For the first time, Cardano's on-chain governance system rather than its founding company controlled a major network upgrade. The Van Rossem hard fork, which activated Saturday, moved Cardano to protocol version 11 and was approved through a community vote, marking a shift toward decentralized decision-making. This
Michael Saylor has entered the debate surrounding Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110), a change tied to network signaling requirements. According to the report, the current signaling period cannot reach the 55% threshold needed, leaving one full ordinary window before enforcing nodes begin requiring bit 4 signaling from miners. This
Strategy chairman Michael Saylor has publicly opposed BIP-110, a proposed soft fork to the Bitcoin protocol, laying out an extensive list of objections to the change. Saylor characterized the proposal as a 'bad idea,' arguing that implementing it would create more problems than it would resolve. His
Chinese AI developer Moonshot is advancing toward a Hong Kong listing that could value the company at more than $30 billion, capitalizing on renewed investor interest in the sector. The move comes days after the release of Kimi K3, which reportedly unsettled chip stocks and rippled into cryptocurrency markets, including
Ahead of an anticipated August decision on Bitcoin's proposed BIP-110 soft fork, Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor has published a 110-point essay laying out his case against the change. The essay frames Saylor's opposition as the debate over the protocol upgrade intensifies within the
A newly circulated Bitcoin Improvement Proposal, BIP-110, aims to temporarily filter out so-called 'spam' data from the network, reigniting a long-running debate over what belongs on the blockchain. Michael Saylor, a prominent Bitcoin advocate and executive chairman of Strategy, has publicly criticized the plan, calling
Security investigators uncovered malicious software embedded in eight games distributed through the Steam platform, designed to steal cryptocurrency tokens from affected users' wallets. The malware operated through legitimate-looking game downloads, exposing how software-mediated attacks can compromise digital assets. During their probe, investigators reportedly traced the attackers by
Zcash has launched Zakura, a new node client designed to dramatically expand the privacy-focused network's throughput. The client represents the first operational component of an ambitious roadmap intended to lift Zcash from roughly one private transaction per second toward payment-network scale, with a stated target of
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said his X account was compromised by an attacker who used it to publish AI-generated posts promoting tokenization, a common tactic in social media hacks targeting high-profile figures. Chesky has since regained control of the account and addressed followers who may have started following
Cloudflare has integrated the x402 protocol, a system that lets websites charge for data access using direct cryptocurrency payments rather than traditional subscriptions or logins. The move is aimed at AI agents, which increasingly scrape and request web content on behalf of users and could pay small fees automatically as
Hardware wallet maker Ledger has introduced a framework that lets AI agents interact with crypto portfolios while keeping private keys secured on a physical device. Under the system, AI agents can read wallet balances and analyze holdings, but any sensitive action must be approved directly on a Ledger hardware device
Federal authorities have charged Zyaire Wilkins in connection with a malware scheme that targeted cryptocurrency holders through infected video games. According to the FBI, Wilkins allegedly procured malicious software concealed within video games, which spread to roughly 8,000 devices. The malware enabled unauthorized access to at least 80 crypto