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Covenant AI quits Bittensor. Here's what just happened.

Covenant AI, the team behind Bittensor’s biggest breakthrough, has publicly quit the network, accusing co-founder Const of using unilateral, punitive actions while hiding behind what they call “decentralization theater.”

Apr 10, 2026

Claude Mythos: The AI Anthropic Was Afraid to Ship

A leaked draft revealed Anthropic's most powerful and most dangerous model yet, and within 13 days the story moved from a Silicon Valley security blog to an emergency summit at the U.S. Treasury.

Apr 10, 2026

TEAMZ Summit 2026 Day 1

TEAMZ Summit 2026 opened in Tokyo on April 7 with strong turnout, blending Japanese cultural experiences with major discussions on Web3, AI, finance, regulation, and digital identity.

Apr 10, 2026

From API Seller to Infrastructure Owner: Anthropic's Agent Platform Bet

In one week, Anthropic shut down OpenClaw's free ride and rolled out its own agent runtime, making its clearest move yet from model vendor to platform owner.

Apr 09, 2026

How Iran Turned a Chokepoint Into a Crypto Cashbox, $2 Million a Ship

A fully sanctioned nation built a bitcoin tollbooth on the world's busiest oil shipping lane. It's already collecting payments.

Apr 09, 2026

Why the People Who Built OpenAI Stopped Trusting Sam Altman

What a 70-page memo, 200 pages of private notes, and over 100 firsthand accounts tell us about the man running OpenAI.

Apr 07, 2026

Who Guards Aave Now? The Silent Departure of DeFi's Largest Security Team

Three of the four pillars that kept Aave running are gone. The smart contracts still work, but the people who kept them safe don't.

Apr 07, 2026

Bitcoin 2026 Announces Afroman as Featured Speaker

Afroman is heading to Bitcoin 2026 after winning a major free speech legal battle, turning his clash with law enforcement into a story that strongly resonates with Bitcoin’s values of sovereignty, transparency, and expression.

Apr 04, 2026

The $24 Billion Underground River: How Crypto's Largest Criminal Marketplace Was Brought Down

Huione Guarantee’s collapse marked the fall of a $24 billion crypto laundering empire built on scams, Telegram infrastructure, and shadow finance, but its deeper significance is that the system it pioneered is still alive and already being copied.

Apr 03, 2026

Who's Holding the Key? The Drift Hack and DeFi's Trust Paradox

Drift’s $285 million exploit was not just another DeFi hack - it exposed the industry’s deeper problem: users are told to trust code, but in reality they are still trusting centralized admin keys that can fail catastrophically.

Apr 03, 2026

EthCC Dispatch: The Bankers Have Entered the Room

EthCC 2026 wasn't defined by any single launch. It was the year Bloomberg, BNP Paribas, and S&P Global stopped watching from the sidelines and started asking how to move onchain.

Apr 03, 2026

Polymarket's Monetization Era Begins

Polymarket’s zero-fee growth era is over. As it pushes toward serious monetization, it now has to balance investor pressure, rising regulatory heat, market manipulation concerns, and intensifying competition - all at the same time.

Apr 03, 2026

The 32-Day Quarter: How the Iran War Rewrote Every Asset Class in Q1 2026

Q1 2026 ended as a war-driven risk-off quarter, with surging oil, sliding U.S. equities, and bitcoin posting some of the weakest performance as markets repriced inflation, supply shocks, and prolonged geopolitical uncertainty.

Apr 03, 2026

AI Banned 1984. No One Saw the Irony.

As schools, Wikipedia, and even OpenAI itself pull back from trusting AI with sensitive decisions, the real problem is becoming clear - AI is scaling far faster than any human oversight system built to contain it.

Mar 27, 2026

The Trade Truce Trade: What a Trump-Xi Deal Actually Does to Your Portfolio

Trump and Xi confirmed for Beijing on May 14-15. Deliverables are narrow, soybeans and verbal commitments, not a grand bargain. But that misses the point entirely. This summit removes the tail risk that's been sitting on every risk asset since January.

Mar 26, 2026