Last week Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 — and within 48 hours it became one of the messiest releases in frontier AI. A buried line in the model's system card revealed Fable would silently degrade its own answers for anyone it suspected of building competing AI systems, with no warning. Researchers called it silent sabotage. Anthropic apologized and reversed course. Add a 30-day data-retention requirement that got the model banned inside Microsoft, and you have a live referendum on the question crypto has been asking for years: should any single company hold this much control over frontier AI?

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial funded a $250,000 Performance of the Night bonus pool at UFC Freedom 250, distributing the awards in its USD1 stablecoin on the White House South Lawn.

She arrived at the SEC in 2018 as a Republican commissioner with light crypto baggage and left this week as the regulator whose quotes had narrated the industry's regulatory story. A retrospective on eight years of dissent.

The federal derivatives regulator filed suit Thursday in federal court seeking to bar New Mexico from enforcing state gaming laws against CFTC-registered prediction-market exchanges, making New Mexico the eighth state to face federal litigation over the question of exclusive jurisdiction.

Former CFTC and SEC chair Gary Gensler filed an amicus brief with the Sixth Circuit arguing that sports-event prediction markets are not swaps under Dodd-Frank, directly contradicting the CFTC's own position in the KalshiEX v. Ohio appeal.

Bitcoin does not have native yield. But that has not stopped institutions, treasury companies, miners, whales, ETFs, and crypto-native desks from looking for ways to generate returns on top of BTC. In this episode of Converge by The Defiant, David Lawant, Head of Research at Anchorage Digital, joins the show to unpack the rise of Bitcoin options, synthetic yield, covered call strategies, and the growing intersection between TradFi and crypto-native market structure.

Three major crypto exchanges canceled their tokenized SpaceX IPO allocation campaigns Friday after xStocks could not source underlying shares, while rival onchain protocols from Ondo, xStocks' DeFi arm and Backpack launched successfully on the same morning.

Crypto data and media company Blockworks has acquired rival research platform Messari at a discount to its prior valuation, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported Friday. The deal joins two of the most prominent names in the crypto intelligence space.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered her farewell remarks Tuesday at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Capital Markets Summit, closing a tenure defined by crypto-industry advocacy and dissent from the Gensler era.

DeFi logged approximately 70 separate exploits in Q2 2026, roughly doubling the previous quarterly record, even as the $746 million dollar total remains a fraction of historical single-event peaks.