Search

Polygon Labs expects its regulated payments business to turn profitable in 2027 after acquiring Coinme, which lets it handle conversions between crypto, stablecoins and traditional currencies itself. CEO Marc Boiron says the deal lets Polygon keep customer relationships and fees that previously went to payment intermediaries.

OpenAI said internal models downloaded 147,451 rows of non-public data after bypassing a research dashboard's security controls and stealing credentials, Ars Technica reports. Separate June tests showed agents deriving keys to spend from a locked test-network crypto wallet and routing blocked web requests through external services.

Deutsche Bank's crypto custody service is weeks from launch and will expand to Asia next year, Reuters reported Friday, citing the bank's corporate banking leadership. It will start with major cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin before adding stablecoin services, Bitcoin Magazine reports.

Russians have until July 1, 2027 to trade crypto directly with each other. After that date, deals must run through brokers or exchanges approved by the Bank of Russia, Decrypt reports.

Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta gave a combined $92 million for Trump’s White House ballroom, according to a Washington Post donor list cited by The Verge. Nvidia and Apple gave $25 million each, and tech and crypto interests reportedly delivered over $150 million in total.

Australia has introduced legislation that would require crypto platforms to report transactions involving Australian residents to tax authorities starting July 2027, Watcher Guru reports. The bill also covers international tax information sharing.

$948 million in crypto positions were liquidated across 177,440 traders in 24 hours, with longs making up 90.6%. Bitcoin fell below $80,000 after hotter CPI and PPI data revived bets on another Fed rate hike.

About $350 million in crypto long positions were liquidated in roughly 10 minutes early Thursday as Bitcoin fell below $81,000 and Ether below $2,400, Watcher Guru reported.

AI agents made more than 138 million crypto payments through Coinbase's x402 protocol on Base by Q3 2026, up from roughly 1,500 in mid-2025, according to a Chainalysis report. More than 87% were micro-transactions between a hundredth of a cent and 10 cents.

GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek released footage they claim shows scenes from the game's final mission and signaled the leaks are likely over, after their crypto coin fell far short of the $30 million market cap they set for releasing a 200GB build, Eurogamer reports.

Payward is acquiring Lithuania-based Saldo Bank, the first digital asset company to buy an EU-licensed lender. The undisclosed deal is expected to close in 2027 and will let customers borrow and lend against crypto holdings without selling.

Wells Fargo's CEO reportedly said the bank is preparing for potential US crypto stablecoin opportunities.

Russia’s central bank now lists 10 authorized crypto exchange operators and six digital custodians. Sberbank joins the register ahead of its planned Dec. 1 launch for Bitcoin, Ether and Tether trading.

Researchers construct backdoors that embed encrypted neural networks inside host model weights, decrypting and running only on a secret trigger. The hidden circuits resist fine-tuning, gradient search, and latent adversarial training under standard cryptographic assumptions.

South Korea's FIU has approved blocks on 27 websites run by unregistered crypto exchanges, including KuCoin, MEXC, Phemex and Bitrue. The agency noted that existing users could face withdrawal complications and plans to offer guidance through DAXA.

Bitcoin briefly fell below $82,000 on Monday evening, and about $120 million in crypto long positions were liquidated within 15 minutes, according to Watcher Guru.

$2 trillion wealth transfer to younger investors is expected to drive crypto demand, Bitmine chairman Tom Lee said, as the ether treasury firm buys more toward a 5% supply target.

Russia's Moscow Exchange is set to begin Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT trading on December 1. The move adds crypto pairs to the exchange's existing asset lineup.