Pakistan ranked third in Chainalysis' 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index, behind India, and has introduced the Virtual Assets Act 2026 with licensing and regulatory processes run by the Pakistan Virtua…
Chainalysis attributed the $387 million Bitget exchange hack to North Korea-linked actors in a report published Wednesday, saying the Sept. 24 breach pushed Pyongyang's 2026 crypto theft total past $1…
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 10 targets tied to a Tren de Aragua ATM jackpotting scheme that stole at least $40.73 million from U.S. financial institutions, with rep…
Malicious instructions and infrastructure information written onto public blockchains have increased 440% since the emergence of high-capacity Chinese open-source AI models without restrictions on gen…
Chainalysis reports that malware hidden in blockchain transactions rose 440% in a year, attributing the surge to open-source AI models that have no restrictions on generating malicious code. The block…
Chainalysis's 2026 Crypto Crime Report found a 420% surge in onchain malware tied to state-sponsored hackers, with North Korea-linked groups deploying malware payloads and command-and-control instruct…
Arkham Intelligence announced that its API now delivers real-time address intelligence updates to all users, with new, altered, and updated data arriving within minutes instead of through delayed batc…
Etherscan released Etherscan Flow, an AI-powered tool in its Build with AI suite that lets AI agents and coding assistants trace, verify, and visualize onchain money flows across more than 60 EVM-comp…
Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance with more than 25 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Solana, Avalanche, Circle, Fireblocks, and Chainalysis to establish standards for AI agent tr…
Brickken CEO Edwin Mata said AI cannot bear liability for losing trades because it is not a legal person, and responsibility should follow the authority granted to the software. Mata compared the rela…
Cecuro launched Ozone, an AI security engineer that reviews every GitHub pull request in an isolated sandbox, with the first $100 of reviews free. The tool, built on the same multi-agent engine as Cec…
AMLBot launched AI Tracer in beta on March 27, a self-service platform that lets theft victims and small law enforcement agencies trace stolen crypto by inputting a transaction hash, blockchain, and a…
Hitachi announced plans to launch a cryptocurrency monitoring service for banks and crypto firms, with a rollout scheduled for October 2026. The Japanese industrial giant aims to help financial instit…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told crypto founders on July 26 that pivoting to AI is "zero sum, scarcity thinking," arguing instead that crypto payment rails are essential for AI agents that need to tr…
Hugging Face disclosed on July 16 that an autonomous AI agent exploited two code-execution vulnerabilities in its data-processing pipeline, executing over 17,000 actions across ephemeral sandboxes bef…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit on July 15 that Ukrainian AI-guided drones have reduced the average battlefield survival time of new Russian recruits…
AI-powered scams have become the leading theft vector in crypto, with impersonation scams targeting crypto investors surging 1,400% since 2025, according to Chainalysis's January 2026 Crypto Crime Rep…
Coinbase's Layer 2 network Base processed over 20 million agentic payment transfers in 90 days and 169 million total AI transactions as of July 2026, driven by the x402 protocol for stablecoin-settled…
Circle published the official USDC specification for the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), enabling AI agents to pay via HTTP 402 and EIP-3009. Separately, ERC-8183 'Agentic Commerce' by Virtuals Proto…
Researchers at NS3.AI have developed an AI tool that can link Ethereum wallet addresses to social media profiles for about $4 per attempt, using pattern matching and behavioral fingerprinting on publi…