DeFi
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Bitcoin perps just got a US green light, but one catch could decide everything

The CFTC has moved true Bitcoin perpetual futures from an offshore-liquidity debate into a US-regulated test case, with KalshiEX LLC now approved to list BTCPERP and…
AI

Anthropic Nears $1 Trillion Valuation, Topping OpenAI After Fresh $65 Billion Raise

Claude maker Anthropic said annualized revenue surpassed $47 billion as it expands cloud and compute partnerships. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
AI

Have AI agents made the entire $148 billion DeFi sector unsafe?

A warning from one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi) early security figures has turned a difficult stretch of hacks into a broader test of how the…
DeFi

UTXO Enters Bitcoin Staking on Stacks, Targets BTC Yield

Bitcoin Magazine UTXO Enters Bitcoin Staking on Stacks, Targets BTC Yield UTXO Management has joined Stacks’ Bitcoin Staking program, enabling institutions to earn roughly 3%…
DeFi

DeFi’s automated yield protocols were built for retail, now they just add another layer of risk

Automated yield protocols built DeFi’s most persuasive retail pitch that depositing into a vault was all a user needed to do, with the protocol handling…
AI

OpenZeppelin Co-Founder Manuel Aráoz Says He Considers “All” of DeFi Unsafe as AI Reshapes the Threat Model

Former OpenZeppelin CTO Manuel Aráoz advised friends and family to exit Aave, MakerDAO, and Compound, citing AI coding agents that are now “superhuman” at finding…
AI

OpenZeppelin Pushes Back After Ex-CTO Declares All of DeFi Unsafe

The smart contract security firm distanced itself from Manuel Aráoz’s warning that AI coding agents have made DeFi impossible to defend, calling the threat real…
AI

OpenAI Foundation Pledges $250 Million to Help Cushion AI's Economic Disruption

The philanthropic arm of ChatGPT maker OpenAI will fund research, worker support, and new models for sharing the gains from automation. Read Full Story at…
DeFi

Prediction markets enter the derivatives era: XBIT DEX opens whitelist for prediction leverage, launching a 35,000 USDC campaign

XBIT DEX takes the lead in introducing leverage to on-chain prediction markets, prioritizing the 2026 FIFA World Cup for its initial category. The whitelist application…
DeFi

Crypto Long & Short: How the GENIUS Act repriced bitcoin's monetary premium

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, Ravi Tanuku on why the GENIUS Act didn’t just regulate stablecoins, it repriced Bitcoin’s monetary premium. Then, Jesper…