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CASH is a stablecoin platform built for real-world utility, designed to enable businesses to earn a full return on their stablecoin supply. CASH will be accepted by Stripe's global merchant network and available to Phantom's millions of users worldwide.
Fomo enters top five in U.S. finance apps, surpassing Cash App and Kalshi
Odaily News: Fomo, a social crypto trading app built for Robinhood Chain and other networks, entered the top five finance apps in the U.S. on August 21, briefly climbing to No. 3 and surpassing Cash App and prediction market Kalshi. It currently ranks in the top 15.Founded by Paul Erlanger and Se Yong Park, Fomo launched its public beta in May 2025. In November 2025, it completed a $17 million Series A round led by Benchmark, with participation from 140 angel investors; this was followed by a $75 million Series B round, bringing total disclosed equity funding to approximately $94 million.Fomo supports Solana, Base, BNB Chain, Monad, and Robinhood Chain, allowing users to view real-time trades of people they follow, track leaderboards, and copy trading signals, with instant deposits funded via Apple Pay. Its cumulative installs on Google Play have surpassed 1 million, with over 600,000 users and more than $4 billion in trading volume. (Bitcoin.com News)
Donald Trump earned over $1.4 billion from crypto businesses in 2025, while CLARITY Act identified with five major flaws
Odaily News: On August 5, the minority staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs stated that the July 22 version of the CLARITY Act fails to meet five minimum standards. The bill, numbered H.R. 3633, aims to divide digital asset regulatory authority between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The analysis suggests that the bill's two-tier system could remove certain blockchain assets from SEC oversight, allowing issuing companies to self-certify exemptions from securities regulation. Healthy Markets and five labor organizations have raised concerns over pension protections and securities law loopholes, while minority staff also noted that investors' private right of action and state and tribal enforcement powers could be weakened. Minority staff stated that DeFi-related companies could be exempt from anti-illegal financing obligations even if they earn millions of dollars from platform transactions; some crypto mixers may circumvent U.S. sanctions by exploiting the "Tornado Cash loophole." The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) warned that stablecoin yields could drain deposits from community banks, and the Systemic Risk Council has flagged related banking activities as potential bailout risks. Minority staff noted that Donald Trump alone earned over $1.4 billion from crypto businesses in 2025, with related enforcement solely under the purview of his Attorney General, and that obligations would terminate upon his departure from office. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal, citing $3.8 billion in investor losses, have separately called on the SEC to investigate Trump memecoin. The Senate is scheduled to hold a cloture vote on September 15 on the motion to proceed, with the bill needing 60 votes to advance. (Bitcoin.com News)
Ark Invest buys $21 million in Block stock and $2.3 million in SpaceX shares
Odaily News Ark Invest, the asset management firm founded by Cathie Wood, disclosed that on August 6, it purchased 267,676 shares of Block stock, valued at approximately $21 million; on the same day, it increased its holdings by 20,318 shares of SpaceX, valued at approximately $2.3 million. Block, formerly known as Square, was renamed by Jack Dorsey in 2021. It has held Bitcoin on its corporate balance sheet since 2020 and offers BTC buy/sell services to retail customers via Cash App. In recent months, Block has also expanded related operations through its Bitkey hardware wallet and its Bitcoin mining hardware division, Proto. SpaceX listed on Nasdaq in June under the ticker SPCX, with an issue price of $135, raising approximately $75 billion and reaching a valuation of nearly $1.8 trillion. Ark's purchase came about two months after SpaceX's listing.
Analysts Support Strategy Increasing Cash Holdings, Saylor Says No Longer "100% Allocating to Bitcoin" in the Future
Odaily News, Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said at the company's Q2 earnings call that while the company has previously allocated nearly "100% of its funds to Bitcoin," it may adopt a combined strategy of holding both cash and BTC going forward. He stated, "Perhaps the best way to buy the most Bitcoin is not to buy the most Bitcoin immediately."TD Cowen and Benchmark both maintained their Buy ratings on Strategy following the Q2 earnings call. The two firms believe that the core goal of the company's current management has shifted toward bringing its STRC preferred stock price back to near par value, thereby restoring its ability to function as a financing tool.TD Cowen analyst Lance Vitanza said the most important takeaway from the call was management's strong focus on STRC. Company executives repeatedly emphasized that restoring STRC to par value is the core objective, and noted that despite recent price deviations in the security, institutional adoption continues to rise.Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer holds a similar view. He pointed out that Saylor and his team spent most of the 90-minute call focused on the same goal: restoring STRC to the $99–$100 range, making it once again the primary engine for the company to raise capital and purchase Bitcoin.
CoreWeave Makes Significant Concessions for $2.6 Billion Financing, Oversubscribed 3x After Terms Improved
According to Yonhap News Agency, AI cloud computing company CoreWeave was forced to make significant concessions in a $2.6 billion loan project collateralized by compute supply contracts with Anthropic due to sluggish investor demand: raising the annual yield on the loan to 9.1% and adding a "Cash Flow Lockbox" protection clause to ensure revenue generated from Anthropic contracts is prioritized for debt repayment, a clause that will remain in effect until 50% of the loan principal is repaid or the server utilization rate falls below a specific level. Following the adjustment of terms, subscription demand reversed rapidly—buy orders received on the morning of July 30 totaled as high as $9 billion, exceeding the target financing amount by more than three times. A CoreWeave spokesperson expressed satisfaction with the financing results, describing the term revision as a "natural process of introducing innovative financial structures in a volatile market environment."
Thailand's Central Bank Reviews High-Value USDT Transactions to Combat Money Laundering and Illicit Funds
the Bank of Thailand is strengthening stablecoin regulation to combat money laundering, illegal financing, and "grey capital" in the country. The central bank is collaborating with the Securities and Exchange Commission to review high-value stablecoin transactions, focusing on USDt (USDT), cash transactions, and foreign exchange dealings to identify and prevent illicit fund flows. Thailand will also expand the compliance responsibilities of commercial banks in areas such as cash networks, foreign exchange services, gold trading, and suspicious stablecoin transactions. In 2025, Thailand suffered losses of 115 billion Thai baht (approximately $3.4 billion) due to scams, recording about 173 million fraudulent calls and text messages. Cash deposits exceeding 5 million Thai baht will also require full disclosure. Bitkub, Thailand's largest exchange, processes a daily trading volume of approximately $26 million, nearly 40% of which is foreign exchange trading, with the USDT/THB trading pair being the most popular. In 2025, Thailand's banking sector froze 3 million bank accounts as part of efforts to crack down on nominee accounts, grey capital, and suspicious activities. (Cointelegraph).
Jack Dorsey: Opposes Governments and Leading AI Companies Deciding the Pace of AI Development
Block CEO Jack Dorsey has expressed support for review, independent evaluation, and planning of frontier AI, but opposes governments and leading AI companies negotiating industry-wide development restrictions.He advocates for an open-release approach that allows outside parties to reproduce results, identify problems, and develop alternatives, and supports providing models, computing power, and public infrastructure to independent researchers and safety researchers.Block is developing open-source AI tools and provides Bitcoin-related services across products including Square and Cash App. The company has also launched the open-source AI agent goose, and is developing Bitcoin mining hardware Proto and hardware wallet Bitkey. (Bitcoin.com News)
Non-custodial developer criminal liability explicit protection removed, Coin Center says Roman Storm prosecution theory still not excluded
Bitcoin News posted on X platform stating that Coin Center says the latest revised BRCA text removes the provision that provided explicit criminal liability protection for developers who do not control user funds under 18 U.S.C. § 1960. The revised text would still protect developers who do not control user funds from being deemed money transmitters under the Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN regulations, thereby significantly raising the difficulty of prosecuting developers solely for failing to obtain a money transmitter license or register with the federal government. However, the text cannot prevent prosecutors from arguing that developers knowingly transmitted funds derived from criminal activity, a theory that has become the core basis in the criminal cases against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm and Samourai Wallet developers. Coin Center believes that this compromise represents substantive progress on the regulatory front, but developers still face broader money transmission criminal prosecution theories from the U.S. Department of Justice; if the CLARITY Act passes with the revised BRCA, the related disputes will mainly shift to the courts.
JaredfromSubway.eth sandwich attack bot has extracted $295 million in total, with $7.5 million stolen in June
Odaily News: The sandwich attack bot operated by JaredfromSubway.eth has extracted a cumulative total of 117,007 ETH since March 2023, worth approximately $295 million at current prices. In June 2026, an anonymous attacker deployed 66 counterfeit token contracts, exploiting the bot's automated trading logic to steal at least $7.5 million in ETH and stablecoins, and funneled the funds into Tornado Cash. The stolen assets have not yet been recovered.Sandwich attacks are a form of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV): the bot monitors large transactions in Ethereum's public mempool, buys ahead of the target transaction, and sells after the transaction pushes the price up, capturing profits from the spread. The bot's primary contract had received a cumulative total of 117,007 ETH as of August 28.MEV-Boost block construction is centralized among a small group of participants, with relay.ultrasound.money, Titan Relay, and bloXroute regulated relays collectively forwarding approximately 85% to 88% of related blocks within a 24-hour window; Titan's builder independently assembled 50.3% of the blocks. Monthly sandwich attack extraction amounts have declined from approximately $10 million in late 2024 to roughly $2.5 million in October 2025. (Bitcoin.com News)
SK Hynix, Samsung Shareholder Return Plans Questioned: Micron and SanDisk Propose 100% Return of Excess Cash
Odaily News: After Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix announced shareholder return plans aimed at allocating more than 50% of free cash flow (FCF) to shareholder returns, SanDisk and Micron have proposed returning 100% of "excess cash" to shareholders, raising questions about the relatively low level of shareholder returns among South Korean semiconductor companies. However, industry and financial institutions in South Korea point out that the cash metrics underlying the two types of policies are not defined the same way, making it unfair to directly compare the "50%" and "100%" ratios. Industry insiders believe that the FCF-based return policies of Korean companies actually offer greater certainty in terms of amount forecasting, implementation standards, and transparency.It is understood that FCF typically refers to the cash remaining after deducting capital expenditures (CAPEX) and other investment outlays from cash generated by operating activities, and can be objectively calculated using data from cash flow statements. Samsung Electronics previously announced that 50% of its cumulative FCF from 2024 to 2026 would be allocated to shareholder returns; SK Hynix also plans to allocate more than 50% of cumulative FCF to shareholder returns over the 2025–2027 period. (Yonhap)
Laser Digital Japan obtains Japanese crypto asset trading license, ending nearly 4-year gap in new registrations
Odaily News - Nomura Holdings' digital asset company Laser Digital Japan announced this week that it has completed registration as a crypto asset trading service provider under Japan's Payment Services Act, with registration number 00032, and has joined the Japan Virtual and Crypto asset Trading Association, bringing an end to Japan's nearly 4-year period without new industry participants.The license covers six crypto assets: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Shiba Inu, all of which are listed on the industry association's "green list." Laser Digital Japan will initially provide liquidity to licensed crypto asset companies in Japan, while the launch date for trading services targeting professional investors has not yet been announced.Japanese regulators require the segregation of customer assets from company assets, with at least 95% of customer crypto assets stored in offline cold wallets, subject to verification through annual audits. The license does not cover crypto asset derivatives, nor does it permit Laser Digital Japan to launch exchange-traded funds; major adjustments to Japan's crypto asset regulatory framework are expected to be implemented in fiscal year 2027. (Bitcoin.com News)
Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm questions DOJ logic, says Google and OpenAI should also be held accountable
Odaily News, Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm stated that if the logic behind the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) case against him holds, tech companies Google and OpenAI should also be held liable for North Korean hackers abusing their products. Those involved reportedly used ChatGPT to write code and Google Gemini for forgery and image manipulation. Storm was convicted in August 2025 of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business. He pointed out that the Tornado Cash case could set a legal precedent where software developers are penalized for criminal acts committed by users, emphasizing that criminals should be held accountable rather than the developers of tools. The CLARITY Act for digital asset markets is intended to provide protections for software developers by distinguishing developer liability from the potential misuse of protocols for illegal activities. However, although a final motion for consideration of the bill has been scheduled for a vote, its current chances of passage remain low. (Bitcoin News)
LAPTOP Suspicious On-Chain Activity: 2 New Wallets Claim Tokens for Free Then Cash Out $600,000
Odaily News - According to monitoring by crypto trader Rune, an unusual transaction involving LAPTOP tokens has been detected. A new wallet (0x8DA...A18d) claimed 4,276 LAPTOP tokens for free and subsequently sold them, cashing out approximately $400,000.More notably, the wallet then transferred 0.02 ETH to another new wallet (0xc27...b591), which likewise claimed 4,276 LAPTOP tokens for free and immediately sold them after the price dropped due to the previous sell-off, cashing out approximately $200,000.Both wallets are newly created addresses, claimed identical amounts, and the first wallet provided ETH to the second—highly correlated on-chain behavior that has prompted community speculation about potentially linked addresses or coordinated selling.
Binance Alpha 2.0 supports Robinhood Chain and adds multiple new tokens.
Binance Alpha 2.0 now supports trading, deposits, and withdrawals on Robinhood Chain. Limit orders and instant orders currently support USDT pairs. Additionally, Binance Alpha 2.0 has added tokens such as Cash Cat (CASHCAT), up (UP), Artificial Inu (AI), and Pons (PONS).
JaredfromSubway.eth sandwich attack bot has extracted $295 million in total, with $7.5 million stolen in June
Odaily News: The sandwich attack bot operated by JaredfromSubway.eth has extracted a cumulative total of 117,007 ETH since March 2023, worth approximately $295 million at current prices. In June 2026, an anonymous attacker deployed 66 counterfeit token contracts, exploiting the bot's automated trading logic to steal at least $7.5 million in ETH and stablecoins, and funneled the funds into Tornado Cash. The stolen assets have not yet been recovered.Sandwich attacks are a form of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV): the bot monitors large transactions in Ethereum's public mempool, buys ahead of the target transaction, and sells after the transaction pushes the price up, capturing profits from the spread. The bot's primary contract had received a cumulative total of 117,007 ETH as of August 28.MEV-Boost block construction is centralized among a small group of participants, with relay.ultrasound.money, Titan Relay, and bloXroute regulated relays collectively forwarding approximately 85% to 88% of related blocks within a 24-hour window; Titan's builder independently assembled 50.3% of the blocks. Monthly sandwich attack extraction amounts have declined from approximately $10 million in late 2024 to roughly $2.5 million in October 2025. (Bitcoin.com News)
value of 73 BTC, worth $4.6 million, originally came from the Whirlpool coin mixer, with some funds bridged to Ethereum and deposited through a phishing Tornado Cash interface
Odaily News: According to on-chain detective Specter's monitoring, the victim claimed that due to a Coldcard hack, funds were transferred from Bitcoin to Ethereum. However, on-chain data shows that the 73 BTC ($4.6 million) originally came from the Whirlpool coin mixer two weeks ago, with some of it bridged to Ethereum and subsequently deposited through a phishing Tornado Cash interface. Two coin mixers were used during the fund transfer process. The individual was also found to have appeared in Telegram groups involving private key searches and brute-force attacks. On-chain detective Specter stated that the victim may be a threat actor, and their funds may have been stolen by another threat actor.
A hacker spent 38.5 million DAI/USDS to buy 18,273 ETH within 5 hours
According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), a hacker address associated with Tornado Cash bought 18,273 ETH at an average price of $2,109, spending 38.535 million DAI/USDS over the past 5 hours during today's strong ETH rebound. It is reported that the aforementioned stablecoins originated from 17,124 ETH the hacker received from Tornado Cash 9 months ago, which were all sold at an average price of approximately $3,308 at that time to be held as stablecoins, and were bought back to rebuild positions today taking advantage of the significant ETH rebound.
Spent 38.535 million DAI/USDS, hacker bought 18,273 ETH in 5 hours
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Yu Jian's monitoring, a hacker spent 38.535 million DAI/USDS to buy 18,273 ETH over the past 5 hours, at a purchase price of $2,109. The aforementioned stablecoins came from 17,124 ETH received from Tornado Cash 9 months ago. The hacker subsequently sold the ETH at an average price of approximately $3,308 and converted it into DAI and USDS for holding. Today, during the ETH rebound, the hacker repurchased ETH.
Term Labs hacker deposits 960 ETH cumulatively into Tornado Cash, latest deposit 400 ETH
Odaily News: Term Labs hacker deposited 400 ETH into Tornado Cash, bringing the cumulative total to 960 ETH.
Notional Finance custody contract suspected hack, ~$1.7M in assets lost
According to PeckShieldAlert citing Specter's monitoring, Notional Finance's custody contract may have been exploited, resulting in approximately $1.7 million in DAI and USDC losses. The attacker has converted the stolen funds into 689.2 ETH and deposited them into Tornado Cash.
TectonicFi attacker address deposited 2,658.9 ETH into Tornado Cash.
PeckShieldAlert monitoring shows that an address flagged as the TectonicFi attacker has deposited 2,658.9 ETH into Tornado Cash, valued at approximately $6.65 million.
JaredfromSubway.eth sandwich attack bot has extracted $295 million in total, with $7.5 million stolen in June
Odaily News: The sandwich attack bot operated by JaredfromSubway.eth has extracted a cumulative total of 117,007 ETH since March 2023, worth approximately $295 million at current prices. In June 2026, an anonymous attacker deployed 66 counterfeit token contracts, exploiting the bot's automated trading logic to steal at least $7.5 million in ETH and stablecoins, and funneled the funds into Tornado Cash. The stolen assets have not yet been recovered.Sandwich attacks are a form of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV): the bot monitors large transactions in Ethereum's public mempool, buys ahead of the target transaction, and sells after the transaction pushes the price up, capturing profits from the spread. The bot's primary contract had received a cumulative total of 117,007 ETH as of August 28.MEV-Boost block construction is centralized among a small group of participants, with relay.ultrasound.money, Titan Relay, and bloXroute regulated relays collectively forwarding approximately 85% to 88% of related blocks within a 24-hour window; Titan's builder independently assembled 50.3% of the blocks. Monthly sandwich attack extraction amounts have declined from approximately $10 million in late 2024 to roughly $2.5 million in October 2025. (Bitcoin.com News)
Term Labs attacker deposited 300 ETH into Tornado Cash, worth approximately $741,000.
According to monitoring by PeckShield, the Term Labs attacker address deposited 300 ETH into Tornado Cash, worth approximately $741,000.
value of 73 BTC, worth $4.6 million, originally came from the Whirlpool coin mixer, with some funds bridged to Ethereum and deposited through a phishing Tornado Cash interface
Odaily News: According to on-chain detective Specter's monitoring, the victim claimed that due to a Coldcard hack, funds were transferred from Bitcoin to Ethereum. However, on-chain data shows that the 73 BTC ($4.6 million) originally came from the Whirlpool coin mixer two weeks ago, with some of it bridged to Ethereum and subsequently deposited through a phishing Tornado Cash interface. Two coin mixers were used during the fund transfer process. The individual was also found to have appeared in Telegram groups involving private key searches and brute-force attacks. On-chain detective Specter stated that the victim may be a threat actor, and their funds may have been stolen by another threat actor.
Jack Dorsey: Opposes Governments and Leading AI Companies Deciding the Pace of AI Development
Block CEO Jack Dorsey has expressed support for review, independent evaluation, and planning of frontier AI, but opposes governments and leading AI companies negotiating industry-wide development restrictions.He advocates for an open-release approach that allows outside parties to reproduce results, identify problems, and develop alternatives, and supports providing models, computing power, and public infrastructure to independent researchers and safety researchers.Block is developing open-source AI tools and provides Bitcoin-related services across products including Square and Cash App. The company has also launched the open-source AI agent goose, and is developing Bitcoin mining hardware Proto and hardware wallet Bitkey. (Bitcoin.com News)
Binance Alpha 2.0 supports Robinhood Chain and adds multiple new tokens.
Binance Alpha 2.0 now supports trading, deposits, and withdrawals on Robinhood Chain. Limit orders and instant orders currently support USDT pairs. Additionally, Binance Alpha 2.0 has added tokens such as Cash Cat (CASHCAT), up (UP), Artificial Inu (AI), and Pons (PONS).
Binance Alpha 1.0 has launched CASHCAT, AI, and UP
According to an official tweet from Binance Wallet, Binance Alpha 1.0 added three new tokens on September 4, 2026: Cash Cat (CASHCAT), UP (UP), and Artificial Inu (AI), exclusively accessible to Binance Wallet users.
Fomo enters top five in U.S. finance apps, surpassing Cash App and Kalshi
Odaily News: Fomo, a social crypto trading app built for Robinhood Chain and other networks, entered the top five finance apps in the U.S. on August 21, briefly climbing to No. 3 and surpassing Cash App and prediction market Kalshi. It currently ranks in the top 15.Founded by Paul Erlanger and Se Yong Park, Fomo launched its public beta in May 2025. In November 2025, it completed a $17 million Series A round led by Benchmark, with participation from 140 angel investors; this was followed by a $75 million Series B round, bringing total disclosed equity funding to approximately $94 million.Fomo supports Solana, Base, BNB Chain, Monad, and Robinhood Chain, allowing users to view real-time trades of people they follow, track leaderboards, and copy trading signals, with instant deposits funded via Apple Pay. Its cumulative installs on Google Play have surpassed 1 million, with over 600,000 users and more than $4 billion in trading volume. (Bitcoin.com News)
JaredfromSubway.eth sandwich attack bot has extracted $295 million in total, with $7.5 million stolen in June
Odaily News: The sandwich attack bot operated by JaredfromSubway.eth has extracted a cumulative total of 117,007 ETH since March 2023, worth approximately $295 million at current prices. In June 2026, an anonymous attacker deployed 66 counterfeit token contracts, exploiting the bot's automated trading logic to steal at least $7.5 million in ETH and stablecoins, and funneled the funds into Tornado Cash. The stolen assets have not yet been recovered.Sandwich attacks are a form of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV): the bot monitors large transactions in Ethereum's public mempool, buys ahead of the target transaction, and sells after the transaction pushes the price up, capturing profits from the spread. The bot's primary contract had received a cumulative total of 117,007 ETH as of August 28.MEV-Boost block construction is centralized among a small group of participants, with relay.ultrasound.money, Titan Relay, and bloXroute regulated relays collectively forwarding approximately 85% to 88% of related blocks within a 24-hour window; Titan's builder independently assembled 50.3% of the blocks. Monthly sandwich attack extraction amounts have declined from approximately $10 million in late 2024 to roughly $2.5 million in October 2025. (Bitcoin.com News)
Aave V4 Deposits Surpass $800 Million, Weekly Gains Reach 30%
According to The Defiant, Aave V4 user deposits reached a new high of $806 million, with a 30% increase over the past seven days. Of these, the Ethereum Core market holds $378 million in deposits, EtherFi Cash (deployed on Optimism) ranks second with $257 million, while Ethereum Global Dollar and Ethereum Prime contributed $75 million and $63 million respectively. The primary deposit assets are weETH ($97 million), USDG ($90 million), and WETH/USDC ($81 million each). V4's current active loan volume stands at $216 million, including $62 million in loans from the EtherFi market, with the utilization rate for borrowing WETH against weETH collateral reaching as high as 92%. In comparison, Aave V3's deposit scale remains at $31 billion, far exceeding V4.
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For the second consecutive week, no Bitcoin was purchased; Strategy, which holds 845,000 BTC, repurchased STRC for $139 million
Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X that Strategy spent $139 million last week repurchasing STRC, marking the second consecutive week without purchasing Bitcoin.The 8-K filing submitted on September 14 shows that Strategy canceled 1,420,467 shares of STRC, while its holdings of 845,000 BTC remained unchanged, with an average cost of $75,412; USD Cash dropped from $1.44 billion to $1.3 billion. Approximately $1.05 billion remains available under its $2 billion digital credit repurchase program.
Jack Dorsey: Opposes Governments and Leading AI Companies Deciding the Pace of AI Development
Block CEO Jack Dorsey has expressed support for review, independent evaluation, and planning of frontier AI, but opposes governments and leading AI companies negotiating industry-wide development restrictions.He advocates for an open-release approach that allows outside parties to reproduce results, identify problems, and develop alternatives, and supports providing models, computing power, and public infrastructure to independent researchers and safety researchers.Block is developing open-source AI tools and provides Bitcoin-related services across products including Square and Cash App. The company has also launched the open-source AI agent goose, and is developing Bitcoin mining hardware Proto and hardware wallet Bitkey. (Bitcoin.com News)
Non-custodial developer criminal liability explicit protection removed, Coin Center says Roman Storm prosecution theory still not excluded
Bitcoin News posted on X platform stating that Coin Center says the latest revised BRCA text removes the provision that provided explicit criminal liability protection for developers who do not control user funds under 18 U.S.C. § 1960. The revised text would still protect developers who do not control user funds from being deemed money transmitters under the Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN regulations, thereby significantly raising the difficulty of prosecuting developers solely for failing to obtain a money transmitter license or register with the federal government. However, the text cannot prevent prosecutors from arguing that developers knowingly transmitted funds derived from criminal activity, a theory that has become the core basis in the criminal cases against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm and Samourai Wallet developers. Coin Center believes that this compromise represents substantive progress on the regulatory front, but developers still face broader money transmission criminal prosecution theories from the U.S. Department of Justice; if the CLARITY Act passes with the revised BRCA, the related disputes will mainly shift to the courts.
Trump Comments on Iran Situation, Canada Trade, and Cash Giveaway Plan
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LAPTOP Suspicious On-Chain Activity: 2 New Wallets Claim Tokens for Free Then Cash Out $600,000
Odaily News - According to monitoring by crypto trader Rune, an unusual transaction involving LAPTOP tokens has been detected. A new wallet (0x8DA...A18d) claimed 4,276 LAPTOP tokens for free and subsequently sold them, cashing out approximately $400,000.More notably, the wallet then transferred 0.02 ETH to another new wallet (0xc27...b591), which likewise claimed 4,276 LAPTOP tokens for free and immediately sold them after the price dropped due to the previous sell-off, cashing out approximately $200,000.Both wallets are newly created addresses, claimed identical amounts, and the first wallet provided ETH to the second—highly correlated on-chain behavior that has prompted community speculation about potentially linked addresses or coordinated selling.
Binance Alpha 2.0 supports Robinhood Chain and adds multiple new tokens.
Binance Alpha 2.0 now supports trading, deposits, and withdrawals on Robinhood Chain. Limit orders and instant orders currently support USDT pairs. Additionally, Binance Alpha 2.0 has added tokens such as Cash Cat (CASHCAT), up (UP), Artificial Inu (AI), and Pons (PONS).