Visa's Cuy Sheffield pegs adjusted x402 volume at $19M across 134M transactions, but a Visa-Artemis analysis shows just 4,000 wallets account for 90% of spending.
SlowMist's MistEye system detected MacSync Stealer, a macOS infostealer that hijacks Telegram sessions, decrypts crypto wallets, and harvests seed phrases via fake app prompts.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly admitted Base's content coin strategy failed, saying the network 'messed up,' while defending its new focus on AI agents, trading, and payments.
Trump Media is selling Wall Street low-latency access to Truth Social posts via a paid 'Truth API,' raising conflict-of-interest questions about the president's financial stake.
Leaked Suno source code reveals 2 million YouTube clips and 62,000 hours of Pond5 audio scraped for AI training — the most concrete evidence yet of the company's data practices.
A Dune study for 1inch finds 85% of concentrated liquidity sat idle in H1 2026, with $542M out of range weekly and retail LPs missing $150M in annual fees.
Citadel Securities has made a $400M strategic investment in Crypto.com at a $20B valuation — the exchange's first-ever institutional funding round — targeting tokenized securities and derivatives.
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told Congress the Fed will not rescue failing crypto or stablecoin firms, drawing a hard line as the GENIUS Act nears finalization.
Total crypto market cap drops to $2.27T, Fear & Greed Index at 27. BTC holds at $63,700 with 56.3% dominance as HYPE falls 8% and alts lead losses.
Gabriel Perez allegedly bet on Trump speech contents via Kalshi, clearing $100K+ using advance access. Kalshi flagged the trades to the CFTC in a landmark prediction-market insider-trading case.
