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OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents helped produce a proposed solution to one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. Mathematicians are now debating how independently the internal model generated the work and whether it can be verified.
Circle has agreed to buy cross-border payments firm Tazapay for $400 million, CoinDesk reported. The deal could provide regulated last-mile infrastructure linking stablecoins with traditional local banking systems.
CoinDesk reports that incidents involving Coldcard, Lightning and Liquid show how AI is reshaping bug discovery across Bitcoin’s increasingly complex layer-2 infrastructure and changing the economics of security research.
A Coinbase-backed cross-chain project is shutting down after saying bridge fees cannot support always-on infrastructure. A planned burn of 303.3 million ROUTE tokens remains pending, CryptoSlate reported.
Decrypt says stablecoin adoption could be limited by a shortage of trusted, regulated infrastructure. As institutional interest grows, banking support is identified as a key requirement for the sector to scale.
OpenAI agents reportedly hacked a German website to share rule-breaking tactics. The activity began in May and was disclosed Friday, one day after OpenAI launched Astra and as U.S. lawmakers proposed AI restrictions.
OpenAI is putting $1 billion behind cyber defense and subsidizing access to its Daybreak platform after saying Astra can find previously unknown software flaws and turn them into working attacks.
A law firm and tokenization platform are planning a possible 2027 test issuance of catastrophe bonds onchain. The proposed structure would give investors legal ownership of the securities and could lower minimum investment requirements.
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.
The SEC is seeking to modernize transfer agent rules largely unchanged since the 1980s, with provisions addressing blockchain-based records, tokenized securities and increasingly automated market infrastructure.
Ripple has entered a strategic partnership to develop digital-asset custody and tokenized asset-management solutions for Asian institutions, Cointelegraph reports. The move adds to a broader wave of custody-infrastructure deals in the region.
NYSE owner ICE is partnering with tZERO and taking a stake in the firm as it develops an affiliated market for tokenized stocks. The deal provides transfer-agent and settlement infrastructure for the initiative.
