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Bitcoin Giant Strategy Gets Price Target Boost From TD Cowen After $2 Billion BTC Buy
Analysts at TD Cowen believe shares in Bitcoin-buying Strategy behemoth could jump more than 139% in the next 12 months.

Japan’s Ruling Party Pushes On-Chain Finance Plan to Protect Yen
Stablecoins and tokenized deposits could help Japan modernize payments and reduce reliance on foreign rails, the proposal says.

AI Slop Floods Bug Bounty Programs as Companies Struggle with Fake Reports
Bug bounty platforms and software companies are struggling to handle a surge of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports.

Bitcoin ETFs Shed $649M in a Day as Long-Term BTC Holders ‘Limit Downside Potential’
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $648 million outflows Monday as long-term BTC holders continue to accumulate the cryptocurrency.

Morning Minute: SEC Reverses Course on Tokenized Stocks, HYPE Soars
HYPE soared as the SEC opened the door to third-party tokenized stocks. Strategy bought another $2B in BTC, and price still went lower.

Bitcoin DeFi Platform Echo Protocol Hit By $76M Monad Exploit
Echo Protocol said that a compromised admin key had enabled unauthorized eBTC minting on its Monad deployment.

Ohio Man Gets 9 Years for $10M Bitcoin Trading Ponzi Scheme
Rathnakishore Giri falsely promised guaranteed returns on Bitcoin derivatives trading, using new investor funds to pay earlier participants.

Lawyers Apologize After Fake Claude-Generated Quotes Appear in Trump Layoffs Case
Attorneys representing a former Homeland Security official admitted using Anthropic’s Claude Console to help draft a court filing that included fabricated quotes.

AI Still Can't Beat the On-Call Engineer: Here's Why
The best AI models can't yet beat the engineers they’re supposed to replace at fixing real-world problems, a new benchmark suggests.

Bitcoin Faces Greater Quantum Computing Risk Than Ethereum, Citi Warns
Both Bitcoin and Ethereum face a quantum computing threat, but Citi says the gap between them comes down to governance, not just technology.

Swan Bitcoin Hit With Nearly $1 Billion Lawsuit Over Prime Trust Collapse
The lawsuit alleges that the Bitcoin-centric financial services firm took advantage of insider information to escape major losses.

This Open-Source Phone AI Agent Sees, Hears and Acts—All Without Touching the Cloud
Oppo's X-OmniClaw runs directly on your Android device, using the camera, screen, and microphone to execute real tasks inside real apps.

Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion AI Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman
The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI has ended in a win for the company he co-founded, following a jury decision.

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says AI Verification Could Help Secure Crypto Networks
Vitalik Buterin said mathematically verified software may help protect cryptographic infrastructures as AI improves both code generation and vulnerability discovery.

Hive Shares Hit Highest Price This Year After Bitcoin Miner Unveils Ontario 'AI Gigafactory'
Hive Digital Technologies’ stock price popped after the Bitcoin miner unveiled a massive data-center buildout in Ontario, Canada.

Bank of England, FCA Set Out ‘Shared Vision’ for Tokenization
The UK’s central bank and financial regulator have launched a joint Call for Input as tokenization moves from “pilots to production.”

Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs Bleed as Crypto Funds Shed $1.07 Billion, Ending 6-Week Win Streak
Bitcoin ETFs bore the brunt of a geopolitically driven sell-off, CoinShares said, though altcoin funds largely held their ground.

'Attractive Opportunity': Tom Lee's BitMine Adds $151 Million in Ethereum Amid Price Dip
BitMine Immersion Technologies added $151 million in Ethereum amid last week's price slide, with Tom Lee citing the "attractive opportunity."

Strategy Leverages Preferred Stock Issuance for $2 Billion Bitcoin Buy
Strategy purchased 24,869 Bitcoin last week for $2 billion, channeling billions of dollars that came from its flagship preferred stock.

Hyperliquid Defies Market Downturn as SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI IPOs Loom
Hyperliquid’s HYPE token has jumped as its HIP-3 pre-IPO perp marketplace heats up ahead of a series of high-profile tech IPOs.

Iran Pushes $10B Bitcoin Insurance Plan for Strait of Hormuz: Report
The platform settles cargo cover in Bitcoin under a plan for marine policies and certificates that could generate $10 billion for Iran.

Morning Minute: Bitcoin Slides Back to $77K on Rising Bond Yields, Oil Spike
Crypto majors are falling and the ETFs are seeing an exodus, while SpaceX had a major debut on Hyperliquid.

Bitcoin Slides Under $77K as Crypto Liquidations Top $672M Amid Bond Sell-Off
Analysts flagged that geopolitical shocks no longer "hit crypto directly" thanks to institutional transmission via ETF flows.

Crypto ATM Operator Bitcoin Depot Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
North America's largest Bitcoin ATM operator cited a hostile regulatory environment and an 'unsustainable' business model.

