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Recent research by major artificial intelligence company Antropic and AI security organization Machine Learning Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) showed that AI agents collectively developed smart contract exploits worth $4.6 million. Research released by Anthropic’s red team (a team dedicated to acting like a bad actor to discover potential for abuse) on Monday found that currently available commercial AI models are significantly capable of exploiting smart contracts. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and OpenAI’s GPT-5 collectively developed exploits worth $4.6 million when tested on contracts, exploiting them after…

Solana just logged its biggest week yet for x402, with daily payment volume hitting an all‑time high of about $380,000 on Sunday and about 750% week‑on‑week growth. The latest activity lifts Solana to the most active network by dollar volume for the transactions, showing how fast the AI‑agent payments narrative is turning into measurable onchain flow. The rise of x402 payments on Solana marks a turning point for the HTTP-402-based protocol, with pay-per-request stablecoin transfers now flowing through facilitators at a pace that resembles less a speculative spike and more…

Ethereum researchers are working on ways to deploy a protocol they first introduced earlier this year, which could supercharge privacy with zero-knowledge proofs. Ethereum developer Artem Chystiakov shared his research on the Ethereum community forum on Monday, titled “Zero Knowledge Secret Santa (ZKSS),” which proposes a three-step “Secret Santa” algorithm. The paper was first introduced in January on arXiv.  Secret Santa is a popular gift-giving game played around Christmastime, in which a group of people exchange gifts anonymously. Each person buys a gift for another person as their “Secret Santa”…

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao’s YZi Labs has launched a bid to stack the board of a BNB buying company it helped to bankroll with its own nominees, citing “destruction” of stockholder value.  In a regulatory filing on Monday, YZi Labs said it wants to cancel all of the company’s bylaw changes since July, expand the size of CEA’s board and elect “our highly-qualified nominees as directors.” YZi told shareholders that the measures “are necessary to address the continued destruction of stockholder value at BNC and to ensure that the Company…

Yorkville Acquisition Corp. has tapped two former Gryphon Digital Mining executives to lead its planned merger that will create a publicly traded digital asset treasury focused on accumulating the Cronos ecosystem’s native token. The appointments come as Yorkville moves toward forming a new entity with Trump Media & Technology Group and Crypto.com to acquire and manage the Cronos token (CRO) as its core reserve asset. Steve Gutterman will serve as CEO and Sim Salzman as chief financial officer once the merger closes, which Yorkville expects in the first quarter of…