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Jack Dorsey’s Block has applied for a banking charter to launch Builders Bank, which would offer bitcoin custody and related fiduciary services. Bitcoin Magazine reported that the application has not yet resulted in an approved charter.
Fields medalist Terence Tao says AI is advancing through difficult mathematical problems at a pace that may outstrip the creation of new challenges, citing competition between OpenAI and Anthropic.
Tokenized stocks can track a company and trade at a similar price to its shares, but they may not grant ownership or shareholder rights. The distinction is important for investors comparing digital tokens with conventional equities.
LAPTOP surged to about $190 before dropping below $4 within minutes of launching on Base. CoinDesk said the token’s $1.6 billion debut was followed by a 98% loss, while market makers received tokens a week earlier.
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.
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI’s Sébastien Bubeck of claiming credit for a Navier-Stokes proof after learning about unpublished work Buckmaster conducted with Anthropic’s Levent Alpöge.
Bitcoin fell with US stocks at Tuesday’s Wall Street open as Cointelegraph highlighted $78,300 as a key BTC support level. US crude oil meanwhile climbed to a three-month high.
Castle is making its Bitcoin savings product available to individuals, offering a 12% STRC yield through personal accounts and allowing customers to route any portion of payouts directly into bitcoin, Bitcoin Magazine reports.
Ethereum’s proposed Frames change would allow extra validation work at individual nodes, but privacy proofs studied so far exceed the shared 100,000-gas allowance. One proof reportedly requires nearly twice the proposed budget.
Bitcoin’s latest rally began after the Treasury announced that, from Sept. 9, it would raise the maximum size of certain buyback operations for 10- to 30-year government bonds from $2 billion to $4 billion.
a16z-backed OpenReserve received approval for a full-service national bank charter. The startup chose this route over a trust-bank structure, opening a path to insured deposits and conventional lending alongside stablecoin issuance.
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.
Hargreaves Lansdown has opened retail access to crypto ETNs after the FCA lifted its ban on retail crypto exchange-traded products in October, reversing the platform’s previous stance on the products.
Revolut and OpenReserve received preliminary OCC approval to form US national banks. Both companies plan to offer cryptocurrency and stablecoin-related services, although final authorization, product details and launch timing were not provided.
