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Cointelegraph.com - 14:13 Nov 06, 2025
Researchers found AI is hopeless at most Upwork task, it gets the news wrong half the time — and humans crush AI on world model tests. AI Eye. AI agents cant complete 97% of tasks on Upwork to even a basic standard. Researchers at Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety got six different AI models to attempt 240 Upwork projects across categories, including writing, design and data analysis and then compared the results to the real freelancer. The overwhelming majority of the time, the AI models were unable to complete the tasks successfully, with the best AI model, Manus, completing just 2.5% of tasks and earning $1,810 out of $143,991 on offer. Claude Sonnet and Grok 4 managed to finish 2.1% of the tasks. While AI agents are good at simple and defined tasks like “generate a logo,” the research found they are bad at multi-step workflows, taking any initiative or using judgment. So they wont be causing mass unemployment for a while yet. This backs up research from August at MIT, which found that 95% of organizat... -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:00 Nov 06, 2025
Bitcoin.com and Concordium have teamed up to introduce age-verified stablecoin payments to 75 million wallets, blending privacy with new compliance standards. Crypto media and wallet platform Bitcoin.com has partnered with Concordium, a privacy-focused layer-1 blockchain, to enable age-verified stablecoin payments across more than 75 million wallets on Bitcoin.com’s network. Announced on Thursday, the integration allows wallet users to verify specific identity attributes, such as age or jurisdiction, without revealing personal details. Verification occurs off-chain through independent third-party providers, and no personal data is stored on the blockchain. Each transaction utilizes zero-knowledge proof technology to verify compliance requirements while maintaining user privacy. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:00 Nov 06, 2025
RedStone expands beyond price oracles with Credora, integrating risk analytics across DeFi protocols Morpho and Spark. Modular oracle network RedStone launched Credora, a decentralized finance (DeFi)-native risk ratings platform aiming to bring transparency and credit analytics to lending protocols. RedStone said on Thursday that it had expanded beyond price feeds into the broader domain of credit, collateral and risk intelligence through its Credora acquisition in September. At launch, Credora by RedStone integrates with DeFi lending markets Morpho and Sparks to offer dynamic risk scores and default-probability analytics, accessible through an API. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:44 Nov 06, 2025
The TRUMP memecoin has confirmed a falling wedge breakout, with price charts indicating a potential 70% rally toward $13 by the end of the year. Key takeaways: TRUMP confirms a falling wedge breakout, targeting a 70% rally toward $13 by 2026. Issuer’s Republic.com deal talks and $200 million buyback plan strengthen bullish fundamentals. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:39 Nov 06, 2025
The United Nations is preparing to launch a blockchain academy for governments and a UN-led blockchain advisory group to assist countries in adopting the technology. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) plans to launch two initiatives aimed at helping countries adopt blockchain technology. Robert Pasicko, the leader of UNDP’s financial technology team, AltFinLab, told Cointelegraph at the UN City offices in Copenhagen, Denmark, that the organization plans to launch a blockchain education program for government officials alongside a blockchain advisory body. The initiative builds on the UNDP’s existing blockchain academy for UN staff, now aimed at helping governments implement blockchain in real-world applications. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:43 Nov 06, 2025
Wintermute said inflows across stablecoins, ETFs and digital asset treasuries have plateaued, leaving crypto liquidity recycling internally. Crypto market-maker Wintermute said the digital asset market’s current cycle is being driven by “recycled liquidity,” as inflows from its three primary funding sources have slowed. In a Wednesday blog post, Wintermute argued that liquidity remains the defining force behind every crypto cycle. The market maker said that while blockchain continues to be adopted, the flow of fresh capital has decelerated in recent months. The company pointed to stablecoins, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and digital asset treasuries (DATs) as the three major conduits for crypto liquidity, warning that liquidity inflow in all three has reached a plateau. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:30 Nov 06, 2025
The EU’s near-approval of Chat Control reveals regulatory threats to encryption. Web3 risks centralizing surveillance unless privacy becomes foundational. Opinion by: Agata Ferreira, assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology Recently, Europe came alarmingly close to approving mass surveillance of private communication through the proposed Chat Control regulation. The proposal faced intense backlash from the community, as it would have obliged providers to scan all private messages. It was rejected only after Germany refused to support it. Just nine EU member states opposed the proposal, while 12 backed it and six remained undecided. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:30 Nov 06, 2025
When your crypto is stolen, a rapid and organized response is crucial to trace the funds and rebuild your digital security. Hackers can drain your crypto exchange account by gaining unauthorized access to your password or login credentials. This often happens through phishing links or malware that secretly steals your login credentials. Attackers may also exploit weak passwords, reused credentials from data breaches or SIM swaps to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA). Once they gain access, they transfer funds to anonymous wallets, often routing them through mixers or decentralized exchanges to hide their tracks. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:28 Nov 06, 2025
Coinbase said it had enhanced oversight and compliance testing after coding errors led to gaps in transaction monitoring between 2021 and 2022. Coinbase Europe Limited, the European affiliate of US crypto exchange Coinbase, has reached a 21.5 million euro ($24.7 million) settlement with the Central Bank of Ireland following technical failures in its transaction monitoring system between 2021 and 2022. In a Thursday blog post, Coinbase said the coding errors caused the exchange’s internal compliance software to only partially screen some transactions for suspicious activity. The company said it detected the issue through internal testing, fixed it within weeks, and later reviewed all affected transactions. Coinbase Europe ultimately filed around 2,700 suspicious transaction reports on transactions totaling about $15 million, out of the 185,000 transactions flagged during the review period. The company said that these filings did not confirm illicit activity, but were made as required under Irish Anti-Money Lau... -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:33 Nov 06, 2025
Coinbase insists that the US Treasury cannot override Congress’s intent on the GENIUS Act, but banks continue to press for a blanket ban on stablecoin interest. The US Department of the Treasury is facing conflicting feedback from crypto companies and traditional banking groups over how to implement the GENIUS Act, the law that regulates stablecoin payments in the US. In a letter on Tuesday, Coinbase urged the Treasury to limit a ban on stablecoin interest payments exclusively to stablecoin issuers, while allowing it for non-issuers, such as crypto exchanges. Coinbase said its proposal aligns with Congress’s intent when passing the legislation. At the same time, several banking groups, led by the Bank Policy Institute (BPI), have pressed the Treasury to extend the prohibition to non-issuers, advocating for a blanket ban on stablecoin interest payments. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:30 Nov 06, 2025
Privacy coins surge 80% as Zcash and Dash hit multi-year highs, driven by rotation, halving hype and renewed demand for transaction privacy. Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies have rallied sharply, with sector value up nearly 80% by November 2025. Zcash hit a seven-year high and Dash a three-year peak as traders rotated into privacy assets. Technical breakouts, derivatives positioning and an upcoming Zcash halving fueled the move. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:09 Nov 06, 2025
Researchers bought 97 BTC in 2012 for a blockchain study. Thirteen years later, they’re selling the stash to fund quantum research projects. A Spanish public research institute is preparing to sell a long-forgotten Bitcoin stash, worth over $10 million, which was purchased for just $10,000 in 2012 as part of a blockchain research project. The Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER), overseen by the Tenerife Island Council, acquired 97 Bitcoin (BTC) more than a decade ago to study blockchain technology. The council is now finalizing plans to divest the holdings, according to a report from Spanish-language newspaper El Día. Juan José Martínez, Tenerife’s innovation councillor, told the outlet that the council is working with a Spanish financial institution authorized by the Bank of Spain and the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) to facilitate the sale. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:20 Nov 06, 2025
Investors are better off buying ETFs than buying shares in a firm that’s simply putting a crypto asset on its balance sheet, argues Bitwise’s Matt Hougan. Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan says digital asset treasuries need to start taking the hard path if they want to stand out from the crowd; otherwise, investors are better off investing in crypto exchange-traded funds instead. One of the best ways to discern whether a digital asset treasury (DAT) is worth looking at is to ask the question, “Are they doing something hard?” Hougan argued in an X post on Wednesday. “Buying a crypto asset and putting it on a balance sheet today isn’t hard. It was hard at one point, but it’s not hard now. If that’s all a DAT is doing, you are better off owning an ETF. This is true even if the DAT is staking, as ETFs now stake,” he said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:12 Nov 06, 2025
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez started receiving his salary in Bitcoin four years ago, when Bitcoin was valued at around $64,000. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who started to take Bitcoin as salary in late 2021, said he’s unfazed about the recent volatility in the crypto market, claiming he’s now up around 300% on his Bitcoin paychecks. Speaking to Fox Business on Wednesday, the crypto-friendly Mayor was asked if he was “concerned” about Bitcoin (BTC) following the recent dip under $100,000, with most of the crypto market also bleeding over the past week. “No, because I got paid at $30,000, so it’s up 300%, it was actually up to 400% when it was up to $120,000, so I’m not concerned about everyday market swings from one day to the other,” he said, adding: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:34 Nov 05, 2025
The UK’s top bank says it will roll out stablecoin rules “just as quickly as the US” amid concerns that it's lagging behind global allies. Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden expects the government to keep pace with the US in stablecoin regulation, stating that it is “really important” for the allies to be synchronized on rules governing the $310 billion industry. Speaking at the SALT conference in London on Wednesday, Breeden reportedly said the UK will implement a stablecoin regulatory framework “just as quickly as the US” — rebuffing fears that it is falling behind, particularly after the US passed the landmark GENIUS Act in July. Breeden confirmed that UK regulators are speaking with US authorities as the Bank of England prepares to publish its stablecoin consultation paper on Nov. 10. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:59 Nov 05, 2025
The launch marks Franklin Templeton’s latest step into digital assets, introducing a blockchain-based UCITS fund as Hong Kong accelerates its push toward real-world asset tokenization. Franklin Templeton has launched a tokenized US dollar money market fund for professional investors in Hong Kong, expanding its crypto offerings in Asia. According to a statement shared with Cointelegraph on Wednesday, the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund is the first end-to-end tokenized structure by an asset manager to integrate issuance, distribution and servicing directly onchain in Hong Kong. The tokenized fund will be initially available only to institutional and professional investors. It is registered in Luxembourg under a regulated framework that allows investment funds to be sold across the European Union. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:56 Nov 05, 2025
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation. Today in crypto, Galaxy cut its 2025 Bitcoin price forecast to $120,000 from $185,000, citing changing market conditions. US spot Solana ETFs extended their six-day inflow streak, while the White House defended President Trump’s pardon of former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. Investment company Galaxy lowered its 2025 Bitcoin price forecast to $120,000 from $185,000, citing several headwinds and dampened price volatility due to passive investment flows into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and financial institutions. Factors such as whales dumping 400,000 Bitcoin onto the market in October, along with rotations into other investment narratives such as gold, AI and stablecoins, in addition to leveraged liquidations, have put a damper on BTC price, Alex Thorn, Galaxy’s head of research, said on Wednesday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:53 Nov 05, 2025
The mixed ruling was claimed as a victory by both Stability AI and Getty Images, muddying the legal waters around AI and intellectual property. The United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice issued a mixed ruling on Tuesday in the Getty Images v. Stability AI intellectual property case filed in 2023, which mostly favored Stability AI but left key questions unanswered about AI’s use of copyrighted material. Getty owns a library of copyrighted online stock images — which it licenses to users for a fee — and alleged that Stability’s Stable Diffusion AI model, which is trained using online material, infringed upon its trademark and copyrighted material. Stability’s Stable Diffusion AI model infringed on Getty’s trademark by reproducing its watermark in certain cases. However, the findings were “extremely limited in scope,” Justice Joanna Smith ruled. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:38 Nov 05, 2025
Some experts suggest that the US Senate is more likely to pass a funding bill to reopen the government before any crypto legislation. Discussions over the digital asset market structure bill currently being considered in the US Senate are reportedly still happening amid the longest government shutdown in the country's history. According to a Tuesday Politico report, Republican Senator John Boozman with the Senate Agriculture Committee — one of the committees that will need to approve the bill before consideration in the full chamber — will discuss the market structure legislation with White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks and Democratic Senator Cory Booker. The reported call will come as lawmakers prepare to finalize a discussion draft of the bill. The market structure bill is expected to be one of the most significant pieces of legislation affecting the crypto industry to come out of the current session of Congress. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:54 Nov 05, 2025
The Chicago-based crypto venture company has already invested part of its new $136 million fund in stablecoin startups, as blockchain VC activity slows in 2025. CMT Digital, a Chicago-based venture capital firm specializing in digital assets, has closed its fourth fund, raising $136 million to back blockchain startups. The fund will target founders developing the next wave of crypto infrastructure and applications, as regulatory clarity improves and institutional adoption accelerates, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Investment partner Sam Hallene told Fortune that the fund drew backing from a mix of wealthy individuals, family offices, and institutional investors, though he declined to name participants in the round. Read more
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