Iran strike, spark insider fears: Report
The newly created Polymarket wallets placed bets on the timing of a US strike against Iran, buying shares hours before the first explosions were reported in Tehran.
Bitcoin recovers to $68K following death of Iranian Supreme Leader
Donald Trump described Ayatollah Khamenei as “one of the most evil people in history,” on Truth Social.
Ethereum smart accounts are finally coming ‘within a year’ — Vitalik Buterin
Removing intermediaries with account abstraction is a “core principle of non-ugly cypherpunk Ethereum,” said Buterin. Ethereum account abstraction, or smart accounts, will be…
OpenAI wins defense contract hours after government ditches Anthropic
OpenAI will deploy its AI models on Pentagon classified networks after the US government ordered agencies to stop using rival Anthropic over national security concerns.
Mt. Gox’s former CEO floats hard fork to recover 80K hacked Bitcoin
Mark Karpelès said it has been 12 years since the start of Mt. Gox’s bankruptcy proceedings and “this is probably the last sore point on this whole case.”
Morgan Stanley applies for OCC bank charter to custody crypto
The Wall Street banking giant has been accelerating its foray into crypto, filing to launch Bitcoin, Ether and Solana ETFs in January. Morgan Stanley has applied for a de novo…
Crypto VC Paradigm expands into AI, robotics with $1.5B fund: WSJ
Paradigm’s Matt Huang previously said developments in AI were “too interesting to ignore” and that both AI and crypto will have plenty of overlap. Crypto…
This Is Fine (Until the Grant Runs Out)
The commons called. It wants a runway. Every so often, in the blockchain world’s usual cycle of funding scares, a team maintaining a widely used open source public good declares…
Kaspa (KAS) price forecast: why $0.03 is pivotal for bulls
Kaspa price currently mirrors the broader market, with Bitcoin struggling. The KAS token recently bounced off $0.028 and is holding $0.03. If a decisive breakout materializes amid…
HBAR price slips to $0.10 as Bitcoin weakness sparks bearish breakdown risk
Hedera dropped to $0.10 as Bitcoin fell to lows of $65,680. Ethereum (ETH) has shed 5.3% to under $1,950; XRP, Solana, and BNB also dipped. HBAR price could retreat to support at…