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Strategy Adds $2.5 Billion in Bitcoin as STRC Dividend Traders Drive Largest Buy Since 2024

Decrypt - 13:28 Apr 20, 2026

Strategy reported its largest purchase in over 16 months, scooping up $2.54 billion in Bitcoin last week alongside STRC’s ex-dividend date.

Tags: Bitcoin
Morning Minute: DeFi's Future in Question After $292M KelpDAO Exploit

Decrypt - 12:33 Apr 20, 2026

DeFi TVL fell by $13B after the KelpDAO exploit, and now the Vercel CEO is saying "highly sophisticated" actors used AI for its exploit.
LayerZero Pins $292M KelpDAO Bridge Hack on North Korea’s Lazarus Group

Decrypt - 11:35 Apr 20, 2026

Attackers forged a cross-chain message, came within minutes of a second drain, and wiped their tracks on the way out.
‘Highly Sophisticated,’ AI-Powered Hackers Behind Vercel Breach: CEO

Decrypt - 10:53 Apr 20, 2026

The security incident compromised some customer credentials of the cloud platform, which is used by many crypto frontends to host their UI.
Coinbase Tests AI Agents Modeled on ‘Legendary’ Former Execs

Decrypt - 10:31 Apr 20, 2026

The exchange is trialing AI agents that replicate the decision-making styles of co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former CTO Balaji Srinivasan.
Kelp DAO Exploit Sparks Aave Liquidity Crunch, $6.2 Billion Withdrawal Panic

Decrypt - 19:12 Apr 19, 2026

After attackers drained $291 million in crypto from Kelp DAO-linked infrastructure, DeFi users struggled on Aave to withdraw funds.
AI Traffic to US Retailers Jumps 393% in Q1 as Agentic Shoppers Outspend Humans

Decrypt - 16:01 Apr 19, 2026

AI-driven traffic to U.S. retail sites surged in early 2026, and those visitors are generating more revenue than regular shoppers.
GalaxyOne Head Wants Retail Investors to Stake More, Predict Less

Decrypt - 19:44 Apr 18, 2026

Zac Prince, head of Galaxy’s retail platform, said he struggles to see prediction markets in diversified portfolios for long-term investors.
OpenAI's New AI Model Rosalind Could Shave Years Off Drug Discovery. You Probably Can't Use It

Decrypt - 13:01 Apr 18, 2026

GPT-Rosalind is OpenAI's first domain-specific model, built for drug discovery and life sciences—and it's not for everyone.

Tags: OpenAI's
Bitcoin Cracks 7-Month Ceiling. Can Bulls Push It Higher?

Decrypt - 21:11 Apr 17, 2026

The price of Bitcoin breaks a seven-month downtrend as geopolitical shifts and prediction markets point to $84K next.
You Can Now Use XRP on Solana—Here's How

Decrypt - 20:40 Apr 17, 2026

More than $1.2 million worth of wrapped XRP tokens (wXRP) have been minted on Solana as the Ripple-linked asset gains greater DeFi utility.

Tags: Solana
Rep. Sheri Biggs Doubles Down on Bitcoin, Buys Up to $250K of BlackRock's ETF

Decrypt - 20:05 Apr 17, 2026

Rep. Sheri Biggs purchased up to $250,000 worth of BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF last month, padding a position she entered into last July.

Tags: Bitcoin BlackRock's
Sam Altman's World Teams With Zoom, Tinder to Better Verify Humans in the AI Age

Decrypt - 19:39 Apr 17, 2026

Iris-scanning crypto project World expands with Tinder's U.S. human verification rollout and Zoom's Deep Face feature.
Elizabeth Warren Accuses SEC Chair Paul Atkins of Potentially Lying to Congress

Decrypt - 18:43 Apr 17, 2026

Senator Elizabeth Warren said Paul Atkins may have intentionally misled Congress by pushing back over the SEC's dwindling enforcement actions.

Tags: Congress
Crypto Trader Turns $2,500 Into $500K on Skyrocketing Ethereum Meme Coin

Decrypt - 18:26 Apr 17, 2026

A meme coin trader turned $2,500 into nearly $500,000 in a matter of hours via the Elon Musk-linked ASTEROID token on Ethereum.
Anthropic’s Alarming Mythos Findings Replicated With Off-the-Shelf AI, Researchers Say

Decrypt - 18:00 Apr 17, 2026

Security researchers used GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 in an open-source harness to reproduce Anthropic's Mythos vulnerability findings for under $30 per scan.
Strategy Shares Pop as Bitcoin Holdings Flip Green, Near $61 Billion

Decrypt - 17:54 Apr 17, 2026

The Bitcoin-buying firm’s stockpile had shown losses on paper since early February.
US Government Moves Bitcoin Tied to $9 Billion Bitfinex Hack

Decrypt - 16:47 Apr 17, 2026

The U.S. government moved 8.2 Bitcoin, or greater than $600,000, that is linked to the $9 billion Bitfinex hack from 2016.
Dogecoin Gold? A DOGE-Themed Company Is Joining the Tokenized Gold Rush

Decrypt - 15:52 Apr 17, 2026

The company Dogecoin Cash plans to develop tokens representing physical gold, following the lead of firms like Tether and Paxos.
AI Agents Already Run a Fifth of DeFi, But Still Lose to Humans at Trading

Decrypt - 14:48 Apr 17, 2026

A new report finds that agents have taken over the predictable corners of DeFi, but humans still clear the table when trades get complex.

Tags: DeFi

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