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[PRESS RELEASE – New York, United States, October 26th, 2026] Ritual Chain turns AI agents into persistent economic actors that control their own wallets, onchain identity, and private state. Ritual, a lab for autonomous intelligence founded by former Polychain Capital partners Niraj Pant and Akilesh Potti, has launched Ritual Chain, an EVM-compatible Layer 1. Unlike …
Police in Seoul say a 32-year-old with no IT background used AI tools to break into about 90 hospitals, schools and companies, then pressed victims for roughly $270,000 combined.
Bitcoin could climb toward $94,000 if buyers defend the $80,000 support zone and the price closes above its 50-day EMA.
Ripple expanded its institutional reach Monday as Aviva added another tokenized fund share class to the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The British asset manager invested £50 million ($66 million) in a blockchain-based share class of its Sterling Liquidity Fund, bringing its combined investments across two XRP Ledger offerings to more than £86 million ($116 million). The… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
As part of the potential implementation of its Stablecoin Act, the Canadian government will hear from the public on a proposed framework for tokens from non-financial institutions. Lawmakers in the Canadian government opened a 60-day public consultation on regulations proposed to address non-financial institution stablecoin issuers, including a potential prohibition on yield payments. On Saturday, the government of Canada gave notice that it would be open to public comment on the stablecoin regulations until Dec. 23. The proposed framework cited efforts to be consistent with stablecoin regulations in the United States and other jurisdictions, to “reduce the overall regulatory burden on multi-jurisdictional issuers.” Notably, the proposed regulations said that non-financial institution stab…
Cathedral, a startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers, says its AI agents found paths into Anthropic's sales, HR, and IT systems through third-party software.
Experts say Brazil's prediction market ban left the odds in the hands of traders with little knowledge about the election.
Both VVV and TRAC need a 4-hour close below support to confirm the bearish read, while ARC needs a daily close below its price channel.
The artificial intelligence company disclosed more than $16 billion in revenue and an $80 billion net loss for the first half of 2026. Anthropic announced that it had filed S-1 registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering on Nasdaq, marking a significant step for artificial intelligence companies. A Monday S-1 filing with the SEC suggested that Anthropic could be aiming for a mid-November IPO, listing its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol ANT. The company disclosed more than $16 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026 and an $80 billion net loss over the same period. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by many former executives of AI company OpenAI. Reports have suggested that the company coul…
Bitcoin treasury firms Strategy and Strive made record purchases last week, but directed their capital toward different assets. While Michael Saylor's Strategy intensified its preferred-stock buybacks, Strive accelerated its Bitcoin accumulation, highlighting diverging priorities in how the companies deploy capital. Strategy's STRC purchases exceed $2 billion Strategy's Bitcoin buying streak ended after five consecutive weeks… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
Elon Musk says SpaceX closed a $40 billion chip deal with Apollo while lenders shut the door on smaller AI cloud firms, a split that could decide who controls computing.
The US professional basketball league is expanding into prediction markets with official data agreements and safeguards against insider trading. The National Basketball Association has named Kalshi and Polymarket its preferred prediction market exchanges and signed an information-sharing agreement with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) aimed at protecting the integrity of basketball-related markets. According to Monday’s announcement, the agreements will give Kalshi and Polymarket access to official NBA data supplied by Sportradar, the league’s designated data distribution partner, for settling authorized markets. Both platforms will have rights to use NBA intellectual property and conduct promotional activities in the United States. The partnerships include integrity safe…
A confirmed exploit let rogue servers replace Electrum’s pending transactions, tricking users into redirecting Bitcoin to attacker addresses.
Something potentially significant could happen for Solana by January 1, 2027, as Anthropic’s Claude AI predicts that SOL could be among the top performers in Q4 and into the new year, contingent on a hypothetical landmark event.The concept revolves around a consortium of major global banks and payment companies formally selecting Solana as the primary …
"I love Ethereum. I love the chain. But why are we constantly selling the asset instead of doing more to increase its value," one analyst asked.
Sam Altman’s ChatGPT AI predicts a potentially significant development for Pi Network (PI) by January 1, 2027. For this insane prediction to play out, ChatGPT has outlined a key event that would need to land for the project.The OpenAI chatbot’s idea centers on a consortium of major global payment processors and large fintech platforms adopting …
The Mumbai-based exchange says 15.99 million USDT was drained from wallets it retired after last year’s $44 million hack, bringing its combined losses to nearly $60 million—and it’s absorbing the hit.
Following its USD fund launch, Aviva has added a sterling product to XRPL, while strengthening its partnership with Ripple in Europe.
The Seoul government is reportedly weighing another delay for a 2020 income tax policy on digital assets, citing concerns with receiving data from US officials. Government officials in South Korea are reportedly weighing a delay of the country’s cryptocurrency tax policy, currently expected to be implemented in January 2027. According to a Monday report from South Korean news outlet Newsis, the crypto income tax could be pushed to 2029 in part because it’s the earliest that officials will be able to share information on taxes related to digital asset exchanges with the US. The policy, which would impose a 22% tax on crypto gains — 20% from income and 2% as part of a local tax — for investors earning more than 2.5 million Korean won ($1,883) annually has already seen several delays since i…
The Ethereum treasury firm spent $46 million buying back shares as Chairman Tom Lee said crypto has held up better than AI stocks during the recent market pullback.
