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Two Texas brothers were sentenced to a combined 326 months for holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint and forcing the father to transfer more than $8 million in cryptocurrency during a 2025 home invasion.
Birch Hill has raised $4 million in seed funding to build blockchain infrastructure for U.S. private credit, with plans to eventually securitize apartment, agriculture and energy loans onchain. The round brings the New York startup’s total funding to $6.5 million.
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Securitize has added Stellar to its supported blockchain network for tokenized real-world assets, alongside Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche. The deal strengthens Stellar’s institutional profile as firms use blockchain infrastructure for regulated financial products and payments.
Anchorage Digital has expanded its custody and listing arrangement with Bitso, covering stablecoins moving between the United States and Mexico. The deal places MXNB and two dollar stablecoins across a regulated custody framework targeting one of the world’s largest remittance corridors.
OpenAI says its AI models found a potential disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a computer-science conjecture abbreviated ETH. The claim has nothing to do with Ethereum, although the acronym briefly sparked jokes among crypto users. Researchers are independently examining the theoretical result.
Cybersecurity startup Cathedral says autonomous AI agents reached parts of Anthropic’s sales, HR and IT systems in under 12 hours through third-party software. Anthropic confirmed limited access but said Claude conversations, source code and model weights were not reached.
Elon Musk says more than 200 specialist AI cloud providers could fail or consolidate as lenders tighten financing. Gartner separately forecasts that over 80% of neoclouds will no longer operate independently by 2030 amid enormous infrastructure spending and uncertain returns.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a $1.37 billion judgment against the alleged operators of NovaTech and AWS Mining, two crypto schemes prosecutors say collected more than $1 billion while promising returns not supported by actual trading.
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U.S. investors withdrew $635.6 million from spot bitcoin ETFs on Thursday as an oil-price spike and Middle East tensions triggered renewed risk-off trading. Bitcoin briefly fell below $81,000, although weekly ETF flows remained positive at more than $439 million.
South Korea’s central bank plans to draft a foreign-exchange law amendment by year-end to regulate stablecoins used for payments and monitor cross-border transfers. The initiative comes as lawmakers debate a broader digital-asset bill and whether a postponed crypto tax should begin in 2027.
A former Circle employee and shareholder has sued Donald Trump over alleged unconstitutional profits from UAE-linked investments in World Liberty Financial, a crypto project co-founded by Trump and his sons. The complaint alleges $2 billion flowed through the venture’s USD1 stablecoin product.
The OCC has removed a proposed presumption targeting some affiliate-funded stablecoin rewards, but retained the GENIUS Act’s ban on issuer-paid yield. Programs will be assessed case by case, with no grandfathering for older arrangements or safe harbor for small payments.
Chinese authorities are seeking to confiscate nearly 62,000 bitcoin tied to an alleged $2.8 billion fraud scheme. The assets were seized in the UK after the alleged controller fled China, while courts determine how victims may recover value from the holdings.
Bitcoin fell nearly 4% toward $81,000 after oil prices rose above $110, reviving fears of stronger inflation and higher U.S. interest rates. Renewed Middle East attacks also pressured stocks and risk-sensitive assets, although bitcoin’s broader quarterly performance remains strong.
DWF Labs research found that US spot Bitcoin ETF flows have followed previous Bitcoin price movements rather than predicted future returns. Inflows accompanied all nine rallies of at least 15%, while investors withdrew funds during seven of eight comparable declines.
The Cardano Foundation is urging the European Union to regulate DeFi and staking according to their functions and risks, rather than creating standalone technology-based rules. It also warned that overlapping MiCA requirements could increase uncertainty for crypto businesses across member states.
