Unchained

The company spent $176.3 million buying STRC below par and bought no bitcoin at all, as defending the preferred takes priority over accumulation.

The brokerage will own a piece of both venues, priced off Crypto.com’s $20 billion valuation, as its prediction markets unit outgrows its crypto business.

Bailey called the pay pool low and cited Strive as a precedent, prompting Strive CEO Matt Cole to break down why the two structures are not comparable.

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.

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.

OFAC designated Xinbi Guarantee, the Chinese-language platform that absorbed Huione’s customers after US regulators shut that network out, while the Justice Department seized its infrastructure. Its operators had already told users they were leaving tether for a stablecoin that is harder to freeze.

Two Republican senators were quoted in a Semafor report saying the crypto market structure bill is heading for defeat, and the Sept. 15 vote would not pass it even if it succeeds.

Britain’s regulator is sounding out platforms about a rule it wrote in 2019, while its published position still defends the ban.

Four months after telling senators the bill would hand mixers and DeFi a blanket AML exemption, the sheriffs’ group says it will step aside and let the process play out.

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.

World says the zero-knowledge toolkit behind its World ID checks is now open to outside developers, letting a phone confirm a fact about its owner without handing over the document behind it.

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.