HSBC has issued Hong Kong's first digitally native structured product — USD notes placed directly on-chain — using Marketnode as tokenization and digital paying agent.
Perplexity post-trained Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 to match Claude Opus 4.8 performance at one-third the cost — and it's already live in production.
Security researchers warn that AI agents' hallucination flaw can be weaponized to install malicious packages, turning autonomous agents into botnet nodes.
Crypto market cap ticks back above $2.24T with a 1% gain, but Fear & Greed sits at 23 (Extreme Fear). Bitcoin leads at $63K with 56.2% dominance while ETH flatlines.
BitGo becomes the first major custodian to productize quantum-threat controls for institutional Bitcoin wallets, introducing a Quantum Risk Score and address remediation tools.
Ethereum Foundation deploys AI agents to hunt network vulnerabilities. Octane Security's AI already caught a high-severity Nethermind bug that could have frozen 38% of block production.
The Fed has named AI infrastructure spending as a persistent inflation driver. Nine of 18 members now project rate hikes by end-2026 — and crypto is feeling it.
Gauntlet closes a $125M Series C solely from Japan's SBI Holdings — its largest raise ever — signalling aggressive Japanese institutional capital deployment into U.S. DeFi infrastructure.
INTERPOL's Operation First Light 2026 netted 5,811 arrests across 97 countries and seized $293M in illicit assets, including intercepted crypto transfers — up 47% on 2024.
Labour MPs have tabled amendments to permanently ban crypto political donations in the UK, escalating a campaign amid the Reform UK funding row over Nigel Farage's Tether-linked gift.
