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In brief An NYPD counterterrorism memo told officers to inspect all eyewear permitted into inmate cells. Maine’s fusion center warned that facial recognition in smart glasses could be used to dox officers. ICE has barred its own staff from wearing the glasses in federal workspaces. Police forces across the U.S. are warning each other that Meta’s camera-equipped glasses are being used to record inside jails and police facilities, according to a dozen previously unreported memos obtained under freedom of information and reported by the Guardian.The New York Police Department’s counterterrorism bureau, which works with the FBI, circulated the first of…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Router Protocol has announced a deprecation plan that will shut down the cross-chain messaging network and permanently burn 303 million ROUTE tokens. The team said users will have a grace period to move assets back to origin chains before relayer nodes are disconnected. That makes this a user-action story as much as a tokenomics story. Anyone still relying on Router needs to pay attention to the timeline. The most important thing is not to invent a cause. The shutdown has not been framed as a hack or…
In brief Strive bought 1,375 BTC for about $109 million between Aug. 31 and Sept. 4 at an average price of $79,281 per coin, according to CEO Matt Cole, lifting its total stack to 24,531 BTC. Cole said 70% of the capital raised last week came from SATA, Strive’s preferred stock, which now has $999 million in notional value outstanding. Chief Risk Officer Jeff Walton said it’s Strive’s third straight week of 5%-plus Bitcoin growth, with holdings up 21.1% over the past three weeks. Strive bought another 1,375 Bitcoin last week, paying $109 million and pushing the fundraising machine behind…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Aave governance is considering an emergency Guardian powers proposal that would allow vulnerable lending pools to be frozen quickly during active security threats, without requiring immediate public write-ups. It is a slightly uncomfortable proposal, and that is exactly why it matters. On one hand, DeFi users want transparency. On the other hand, publishing too much detail during an active exploit can hand attackers a roadmap. Aave contributors are trying to solve that tension: how do you act fast enough to protect users without making governance feel opaque?…
A Sept. 2, 2026 analysis by New York Fed researchers shows how a few large reserve portfolios can lower the global dollar share without a broad retreat from dollars. For investors assessing future sovereign demand for Bitcoin, the distinction is between a changing average and an investment decision.Linda S. Goldberg, Oliver Hannaoui and Sneha Parthasarathy report that the dollar share of global official foreign-exchange reserves fell from 64% at year-end 2015 to 56% at year-end 2025, using IMF COFER data.Their country-level evidence points to concentrated decisions and changes in reserve sizes.Countries can change the currency mix of their portfolios, the…
In brief Blockstream is in talks to recover approximately 598.5 BTC still outstanding after the Liquid exploit. The individuals responsible returned 3,400 BTC on Monday, leaving roughly 15% unreturned. A software flaw allowed unbacked L-BTC to be exchanged for reserve Bitcoin, Liquid said. Liquid Network said Tuesday that Blockstream, the Bitcoin infrastructure company behind the sidechain, is in ongoing talks with the hackers who exploited the network for roughly $320 million to fully recover the stolen funds.“Discussions between Blockstream and the individuals responsible are ongoing to secure the return of the remaining funds,” Liquid said in an incident report on…
In brief OpenAI said Tuesday its internal AI model produced a Lean-verified proof that the Navier-Stokes fluid equations can “blow up,” using 10,000 coordinating AI agents over 88 hours. Hours earlier, NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI’s Sébastien Bubeck of learning about his and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge’s unpublished, related proof and pressuring them over credit before the announcement. OpenAI, Bubeck, and CEO Sam Altman deny the account; Bubeck posted texts he says prove he offered Buckmaster’s team the option to publish first. OpenAI said Tuesday its internal AI model just solved one of the biggest questions in math research—but…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Solana has captured $348 million in net real-world asset inflows over a 30-day period, pushing its tokenized RWA value to $720 million, according to RWA.xyz data. That is a strong number for a network usually associated with memecoins, retail trading, fast DeFi, and consumer crypto apps. RWAs give Solana a slightly different story: institutional-style capital moving into tokenized Treasuries, credit products, and other real-world asset structures. It is important not to blur these categories. RWA inflows are not the same thing as meme-token liquidity. They are not…
British bitcoin exchange CoinCorner has debuted a multisig BTC custody service that splits control of customer keys between the Isle of Man exchange and its US partner AnchorWatch — with holdings insured by Lloyd’s of London. The service charges 1.5% a year and is pitched at owners who want cold-storage security without managing hardware themselves, the Isle of Man-based company announced Tuesday. Its new service comes following the Coldcard wallet hack — where bitcoin holders using a single signature wallet lost funds after hackers were able to exploit the popular products due to a firmware bug in the devices that…
In brief Bitcoin traded at $78,524 Tuesday, down 0.72%, while the S&P 500 closed at 7,689.80, off 0.37%, as oil pushed toward $100 a barrel on renewed U.S.-Iran fighting in the Strait of Hormuz. Friday’s August jobs report showed employers added 162,000 positions, nearly triple the 53,000 forecast, pushing September rate-hike odds to roughly 57-59% on the CME FedWatch tool. On Myriad, traders are pricing a 78.4% chance Bitcoin hits $84,000 before it falls to $55,000, barely moved from a week ago despite the pullback. Bitcoin’s hot summer has come up against Red September once again, today down close to…
A new report shows Americans prefer debit cards and payment platforms over banks and credit cards when paying their bills. The 2026 ACI Speedpay Pulse Report says debit card use for bill pay hit 52.7% this year, up from 40.6% in 2020. Meanwhile, credit use was 41.3% in 2023 and has now reached 50.3%. Consumers also favor biller websites at 64.5% and biller mobile apps at 39.3%, compared with 31.4% using bank websites. Mobile wallets grew fastest with a 17.6% compound annual growth rate from 2019 to 2025. Generational trends are pronounced, with 75% of Gen Z bill payers using…
In brief Cronos says it reversed approximately $111.2 million tied to the Tectonic exploit by rolling back its blockchain. The intervention discarded 1 hour 54 minutes of transactions, including activity unrelated to the attack. Approximately $9.19 million left the network before validators halted it and remains unrecovered. Cronos, a blockchain network backed by Crypto.com, erased nearly two hours of transaction history to reverse approximately $111.2 million tied to an exploit of lending protocol Tectonic, according to a network post-mortem on Monday.According to the developers behind Cronos, validators reversed completed transactions to protect roughly 92% of affected funds still on the…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The XRP Ledger’s XLS-66d lending amendment has moved closer to the validator consensus threshold required for activation, with active support reaching 71.4%. The amendment would introduce native uncollateralized lending primitives to XRPL, adding another potential DeFi feature to a ledger best known for payments and settlement. That is a big deal, but it is not live yet. XRPL amendments need sustained validator support before activation. The threshold is 80%, and that support has to hold for 14 days. So 71.4% is close enough to matter, but not…