Infrastructure
DeFi

Congress is weighing whether crypto tax relief should stop at stablecoins

A June 9 Ways and Means hearing pushes crypto policy into the tax code, where small payments, stablecoin use, network fees, mining, staking, and donations…
DeFi

Morgan Stanley’s Galaxy deal points to Bitcoin’s next institutional test: lending collateral

Morgan Stanley announced on June 5 that eligible wealth management clients can now lend Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana to Galaxy Digital and receive shares of…
DeFi

DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once

Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 through 2025 puts a…
Infrastructure

Wall Street Is Coming for Hyperliquid's Perps Crown, Arthur Hayes Says

Arthur Hayes warned that Hyperliquid’s core value driver—using trading fees to burn tokens—exposes the protocol to market share losses. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
Infrastructure

Chainlink CCIP Draws $1.1 Billion in Value in One Week as Virtuals Join Migration Wave

Chainlink’s CCIP drew over $1.1 billion in token value this week as Virtuals Protocol, Pleasing Market, and Zest Protocol joined a migration wave that has…
AI

Travala lets AI agents book hotels with USDC on Base

Travala’s new protocol lets AI agents search and book hotels with USDC on Base, but travelers still approve the final payment. Read Full Story at…
Infrastructure

Cardano founder floats splitting his own blockchain after warning more apps will die

Charles Hoskinson raised the possibility of splitting Cardano after the collapse of one of its best-known ecosystem tools exposed a deeper fight over money, governance,…
AI

AI exposed a massive flaw in top crypto network and experts warn banks could be next

After an AI model helped uncover a four-year-old flaw in Zcash, security researchers warn that similar bugs may be hiding across crypto and traditional financial…
AI

AI-assisted Zcash flaw exposes the supply integrity gap an emergency fork could not fully close

The exploit that nearly broke Zcash originated inside the zero-knowledge proof circuit that powers Orchard, Zcash’s newest shielded pool, and the cryptographic core of its…
AI

Shielded Labs Proposes New Zcash Upgrade to Prove ZEC Supply After Orchard Bug

The Zcash developer said researcher Taylor Hornby used Anthropic’s latest AI model to find a flaw that could have minted undetectable counterfeit ZEC inside the…