AI adoption in crypto crime rose 40% over the past year, with TRM Labs' 2026 AI-in-Crime Adoption Index placing overall use at an 'emerging' level of 54 out of 100, up from about 28 in 2024. Scams rea…
Pi Network's Protocol 27 is the final planned upgrade, and its MiCA whitepaper was registered by ESMA as entry 549, but unconfirmed partnerships with PayPal and RoboPay highlight a credibility gap. Th…
Chainlink's native token LINK surged 22.05% to $11.45 on TradingView, driven by the commercial rollout of its new AI platform, Chainlink for Agents, and hearings before a CFTC advisory committee. Comm…
OpenAI's ChatGPT predicts that XRP will reach $1.55 by September 1, 2026, with a base-case range of $1.4-$1.65, a bullish target of $1.7-$2, and a bearish floor of $1.15-$1.3. The prediction follows X…
Intchains Group reported a 94% revenue collapse to RMB11.1 million ($1.6 million) in the first half, prompting the Nasdaq-listed mining-machine maker to halt fresh Ethereum purchases and pivot capital…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) opened a consultation on Aug. 19 seeking feedback on compute derivatives, a market that could hedge AI computing power prices, as Bitcoin miners invest …
China's DeepSeek has announced a new experimental AI model capable of image processing, adding a visual dimension to its latest AI systems. The release comes amid reports of an $86 billion IPO buzz, p…
MemeCore, a blockchain ecosystem built on meme culture, announced a $1 billion strategic transaction with ZeroStack (NASDAQ: ZSTK), a public company focused on decentralized AI infrastructure, involvi…
Coinkite, the Canadian company behind the Coldcard hardware wallet, released firmware updates after a flaw allowed attackers to steal over $114 million in bitcoin, and said AI-assisted review helped c…
Kakao Corp. announced on August 21 that its board approved a proportional spinoff into KakaoAI and KakaoX, with a split ratio of 0.36 for KakaoAI and 0.64 for KakaoX. KakaoX will focus on virtual asse…
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said at the SALT Wyoming conference that Ripple has adopted AI aggressively, calling it an enabler and accelerant for growing businesses, and dismissed AI as a reason for …
Crypto firms, artificial intelligence companies, and online gambling businesses drove a record $517 million in corporate election spending on 2026 U.S. races, surpassing the $461 million corporations …
Fidelity Digital Assets identified six risks that could undermine the thesis that AI agents will drive growth for public blockchains, including the possibility that closed systems may outcompete publi…
Sui, the Layer-1 blockchain, unveiled programmable transaction block (PTB) technology at its Basecamp event to streamline complex operations for AI agents, enabling up to 1,024 Move function calls in …
Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley said AI agents will soon transact with cash, cards, and cryptocurrencies, and the crypto custody firm is developing an 'agentic banking' platform with a 'Know You…
Binance launched Binance Agent OS and its Model Context Protocol Server on Aug. 20, giving compatible AI applications controlled access to market data and trading functions. The platform combines Bina…
Rapid7 Labs uncovered Operation ASTERIX, a crypto fraud pipeline that used AI coding assistants to create fake Ledger, Trezor, and Exodus apps, and matched 43,066 phone numbers to actual exchange acco…
Corporate spending on US congressional races reached $517 million in the 15 months through the first quarter of 2026, already exceeding the $461 million spent over the full 2024 cycle, driven by crypt…
Investor Chamath Palihapitiya warned in an August 20 X post that political backlash against AI data centers could cost the US 200 to 300 basis points of annual GDP if disputes continue, citing early r…
The Graph Foundation's Aug. 18 blog post outlines an onchain agent infrastructure stack requiring identity, structured data, and payments for autonomous web3 agents. The stack includes ERC-8004 for ag…