Key Takeaways Alex Thorn said 52 named wallets moved 34,335 BTC after filing, challenging abandonment claims. 12,302 BTC have been moved since they were served onchain. Galaxy Research tracked $2.48B in BTC movements, adding scrutiny to the plaintiffs’ theory. Nearly 200 BTC from a so-called abandoned 2012 wallet moved on June 19. Judge Kathy King…
Legacy Aztec Network contracts were drained of over $4M in three days. Attacks exploited flaws in zero-knowledge proof verification logic. The core Aztec network and AZTEC token were not affected by the exploits. Aztec’s legacy infrastructure has come under a coordinated wave of attacks, leading to losses that crossed $4 million within just three days….
Texas spent years courting AI companies, cloud providers, and Bitcoin miners with cheap electricity, abundant land, and a sales tax exemption that’s grown into one of the state’s costliest incentive programs. But now, Governor Greg Abbott has told state regulators to flip the arrangement, directing them to require data centers to fund the grid they…
In brief GLM-5.2 trails Claude Opus 4.8 by just 1% on FrontierSWE—a benchmark measuring multi-hour autonomous engineering projects—while beating GPT-5.5 on the same test. It ships under an MIT license with zero regional restrictions. The model was built entirely on Huawei Ascend chips with no NVIDIA hardware involved. Unsloth AI already released 2-bit GGUF quantizations…
Zurich, Switzerland-based Amcor plc (AMCR) engages in the production and sale of packaging products in North America and globally. The company is valued at $19 billion and operates in two segments, Global Flexible Packaging Solutions and Global Rigid Packaging Solutions and supplies flexible packaging products, including polymer resin, aluminum, and fiber-based flexible packaging products, to various…
Wisconsin Representative Bryan Steil, who chairs the House subcommittee on digital assets, introduced a law to prevent certain public officials from “wagering on public policy issues and political outcomes,” notably without mentioning lawmakers in the White House. In a Thursday notice, Steil said he had introduced the Stop Lawmakers from Predicting Act, which could bar…
Hsiao-Wei Wang resigned as co-executive director and board member of the Ethereum Foundation on June 18, effective immediately, the second co-ED departure in roughly four months and the latest news signal that EF leadership is structurally unsettled heading into a critical upgrade cycle. The exit lands the same day former EF contributor Trent Van Epps…
Key Takeaways Schwab will offer binary S&P 500 options through a Cboe Global Markets partnership in the coming months. Schwab manages $11.8 trillion in client assets across 47.2 million accounts as of Q1 2026. CEO Rick Wurster reversed December 2025 caution after calling prediction markets a “hard look” in April. The brokerage Charles Schwab has…
Key takeaways Bitcoin remains vulnerable as hawkish Federal Reserve guidance, rising Treasury yields, and inconsistent ETF demand continue to dampen investor sentiment. With BTC trading below key moving averages and lacking strong buying momentum, the near-term bias remains bearish. Bitcoin (BTC) remained under pressure on Thursday, trading below the $64,000 level as investors reacted to…
Europe’s crypto rulebook is squeezing much of the industry before it has even fully taken effect, with Binance and Tether as the most visible examples of a wider scramble to remain within the bloc’s regulated market. The pressure is building ahead of the July 1 deadline for firms to secure authorization under the European Union’s…
