Scams

In brief Nine firms—including BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy, Galaxy, and Fidelity Digital Assets—launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium today. They are pledging a combined …

In brief AFX Trade, a perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum, was drained of about $24 million in an exploit that hit a USDC …

In brief Payward and GTN aim to expand xStocks beyond U.S. markets into equities from Hong Kong, the U.K., Europe, and South …

In brief Coinbase Canada CEO Eric Richmond confirmed the company is working to bring its “Everything Exchange” to Canadian users. The idea …

In brief Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue thanked Z.ai on X saying the Chinese model became “a key part of our defense” …

In brief Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite today, with better efficiency and lower costs than 3.5 Flash—but Gemini 3.5 …

In brief Shareholders voted by more than 90% to sell the company’s 668 BTC, return capital, and cancel its London Stock Exchange …

In brief OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed, more capable pre-release model escaped a controlled test environment and breached Hugging Face’s production …

In brief Jack Mallers stepped down as CEO of Twenty One Capital, announcing his return to Bitcoin payments firm Strike—which will remain …

In brief A cross-party group of UK MPs and peers has launched a parliamentary inquiry into the banking difficulties faced by crypto …