Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense • The Register
Anthropic could have made an easy $4.6 million using its Claude AI models to find and exploit vulnerabilities in blockchain smart contracts. The AI startup did not use the attack it found, which would have been an illegal act that would also have undermined the company’s reputation. We are trying hard image. It’s also possible that Anthropic could part with $4.6 million, an amount that might disappear as a rounding error amid the billions it’s spending. But it was possible to do so, as well described By the company’s security scientists. This is intended to serve as a warning to…
How Stablecoins, Institutions & AI Are Driving Web3’s Next Chapter
Over the past few years, a combination of technological innovation and favorable regulatory changes has ushered in a new era for cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Source: Crypto Crow via Pexels Over the past few years, a combination of technological innovation and favorable regulatory changes has ushered in a new era for cryptocurrencies and blockchain. The $4 trillion blockchain economy is no longer just a place for speculation, it is rapidly becoming integrated into the mainstream global financial system. Article continues below ad Amid this increasing mainstream adoption, there is an increasing focus for the cryptocurrency industry on security, compliance, and user…
TON Blockchain for Privacy-Focused AI
Inside the Cocoon: Telegram’s ambitious push toward privacy-protected AI Pavel Durov, the enigmatic founder of Telegram, has once again rocked the tech world with the launch of Cocoon, a decentralized network designed to handle artificial intelligence calculations with an unprecedented focus on user privacy. Announced in late October 2025 and officially launched by early December, Cocoon runs on the TON blockchain network, and promises to democratize access to powerful AI tools while avoiding the pitfalls of centralized cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft. The move comes at a time when concerns about data privacy in artificial intelligence are at a…
Ethereum, Solana, and XRP Post Bullish Models—But Ozak AI Prediction Leads All Growth Curves
Ethereum, Solana, and XRP are generating renewed confidence across the cryptocurrency market as analysts update their models to reflect rising momentum, increased liquidity, and improving on-chain indicators. Each of these major assets is showing a strong technical setup heading into the next cycle, and investor sentiment is accelerating as macro conditions become more favorable. However, despite their impressive forecasts, analysts constantly point this out Husk I As the project with the steepest and most explosive growth curve – far exceeding even the most optimistic long-term forecasts for ETH, SOL and XRP. Ethereum (ETH) Ethereum (ETH), trading near $2,838, continues to…
Fintechs Circle, Block detail blockchain and AI strategies | PaymentsSource
Key insights: Both Block and Circle are pursuing blockchain projects, with Block focusing more on Bitcoin than stablecoins. What’s at stake?: The GENIUS Act is expected to create a huge global market for digital assets. Look forward: Payment experts say banks will need to up their game to keep up. the The law of genius It’s been nearly six months, but for Dante Disparte the benefits are just starting to show. “It’s a landmark piece of legislation,” Desparte, chief strategy officer and head of global policy and operations at USDC issuer Circle, told American Banker. “It gives the United States…
Six payment trends for 2026 emerge as AI advances and crypto adoption grows
Greater cooperation between ecosystem players will make it easier and safer for people to pay and move money using stablecoins Payment options, whether cash, check or card, have always varied at checkout. However, the convergence of several trends, including advances in artificial intelligence and the rise of cryptocurrencies, is rapidly expanding these options. This development not only introduces new ways to pay, but also changes how money flows, how trust is created, and how value is generated. If there is a key trend going into 2026, it is how payments evolve, becoming more personalized, predictive, and seamlessly interoperable between traditional…
Eruty transforms content ecosystem using AI, blockchain
User interface of Eruty’s crowdfunding service / Courtesy of Eruty Eruty, a content fintech startup powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, is reshaping the content ecosystem in Korea with a unified platform that provides intellectual property valuation, investment matchmaking, and copyright settlement. CEO Kim Yu-sung said the Busan-based company’s priority is to shift the long-standing intuition-based approach to content evaluation towards a data-centric model, a change he sees as crucial to modernizing the traditional content investment market. “As we examined the Korean content sector in depth, it became clear that many creators still suffer from structural constraints despite its…
Analysts Say Ozak AI Could Be the Next 100x AI Gem as Presale Interest Surpasses All Expectations
The Ozak AI ecosystem constitutes an extremely powerful architecture that is specifically designed to integrate AI intelligence and decentralized physical networks. Signals can be predicted by the company’s AI models, which will provide advanced market insights, on-chain behavior analysis, and automatically generated intelligence suitable for trading systems, decentralized applications, and enterprise-level workflows. The DePIN framework built into the system has a positive impact on scalability, as it will distribute computing operations to decentralized nodes, which in turn will lead to faster data processing and reduce reliance on costly centralized models. When cross-chain capabilities are added, the $OZ token is transformed…
Bulls Face Key Test at $93K
Bitcoin Bitcoin$92,947.72 It erased its drop to $91,800 on Wednesday morning and rose again to nearly $93,000 in the afternoon hours, but its rapid 10% rise in two days now faces a major test. The cryptocurrency’s biggest rally from Monday’s lows of $84,000 appears to have stalled near a key technical level: the 2025 annual open at $93,400. This price area now acts as resistance that the bulls will need to reclaim convincingly for the rally to continue. Ethereum Ether Ethereum$3,060.58 It reclaimed the $3,100 level, reaching its strongest price in two weeks and up 3.5% over the past 24…
AI agents simulate $4.6 million in blockchain exploits, discover two zero-days
AI agents developed by Anthropic and tested in a recent research collaboration with MATS Software have demonstrated the ability to autonomously exploit blockchain smart contracts with simulated profits of $4.6 million. The study introduced a new evaluation benchmark called SCONE-bench, which includes 405 real-world smart contracts exploited between 2020 and 2025. The researchers evaluated frontier models, including Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5, with a particular focus on 34 smart contracts exploited after March 2025, ensuring that the models evaluated were not subject to prior training. These models successfully reproduced 19 post-cut exploits in the simulation, generating an…