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Attackers reportedly registered Lenovo IDs using victims’ email addresses, allowing them to sign into existing Dropbox accounts without their passwords.

New postmortems estimate about 700 agents joined the intrusion, while OpenAI’s largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold. The post OpenAI update shows new safeguards would have cut off 700 rogue AI agent swam 24 hours faster appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Fable 5.1 and its restricted sibling Mythos 5.1 arrive three months after export controls forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 offline for 18 days

Roughly 2.6 million SOL left exchanges last week, reducing available supply as investors continue showing stronger demand for Solana.

The Aug. 31 target keeps the stream parseable while forcing direct consumers and forwarding RPC providers to audit placeholder values. The post Optimism pushes network speeds to 200 ms, but standard data feeds are dropping key information appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin just had one its best months in years amid a price rally that broke the crypto winter pattern. But the charts tell a complicated story.

XRP ETFs sit on a $746M paper loss yet keep attracting inflows. Is this the buying opportunity traders have waited for? Full price analysis inside. The post XRP Price Prediction: Investors Face $750M Paper Loss, But Is It Time to Buy the Blood? appeared first on Cryptonews.

The publicly traded company recently bought 19,000 SOL, bringing its treasury to more than 2.33 million SOL and SOL equivalents.

The proposal would modernize rules largely unchanged since the 1980s, addressing blockchain-based recordkeeping, tokenized securities and increasingly automated market infrastructure. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed overhauling decades-old rules governing transfer agents as blockchain-based recordkeeping and tokenized securities become more prominent in US markets. The proposal would update requirements covering registration, recordkeeping, safeguarding and securities transfers, while introducing new rules aimed at risks emerging from increasingly digital and automated market infrastructure. “Market participants are actively seeking to bring blockchain-native, or ‘onchain’ transfer agents into the U.S. market,” the SEC said, pointing to models for blockchain-based recordkeeping, tokenized fund administration and cross-chain interoperability. Read more

Can the token's price rise to as high as $0.17 in the near future?

The Aug. 30 postmortem traces the replay flaw to mismatched serial-number checks and a 105-minute response gap. The post How a hacker reused the same authorization message 1,490 times to trigger massive crypto payout loops appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The prediction platform permanently banned George Santos and issued a three-year suspension for Laurie Buckhout after investigations into using insider information on event contracts. Prediction market platform Kalshi announced action against US House of Representatives candidate Laurie Buckhout and ousted Republican lawmaker George Santos over using insider information for trading on event contracts, in one of the first lifetime bans the company has imposed since its launch in 2021.  In separate notices of settlement of disciplinary action announced on Friday, Kalshi’s compliance department said it had permanently suspended Santos from trading on the prediction markets platform and imposed a $71,356 penalty. Buckhout received a three-year suspension and a $2,590 penalty. Both restrictions by Kalshi were made in response to investigations into Santos and Buckhout trading using event contracts that could be manipulated by their own actions. According to the platform, Buckhout, running in North Carolina’s 1st c...

The planned venture will initially focus on a US dollar stablecoin before expanding to other G7 currencies, with a euro-denominated offering next. A group of 21 major financial institutions plans to establish a new company to develop and issue stablecoins, offering another sign of traditional finance’s push into digital dollars as regulatory frameworks take shape. The consortium, announced Tuesday, includes Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citi, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Santander, MUFG and Fidelity Investments. It plans to launch a US dollar-denominated stablecoin in the first half of 2027, subject to the company’s formation and other conditions. According to the announcement, the group ultimately plans to expand into stablecoins denominated in other G7 currencies, with a euro offering identified as its next priority. Read more

South Korean investors appear to be returning to Bitcoin as the Korea Premium turns positive following its longest negative period.

All 12 systemically significant banks are ready, while the first retailer mandate applies only above a revenue threshold and with a qualifying bank agreement. The post Russia opens central bank digital currency to millions as 12 major banks and top retailers face rollout rules appeared first on CryptoSlate.

X engineers have acknowledged the issue, but have not confirmed a new data breach of its systems.

The investment firm bought 456,059 Block shares across three ETFs and added $3.4 million in Circle stock.

The self-custodial app brings USDe into everyday payments, savings and cross-border transfers, with annualized rewards of up to 6%. Ethena has launched a global money app built around its USDe synthetic dollar, expanding the crypto-native asset into everyday payments, savings and cross-border transfers. According to Tuesday’s announcement, the self-custodial Ethena Pay app allows users to hold USDe through a dollar-denominated balance, earn as much as 6% in annualized rewards and spend funds through a payment card, while supporting fiat onramps. The beta rollout includes 48 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and other regions, though the initial rollout is limited to 400 users, with access set to expand weekly, Ethena said in a Tuesday thread on X. Avalanche will serve as the exclusive settlement layer for payments and transfers. Read more

Strategy has challenged MSCI's proposed “non-operating company” screen by tying it to a regulatory argument MSCI made four years ago in a letter shared on Aug. 31. The Bitcoin treasury company says the new methodology requires MSCI to judge whether Bitcoin belongs inside an operating business. That puts MSCI's 2022 defense to the Securities and […] The post Strategy turns MSCI’s own SEC words against its $24 billion MSTR threat appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The project emphasized that the new app is not a bank.