SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom has come out against EIP-8363. This Ethereum proposal would burn validator rewards as the staking ratio rises, warning that the change would weaken decentralized finance and erase ETH’s native yield advantage over Bitcoin (BTC). Joseph Chalom, a former BlackRock executive, laid out the opposition on Friday. Analysts, however, doubt the draft…
A volunteer security effort says it has scanned 150 Bitcoin repositories, disclosed more than a dozen vulnerabilities, and is building an open-source AI platform to automate software security reviews. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
Collateralized loan obligations may become the next big push in the exchange-traded fund industry. Source: www.cnbc.com Read Full Story
AI-assisted security campaign focused on the Bitcoin ecosystem, Bitcoin Red Team, said it generated 6,700 findings across 425 projects in its first 55 hours. The campaign labeled 1,029 of them high or critical. The Aug. 6 update measures how much material entered a security triage pipeline, and its effect on software security remains unreported. The…
As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls. Dividing the work among a team of agents seems like the obvious fix, but it introduces a fatal flaw: most multi-agent systems are not designed for agents to coordinate among…
Truth Social’s parent company is unwinding two major Crypto.com deals as new leadership shifts its focus to media, data licensing, and a planned merger with fusion energy company TAE. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
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Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given. Source: www.wired.com Read Full Story
Lumilens Inc., a provider of optical networking chips for artificial intelligence clusters, launched today with $900 million in funding. The company raised the bulk of the capital, $700 million, through a Series C round that valued it at $5.51 billion. Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Meritech, Seligman Ventures and Spark Capital jointly led the investment….