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Bryan Johnson says filters, retouching and lighting may be the most effective anti-aging tools for appearance, even as he continues medical longevity work, a disease-focused program and his stated goal of immortality by 2039.
Founders Fund led a $5 million purchase of Anvil’s ANVL governance tokens, with Pantera Capital, Bullish and other investors participating. The Ethereum-based protocol is also launching a software kit designed to help businesses use crypto collateral for financial guarantees without building blockchain code.
A study published in the Journal of Financial Crime found that flash loan attacks caused $1.211 billion in DeFi losses across 72 incidents between February 2020 and July 2024, with Ethereum accounting for more than 80% of the damage.
Ripple Prime will provide Brevan Howard’s funds with multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing and financing across traditional and digital markets, expanding a relationship that includes a $500 million Ripple investment in 2025.
OKX has raised an undisclosed amount from existing partners and investors at a $25 billion valuation. The financing extends its March round, which brought in $200 million from ICE, while the exchange pursues a broader financial-technology strategy.
Paxos has launched its $3.09 billion USDG stablecoin natively on Arbitrum, with integrations across major DeFi protocols and proposed incentives of 100 million ARB to support liquidity, adoption and ecosystem development.
Adam Iza, who called himself “The Godfather,” received a 78-month federal sentence for a scheme that prosecutors said defrauded Meta of more than $37 million. He must also pay $23.4 million and faces a separate concurrent 15-year sentence for an attempted Bitcoin robbery.
DeepSeek is nearing a funding round of at least $12 billion and Moonshot AI has reached a $50 billion valuation, with both targeting early-2027 IPOs. OpenAI and Anthropic are also pursuing enormous valuations and potential listings as U.S.-China AI competition intensifies.
Ethereum developers released Prysm version 7.2.1 just before the Glamsterdam upgrade’s Sepolia rehearsal, ensuring validators automatically test a 200 million gas limit. The trial is designed to assess whether Ethereum can handle blocks more than three times larger than the previous 60 million-gas setting.
Strive bought 2,000 Bitcoin for about $169 million between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2, its largest purchase since May. Its holdings reached 29,462 BTC, while the company reported $284.7 million in cash and no debt.
DeFi Development Corp. added about 26,203 SOL, worth roughly $3 million, between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2, lifting its holdings to 2.56 million SOL and equivalents. The purchase pace slowed from the prior two weeks as the company continued its Solana-focused treasury strategy.
Fairshake is backing 32 incumbent House lawmakers—13 Democrats and 19 Republicans—in November elections, including six candidates receiving about $1 million each. The crypto super PAC is targeting members of committees central to future digital-asset and tax legislation.
Bitmine has purchased another 15,112 ETH, worth about $41 million, bringing its holdings to 6,016,414 tokens and 4.9% of Ethereum’s supply. The company says it is 99% of the way to its 5% target while continuing to stake most of its holdings.
Strategy bought 334 Bitcoin for $28.7 million and lifted its holdings to 848,000 BTC, but spent more than six times as much repurchasing preferred stock. The company also estimated a $20.91 billion third-quarter digital-asset gain and $1.88 billion in deferred tax expense.
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El Salvador received about $138 million from the IMF after the Fund waived Bitcoin-related breaches, but restrictions on state-funded purchases remain. The country’s roughly 7,794-Bitcoin reserve and the Chivo wallet unwind will remain central to future reviews.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $134.4 million in net inflows during October’s first two trading days, reversing a late-September outflow as softer U.S. jobs data reduced expectations of an October Federal Reserve rate hike.
Near Intents recovered the full roughly $3.8 million stolen in a Thursday exploit after its general manager publicly warned the attacker that the team had identified them and gave them 48 hours to return the funds.
