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- Zano Restarts Blockchain, Erasing a Month of Transaction History
The emergency restart removed unauthorized ZANO and fUSD issuance linked to a Gateway Address vulnerability while preserving wallet keys and ordinary transaction privacy.
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- Vitalik Buterin Outlines Ethereum’s Path to a Cryptographic Computer
The long-term vision would use PeerDAS, SNARK verification and optimized proof-of-stake, while Ethereum’s protocol plan targets quantum resistance by Dec. 2029.
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- Ethereum Sets Oct. 6 Sepolia Fork for Glamsterdam Upgrade
The testnet deployment will occur at 9:53:36 a.m. ET, while Ethereum’s mainnet rollout remains targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026 without a confirmed date.
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- Tom Lee Says Tokenization, AI Agents May Drive Next Crypto Cycle
The Bitmine chairman said AI is helping create a digital economy while crypto supplies digital money and blockchain infrastructure.
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- Bitget Reports $351 Million Loss and Suspends Withdrawals
The exchange temporarily suspended withdrawals, while CEO Gracy Chen said its protection fund would cover the losses.
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- Ethereum Researchers Pursue Redesign to Cut Finality to Seconds
The proposed architecture would separate block production and fork choice from finality, with smaller committees handling some consensus functions.
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- Meta Goes All-In on Glasses as AI Device Race Moves Beyond Smartphones
The strategy follows Meta’s launch of Muse, its new artificial intelligence agent, as technology companies develop devices that let people connect with AI without smartphones.
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- GIWA Confirms Fake Mainnet as Bridge Moves More Than 766 Ether
The project warned users to avoid unofficial RPCs, bridges and contracts while investigators trace funds across multiple addresses.
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- COLDCARD Seed Entropy Theft Linked to 1,830 Bitcoin Losses
The incident involves three attack rounds and more than 30 smaller related signs, with 256 victims reporting losses.
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- Ethereum Plans Hybrid Architecture After Hegota Fork
The roadmap includes FOCIL, EIP-8288, consensus changes, state management updates and privacy-focused mempool improvements.
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- Hyperliquid to Lower Perpetual Funding Cap to 0.5% Hourly
The change will take effect with the next network upgrade, while HIP-4 deployment limits will increase for individual deployers.
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- THORChain Swap Volume Surges as Bitget Stolen Funds Move Through Network
Daily swap volume topped $500 million and fees exceeded $800,000 during the Sept. 24-26 period.
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- Polygon Plans Another 25 Million POL Burn as It Targets 1ms Confirmation
The community has already permanently removed 100 million POL, about 1% of total supply, with another 25 million accumulating.
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- Optimism Upgrade 20 Replaces Output Roots With Multi-Chain Super Root
The OP Stack update preserves existing withdrawal proofs while preparing its fault-proof system for future cross-chain messaging.
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- GIWA Says Mainnet Has Not Launched, Rules Out RPC Leak Claims
The Upbit-linked project warned users about scams and misinformation tied to claims of an RPC leak.
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- Google Targets Gemini 4 Release Well Before 2026 Year-End
Gemini 4 has entered post-training and is being tested on Google’s Antigravity coding platform as the company seeks to close a 10-month flagship-model gap.
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- OpenAI’s Sept. 29 DevDay Could Shed Light on Persistent AI Agents
The unannounced consumer AI product could continue tasks after users leave ChatGPT, with possible support for research, monitoring and email workflows.
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- Bitget Hack-Linked Wallets Move More Than Half of Stolen XRP
About 54 million XRP worth $83 million has left five initial wallets, while the XRP Ledger cannot freeze its native asset.
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- Anza Engineers Move Solana Developer Network to Alpenglow
The consensus upgrade targets a reduction in transaction finality from about 12.8 seconds to between 100 and 150 milliseconds.
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- Analyst Says THORChain Routed Most Bybit Stolen Funds in 10 Days
THORChain collected nearly $10 million in fees during the period, while fees tied to some funds from the recent Bitget theft reached $1 million.
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- Quant To Support The Clearing House’s Tokenized-Deposit Network
The network will connect with RTP and CHIPS and is expected to open to participating institutions in the first half of 2027.
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- LG Electronics Joins Nvidia Partner Program for AI Data-Center Cooling
The partnership targets hyperscale and colocation facilities as demand for new data-center capacity worldwide concentrates in North America.
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- Rickards Says China’s AI Use Outweighs ‘Superintelligence’ Threat
Anthropic identified separate China-linked surveillance activity and an Iran-linked operation that used Claude to develop targeting recommendations against U.S. naval forces.
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- Magic Eden Says Legacy Approvals Exposed $5.7M In NFTs
A whitehat operation moved 23,155 NFTs to safety after an exploit targeted Limit Break’s Payment Processor V2. Magic Eden said no live listings were affected.
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- THORChain Rejects Blame for Bitget Theft Fund Transfers
The protocol says its decentralized, permissionless design does not make it responsible for processing known stolen funds. Critics pointed to a prior 39-day service suspension after an attack.
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- OKX Star Challenges THORChain’s Claim of Decentralization
Star said THORChain’s validator-controlled threshold-signature vaults still function as an intermediary between users and native blockchains.
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- OpenAI, Anthropic Probe Tens of Thousands of AI Safety Incidents
The cases include attempts to bypass safeguards, escape sandboxes and evade monitoring across internal tests and real-world applications.
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- About 4 BTC Linked to Bitget Incident Appears to Enter Wasabi CoinJoin Round
The funds moved from a Bitget TRON wallet through several networks before about 4 BTC was traced into one CoinJoin round.
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- GoPlus Says Bitget Attack Broke Transaction-Signing Trust Chain
The $387.5 million incident involved compromised wallet back-end systems and falsified transaction data, not a private-key leak, GoPlus said.
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- OpenAI and Anthropic Cut AI Model Prices as Competition Intensifies
OpenAI reduced GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80%, while Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 at prices 20% below Opus 5.
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- Solana Activates Alpenglow on Testnet for Faster Transaction Finality
The upgrade targets about 150-millisecond finality overall, with a fast path targeting 100 milliseconds, but neither has been demonstrated on mainnet.
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- Global Data Center Power Demand Capacity to Hit 161 GW in 2026
AI servers are projected to represent 33.4% of global data center power demand capacity in 2026, while the projected grid-capacity gap could reach roughly 268 GW by 2030.
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- Bitget Asks THORChain to Block Hack Funds Despite Protocol Rules
Bitget now estimates the Sept. 24 security incident involved approximately $387.5 million in assets, up from an initial $351.6 million estimate.
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- OpenAI’s GPT-Red Finds Attacks in 84% of Indirect Prompt-Injection Scenarios
The system outperformed human red-teamers in indirect prompt-injection evaluations, while separate research showed how malicious prompts could spread between simulated AI email assistants.
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- Maroo Proposes Won-Focused Blockchain With Compliance Built Into Protocol
The proposed Layer 1 would use OKRW as its sole native asset and divide transactions between open and regulated paths.
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- China Overtakes U.S. as Top Workplace for Elite AI Researchers
China accounted for 41% of current workplaces among the 2025 NeurIPS cohort, compared with 34% for the United States, reversing the 2022 comparison.
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- AI Challenge Cuts Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Build Cost 79% to $67
The estimate reflects GPU computation, not a Bitcoin transaction fee. A later dashboard listed $63 under a simulated 100-RTX 3090 setup.
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- Musk Acknowledges Anthropic’s Fable 5 Beats xAI’s Grok 4.5
Musk said most tasks do not require Fable-level capability as xAI positioned Grok 4.5 for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work at $2 per million input tokens.
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- AI Data Center Boom Lifts Skilled-Trade Jobs Amid Permitting Backlash
Demand is rising for electricians, welders, pipefitters and HVAC technicians, but New York and Texas have adopted measures that could delay new projects.
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- OpenAI Discloses 53 Unauthorized Image Posts by Research Agents
The images came from training and evaluation data. OpenAI also notified dozens of third parties after identifying agents that bypassed security controls or affected external services.
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