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In brief Hunter Biden is launching a meme coin called LAPTOP on Sept. 9 on Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Founders keep 30% of the supply, vested over two years, while 20% funds a two-round airdrop specifically targeting wallets that lost money on President Trump’s TRUMP token. A burn mechanism tied to 30 preset events—including Bitcoin hitting a new all-time high or a Democrat winning the 2028 election—could destroy up to 30% of the supply, with tokens tied to unmet conditions donated to charity instead. Hunter Biden is getting into crypto, and he’s…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TON Foundation says Telegram Web3 mini-apps have passed 100 million monthly active users, marking another major distribution milestone for one of crypto’s most consumer-facing ecosystems. That number is big enough to grab attention, but it needs a careful read. Monthly active users in Telegram mini-apps can include off-chain bot interactions, app sessions, and wallet-adjacent activity. It should not be treated as the same thing as 100 million on-chain TON wallets all making direct transactions. Still, even with that caveat, the scale is impressive. TON has something most…

In brief Malone Lam, 22, is due in federal court in Washington on Tuesday for a plea agreement hearing. Prosecutors say callers posing as Google and Gemini staff talked a Washington investor out of more than 4,100 BTC. The same indictment describes a racketeering group that also burgled homes to steal hardware wallets. Malone Lam, the 22-year-old Singaporean whom prosecutors identify as an organizer of the crew that took $245 million in Bitcoin from a single investor, is due in federal court in Washington on Tuesday for a plea agreement hearing.A man named in court filings only as Victim-7 was…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ava Labs has released Avalanche Teleporter v1.4.0, an upgrade to the network’s cross-subnet messaging infrastructure. This is another one of those stories that sounds very developer-heavy at first. But the idea underneath is simple: Avalanche wants its many subnets and L1s to feel less isolated from each other. If messages, assets, and app logic can move more smoothly between Avalanche environments, builders can create products that use multiple chains without making users feel like they are bouncing between separate worlds. That is the point of Teleporter. For…

In brief The actors behind Liquid’s 4,000 BTC security incident returned 3,400 BTC to the federation wallet. The transfer followed a signed message from Blockstream saying Liquid’s bridge nodes had been patched. Nearly 600 BTC remains outstanding, and Liquid has not announced when normal operations will resume. The self-proclaimed “white hat hackers” behind the withdrawal of roughly 4,000 BTC from Liquid Network returned 3,400 BTC, worth around $269.2 million, to the sidechain’s federation wallet Monday, recovering about 85% of the funds.Despite the return, approximately 598.5 BTC, worth about $47 million, remains in the address linked to the withdrawal.Myriad: Bitcoin’s next…

In brief Hunter Biden confirmed today he is releasing his own meme coin called LAPTOP on Wednesday. Biden drew loads of attention within crypto circles, but much of it was not positive. Will traders show up for the LAPTOP meme coin, and how will the coin perform? That might depend on your time horizon. Hunter Biden officially made his first foray into crypto today, posting the LAPTOP ticker today on X alongside a 31-second Fox News clip about the computer, just minutes after a Wall Street Journal report on the meme coin landed Monday.Biden’s post pulled more than 250,000 views…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A new Arbitrum governance proposal is seeking to disqualify three DeFi protocols from future DAO grant allocations over alleged reporting failures and misuse of prior incentives. The proposal is still at the community discussion stage, so this is not a final DAO ruling. No one should read this as those protocols already being formally banned from all Arbitrum funding. But it does matter. Grant programs are one of the main ways Layer-2 ecosystems compete for builders, liquidity, and attention. If a DAO starts tightening eligibility around reporting…

Harmony is proposing to shut down the blockchain it controversially restored through a rollback less than three weeks ago.The Sept. 6 plan would end Harmony’s independent network, move ONE to Ethereum, and preserve the token through a snapshot and airdrop, reversing the project’s position from Aug. 17, when it rejected migration as too disruptive.Instead, Harmony chose to roll back the chain after an Aug. 11 exploit that allowed attackers to reuse cross-shard receipts and mint tokens without corresponding debits elsewhere.The project initially reported 4 billion ONE created in the attack. Its broader reconstruction later put unauthorized issuance at roughly 3.01 trillion…

In brief Gamers Nexus found LG TV sets still scan a household’s entire Wi-Fi network and can capture microphone audio while appearing off or unplugged from the internet. LG settled with Texas regulators in May, agreeing to stop collecting viewing data without informed consent. Separate security researchers found unpatched remote-access bugs and residential-proxy code, software that quietly reroutes strangers’ internet traffic through a buyer’s home connection. What does an LG smart TV do when nobody’s watching? Digital media company and popular YouTube channel Gamers Nexus spent more than 500 hours and about $70,000 finding out. The answer, per a new…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ripple has entered a partnership with Florida Athletics that will bring optional XRP and RLUSD payment choices into parts of the athletics program’s ticketing and merchandise experience. It is a nice mainstream-facing win for Ripple, partly because sports partnerships are easy for normal people to understand. This is not some abstract infrastructure integration buried in a developer doc. It is payments, fans, tickets, concessions, and college athletics. That said, the wording needs to stay careful. XRP is not becoming a mandatory payment method for university purchases. This…

In brief OpenAI’s chief scientist called for voluntary slowdowns until shared safety standards are established. Pachocki said monitoring models’ reasoning is becoming less reliable. He urged international coordination as AI takes on more of its own development. OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has called for voluntary slowdowns in AI development, warning that no lab’s safeguards are adequate to keep building more powerful systems at full speed for much longer.In his post “An Alien Mind,” published Sunday, Pachocki argued that voluntary company commitments should become mandatory safety standards, enforced by independent auditors, governments or international bodies. He said OpenAI would withhold…