OCC Final Rule Takes Effect Today, Opening National Trust Banking to Crypto Firms
The OCC's landmark rule goes live April 1, allowing crypto firms like Ripple, BitGo, and Fidelity to operate as national trust banks with expanded activities.
2026-04-01
4 articles
Anthropic Accidentally Exposed Claude Code's Entire Source Code via npm
A map file left in Claude Code's npm package exposed over 512,000 lines of TypeScript source — the archive was quickly forked more than 41,500 times before Anthropic could respond.
Artemis II Countdown Underway: First Crewed Moon Mission Since Apollo Set for Today
NASA's Artemis II mission is scheduled to launch today at 6:24 PM EDT, sending four astronauts on a 10-day flight around the Moon — the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Zcash Patches Critical Sprout Pool Vulnerability That Put $6.5M at Risk
A researcher using AI assistance found a critical Zcash bug that could have let malicious miners drain 25,000 ZEC from the deprecated Sprout pool — it was patched before exploitation.
2026-03-31
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Moody's Rates First Bitcoin-Backed Public Bond Ba2 in New Hampshire Deal
New Hampshire's Business Finance Authority is issuing the first Moody's-rated bitcoin-backed bond, backed by BTC held in BitGo custody with 1.6x overcollateralization.
12 EU Banks Are Racing to Put the Euro Onchain Before Dollar Stablecoins Dominate
Qivalis, backed by ING, UniCredit, BBVA and nine other major European banks, is developing a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin to compete with dollar-pegged tokens — because right now the euro accounts for just 0.2% of onchain transactions.
ScaleOps Raises $130M to Make Kubernetes Manage Itself
ScaleOps closed a $130M Series C at an $800M+ valuation to scale its platform that autonomously right-sizes Kubernetes workloads in real time — with particular focus on cutting GPU waste in AI deployments.
OpenFX Raises $94M to Put Stablecoins in the Middle of Global Business Payments
OpenFX, a two-year-old startup bridging traditional banking and stablecoins for large cross-border transfers, raised $94 million at a ~$500M valuation with backing from Accel, Lightspeed, and Pantera.
Google Maps Five Quantum Attack Paths That Put $100B+ on Ethereum at Risk
A 57-page Google Quantum AI whitepaper co-authored with Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake identifies five distinct ways a quantum computer could attack Ethereum — from draining top wallets to forging DeFi admin keys and permanently compromising L2 data verification.
KuCoin Permanently Banned from U.S. After CFTC Consent Order
A federal court approved a CFTC consent order permanently barring KuCoin operator Peken Global Limited from serving U.S. users — converting a temporary restriction into an indefinite ban.
Base Unveils 2026 Strategy: Global Markets, Stablecoins, and an Agent-Native Economy
Base published its 2026 mission and strategy, laying out plans to build global onchain markets, scale stablecoin payments, and become the home for AI agent commerce — citing $17T in stablecoin volume last year.
DeFi Hacker Who Stole $50M and Bought a Black Lotus Card Finally Charged
Jonathan Spalletta allegedly looted Uranium Finance in 2021, laundered the funds, and spent millions on rare collectibles — including a $500K Magic: The Gathering card.
Suno v5.5 Lets You Sing With Your Own Voice
Suno's latest model update brings three personalization features: sing AI-generated songs in your own voice, fine-tune a custom model on your own music, and let the AI learn your taste over time.
Coinbase Told Its Engineers to Delete Their IDEs. AI Agents Are Writing the Code Now.
Coinbase's Base App engineering team was instructed to stop writing code manually — AI agents running inside Linear are now handling continuous development.
Google: A Quantum Computer Could Steal Bitcoin in 9 Minutes — and Taproot Makes It Worse
Google's Quantum AI team published a whitepaper showing attacks on Bitcoin's cryptography may require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits — a 20x reduction from prior estimates — with a 41% chance of beating a transaction in real time.
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Launches in Frontier With Claude-Powered Multi-Model Researcher
Microsoft opened Copilot Cowork to Frontier program members on March 30, bringing long-running multi-step AI task management to Microsoft 365 — alongside a revamped Researcher agent that combines OpenAI and Claude for a 13.8% accuracy jump.
BitMine Nears 4% of All Ether as Last Corporate Buyer Standing
BitMine Immersion Technologies bought 71,179 ETH last week — its largest weekly purchase of 2026 — as Strategy ended its 13-week bitcoin buying streak, leaving BitMine as the only major corporate crypto accumulator still active.
Centrifuge Launches deSPXA: The First Tradeable, Borrowable S&P 500 on Base
Centrifuge's deSPXA brings the S&P 500 onchain as a fully DeFi-native asset — tradeable, borrowable, and shortable on Base, under license from S&P Dow Jones Indices.
Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, Its Most Natural Voice AI Yet
Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.1 Flash Live brings real-time voice with function calling, lower latency, and native multilingual support to developers and consumers.
Ramp Launches Stablecoin Accounts on Base, Bringing USDC Payments to 50,000 Businesses
Ramp, which processes over $100 billion in annual corporate spend, opened public beta for stablecoin accounts built on Base — letting businesses hold USDC, earn rewards, and pay vendors worldwide.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 Omni Processes Text, Audio, and Video Natively in Real Time
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen 3.5 Omni on March 30, a native omnimodal AI handling text, image, audio, and video simultaneously with voice cloning, semantic interruption, and 74-language speech support.
2026-03-30
23 articles
US Labor Department Proposes Rule Opening 401(k)s to Crypto
The Department of Labor proposed rules allowing 401(k) plan managers to include crypto and other alternative assets, potentially redirecting trillions in retirement savings.
Bluesky's AI Feed Tool Attie Becomes the Platform's Second-Most-Blocked Account
Bluesky launched an AI-powered feed builder called Attie at the ATmosphere conference, and within 27 hours users had blocked it over 125,000 times — more than the ICE and White House accounts combined.
Hermes Agent v0.6.0: Multi-Instance Profiles, MCP Server Mode, and Docker
NousResearch shipped Hermes Agent v0.6.0 just two days after v0.5.0, adding multi-instance profiles, MCP server mode, an official Docker container, and two new messaging platforms in 95 pull requests.
Square Auto-Enables Bitcoin Payments for Millions of U.S. Businesses
Jack Dorsey's Square has begun automatically enabling Bitcoin payments for eligible U.S. sellers, with instant BTC-to-USD conversion at checkout, zero processing fees through 2026, and no setup required.
Cardano Founder's $200M Privacy Blockchain Midnight Goes Live
Charles Hoskinson's Midnight blockchain, backed by roughly $200 million of his own investment, launched on Monday with a phased rollout targeting confidential finance, identity systems, and enterprise workflows.
Copilot Cowork Goes Live: Microsoft Launches Multi-Agent AI With Claude in Frontier Program
Microsoft's Copilot Cowork is now live for Frontier program members, bringing Claude-powered multi-step task automation to M365 alongside a new Researcher Critique feature that scores 13.8% above the best systems on the DRACO benchmark.
Ethereum Foundation Makes Its Largest-Ever ETH Stake: $46M in a Single Deposit
The Ethereum Foundation deposited 22,517 ETH (~$46M) into staking infrastructure on March 30, its largest-ever single stake, as part of a plan to put 70,000 ETH to work for yield.
Aave V4 Goes Live on Ethereum Mainnet with Hub-and-Spoke Architecture
Aave V4 launched on Ethereum mainnet today, introducing a hub-and-spoke liquidity model that allows distinct lending environments to share a single capital pool — and aims to bridge DeFi with institutional credit markets.
Midas Raises $50M to Bring Instant Redemptions to Tokenized Assets
Midas closed a $50M Series A to build instant liquidity for tokenized yield products, backed by Franklin Templeton, Coinbase Ventures, and Framework.
Anthropic CEO: Claude Is Now Writing Most of Its Own Next Version
Dario Amodei says Anthropic engineers have largely stopped writing code themselves — Claude writes it, they review it — and that loop has produced 50+ major feature launches in 52 days.
Apple Intelligence Briefly Went Live in China — Then Got Pulled
Apple Intelligence accidentally activated for Chinese iPhone users on Monday before being pulled offline — revealing that the features are technically ready but still lack regulatory approval.
Mistral AI Raises $830M in Debt to Build Nvidia-Powered Data Center Near Paris
French AI startup Mistral secured $830 million in debt financing from seven global banks to build a major AI data center near Paris, powered by 13,800 of Nvidia's GB300 chips.
GitHub to Train AI on Your Copilot Code Starting April 24
GitHub updated its Terms of Service to use Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users' code inputs and outputs for AI model training starting April 24, unless they opt out.
"Bash Is All You Need": Learn-Claude-Code Hits 43K Stars With Provocative Agent Manifesto
shareAI-lab's TypeScript nano-harness for Claude Code has accumulated 43,000 GitHub stars with a bold argument: real agents are trained models, not orchestration frameworks.
Hyperliquid's Validators All Cluster in AWS Tokyo — Giving Local Traders a 200ms Edge
New Glassnode research shows all 24 of Hyperliquid's validators sit in a single AWS Tokyo region, handing nearby traders a ~200-millisecond execution advantage over competitors in Europe or the U.S.
AMD's GAIA 0.17 Brings a Privacy-First Local Agent UI to Ryzen AI PCs
AMD's open-source GAIA project hit version 0.17 with a new Agent UI that runs fully on local hardware — letting users analyze documents, execute tools, and run AI workflows without sending data to the cloud.
Bittensor's TAO Surges 90% in March as Subnet Tokens Hit $1.5B Combined
TAO has rallied from $180 to above $332 this month, lifting the combined market cap of Bittensor subnet tokens to $1.47 billion, driven by the Covenant-72B model launch and an endorsement from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the All-In Podcast.
WeCom Open-Sources CLI for AI Agents as China's Enterprise Apps Race to Support Coding Tools
Tencent's WeCom (Enterprise WeChat) open-sourced a Rust-based CLI today giving AI agents direct access to messaging, scheduling, meetings, and documents — following similar launches from Feishu and DingTalk.
CNCF Launches Dapr Agents v1.0: The AI Agent Framework That Survives Production
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation released Dapr Agents v1.0 at KubeCon EU, a production-ready Python framework that prioritizes crash recovery and durability over raw intelligence.
cssDOOM: Someone Actually Rendered DOOM Using Only CSS and HTML Divs
Developer Niels Leenheer built a fully playable version of DOOM where every wall, floor, and enemy is a CSS-transformed HTML div — no WebGL, no Canvas, no cheating.
Shield AI Raises $2B at $12.7B Valuation After U.S. Air Force Picks Hivemind for Combat Drone Program
Defense AI startup Shield AI closed a $2 billion Series G at a $12.7 billion valuation — more than doubling its value in a year — after the U.S. Air Force selected its Hivemind software as the autonomy provider for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.
Lil Agents: Tiny AI Companions That Live on Your macOS Dock
Lil Agents puts two animated characters — Bruce and Jazz — above your macOS dock, letting you chat with Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, or Gemini with a single click.
Apple's iOS 27 Will Let Any AI Chatbot Plug Into Siri
Apple's upcoming iOS 27 introduces a Siri Extensions system that lets users swap in third-party AI chatbots — Claude, Gemini, and others — directly inside Siri.
2026-03-29
6 articles
GStack: YC's CEO Turns Claude Code Into a Virtual Engineering Team — 55K Stars in 18 Days
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan open-sourced GStack, a Claude Code skill pack that simulates 15+ specialist roles — CEO, architect, QA, security officer — and hit 55K GitHub stars in under three weeks.
Google's Gemma 4 Leaks on Arena — Multimodal Open-Weights Model Appears Imminent
Google DeepMind's next open-weights model Gemma 4 surfaced on the LM Arena leaderboard under the codename 'significant-otter,' confirming multimodal capabilities and a lineup that includes a 120B MoE variant.
StraitsX's Invisible Stablecoin Layer Is Quietly Powering Southeast Asia's Payments
Singapore-based StraitsX saw 40x transaction volume growth and 83x card issuance growth year-over-year, as its stablecoin infrastructure silently settles cross-border payments across Southeast Asia.
One CLI Open-Sources 47,000+ Verified Actions for AI Agents
One CLI released an open-source database of 47,856 verified agentic actions across 255 apps, giving AI agents authenticated access to Gmail, Slack, Stripe, and hundreds more without OAuth wrangling.
ZK Proofs Get Cracked in Production for the First Time
Two DeFi protocols lost funds to the first confirmed live exploits of deployed ZK cryptography — not because the math was broken, but because both teams shipped a placeholder default value and never replaced it.
Google Translate's Live Headphone Translation Lands on iOS in 70+ Languages
Google Translate's Live Translate feature — real-time spoken language translation via connected headphones — is now available on iOS across 70+ languages, expanding global availability for both Android and iOS users.