Billionaire investor Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, said investors should hold 5% to 15% of their portfolios in 'hard money' assets like gold and Bitcoin, but he prefers gold over Bitco…
Matt Prusak, president and interim CFO of Trump-linked bitcoin miner American Bitcoin (ABTC), will step down effective Aug. 4 to join Houston-based Giga Energy as chief business officer and interim CF…
AEON, a settlement layer for the agentic economy, has integrated Bangladesh's mobile financial services bKash and Nagad, allowing users to pay merchants with crypto while AEON converts and settles pay…
Researchers at China's National Police University, operating under the Ministry of Public Security, have developed an AI-driven detection framework that combines artificial intelligence with large lan…
ValueQube, a Web3 financial infrastructure entity, has partnered with X-Agent, a no-code AI agent network, to integrate AI into real-world asset (RWA) and DeFi ecosystems. The collaboration combines X…
Fetch.ai has integrated with Skyfire to enable AI agents to conduct secure, autonomous transactions in real-world applications, positioning Fetch.ai as a key player in the decentralized digital econom…
Bittensor network teams published new AI research and ran large-scale decentralized workloads between July 27 and August 2, 2026, including a 2.8 trillion-parameter model on 80 consumer GPUs. Macrocos…
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe challenged Anthropic's Claude models on Aug. 1 by publishing a Bitcoin address holding 100 BTC, inviting the AI to move the funds, but on-chain checks through Aug. 2 showed the b…
Cottonia, an AI-focused Web3 project, has partnered with Cyper, a privacy-first Web3 social platform, to develop AI-powered features for decentralized applications while maintaining user privacy and s…
Bitgo CEO Mike Belshe funded a bitcoin wallet with 100 BTC on July 31 and challenged Anthropic's Claude AI to steal the funds, after Anthropic disclosed that some Claude models unintentionally accesse…
Ray Dalio warned in a July 2026 interview with My First Million that AI-related stocks could fall by as much as 80% even if the companies succeed, with his bubble gauge at 75% of the extremes seen in …
PayPal Holdings Inc. reported $486.4 billion in total payment volume for Q2 2025, up 10% year over year, and announced a reorganization creating a Payment Services & Crypto division. The company's sta…
Astarter, a Web4 AI infrastructure platform, announced a partnership with MelosBoom, a Web3 and DePIN music project, to accelerate AI-powered decentralized music innovation for creators and communitie…
Astarter, a Web3 infrastructure entity, has partnered with BitBall, an AI-led sports intelligence ecosystem, to accelerate AI-driven sports intelligence on BNB Chain. The collaboration aims to merge A…
Coinkite, the Canadian manufacturer of Coldcard hardware wallets, disclosed a critical security flaw that allowed attackers to drain approximately 1,128.4717 $BTC (worth about $71.1 million) from over…
Coinkite's Coldcard hardware wallet had a firmware flaw dating back to 2021 that could skip the internal hardware random-number generator, enabling attackers to narrow down wallet keys and steal an es…
UBS and Euroclear are collaborating with Chainlink to address a $58 billion annual inefficiency in corporate actions processing, aiming to reduce AI hallucination risks and enhance operational trust. …