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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Echo Protocol is investigating a security incident involving its bridge on Monad after crypto on-chain analysts said an attacker minted 1,000 eBTC and used part of the position to extract WBTC liquidity through Curvance. The first public alarm came from on-chain analyst DCF GOD, who wrote that Echo “may be hacked on Monad.” He added: “Someone minted 1k ebtc out of nowhere, max borrowed wbtc against it on Curvance, bridged, and tornado away.” A follow-up post pointed to a Monad transaction showing a 1,000 eBTC transfer on…

In brief Investment manager Rathnakishore Giri, 31, of Ohio, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for operating a $10 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. He falsely promised guaranteed returns on Bitcoin derivatives trading while paying earlier investors with new victim funds. Even after pleading guilty in October 2024, Giri continued soliciting victims while on pretrial release. An Ohio investment manager has been sentenced to nine years in prison for orchestrating a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of $10 million.Along with the nine-year sentence, Rathnakishore Giri, 31, of New Albany, received three years of supervised release after pleading…

In brief X-OmniClaw is an open-source Android AI agent from Oppo that keeps its core logic on-device and only calls the cloud for high-level reasoning. The framework builds a long-term semantic memory from your photo gallery and session history, letting it act as a continuous assistant rather than a one-shot chatbot. A behavior cloning feature lets users record a navigation path once so the agent can replay it instantly via Android deeplink, bypassing multi-step app navigation in future sessions. Your phone already has a camera, a microphone, and a screen. It can see what you’re looking at in real life…

Michael Saylor’s firm Strategy just completed of its largest Bitcoin buys ever, acquiring 24,869 BTC for approximately $2.01 billion. The company now owns 843,738 BTC acquired for $63.87 billion at a price of $75,700 per Bitcoin. The recent acquisition, priced at an average of $80,985 per Bitcoin, was Strategy’s sixth-largest on a BTC basis and 8th-largest on a dollar basis. Saylor says Strategy has achieved a BTC Yield of 12.6% year-to-date. The firm, which trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker MSTR, is the world’s largest corporate holder of Bitcoin and was the first public company to adopt BTC as its…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure XRP is experiencing increased price pressure, mirroring the broader crypto market’s drop, with the token falling 6% over the past week. This pullback has forced XRP to lose the $1.40 support level for now.  Despite this recent weakness, market analyst Ali Martinez posted on X (formerly Twitter) that a technical setup is forming on XRP’s 3-day chart that could result in a significant rally for the token.  XRP Key Break Levels According to Martinez, XRP is showing what he calls the “tightest Bollinger Band squeeze on its…

In brief PCT Litigation Trust sued financial services firm Swan Bitcoin seeking repayment of nearly $1 billion in assets. The lawsuit alleges that Swan used inside information to avoid significant losses from the Prime Trust collapse in 2023. The suit seeks repayment of nearly 12,000 Bitcoin along with stablecoins, XRP, and more. Electric Solidus, Inc, which operates as Bitcoin services firm Swan Bitcoin, was named as a defendant in a newly filed lawsuit in Delaware Bankruptcy Court that aims to recover nearly $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency linked to the 2023 collapse of Prime Trust.The suit, filed by PCT Litigation…

In brief Quantum computing advances are shortening the timeline for real attacks on crypto, with recent targets revised to 2030-2032. Bitcoin is more exposed than Ethereum, Citi researchers said, because fixing the problem requires a very challenging governance consensus. An estimated 6.7–7 million Bitcoin in dormant wallets sit with public keys already exposed, making them a prime target. As quantum computing advances faster than expected, a fault line is emerging in the crypto world: Bitcoin may be significantly more vulnerable than Ethereum—and the difference has less to do with code than with politics.In a research note published this week, Citi…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure SBI Group is reportedly planning to list a combined Bitcoin and XRP exchange-traded fund on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with a target of $32 billion in assets under management within three years of launch. Japan’s Financial Services Agency is already reviewing crypto assets more seriously as financial instruments, according to reports. The development signals a shift in how major Asian financial institutions are treating digital assets — not as fringe speculation, but as a category worth institutional attention. A Culture Built For This Moment The story of…

In brief Lawyers in a federal layoffs case apologized after AI-generated “phantom quotations” appeared in a court filing. Attorney Jason Greaves said he used Anthropic’s Claude Console under “tight time constraints.” The filing stemmed from a subpoena dispute connected to FEMA layoffs challenged in federal court. A federal court fight over Donald Trump administration layoffs has become the latest example of AI hallucinations entering the courtroom after attorneys admitted submitting fabricated quotations generated by artificial intelligence.In a declaration filed on Friday, attorney Jason Greaves admitted the filing included fake quotations generated after he used Anthropic’s Claude Console to help prepare…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum’s sideways price action has continued, but demand for the leading altcoin on the institutional level has not yet cooled down. During this persistent price action, institutions across the sector have been quietly increasing their exposure to ETH, buying more of the altcoin. Corporate Demand Pushes Ethereum Reserves Higher A recent report has revealed an underlying persistent demand for Ethereum even as its price continues to face downside pressure. In the face of volatility, institutional investors have continued acquiring ETH as the amount of ETH held in…

In brief ARFBench is the first AI benchmark built entirely from real production incidents. GPT-5 leads all existing AI models at 62.7% accuracy but falls short of domain experts at 72.7%. A theoretical model-expert oracle—combining AI and human judgment—hits 87.2% accuracy, setting the ceiling for what collaborative AI-human teams could achieve. AI companies keep pitching autonomous site reliability engineer agents—AI that investigates production incidents in place of humans. Datadog ran the actual benchmark on real outages, and the best AI models can’t yet beat the engineers they’re supposed to replace.The benchmark is ARFBench (Anomaly Reasoning Framework Benchmark), a joint project…

Elon Musk’s latest legal challenge against OpenAI has collapsed in court, clearing one of the biggest legal threats facing the ChatGPT maker as competition in artificial intelligence intensifies.A California jury on Monday rejected Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and co-founder Greg Brockman, according to NBC News. Jurors ultimately decided that Musk waited too long to bring claims accusing OpenAI’s leadership of improperly profiting from the organization that Musk helped found.Editor’s note: This story is breaking and will be updated with additional details.Daily Debrief NewsletterStart every day with the top news stories right now, plus original features,…

The White House is on the verge of a formal announcement on the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve — and the official leading the charge says the hard part is done. Patrick Witt, Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, told an interviewer this week that the administration has cleared a major legal hurdle in standing up the reserve.  “We’ll have an announcement,” Witt said. “I wish I could say more… It’s a breakthrough as far as getting everything in place, legally sound, properly safeguarding the assets.”  The signal follows a similar declaration Witt made at the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A growing sense of optimism is returning for XRP following recent bold forecasts from analysts about the altcoin reaching unprecedented price levels. During this wave of optimism, a crypto expert has outlined a growing setup that signals that bears are losing control of the market once again. Pundit Says “It’s Over For XRP Bears” XRP’s price is hovering around the $1.38 level following a pullback on Sunday. While the altcoin continues to struggle around this key level, Cheeky Crypto, a market expert and investor, argues that the…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on DefiLlama’s RWA category data puts the RWA tokenization market near $30 billion on-chain, with only $2.47 billion appearing as DeFi active TVL, the value actually deposited or pooled inside third-party DeFi protocols the platform tracks.The rest of the tokenized real-world assets market sits outside the lending markets and collateral vaults that make crypto assets composable. Bond and money market funds are the largest single RWA category at over $16.6 billion on-chain, yet they carry only $920 million in DeFi active total value locked (TVL).Gold and commodities sit at $5.7 billion on-chain against $183.6 million in DeFi,…

In brief Hive Digital Technologies’ stock price jumped 26% on Monday, after touching its highest point this year, following the data center announcement. Hive’s subsidiary, Buzz High Performance Computing, is building a 320-megawatt (MW) artificial intelligence facility in the Greater Toronto Area. Billed as a “sovereign AI infrastructure” project, the facility is designed to keep data and processing power within Canada to foster domestic tech dominance. Hive Digital Technologies’ stock price popped on Monday, touching its highest point of the year after the Bitcoin miner unveiled a massive data center buildout in Ontario, Canada.The company’s shares changed hands around $3.39,…

Capital B, the Paris-listed Bitcoin Treasury Company formerly known as The Blockchain Group, has completed the purchase of 192 bitcoin for €13.0 million, bringing its total holdings to 3,135 BTC — one of the largest bitcoin reserves held by a European public company. The acquisition, announced May 18, 2026, was funded through three capital raises that together generated €17.15 million. The raises included a €0.85 million placement under an “at-the-market” (ATM) agreement with TOBAM, a €1.1 million warrant issuance subscribed by cypherpunk and Blockstream CEO Adam Back, and a €15.2 million private placement of shares with attached subscription warrants (ABSA)…