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Vitalik Buterin Maps Ethereum’s Post-Hegotá Cryptographic Future
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade could be the network’s last “normal” fork before development shifts toward technologies that include recursive STARKs, automated formal verification, optimized consensus and quantum-safe cryptography. On Sunday, Buterin said Hegotá, which is planned...
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Zano Rolls Back Blockchain by a Month After Exploit
Zano has rolled back approximately a month of blockchain history after a vulnerability involving Gateway Addresses allowed unauthorized ZANO and Freedom Dollar to enter circulation, according to its core team. The Zano blockchain has been restarted at block 3,833,000, immediately...
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ETH news: Ethereum may not be ‘just a blockchain’ in 2030, Vitalik Buterin says
Computers could then work on different tasks at the same time, giving Ethereum more capacity as well as more independent checks.However, Ethereum would still need to settle questions where the order matters, such as which of two payments spending...
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Bad News Is Good News — Week in Review
For the past week, U.S. equities have moved in a fairly tight range. Meanwhile, bitcoin broke its May high and reached roughly $86,000, continuing its recovery from summer lows near $58,000. Alex Thorn highlighted bitcoin’s first close above its...
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Australia summons AI chiefs over hack
A rogue OpenAI research agent bypassed blocks on the Australian government health-data portal, accessing non-public files in June.
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Riot repays $200 million loan
The Bitcoin miner has continued to expand its data-center business as well.
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Saylor outlines bill of digital rights
Michael Saylor, co-founder of Strategy, said that an age of digital assets and intelligence needs a “bill of digital rights,” rather than restrictions.An age of AI can increase production, but it needs better money and capital markets to realize...
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Bitget Raises Hack Estimate To $387.5M And Sets Withdrawal Restart Plan
TL;DRBitget has increased the confirmed value of assets transferred to attacker-controlled addresses from $351.6 million to about $387.5 million.
The exchange says the underlying vulnerability has been identified and remediated.
Withdrawals are scheduled to return in stages beginning with Bitcoin on...
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Socure Brings AI Identity Checks To Circle’s Arc Onramp
TL;DRSocure has integrated its RiskOS identity and fraud platform into the Arc Onramp experience.
The system is designed to verify users and make fraud decisions as they move from fiat currency into USDC through applications built on Arc.
The integration adds...
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Kraken’s parent Payward is building a financial empire that goes far beyond crypto trading
Payward has divided that vision into four pillars: trading through Kraken, banking, asset management and Payward Services, its business-to-business infrastructure division.Kraken has about 6.6 million funded accounts holding between $40 billion and $50 billion of assets, according to Sethi,...
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Bolsonaro and Lula head to runoff: 5 takeaways from Brazil’s election
Four years ago, the left-wing Lula unseated Bolsonaro’s right-wing father, then-president Jair Bolsonaro, by the narrowest margin in the...