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Brian Armstrong has now predicted that AI agents will not only transact onchain more than humans but will outnumber employees at his company very soon. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the company has started testing AI agents on Slack and email to assist employees with work tasks, continuing the company’s efforts to embed AI into its workflows.  In a post to X on Saturday, Armstrong said the company has already deployed two AI agents, modeled after two former executives, speculating that AI agents could eventually outnumber human employees at the crypto exchange. “Soon, it will be easy for any employee to spin up a new agent for themselves or their team. I suspect we will have more agents than human employees at some point soon.” Read more

Vercel has confirmed it was compromised after a member of a hacking forum put the company’s information up for sale for $2 million. Vercel, a cloud hosting provider popular among crypto projects, confirmed it suffered a security breach that allowed hackers to make off with a “limited” subset of customer credentials. Vercel said in a blog post on Sunday that it “identified a security incident that involved unauthorized access to certain internal Vercel systems,” and that it was investigating the breach. “Initially we identified a limited subset of customers whose Vercel credentials were compromised,” it added. “We reached out to that subset and recommended an immediate rotation of credentials.” Read more

Kifid, het klachteninstituut voor de financiële sector, zag het aantal klachten vorig jaar fors toenemen, blijkt uit het maandag verschenen jaarverslag. Directeur en voorzitter van de geschillencommissie Eveline Ruinaar: „Consumenten weten ons steeds beter te vinden.” Met dank aan ChatGPT.

В Украине перебои с электроснабжением могут продолжаться минимум несколько лет из-за масштабных повреждений энергосистемы и отсутствия достаточного резерва мощностей. Директор Центра исследований энергетики Александр Харченко в интервью пояснил, что самая сложная ситуация уже сейчас наблюдается в Киеве, Одессе, Харьковской, Сумской и Черниговской областях.

Why Bitcoin and Ethereum are taking different paths to address future cryptographic risks and long-term blockchain security. Quantum computing has long been viewed as a distant, largely theoretical threat to blockchain systems. However, that perspective is now starting to change. With major technology companies such as Google establishing timelines for post-quantum cryptography, and crypto researchers re-examining long-held assumptions, the discussion is shifting from abstract theory to concrete planning. However, Bitcoin and Ethereum, two major blockchain networks, are addressing the quantum computing threat in different ways. Both networks depend on cryptographic systems that could, in principle, be compromised by sufficiently powerful quantum computers. However, their approaches to addressing this shared vulnerability are evolving in markedly different directions. Read more

Oil prices skyrocketed up to $10 per barrel after Iran closed again the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend.

Изначально сообщалось, что спутник BlueBird 7 американской компании AST SpaceMobile успешно выведен на орбиту и готов приступить к работе. Но оказалось, что все пошло не по плану.

LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has granted approval for the province’s first sky glass bridge project in tehsil Kotli Sattian, district Murree, to promote tourism. The decision was made during a special meeting jointly presided over by PML-N President Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif where progress on the Murree Protection and Rehabilitation Plan was reviewed. The meeting also decided to engage international experts to address the issue of landsliding in Murree. The chief minister directed immediate measures to counter the mid-flow downhill effect and ordered relief and rehabilitation efforts for those affected by landslides in Chatta Mor, Darya Gali, Bansera Gali, Naml, Jhika Gali and adjoining areas. The meeting also granted approval for establishment of three new hospitality zones in Murree’s suburban areas, Shawala, Sozo and brewery, where five-star standard hotels would be developed in collaboration with the private sector. It decided to form a team of experts for the Murre...

Eerder sloot Iran deelname aan nieuwe gesprekken nog uit. In de nacht van zondag op maandag namen de Verenigde Staten een Iraans vrachtschip in beslag, waarop Teheran vergelding beloofde.

J'ai lu cet ouvrage de Mamy Rakotondraibe avec un véritable enthousiasme : il éclaire avec force et clarté une question malgache essentielle. Même discutable par endroits, il mérite d'être lu par tous ceux qui veulent penser Madagascar autrement et profondément. Patrick Rakotomalala (Lalatiana PitchBoule) 18/04/2026 Anatomie d'un ouvrage clé Et si le drame malgache ne venait pas seulement de la pauvreté, de la corruption ou de l'instabilité, mais d'une erreur plus profonde : (…) - Editorial

Bitcoin traded at $74,335 after Iran reimposed controls on the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, with the modest 1.6% pullback standing out against a 5.7% jump in Brent and a 1.2% drop in European equity futures.

Российские войска в последние дни активизировали штурмовые действия практически по всей линии фронта, применяя небольшие механизированные и моторизованные подразделения. Аналитики Института изучения войны (ISW) объяснили, что такая тактика может быть частью более широкого замысла оккупантов, однако ее эффективность вызывает сомнения.

In moments when conflict edges towards systemic rupture, diplomacy seldom advances through declarations, it proceeds through calibrated silence, indirect channels and individuals entrusted to operate in the narrowing space between escalation and restraint.

Polymarket’s potential $15 billion valuation would still put it below the $22 billion valuation of competitor platform Kalshi in its latest funding round. Prediction market platform Polymarket is reportedly in talks with investors to raise another $400 million in fresh capital, The Information reported Monday. The $400 million raise would be made at a $15 billion valuation, The Information said, citing two people familiar with the matter.  The raise would add to a wave of institutional capital flowing into the predictions market space in recent months. New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) invested $600 million into Polymarket in late March, while competitor platform Kalshi’s valuation was marked at about $22 billion in its last funding round. Read more

LayerZero said the attackers compromised two RPC nodes the company's verifier relied on and DDoS'd the rest, with the attack working only because Kelp had ignored multi-verifier recommendations.

EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic said the social engineering attack was highly sophisticated and the company is conducting further investigation to determine how the breach occurred. Ethereum Name Service gateway eth.limo has revealed that the domain hijacking on Friday was caused by a social engineering attack directed against EasyDNS, its domain name service provider.  According to a postmortem published by eth.limo on Saturday, an attacker impersonated one of its team members to initiate an account recovery process with easyDNS, granting access to the eth.limo account and allowing them to alter domain settings. “The NS records were changed and directed to Cloudflare… Once we understood that a DNS hijack had taken place, we immediately notified the community as well as Vitalik Buterin and others. We then began contacting EasyDNS in an attempt to respond to the incident,” the company said. Read more

На 52 день войны в Иране морские пехотинцы США захватили грузовое судно, когда оно пыталось пройти блокаду и направиться в иранский порт недалеко от Ормузского пролива. И Дональд Трамп уже заявил, что амеркианцы открыли огонь по кораблю, когда команда отказалась подчинится.

Multiple lending and yield protocols are posting double-digit percentage declines in TVL, though token prices are seeing a limited decline.

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