Bitcoin is being pulled into a broader risk-off trade as AI-related credit stress collides with another surge in oil prices, and both take place just days before the next FOMC meeting. A recent report by QCP said BTC is still behaving like a risk asset, while the latest Middle East escalation has pushed Brent above […]
The analysts at the Kobeissi Letter argued that Wall Street is in a rare “bull-bear market,” with key indices, such as the S&P 500, hovering near record highs even as most of its components trade well below their peaks. The KL’s analysis believes this divergence could eventually fuel another powerful rally if inflation, energy prices, […]
The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project have developed zkAPI, a zero-knowledge protocol that lets users pay for AI services and other paid APIs without linking their identity to their requests. Live on Ethereum mainnet, the system separates payment records from the prompts and queries sent to service providers, although it does not hide […]
Charles Hoskinson says the cryptocurrency industry is about to do to artificial intelligence what it once did to cryptography, and he thinks the spending spree behind today’s AI data centers is heading for a bust. In the September 16 episode of the Deeptech Insights podcast, the Cardano founder argued that blockchains could give AI payment […]
David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO emeritus, has warned that government rules around AI safety and copyright could give authorities unprecedented control over political and social speech. His argument centers on who gets to decide what AI systems can create, know, and discuss. Two Legal Fights, One Argument Schwartz laid out the case in a reply thread […]
Boltz has suspended its Bitcoin swap service after a series of AI-assisted attacks caused losses for the bootstrapped five-person company, with the shutdown announced on August 3 and a new group of veteran Bitcoiners now preparing to take over the project. The episode points to a growing security problem for small open-source crypto services, where […]
Crypto figures are warning that government control over what AI systems can know or discuss could create a dangerous precedent, after Erik Voorhees argued on X on July 28 that states should not decide what forms of intelligence are “safe.” The post landed in the middle of a fresh debate over how much oversight AI […]
The Head of Digital Assets and Innovation for a $2 trillion asset manager “just said to buy ETH,” commented former BlackRock VP and host of Milk Road Daily, John Gillen, on Tuesday. His statement came in response to a lengthy post on X from Franklin’s Sandy Kaul on the use cases for crypto in agentic […]
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has rejected calls for a new AI self-regulatory body, arguing that existing laws already provide enough protection against harmful AI. His remarks came just a day after the crypto exchange disclosed that AI now writes over 95% of its code, more than twice the figure the company reported earlier in the […]
The organization behind the second-largest blockchain network revealed it had employed a coordinated army of AI agents to identify vulnerabilities in Ethereum’s critical infrastructure. The team said one major bug was successfully discovered and patched before it could become a larger problem. But that could be just the start of this major story. AI and […]