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In brief SharpLink will stake $200 million of Ether through Lido’s liquid-staking protocol. The move is about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of the ~889,000 ETH SharpLink held as of early August. wstETH sits across more than 100 protocols with about $10 billion in active-use collateral, so SharpLink keeps earning yield while staying liquid. Miami-based digital asset treasury company SharpLink said Thursday it will stake $200 million of Ethereum through Lido, the largest liquid-staking protocol on Ethereum.The tokens arrive as wrapped staked ETH (wstETH)—a receipt token representing staked ETH plus its rewards—and Anchorage Digital will hold them in custody.Myriad: Ethereum next…

In brief Zhipu AI (now Z.ai) released GLM-5.3 on Thursday through its GLM Coding Plan and ZCode. The lab calls it the “most capable open-weights model for coding,”. GLM-5.3 is a 743-billion-parameter model built by scaling post-training on the GLM-5.2 base. Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Thursday, a sizable coding model it’s pitching as the strongest open-weights coder on the market. The model is live now through the GLM Coding Plan subscription and ZCode, with API access and downloadable weights following after a safety review.”Scaling post-training is all we did for GLM-5.3,” the company wrote in its launch…

In brief A reported breach of France’s tax authority exposed data tied to 678,437 people and businesses. The records allegedly include income figures, addresses, tax identifiers, and family information. The data could help criminals craft targeted scams against wealthy taxpayers and Bitcoin holders. A hacker is selling a trove of French tax records that could expose more than 678,000 people and businesses, including Bitcoin holders, to phishing, identity theft, and targeted attacks.According to a report by French cybersecurity outlet FrenchBreaches, a hacker is selling records allegedly stolen from France’s tax authority, the DGFiP, during a June breach for several thousand…

Bitcoiners have been warned after France’s tax administration confirmed that hackers breached its information system, exposing sensitive financial and personal data belonging to hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses. Writing on X on Friday, Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp said the leak was “more bad news for Bitcoiners living in the leading country for wrench attacks.” Lopp has created a tracker counting wrench attacks — when physical violence is used to steal crypto — across the world. A large amount happens in France, where data has been leaked before.  More bad news for Bitcoiners living in the leading country for…

In brief OpenAI employees told Wired that pressure to release models and products has made it difficult to prioritize safety, security, and alignment. A former employee called the breach the largest safety incident in OpenAI’s history. OpenAI has slowed research, reassigned teams, and spent millions investigating the failure. OpenAI’s rush to release new models and products contributed to conditions that allowed its AI agents to escape internal testing environments and hack Hugging Face earlier this year.Multiple current and former employees told Wired that competitive pressure has made it difficult for staff to devote enough attention to safety, security, and alignment—the…

Bitcoin treasury Strategy has said it “doesn’t need” Morgan Stanley Capital International after the index provider said it could remove the Bitcoin company from its Global Investable Market Indexes. MSCI said in a consultation that it was consulting on a plan to define “Non-Operating Companies” and make them ineligible for its Global Investable Market Indexes (GIMI). The removal of such companies would exclude companies like Strategy from indexes visible to a large pool of institutional investors. MSCI said it was weighing up the decision as Strategy is primarily known for holding a large amount of Bitcoin rather than running a…

Norway’s enormous sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management, has taken a substantial position in SpaceX, the leading private space firm founded by Elon Musk. The Nowergian sovereign wealth fund disclosed that it owns roughly 7.3 million Class A shares in SpaceX, representing a 0.05 percent stake valued at $1.22 billion as of June 30th, reports The Globe and Mail. Norges Bank Investment Management revealed the position in an updated holdings list released this week alongside results showing a record first-half profit of $184 billion driven largely by technology investments. SpaceX shares surged after the company’s major IPO in late…

In brief Singapore’s police force and cyber security agency put losses from a scam using fake job offers and compromised software systems at $11.8 million. They describe a case in which a victim was approached by a bogus recruiter for a crypto firm and steered into a coding assessment run on a company laptop. The malware harvested a session token, which was used to bypass multi-factor authentication and open the victim’s Bitbucket account. Scammers posing as recruiters for cryptocurrency companies have taken $11.8 million (S$15.1 million), using fake job offers to compromise their targets’ employers, according to a joint advisory…

Officials in Baltimore, Maryland have filed lawsuits against two major prediction market platforms. The complaints target Kalshi and Polymarket for offering sports-related event contracts without required state licenses, reports CBS News. City leaders allege the platforms compete directly with licensed sportsbooks while evading taxes, oversight, and consumer protections mandated under Maryland law. Says the Mayor of Baltimore, Brandon Scott, “These companies are running sportsbooks without licenses and betting that a new label will put them above the law. It won’t. Baltimore will not let multibillion-dollar companies put profits over people and harm our communities through illegal gambling.” The suits claim…

In July 2025, House Republicans staged a coordinated three-bill blitz they called ‘Crypto Week;, advancing the GENIUS, CLARITY, and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act in the same five day stretch. The GENIUS Act was signed into law within 24 hours, creating a regulatory framework for dollar-backed stablecoins. However, the other two bills weren’t so lucky. The Anti-CBDC Surveillance State passed the House by an extremely narrow margin, and got stuck in Senate purgatory without a floor vote in place for over a year. Following the House’s bipartisan passage of the CLARITY Act, the bill landed in the Senate Banking Committee…

In brief Ireland published its first National Anti-Money Laundering Strategy on Thursday, with crypto-asset rules among the reforms it sets out. The final elements of the EU Transfer of Funds Regulation will bring enhanced checks on transfers involving private crypto wallets and stricter due diligence on overseas crypto firms. The strategy builds on a 30-point action plan published in June that promised enhanced safeguards around crypto-assets and digital finance. Ireland published its first national anti-money laundering strategy on Thursday, including crypto measures targeting wallets held outside regulated firms.Most of the EU Transfer of Funds Regulation has already been implemented in Ireland,…

Netflix shares present substantial upside potential based on current market pricing relative to fundamentals, according to the CEO of wealth management firm Capital Wealth Planning, Kevin Simpson. The streaming leader trades significantly below its intrinsic value, reports CNBC. Says Simpson, “If you look at the subscribers… 325 million subscribers is more than Disney, it’s more than HBO, it’s more than Max, all combined. So I think there’s a lot to like here……I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that the stock is down almost 40%. It’s down for a reason. There’s a lot of things that Netflix needs…

In brief A Washington judge has ordered Kalshi to stop offering wagers on sports, elections, politics, entertainment, culture, tech and science, and “mentions” in the state. Kalshi must have an IP and residency geofence running by August 19, and a multi-source solution by September 2. The order lands two days after the CFTC used emergency powers to order the exchange to keep operating. A King County Superior Court judge has issued a final order requiring Kalshi to shut down most of its Washington business, after finding the exchange likely broke the state’s Gambling Act and Consumer Protection Act by running…

Younger Americans increasingly treat sports betting as a serious element in their wealth-building efforts, per a survey conducted by the personal finance platform Betterment. A survey reveals that 26% of Gen Z investors view it as an ongoing component of their financial plans, far exceeding rates among millennials at 14%, Gen X at 6% and baby boomers at 1%, reports AdvisorHub. More than half of these young investors have moved money originally set aside for stocks into betting over the past year. Fourteen percent make such shifts multiple times each month. Only one-third of Gen Z respondents skip sports betting…

In brief Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum on Aug. 12 creating a program for private firms to disrupt foreign cybercriminal networks. Participating companies operate under DOJ and DHS direction, post a bond of at least $1 million, and face annual review. Americans reported more than $20.8 billion in losses to cyber-enabled crime in 2025, the White House said. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Tuesday directing the federal government to enlist vetted U.S. companies in offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal networks. The National Security Presidential Memorandum, dated Aug. 12, stands up a program inside the National…