Crypto & mining news

Headlines aggregated from 9 publishers, newest first, with mining and hardware stories tagged so they surface without wading through price chatter. Every entry links straight to the publisher — nothing is rehosted here, and the excerpt is the publisher’s own.

• 21d ago

  Bitcoin Hovers at $84K as Treasury Yields Hold Near Multi-Year Highs

  Analysts point to crude prices capping non-yielding assets, while spot ETFs have taken money in for eight sessions running.

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• 21d ago

  Morning Minute: Citi and Coinbase Just Made Stablecoins Invisible

  Plus, crypto majors rebound as oil and yields fall and Saylor’s Strategy returns to buying Bitcoin.

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• 21d ago

  Canada's 'Crypto King' Aiden Pleterski to Represent Himself at Fraud Trial

  The judge has told Pleterski he will raise objections on his behalf, to keep inadmissible evidence away from the jury.

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• 21d ago

  Coinbase Now Owns Every Layer of Its Derivatives Stack After CFTC Approval

  Coinbase Clearing will take USDC as collateral and settle around the clock, though margined products stay with partners.

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• 21d ago

  OpenAI Halts Model Training as Rogue Agents Target US Government Sites

  OpenAI says its agents keep landing on government websites because they treat them as reliable sources, but it's pausing training while it adds safeguards.

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• 21d ago

  A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here's What It Means for Crypto

  A UC San Diego-led team impersonated a hardware security module without extracting its key.

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• 21d ago

  Citi Clients Can Now Take Stablecoin Payments Through Coinbase—Without Touching Crypto

  Coinbase and Citi expanded an existing deal so Citi's institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments, while Coinbase business accounts run on Citi's banking rails.

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• 21d ago

  Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price

  Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.

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• 21d ago

  After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify

  Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI agent quietly accessed Australia's Medicare data and nobody said a word for months.

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• 21d ago

  Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out

  OpenShell and Sentry give AI agents a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agents breaching a government site, hacking their own tests, and going rogue during a security evaluation.

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• 21d ago

  Strive Buys $94.5 Million in Bitcoin, Pushing Holdings Past 27,000 BTC

  Strive bought 1,107 BTC for $94.5 million last week, lifting its holdings to 27,462 BTC, with its SATA preferred stock supplying 85% of the capital.

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• 21d ago

  Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks

  Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 lets banks run their own security checks on cross-chain transfers, five months after a rival's setup lost $292 million to hackers.

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• 21d ago

  Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum

  Hegota will be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork, he argues, with everything after built on recursive STARKs and formal verification.

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• 21d ago

  Bitcoin Falls Lower as Trump's Iran Snub Sends Oil, Yields Higher

  Bitcoin extends last week's pullback as Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire plan, sending oil above $100 and yields higher ahead of Wednesday's PCE report.

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• 22d ago

  Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys Another $47M of ETH, Taking It to 4.9% of Ethereum Supply

  Bitmine has staked 84% of its tokens, a position it projects will generate some $358 million a year in staking rewards.

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• 22d ago

  Strategy Sets New BTC Holdings Record After $143M Bitcoin Purchase

  Michael Saylor's Bitcoin treasury firm bought 1,665 BTC last week, taking its holdings above its previous record to 847,666 BTC.

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• 22d ago

  Morning Minute: SEC Clears Token Buybacks for Crypto Networks

  The Gary Gensler era is long gone and now the SEC is providing clarity on what crypto protocols can and can’t do with their tokens.

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• 22d ago

  California Bans Public Officials From Issuing Meme Coins Under New Newsom Law

  Governor Gavin Newsom’s legislation bars public officials from issuing meme coins and exchanges from listing tokens tied to politicians.

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• 22d ago

  AI Agents Keep Escaping Their Creators' Control—Here's What We Know

  An OpenAI agent's breach of an Australian government website is the starkest example yet of a pattern building for months—and of how hard autonomous AI is to contain.

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• 23d ago

  Bitcoin's Quantum Problem: Three Ways Researchers Are Trying to Fix It

  Three developments this week—a cost breakthrough, a new privacy design, and a custody playbook—show a field moving from theory to logistics, even as "Q-Day" remains hypotheti

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• 23d ago

  SEC Staff Says Token Buybacks Don't Make Crypto a Security—If the Network Works

  New SEC staff guidance says announcing a token buyback on a functional network isn't a promise that turns the token into a security, a shift one attorney says makes securities laws look "opt-in."

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• 23d ago

  Bitcoin ETFs Notch Seven-Day Winning Streak as 2026 Flows Turn Green

  Bitcoin ETFs have drawn nearly $3 billion over seven straight sessions, erasing post-Clarity Act losses and pushing 2026 flows back into positive territory.

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• 23d ago

  How Crypto Stopped Waiting for Congress and Learned to Love the Regulators

  After the Clarity Act failed in the Senate, the SEC, CFTC, and the Fed moved within days to write crypto's rules themselves. Will it be enough?

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• 24d ago

  AI Agents Are Racing to Make Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Cheap—And Winning

  An open competition run by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs drove the estimated cost of building a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction from about $320 to roughly $67, with AI models topping the leaderboards.

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• 24d ago

  Google Just Made Free 1080p AI Video Generation Available to Anyone

  Google Vids now lets any Google account holder generate free HD AI video using Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, with new scene, timing, and watermark controls.

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• 24d ago

  US Prosecutors Want $84.2 Million From a Bank Tied to Tether

  Federal prosecutors are targeting a Montana payments firm and a Caribbean bank accused of moving money without a license.

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• 24d ago

  AI Agents Hacked Their Own Test Environment to Cheat, Cybersecurity Firm Finds

  Darktrace's new Signal Labs found AI agents hacking their own evaluation environment to fake a perfect score—and tricking coding assistants into running unauthorized network attacks.

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• 24d ago

  Google Built an AI That Hunts Its Own Security Bugs

  Google's PageBreak agent autonomously finds and verifies real vulnerabilities in its own web apps, cutting through the flood of noisy AI-generated security reports.

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• 24d ago

  Circle and Tether Freeze Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack—But Most Funds Slip Away

  The two stablecoin issuers blacklisted a wallet labeled "Bitget Exploiter 8," locking about $318,000 in USDC and USDT—but the attacker swapped most funds into unfreezable ETH before they could act.

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• 24d ago

  OpenAI Is Building a $500 per Month ChatGPT Pro Max Plan, Leaks Suggest

  Leaked code strings and screenshots point to a new tier that would cost 25 times more than ChatGPT Plus, aimed at people who need the bot to work faster, not just longer.

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