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Another expensive click on a Google ad.
A Hyperliquid user lost about $550,000 in USDC after visiting a phishing site masquerading as the exchange interface.

The Norwegian sovereign wealth fund gained exposure to Ethereum through BitMine.
As of the end of June, the fund held 6.15 million shares in the company worth $81.9 million. The position was not yet included in the report for the end of 2025.

Strategy and Metaplanet risk being removed from MSCI indices.
The provider’s new methodology affects companies that have effectively become holders of non-operating assets. A decision is expected on October 16.

A mining farm employee decided to do a little mining for himself.
In the United States, Christopher Rankin pleaded guilty to redirecting around 100 of his employer’s computers to his own pool without authorization in 2021 and withdrawing 1,067 BTC, worth $53,315 at the time.
He will be sentenced on November 17. He faces up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.

Statistics are unforgiving: up to 90% of smart contracts that were hacked had previously passed audits successfully. At the same time, the attack surface is no longer limited to blockchain code: human error and outdated infrastructure are playing an increasingly important role.

FG Nexus has officially ended its Ethereum strategy less than a year after launching it.
The experiment proved unsuccessful: the company recorded a $45.2m loss, of which $41.16m was attributable to ETH, while staking income amounted to just $144k.
Recall that FG Nexus had been actively accumulating Ethereum for many months.

Riot Platforms sold 4300 BTC
Miner Riot Platforms sold 4300 BTC to cover operating expenses and expand its data centers. The company currently holds 11 380 BTC, of which 5821 BTC are pledged as collateral; at the bitcoin price on June 30, their total value was approximately $666 million.
In the second quarter, Riot mined 1587 BTC at an average cost of $49 912 per coin, excluding depreciation. Revenue from mining the first cryptocurrency fell 19.3% year over year to $113.7 million.

MUFG to test blockchain settlements for government bond transactions
Financial group Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is preparing a proof of concept for settling transactions involving Japanese government bonds (JGBs) on the Canton Network blockchain. The technology is intended to shift operations that currently take up to three days to real-time, 24/7 processing. MUFG primarily aims to improve the efficiency of repo transactions in which JGBs are used as collateral.

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.6
The new flagship model focuses on long-term agentic tasks, programming, and creating interactive applications. The developers emphasized its ability to work on a single task for a long time and consistently.
One of the main areas is creating applications based on a general idea. Grok 4.6 can independently research requirements, determine the project structure, implement interactions, and continue improving the result.

The Wall Street Journal’s journalists released an investigative film, Infiltrated: North Korea’s Secret U.S. Workforce, about a covert network of North Korean workers at American companies.
The FBI has identified thousands of such “applicants” across the country. Over three months, the group tracked by the publication applied to more than 1,000 companies and used AI at nearly every stage of the hiring process—from cover letters and resumes to interview preparation and face swapping.
American intermediaries play a key role in the scheme. Corporate laptops remain in the United States, while Nort

On August 13, the total amount of Ethereum locked in staking exceeded 34% of the coin’s total supply (41.9 million ETH), an all-time record.
The average annual yield currently stands at 2.6%.

💬 Plan B Network Director Giacomo Zucco believes that the failure of BIP-110 proved the resilience of the Bitcoin network’s consensus. According to him, all governance of the upgrade became concentrated in a single person.
“[Luke Dash Jr.] was literally issuing orders via Discord — this is the absolute concentration of centralization, there’s nowhere further to go. And this clearly proves that reproducing Bitcoin honestly is simply impossible today,” the entrepreneur said.
Zucco described BIP-110 as a “very complex social phenomenon” in which several conflicts within the community became inte

Ethereum staking share reached a record 34%
On August 13, the total amount of Ethereum locked in staking exceeded 34% of the coin’s total supply (41.9 million ETH), an all-time record. At the time of writing, the average annual yield stands at 2.6%.

Delio CEO sentenced to 15 years in prison for crypto fraud
A South Korean court sentenced Delio crypto lender head Jeong Sang-ho to 15 years in prison in a $49 million fraud case. The project attracted clients’ cryptocurrency by offering high interest rates, but halted withdrawals in June 2023. Prosecutors had sought a 20-year prison sentence for Jeong.

Solana narrowly avoided a halt in transaction finalization
Due to an outage at provider Teraswitch, 28.83% of staked SOL went offline. A little more, and the network would have crossed the critical threshold of 33.34%.
The outage affected around 90 validators and lasted 33 minutes. During that time, they missed out on approximately 333 SOL in rewards.

Wintermute is preparing $1 billion for AI and trading infrastructure. Over the next five years, the market maker will invest in data centers, computing power, and high-frequency trading systems.
The goal is to compete not only in crypto, but also in traditional markets.
By the end of 2027, Wintermute aims to generate more than half of its revenue outside cryptocurrencies and gradually become a trading firm on the level of Jane Street or Citadel Securities.

Two traders bet more than $200 million on Bitcoin’s decline
On Hyperliquid, they opened 40x leveraged short positions worth $114 million and $100 million — currently the two largest positions on the platform.
Their margin for error is small: liquidation will occur at approximately $64,104 and $64,579. The traders used around $5.4 million of their own funds each to open the positions.

Goldman Sachs acquired NEOS Investments for $2.25 billion. As part of the deal, the bank gained control of the BTCI bitcoin ETF, with approximately $1.1 billion in assets under management.
An options-based exchange platform with a turnover of $30 billion will also come under the financial giant’s control.

Glassnode warned of the risk of Bitcoin pulling back to $58,500
The market for the leading cryptocurrency is in a “compressed” state: the price is stuck between the median realized price ($63,000) and the cost basis of short-term holders ($68,700), analysts noted.
According to the researchers’ forecast, a return above the resistance zone would bring recent buyers back into profit and mark the first signal of an improving market structure. 
At the same time, a break below the support zone could lead to a pullback to the June low near $58,500. As the next lower boundary, analysts identified the

The New York City Council has launched an investigation into the marketing practices of operators of major prediction markets. The inquiry includes Polymarket, Kalshi, as well as Coinbase and Gemini Titan, which are associated with their products.
Lawmakers suspect the platforms of using misleading advertising, undisclosed payments to influencers, and promoting betting among young people and potentially underage users.