September 12, 2026
Bitcoin and Gold Are Now the Same Trade. Which One Is Worth Owning?
Bitcoin now moves more closely with gold than with tech, which leaves anyone holding both as separate hedges with less protection than the split implies.
David Minarsch, co-founder of Olas and CEO of Valory, says the project makes spinning off agents as easy as clicking a button.
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The company called the withheld coins theft rather than white-hat work as Liquid restarted block production with peg operations still frozen.
Most of the bitcoin is back in the federation wallet, but $47 million is not, and the sidechain is still frozen.
An Elements software bug let someone mint unbacked L-BTC and peg out roughly 4,000 BTC, and the party holding it says they want the bug patched before it sends most of it back.
Bitcoin rallied 23% after Bessent’s debt-buyback comments and settled near $80K. Swan’s Cory Klippsten weighs in on what ETF inflows and onchain exchange moves really mean.
Manifund’s cofounder says he believes in redemption; his own commenters say the hire shows terrible judgment.
A third party using a real government email domain walked off with identity documents and full bitcoin transaction records.
The reset hands shareholders an 8.8% bump in bitcoin per diluted share, but Gerovich keeps the shares he already exercised.
The SEC’s next tokenization rule could force platforms to get issuer sign-off for stock tokens first. Securitize’s Brett Redfearn lays out what’s actually at stake for Wall Street.
Rodrigo Coelho, CEO of Edge & Node and a founding member of Ampersend, says a wallet-level control layer can block an AI agent from overspending or acting on a hallucination. He also notes that banks like BNY Mellon are already testing agentic commerce even though real transaction volume has not caught up to the hype yet.
Para CEO Nitya Subramanian tells Laura Shin how agentic wallet permissions will evolve and the first sectors that will be made obsolete by agentic commerce.
Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.
An attacker inflated Tectonic’s own governance token roughly 100-fold and borrowed against it, and Cronos validators froze the entire network in response.
The company behind much of Ethereum’s tooling will carry on as MetaMask under Joe Lubin, while its protocol and institutional infrastructure work, including Linea and Besu, moves into a newly formed company that takes the Consensys name.
The EF’s Protocol cluster set a hard date for post-quantum Ethereum and graded 62 proposals for the fork that decides whether it holds.
Ten AI coding agents ran the same 12 Solidity challenges human developers faced at Devcon. Only OpenAI’s Codex cleared the course, and the cheapest near-finisher was an open-weight Chinese model.
Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger’s Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.
Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.
OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.
Senate Republicans say the text answers 126 Democratic demands, as cloture needs at least seven Democrats to pass.
The SEC’s next tokenization rule could force platforms to get issuer sign-off for stock tokens first. Securitize’s Brett Redfearn lays out what’s actually at stake for Wall Street.
The FTX founder wants a new trial, arguing jurors heard about customer losses while his lawyers were barred from showing the assets were there to repay them.
The new text adds CFTC registration for DeFi protocols that are not truly decentralized, but leaves the ethics section Democrats are holding out for untouched.
A crowdsourced challenge of more than 100 researchers and AI agents drove a quantum benchmark down 86% in two months, well below Google’s March figure.
BitBox reported a matching campaign the same day, weeks after a shipping provider breach exposed tens of thousands of Trezor customer records.
Albert Castellana and Arthur Hayes walk through how GenLayer resolves an AI agent’s dispute in minutes, for cents, without a single human judge involved.
The exposure could reach more than 80,000 customer records, going back to orders placed in 2019, years after Trezor says it was told those records were gone.