Polymarket Pauses Trading as Prediction Market Investigates Security Incident - Decrypt
Polymarket users are reporting that the prediction market’s frontend may be compromised, with assets being withdrawn from accounts without permission.
NFTs & Gaming
Fed Stands Pat, Bitcoin Holds Steady—But a December Rate Hike Is in Play - Decrypt
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at 3.75% to 4.00% on Wednesday in a 10-2 vote, with two officials dissenting in favor of another quarter-point hike. Fed Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President B…
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China's Stock Market Has Lost $2.4 Trillion as Investors Doubt Its AI Boom Will Ever Pay Off - Decrypt
Stocks on China's mainland have lost about $2.4 trillion in market value, the total worth of all their shares, since May, as investors lose faith that Beijing's AI boom will ever turn a profit.
Robinhood Misses Q3 Earnings as Crypto Revenue Rises and Prediction Market Bets Grow - Decrypt
Robinhood, the trading app where more than 28 million people keep money to buy stocks and crypto and now bet on sports and elections, reported third-quarter revenue of $1.42 billion billion on Tuesday, missing the rough…
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Major Banks Find Rogue AI Agents Inside Customer Accounts—And They’re 'Horrified' - Decrypt
Some of the biggest U.S. banks have discovered an uninvited presence inside their customers’ accounts: autonomous AI agents logging in, sometimes with the customer’s own credentials, and occasionally taking actions that…
Ken Griffin Says AI Is 'Almost Certainly' in a Bubble—And Compares GPUs to Airline Seats - Decrypt
Ken Griffin, founder of the Wall Street giant Citadel, said Tuesday that investors are “almost certainly” in an AI bubble—though he isn’t telling them to dump their AI stocks.
PHP Panic: Two Critical Bugs Put 70% of the Internet at Risk, and Everyone Is Freaking Out - Decrypt
If you’ve been online at all today, you’ve seen the panic: a critical vulnerability is threatening to “pwn” just about every website on the planet.
Abandoned Bitcoin? Wallet Targeted by Noah Doe Lawsuit Moves $33 Million - Decrypt
Another long-sleeping Bitcoin whale has stirred, and this one is named in a lawsuit claiming its coins were abandoned.
NFT Marketplace Blur to Shut Down Website, Stop New Blend Loans Next Month
Ethereum NFT marketplace Blur will shut down its website on November 12, the company said.
Blur is shutting down its website, so why are NFT collectors cheering?
Blur’s planned website closure revived criticism of the royalty policies and token rewards that helped it overtake OpenSea during the NFT boom, but hurt creators.
French Committee Backs Stablecoin Swap Tax and Crypto Exit Tax, Then Rejects the Budget - Decrypt
France’s National Assembly Finance Committee voted this week to tax crypto holders who swap into stablecoins—tokens tied to a single official currency, such as the dollar or the euro—and to charge an exit tax on wealthy…
OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Rehearsing for the Day After an AI Catastrophe - Decrypt
Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies are privately rehearsing how to handle the public and political backlash after a catastrophic AI event, according to an Axios report published Friday.
US Government Moves $103 Million in Seized Bitcoin and BNB, But Hasn't Said Why - Decrypt News
Cryptocurrency wallets controlled by the U.S. government moved more than $100 million in Bitcoin and BNB on Tuesday, according to data from blockchain analytics firm Arkham.
Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free - Decrypt News
A developer who goes by hashfunction has posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos on the open-source AI repository Hugging Face, free to download. The dataset, published under the datasocial account, r…
A Florida Woman Used Claude as a Diary. An Anthropic Employee Read It and Reported It to Police - Decrypt News
A Florida woman said she uses AI like a diary. Now she's facing a felony charge, and the reader who sent her there was someone she never meant to show it to.
Once a $2.3 Billion Network, Ethereum Layer-2 Blast Is Shutting Down - Decrypt News
Blast, the Ethereum layer-2 network that once drew billions of dollars with promises of built-in yield and airdrops, is calling it quits.