Cryptocurrencies

Anthropic's Mythos AI Finds No More 'Serious' Bugs in Zcash: Wilcox Anthropic's Mythos AI, a formal verification tool, has wrapped its audit of the Zcash protocol. Matthew Wilcox, a Zcash developer, says no more "serious" bugs turned up. My take: that is not a victory lap, but it is a u ...

Bitcoin's 'Calm Top' Challenges Most Market Bottom Estimates: Research What a "calm top" actually means in Bitcoin cycles A "calm top" is a cycle peak where prices stay high but relatively flat for a long stretch, instead of the violent parabolic spike that used to mark ...

SEC Plan to Scrap 'Rule 611' Positive for Tokenized US Stocks: Galaxy What Rule 611 actually does to market structure Rule 611 has two common labels: the "Order Protection Rule" and the "Trade-Through Rule." Simple version: a broker has to route your order to the market showing ...

Michael Saylor: Altcoin Market Competition Demands Real Utility "The altcoin market is now 'too competitive,' signaling a move away from story-led pumps and toward actual use and network adoption," according to Michael Saylor. Michael Saylor rarely softens this kind of point. He d ...

Analysts Tip Pressure for Bitcoin, Gold as US Inflation Tops 4% Bitcoin and gold are running into the same problem: US CPI above 4% changes the math for capital allocation. Not the slogan. The math. The April 2023 CPI print came in at 4.9% year-over-year. Markets noticed fast. F ...

NovaBox Ethereum hack: 56.73 ETH stolen from dividend pool The NovaBox Ethereum hack drained 56.73 ETH from the project's dividend pool and affected 133 users. NovaBox, a small Ethereum DeFi project, lost 56.73 ETH, worth about $92,000 at the time, after an attacker pul ...

Ethereum ZK-tech adoption in 3-5 years: a liquidity game changer Joe Lubin says Ethereum could move much deeper into ZK-tech over the next 3-5 years. If that happens, liquidity may be where people feel it first. Right now, ETH activity is split across Arbitrum, Optimism ...

ETH Falls to 13-Month Low on Zcash Bug News and Bitcoin Drop to Sub-$60K: Is $1.4K Next? Ethereum just hit a 13-month low. Two blows landed almost together: scary news about a bug in Zcash (ZEC), then Bitcoin (BTC) sliding under $60,000, the level traders had treated like a hard floor. ...

WLD Plunges 20% as Hayes Dumps Token a Day After Saying He Would Keep Holding It WLD fell 20% this week, and the reason stung: Arthur Hayes sold his stack one day after telling everyone he planned to hold. One day. People who'd bought on his word watched the number bleed out in real tim ...

MEV bot error on Ethereum: $300k loss shows the ugly side of automation An MEV bot on Ethereum recently lost 167 ETH, worth about $300,000 at the time, after sending the funds to the wrong address. Brutal mistake. My take: this is the part of DeFi people underprice until it happens in p ...