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LayerZero Labs launches Zero blockchain with backing from Citadel and ARK, targeting high-performance finance.
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Head of safeguards Mrinank Sharma leaves Anthropic, citing AI safety failures and disconnect between principles and actions in the industry.
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Solana’s (SOL) recent price action has put traders on alert once again. After sliding to multi-month lows near the lower-$80 range, SOL staged a sharp rebound of more than 6% in a short period, briefly easing fears of an immediate breakdown. Related Reading: Bitcoin Could See New Drop To $60,000 Despite Bounce – Here’s The Level To Defend However, the recovery has done little to settle the broader debate. Analysts now see Solana caught between fragile support and overhead resistance, with the $98–$108 zone emerging as a key upside test if momentum can hold. Despite the bounce, market conditions remain cautious. SOL is still trading well below former support levels that have flipped into resistance, and several technical and on-chain indicators suggest the market has ...

Ripple has secured a new strategic partnership in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the country continues to position itself as a regional hub for digital assets and blockchain innovation.  The company announced on Tuesday that it is expanding its relationship with Zand, a UAE‑based digital bank built around artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology, to support the development of the digital economy through stablecoins and distributed ledger solutions. Expanded Ripple And Zand Deal  Under the collaboration, Zand and Ripple will work together on a range of initiatives centered on Zand’s UAE dirham‑backed stablecoin, AEDZ, and Ripple’s US dollar stablecoin, RLUSD.  According to both parties, the goal is to create new infrastructure and use cases that conne...

Ethereum’s outlook for 2026 has become increasingly contested after the most recent downturn in the entire crypto market. Earlier this year, research from Standard Chartered suggested that Ethereum could end 2026 near $7,500, a target that implies significant upside from current levels. However, recent price action, with ETH languishing around $2,000 and lacking clear bullish momentum, puts such projections against a very different realistic outlook. Standard Chartered’s Ethereum Long-Term View In a January research note, Standard Chartered’s digital assets team trimmed its medium-term outlook for Ethereum while keeping a highly optimistic vision for the years ahead. The bank now sees ether closing 2026 near $7,500, down from an earlier forecast of around $12,000, an...

AI agents are emerging as a new class of onchain users as blockchain infrastructure evolves to support autonomous, machine-native coordination. Standards such as x402 and ERC-8004 provide the payment, identity, reputation, and verification layers required for agents to transact and collaborate without centralized intermediaries. As agent-to-agent interactions scale, ERC-8004 enables economic selection by directing work and capital toward agents with demonstrated execution histories while filtering out unreliable participants. The activity of clawd.atg.eth illustrates how autonomous agents can operate as economic actors by deploying applications, managing capital, and compounding trust through repeated onchain execution within an emerging agent-native economy.

SafeMoon CEO Braden Karony sentenced to 100 months for crypto fraud involving token manipulation and misuse of investor funds.
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What to Know: The 20-year sentence in a $73M pig butchering case highlights how sophisticated social engineering now underpins major crypto theft operations. DOJ- and FBI-linked reporting shows crypto investment fraud losses reached billions, reinforcing that scam pressure is structural—not a one-off cycle event. BMIC’s quantum-security narrative targets long-horizon risk: reducing key exposure while adding AI threat detection to limit behavioral attack success. The crypto world was rocked this week by a landmark legal victory against one of the industry’s most predatory scams. In a press release, it was revealed that Daren Li, a 42-year-old dual national, was sentenced to the statutory maximum of 20 years in U.S. federal prison for orchestrating a global ‘pig butche...

Dogecoin (DOGE) has shown signs of life recently, rebounding from lows near $0.08 to trade near the $0.093–$0.097 range. That short-term bounce has attracted attention, but the cryptocurrency still struggles to push past the $0.10 threshold. Related Reading: Bitcoin Could See New Drop To $60,000 Despite Bounce – Here’s The Level To Defend Despite renewed buying interest and neutral momentum readings, multiple technical and market factors continue to hold DOGE below this psychologically important level. DOGE's price trends to the downside on the daily chart. Source: DOGEUSD on Tradingview Dogecoin (DOGE) Price Action and Technical Roadblocks Over the past week, DOGE has cleared minor resistance levels at $0.085 and $0.090, signaling a recovery from recent lows. Howeve...

What to Know: Wintermute warns the AI sector’s massive capital needs could drain liquidity from assets like Bitcoin. This capital rotation threatens crypto market health, risking higher volatility and wider spreads. SUBBD Token presents a different model, using AI as a value-creation tool for the $85B creator economy. Crypto’s future may belong to projects that create their own internal economies instead of competing with Big Tech for capital. A stark warning from market maker Wintermute is sending ripples through crypto: the voracious appetite of the AI sector could literally ‘suffocate’ liquidity for assets like Bitcoin. As trillions of dollars pour into AI infrastructure, the data suggests a potential capital rotation away from more speculative markets. The core a...