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Address poisoning works by cluttering your transaction history with fake entries, tricking you into sending funds to a scammer’s address by mistake. Address poisoning exploits behavior, not private keys. Attackers manipulate transaction history and rely on users mistakenly copying a malicious lookalike address. Cases such as the 50-million-USDT loss in 2025 and the 3.5 wBTC drain in February 2026 demonstrate how simple interface deception can lead to massive financial damage. Copy buttons, visible transaction history and unfiltered dust transfers make poisoned addresses appear trustworthy within wallet interfaces. Read more

A new UNESCO report projects steep revenue losses for music and screen creators as lawyers say the fair use doctrine is buckling under AI’s scale.

Selling pressure across altcoins has continued to build, with net outflows now matching levels last seen in 2021

Research is casting prediction markets as policy-relevant forecasting tools just as state regulators escalate efforts to curtail their use.

OpenAI said it is becoming increasingly important to evaluate the performance of AI agents in “economically meaningful environments” as their adoption grows. OpenAI has launched a new benchmark that evaluates how well different AI models detect, patch, and even exploit security vulnerabilities found in crypto smart contracts. OpenAI released the “EVMbench: Evaluating AI Agents on Smart Contract Security” paper on Wednesday, in collaboration with crypto investment firm Paradigm and crypto security firm OtterSec, to evaluate how much the AI agents could theoretically exploit from 120 smart contract vulnerabilities. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 came out on top with an average “detect award” of $37,824, followed by OpenAI’s OC-GPT-5.2 and Google’s Gemini 3 Pro at $31,623 and $25,112, respectively. Read more

ETH Denver founder John Paller says serious interest has replaced hype-driven crowds.

The South Korean financial firm backs the U.S.-based blockchain company to accelerate enterprise wallet technology and real-world asset tokenization.

A drop in Solana’s dApp revenues, along with limited institutional and retail investor interest, adds vulnerability to SOL’s $78 support. Key takeaways: SOL is struggling to hold $80 as a 75% drop in futures' open interest shows that traders are heading for the exits rather than opening new bets. Solana remains heavily dependent on retail and memecoin activity, while Ethereum maintains its lead in high-value decentralized finance. Read more

Abu Dhabi just made a quiet but massive Bitcoin bet.Sovereign linked investors disclosed more than $1.04B in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs at the end of 2025. Mubadala Investment Company alone reported over 12.7M shares of BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF, worth about $630.7M. Al Warda Investments added another 8.2M shares, valued near $408.1M. Combined, that is […] The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Abu Dhabi Gov Funds Buy $1 Billion in BTC – What Do They Know? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin’s “short-term holder stress” metric has fallen to lows not seen since 2018, suggesting the market has capitulated and possibly bottomed. A key Bitcoin (BTC) on-chain metric is flashing its most extreme capitulation signal since 2018, hinting at a potential cycle-low setup. Bitcoin’s short-term holder stress has dropped to its lowest level since the 2018 bear market bottom, according to new on-chain data from Checkonchain. The Short-Term Holder (STH) Bollinger Band metric shows the oscillator falling into its deepest oversold territory in nearly eight years. Read more

Coinbase signaled its crypto-backed lending product is expanding in the U.S., unveiling support for XRP, Dogecoin, Cardano, and Litecoin.

Although current prices sit well below recent peaks, ongoing industry developments and technical indicators suggest XRP, Bitcoin and Ethereum may be setting new all-time highs (ATHs) sooner than you think.Below is a closer look at what could be happening in the news and on the price charts over the next fiscal quarter and a half.Discover: […] The post Crypto Price Prediction Today 18 February – XRP, Bitcoin, Ethereum appeared first on Cryptonews.

Running a carefully structured prompt through ChatGPT can reveal some striking 2026 price outlooks for XRP, Dogecoin, and Solana.Based on ChatGPT’s projections, all three cryptocurrencies could reach fresh all-time highs (ATHs) sooner than you think.Below, we break down the analysis.XRP ($XRP): ChatGPT Maps Out a Long-Term Route to $8In a recent update, Ripple reiterated that […] The post New ChatGPT Predicts the Price of XRP, Dogecoin and Solana By the End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

The $125 billion real estate firm wants to offer blockchain-based tokens to clients but is stalled by regulation.

XRP is quietly climbing the rankings while price action looks boring.The XRP Ledger just moved into sixth place by tokenized real world asset value, overtaking Solana and closing in on BNB Chain. Over the past 30 days alone, the network added $354M in tokenized assets. That growth happened even as XRP price faced pressure during […] The post XRP Price Prediction: XRP is Crushing Solana and Coming for Binance Coin Next – Should You Buy Now? appeared first on Cryptonews.

At 7:12 a.m. on a random Tuesday in February, an email lands with a subject line that looks harmless enough: “Your tax forms are ready.” For Maya, a part-time designer who bought a little Bitcoin during the 2021 hype, then sold small chunks across a couple of apps when life got expensive, it feels like […] The post Bitcoin tax panic is rising because the IRS can see your crypto sales — and you may have to prove what you paid appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Coinbase CEO Brain Armstrong said updated market structure legislation may offer banks other benefits to get them on board with allowing stablecoin rewards.

OpenAI and Paradigm launched EVMbench, a tool that tests how capable AI agents are at finding and fixing smart contract vulnerabilities.

The Base engineering team said the protocol would remain open-source and encouraged developers to continue building unique implementations. Base, a decentralized Ethereum layer-2 scaling network, said Wednesday that it is transitioning from running on L2 blockchain protocol Optimism’s tech stack to running on its own, unified software architecture. Launched in 2023 as an Optimism chain, Base is shifting to its own tech stack to reduce dependencies on external service providers and shorten the time it takes to ship new upgrades, according to an announcement from Base. The team said: The transition is also expected to simplify the Base network’s sequencer, which helps network validators to order transactions, the Base engineering team said.  Read more

Short-term Bitcoin buyers are becoming cautious, and accumulation is slowing even as net positions stay positive.