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S&P Global agreed to acquire smart contract security firm OpenZeppelin, expanding its digital asset business into the technology underpinning tokenized finance. On Sept. 17, the financial data and ratings company said that OpenZeppelin will continue operating under its own name as a separate business unit. Chief Executive Demian Brener will remain in charge and report […] The post From Kaiko to OpenZeppelin, S&P Global is quietly preparing for markets that never close appeared first on CryptoSlate.

North Korea and Iran account for the majority of onchain malware, while Malaysia has been named among the most crypto curious Islamic nations. North Korean and Iran linked hackers were responsible for the majority of the 420% increase this year in malware on public blockchains according to a Chainalysis report.  State-linked hackers accounted for roughly two-thirds of new activity whereby attackers stored malware instructions or infrastructure information on public blockchains. Chainalysis also identified UNC5342, a North Korea linked group, to previously unattributed activity spanning Tron, Aptos and BNB Smart Chain. Read more

Less than $100,000 was borrowed as utilization hovered near 0.1%, separating supply appetite from credit demand. The post Aave V4’s Arc market is swimming in $76 million of USDC nobody is borrowing appeared first on CryptoSlate.

In welcome news for the Ripple army, Anthropic’s Claude AI predicts XRP could hit $11 by the end of 2026 if certain conditions are met. The update comes as CoinGecko data shows XRP trading at $1.30, up a modest +0.4% over 24 hours but down -6.6% for the week, following a significant drop after the […] The post Anthropic Claude AI Predicts an Explosive Finish to 2026 for XRP appeared first on Cryptonews.

OpenAI's new transparency framework reveals AI models that invented fake "breach alerts," coached themselves to hide mistakes, and smuggled a file onto the public internet to talk to each other.

The SEC is giving tokenized stocks a regulated U.S. pathway, while keeping trading volumes, access and issuer rights tightly controlled.

Brookings researchers in the US and China are urging Washington and Beijing to agree to keep humans in control of nuclear weapons.

Crypto.com is targeting US traders with single-stock futures through OG.com.

The Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI predicts Bitcoin could not only hit a new all-time high in 2026, but nearly double the $126,000 high from October 2025. Following that move, BTC then corrected roughly -47% to around $80,000 in November. It fell further to the low-$60,000s by mid-2026 before recovering back toward the $80,000s by late […] The post Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI Predicts Bitcoin to Hit $230,000 appeared first on Cryptonews.

The estranged daughter of 77-year-old Kathleen Allman has petitioned a Hawaiian court to establish a limited conservatorship to protect her parents’ share of her brother’s stake in Ondo.

SpaceX's AI division has held internal talks about buying customer records from dead startups—cheap fuel for Grok, no questions asked, because there's nobody left to ask them.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened a five-year pathway for regulated US stocks to trade on blockchain-native venues. The Innovation Exemption came two days after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, a broad crypto market-structure bill that sought to establish statutory rules for digital assets and clarify regulatory responsibilities. The […] The post After Congress killed its landmark crypto bill, the SEC unlocked the $77 trillion US stock market through tokenization appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Hoskinson's argument goes beyond computing costs, as he says blockchains could also provide shared rules for AI alignment and governance.

Chipotle is piloting a Palantir-built food safety dashboard after a summer of outbreaks, putting employee data in the hands of a company seeded by the CIA's venture arm.

In a no-action letter, the CFTC said certain software providers can connect users to regulated derivatives markets without registering as brokers.

XRP open interest fell from $1.128B to $871.22M, but positive funding, ETF inflows and $1.29 support leave the outlook unresolved for traders. The post XRP Price Holds Above $1.29 as Futures Leverage Resets appeared first on Cryptonews.

Operators must update fault-proof services and withdrawal tooling before a targeted cutover, while users need no action. The post Optimism just approved the upgrade its Superchain needs before interoperability can go live appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Days after its disputed Navier-Stokes claim, OpenAI says it's made "substantial progress" on another Millennium Prize math problem—and won't say which one yet.

The US regulator’s move could make it easier for crypto wallets and other apps to offer access to regulated derivatives and prediction markets without registering as introducing brokers. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has expanded regulatory relief for “passive software” providers that connect users to regulated derivatives firms and exchanges. In a no-action position issued Thursday, the agency’s Market Participants Division said it would not recommend enforcement against qualifying providers or their personnel for failing to register as introducing brokers or associated persons when facilitating trading with CFTC-registered firms and exchanges. The position could make it easier for crypto wallets and other apps to offer access to regulated derivatives, including perpetual contracts and prediction markets, without becoming CFTC-regulated introducing brokers themselves. Read more

"The real scary thing is, if this runs for $2k it could go straight to 6…," one analyst suggested.