Wednesday, 4 November 2026
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OpenDesign, the company behind the benchmark site OpenDesign Arena, ran 13 AI models through the same batch of design tasks this week. The top scorer was OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra. But DeepSeek's newest model, V4.1 Flash, re…
Bitcoin fell 1.22% today to $77,323, unable to extend last week's push above $80,000 as broader markets sold off on inflation fears.
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Researchers working with AI coding agents reduced a resource benchmark for a key step in a potential quantum attack on the cryptography protecting Bitcoin and Ethereum by 86%, according to a paper posted Wednesday.
Advanced AI is leaving banks less time to fix software flaws before attackers exploit them, according to a new paper published by the Bank for International Settlements.
Liquid restarted block production after deploying emergency software updates, though transactions and peg operations remain suspended as recovery efforts continue.
The EU securities regulator flagged tokenized equities, DeFi exploits and prediction markets as areas where growing crypto ties could pose risks to the broader financial system.
AI enthusiast Kun Chen cloned himself into a chatbot to stop his own AI agents from bugging him with every little decision. Then, just out of curiosity, he cloned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI CEO Elon Musk, Anthropic CEO …
Coinbase partnered with Moov to bring stablecoin functionality to more than 1,000 community banks.
The White House failed in its first bid to resolve the stablecoin ‘yield v rewards’ impasse, but President Trump’s crypto profits could prove an even greater impediment to digital asset market structure progress.
US stocks are sliding as oil climbs above $100 a barrel and August producer prices came in hotter than expected. PPI rose 5.4% year-on-year, above the 5.3% forecast, while core PPI jumped to 4.6% from 4.3%. September ra…
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European finance and tokenization groups say Brussels should remove limits on assets admitted to DLT infrastructure or set a 1.5 trillion euro baseline if a cap remains.
Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong still expects Bitcoin to reach $400,000 by 2030, he told CNBC Squawk Box Asia on Thursday, calling it a "reasonable target" even as BTC currently trades around $77,000.
The total crypto market cap fell to $2.71 trillion, down 3.0% over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin is holding relatively steady at $77,285.98, also down 3.0%, but altcoins are bearing the brunt of today’s selloff. Ethereum d…
The partnership will provide stablecoin acceptance, settlement and real-time funding capabilities to over 1,000 community banks and credit unions.
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The post XRP News: Two Major Events Could Impact XRP Price on September 11th appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News XRP price is set to face two separate events on Friday that could affect market attention: the August…
Nasdaq invested $100 million in Payward as part of its push toward tokenized stock products with round-the-clock trading.
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Memecoin platform Pump.fun accounted for most of the new tokens among launchpads, as the Solana network notched a new all-time daily issuance high.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the crypto industry comes out ahead regardless of how the September 15 Senate vote on the CLARITY Act goes. Speaking on CNBC Thursday morning, Armstrong said passage would deliver forma…
MoneyGram is following rival Western Union’s lead, rolling out a Visa stablecoin debit card as it expands blockchain-based payments.
Anthropic disclosed another incident in which a Claude AI model hacked into real systems during security testing.