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Solana prepares SIMD-0553: a fee change that could reduce the crypto validators' revenue. All the details here!

The quantum threat pushes Ethereum to reconsider its cryptographic choices. Poseidon, long considered as a hash function suitable for zero-knowledge proofs and the post-quantum era, has just been discarded by the network's researchers. Behind this change lies much more than an algorithm choice. Thus, Ethereum is revising the cryptographic foundations of its future architecture. A new approach now promises better performance, enhanced auditability, and safer integration. It remains to understand why Poseidon lost the race, what gains its replacement offers, and at what pace this transition could reach the network.

Bitcoin open-source development enters a new phase of oversight. A volunteer red team now uses several Chinese AI models to track flaws in hundreds of projects linked to its ecosystem. The Kimi K3 model, designed by the startup Moonshot AI, plays an important role in this operation. Researchers combine automated analysis capabilities and human expertise to identify risks, then discreetly warn the developers concerned before any detailed technical publication in the crypto ecosystem.

In France, the crypto threat no longer stops at the screens. In the Somme, a young couple suffered three home invasions for cryptos they claim never owned. The origin of this nightmare: compromised personal data, exploited by criminals convinced they would find a crypto wallet at their victims' homes. Recruitment of executors, violence, extortion: the case reveals how a digital leak can lead to a physical attack. After the verdict from the Amiens court, the couple now considers a radical decision: selling their house to flee.

DeepSeek has just reminded the AI industry that a high-performance model does not necessarily have to cost a fortune. Without any press release or spectacular announcement, the Chinese lab quietly deployed the final version of its flagship model. Behind this update lies a shift. The performance gap is narrowing, while the price gap is widening. For Web3, autonomous agent developers, and companies facing the growing cost of AI, this new equation could reshuffle the deck. DeepSeek is no longer just trying to compete but is attacking where its competitors are most vulnerable, the price.

Meta no longer wants to reserve the power of artificial intelligence for states and tech giants. On August 10, 2026, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a manifesto, "The Future is for Everyone", which redefines the group's ambition: to place part of this computing power in the hands of individuals. Behind this announcement lies a strategic break with major consequences for the crypto ecosystem, where AI and decentralized networks now converge around a single issue: control of tomorrow's digital infrastructure.

OpenAI has just suspended the internal development of Astra, its future artificial intelligence model. Indeed, its capabilities in offensive cybersecurity and code generation have crossed a threshold that teams no longer consider controllable. For the digital ecosystem, this decision sounds like a warning. At a time when financial infrastructures, blockchain, and decentralized protocols rely on the reliability of code, the AI race now progresses faster than the measures meant to regulate it.

On November 1st and 2nd, 2026, the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bucharest hosts a new edition of AI Expo Europe, a conference claiming the title of the largest AI gathering in Eastern Europe. On the agenda: more than 100 speakers from NVIDIA, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, or IBM, and about one hundred exhibitors presenting concrete artificial intelligence solutions.

Bitcoin, the great sage, is about to tear itself apart. Miners turn a deaf ear, developers brandish the axe. Is a split inevitable? Hold onto your hats.

Coldcard, Bitcoin's safest vault, turned into a sieve. Result: $100 million gone and a million addresses fleeing. Self-custody has some kinks to iron out.

MetaMask puts a leash on its latest beast: Agent Wallet. AI can trade, but it can't bite. And if it messes up, up to 10k in damages is covered.

Hardware wallets are among the safest solutions for storing bitcoins offline. However, this certainty has just been shaken. A critical flaw discovered in the Coldcard ecosystem allowed the theft of 116 million dollars, revealing a software vulnerability that went unnoticed for five years. The case questions the reliability of self-custody tools, as digital sovereignty emerges as a pillar of the Bitcoin ecosystem. The losses, mostly concentrated in Canada, further emphasize the scale of this incident.

An American court rules in favor of Perplexity against Amazon. Result: its AI can continue to act for users. Details here!

Meta launches Muse Code in beta on August 5, 2026, its first coding AI agent, in a market already dominated by Claude Code and Codex. The company promises a robust tool designed to handle large codebases without interruption. However, performance scores paint a less flattering picture.

Solana's about to torch its own tokens like there's no tomorrow — and the staking war is on. Small validators are crying, big players are cheering. Crypto's newest battleground is here.

OpenAI has published emails and messages from former Apple employees to contest a secret trade secrets lawsuit filed in July 2026. Sam Altman’s company accuses the California group of presenting inaccurate facts before taking legal action.

Amazon crossed the 3 trillion dollar market capitalization mark for the first time on Monday, August 3, driven by strong results and the rise of artificial intelligence. The group's cloud propels the stock to a record high, as Wall Street once again distinguishes the winners of AI. Does the technology wave give the green light back to risk appetite?

Moscow turns off the lights on crypto miners, preferring to save its watts over its bitcoins. The party's over for Russia's mining industry — time to pack up and move.

AI could revive the dollar supremacy via stablecoins, according to economists from AMRO. All the details in this article!

Pavel Durov rejects the "terrorist" label that Russia just assigned to him. The founder of Telegram states that Moscow is sanctioning him mainly for refusing mass surveillance and censorship on the platform.

A trading bot is only as good as its inputs. An AI agent is only as good as its tools. Both depend on the API layer underneath. Automated systems need four things in production. Data to read and signals to act on. Rails to move assets and a venue to trade. No single provider covers all four. Cointribune's ultimate developer and AI agent guide ranked general-purpose providers. A separate guide to EVM and Solana infrastructure covers the RPC layer. This list is narrower. It ranks what a bot or agent calls in production.

Ondo Finance launched Ondo Network on Monday, July 27, an offchain execution network that replaces the L1 blockchain announced in 2025. The real asset tokenization platform believes that a dedicated blockchain is no longer necessary today. A shift that reignites the debate about the real utility of on-chain infrastructure for traditional finance.

The crypto industry is going through its worst semester against hackers. Ethereum and Solana account for record losses. Full analysis.

The cryptocurrency sector is going through a new phase where several companies are redirecting their communication towards AI. This evolution is causing reactions within the industry, notably at Coinbase. Its CEO, Brian Armstrong, believes that this opposition between blockchain and artificial intelligence is based on a misreading of technological developments. According to him, these two fields should not be considered competitors but as technologies capable of working together to support future digital uses.

North Korean authorities have arrested a group of former cyber operators and IT specialists accused of hacking two public banks and laundering funds via cryptocurrencies. South Korean media Daily NK revealed the case on July 25, citing an anonymous source in Pyongyang. A case that disrupts the usual narrative of North Korean cyberattacks, which were until now systematically directed outward.

The rapid advances of autonomous agents are reigniting the debate over the infrastructures that will support tomorrow's digital exchanges. In this context, Franklin Templeton believes that AI could transform the way payments and transactions are made. The asset manager considers that crypto will occupy a central place in this evolution thanks to blockchain networks. This analysis is based on the rise of agents able to act alone, make payments, and execute complex tasks after authorization from their user.

The Web3 sleep-tracking app has scrapped its original plan: a marketplace where users would have sold their biometric data to researchers. What replaced it is quieter and more technical. Sleepagotchi keeps no health data on its servers. Statistics are sent to the AI anonymously, processed, returned, then dropped. The project, which claims $6.5 million raised, has made that pipeline its central argument, and it lands in a sector that has spent a decade doing the exact opposite.

For several years, the race for artificial intelligence has intensified among major technology companies. Investments are rapidly increasing and executives' expectations follow the same trajectory. Yet, budgets do not always suffice to speed up the development of new tools. At Meta, this reality is now openly acknowledged. During a recent internal meeting, Zuckerberg admitted that the company's advances remained below the pace he hoped for, despite a deep reorganization and record investments.