Arthur Hayes released a fuller design for FLOP Network, a proposed blockchain where AI agents pay miners for inference and validators settle proofs, in a Sept. 7 post. The draft, updated Aug. 27, spec…
Harmony proposed sunsetting its layer-1 blockchain and reissuing its ONE token as an ERC-20 on Ethereum, citing overwhelming threats from state-sponsored hackers and AI agents. The non-binding proposa…
Arthur Hayes released the FLOP Network technical paper detailing a proof-of-useful-inference blockchain for AI agents, with a genesis supply of approximately 2.48 billion FLOP tokens allocated through…
Solana Foundation's Sept. 3 payment-channel announcement claims over one million payments per second, but a benchmark template warns that merchants may not get paid if a customer stops buying before t…
Harmony proposed shutting down its network and moving its $ONE token to Ethereum, citing threats from state actors and AI agents. The transition would let validators cease operations from Sept. 10, wi…
Harmony developers proposed shutting down the seven-year-old blockchain and migrating its $ONE token to Ethereum, citing threats from state actors and AI agents. The non-binding proposal follows a $10…
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said Bitcoin's security mechanisms are resilient to threats from artificial intelligence, countering assessments that AI could cause a more than 50% drop in BTC price …
Harmony, an Ethereum-compatible layer-1 network, proposed shutting down its blockchain and migrating its native ONE token to Ethereum, seven years after mainnet launch, following an exploit that forge…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin rejected a Sept. 7 prediction by investor Liron Shapira that artificial intelligence could undermine confidence in Bitcoin's security and cause its price to fall by…
Binance signed two memorandums of understanding with Kazakhstan on 4 September 2026 to explore a stablecoin and digital payments, according to the Kazakh ministry's press service. The agreements, sign…
OpenAI announced Thursday it will provide $1 billion in subsidized access to its cybersecurity models over the next six months, prioritizing water systems, electricity grid operators, and local govern…
Grayscale, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and the Crypto Council for Innovation are urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to speed up approval of novel crypto ETFs and allow confidenti…
Cango Inc. announced on September 3 that its EcoHash subsidiary has begun commercial GPU computing at its 50-megawatt Bitcoin mining facility in Georgia, with a dedicated AI compute section supporting…
An effective altruism-linked organization, Irreplaceable, is paying $2,000 weekly compensation for an ostensibly grassroots anti-AI media campaign, recruiting student protest leaders to coordinate wal…
AI models Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini are experiencing outages today, affecting users of Anthropic, X, OpenAI, and Google. OpenAI reports issues across 15 services, while Anthropic's status trac…
World, the Sam Altman-founded identity protocol, released Provekit v1, an open-source zero-knowledge proving toolkit that lets smartphones and browsers generate cryptographic proofs, now featuring 128…
Fetch.ai has announced enhancements to its ASI:One AI tool, focusing on improved personalization to address user frustrations with AI relevance. The update comes amid rising user expectations for AI i…
Hedera launched an AI coding agent providing live access to its official documentation, including API references and code examples, without requiring wallet or key access. The tool aims to streamline …
Crypto, AI, and online betting companies spent $344 million on federal political donations over the 18 months through June, more than half of the record $646 million in corporate political spending, a…
Theta EdgeCloud expanded its APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, enabling AI agents to independently find, deploy, and manage GPU infrastructure without human dashboard use. The update adds …