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OpenAI’s unreleased Astra model can reportedly find zero-day vulnerabilities and combine them into working exploits without step-by-step human guidance. Decrypt says access to the capability is beginning with a small group of testers.
Ondo says existing U.S. securities laws could support perpetual futures tied to individual stocks and is urging the SEC and CFTC to help bring such derivatives activity onshore, Cointelegraph reports.
Bitcoin’s apparent demand indicator turned negative again after a brief August recovery, while BTC fell below $77,000 amid a wider sell-off in bond and equity markets, Cointelegraph reported.
Public Citizen’s analysis of FEC filings found record corporate political donations of $646 million over 18 months. Crypto led sectors with $206 million, while crypto, AI and online betting together spent $344 million.
G20 officials under the US presidency said digital assets could support broad-based economic growth and called for improved cross-border transactions, while promoting clearer pathways for digital-asset innovation.
Norway’s consumer watchdog has urged retailers to stop selling so-called “pervert glasses” while authorities consider regulation and a possible ban on facial recognition. No final legal decision or timetable was reported.
Varun Datta of Truth Ventures says crypto VCs’ move toward later-stage deals may be a consensus trade, with proven companies receiving 57% of last quarter’s capital and founding-stage opportunities left underfunded.
Wallets linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group sold more than $30 million in Bitcoin through Hyperliquid over three weeks, intensifying concerns about sanctions enforcement and the U.S. expansion of DeFi markets.
CryptoSlate’s H1 2026 report says TRON combined continued DeFi development with rapid AI product expansion, maintaining ecosystem traction despite broader crypto-market headwinds. Recurring deflationary mechanisms remained central to its DeFi strategy.
Strategy’s STRC preferred security remains near $97 despite $635.2 million in buybacks. Michael Saylor has roughly one week before his informal Sept. 8 target to restore the security to its $100 par value.
CrowdStrike and federal authorities disrupted Russia-based Sality malware, which allegedly redirected copied Bitcoin and Ethereum wallet addresses for eight years. More than 15,000 infected machines have been isolated.
HashKey has joined the DTCC’s tokenization innovation working group as its first Asian crypto service provider. The group includes more than 100 financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan.
Bitcoin met resistance near $77,000 as weaker JOLTS turnover conflicted with an ISM prices reading of 71.1, $90 oil and a 66% probability of a closing Fed hike.
