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Anthropic is currently priced at a 41% probability of launching the largest initial public offering (IPO) of 2026, according to prediction markets. The market liquidity for this prediction stands at $27.3K, with 137 days remaining for participants to make their assessments. Anthropic, the creator of

OpenAI is heading toward one of the most anticipated tech IPOs in years, and the timing could not be more complicated. Two senior executives have left the company within days of each other, safety team restructuring is reshaping how the company approaches its core risk functions, and employees are r

Ethereum developers are narrowing the focus of Hegotá — the network upgrade penciled in for 2027 — as client teams triage competing proposals on censorship resistance, account abstraction, privacy, gas pricing and validator economics. What’s on the table - Researcher Toni Wahrstätter said on Aug. 1

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Stable has released an updated whitepaper, whose core design philosophy revolves around rebuilding blockchain infrastructure around stablecoins. Unlike traditional public chains that treat stablecoins as application-layer assets, Stable treats USDT as the native gas

Berkshire Hathaway sharply increased its Alphabet investment during the second quarter, lifting Google’s parent company to its third-largest stock holding as the conglomerate broke a 14-quarter streak of net equity selling.A regulatory filing released after the market closed Friday showed Berkshire

Two readings turned at the same time this week, and they do not usually turn together. The first is momentum. The volatility-adjusted version, the Sharpe-like ratio, just crossed below its base line. This is the version I pay attention to because raw 30-day momentum will happily print a big number

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Chain analyst Specter has raised questions regarding SafePal’s disclosed data breach, noting that the leaked data spans from March 2, 2025, to April 11, 2026, implying the vulnerability occurred no later than April or early May. However, SafePal only disclosed the incide

The stablecoin market has fallen toward the $300 billion mark in what crypto trading firm Cumberland says is the third-largest drawdown in the sector’s history, but this time there is little evidence of a run on the biggest dollar-pegged tokens.Cumberland said Sunday that stablecoin market capitaliz

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on X, acknowledging the Bitcoin community for its contributions to advancing technological concepts, including UTXO (unspent transaction output) state optimization solutions like Utreexo. Ethereum’s current scaling roadmap is ac

Odaily Planet Daily reports that, according to GMGN data, the BSC chain Meme coin MarsCoin has fallen below $7 million in market cap, currently trading at $6.59 million, with a 80.12% drop in the past hour.CZ previously responded to the burning of meme coins, stating that it's impossible to ever ful

CryptoBriefing and Coinfomania report a breach affecting roughly 200,000 Bits of Gold customers, but crypto.news says the company has over 300,000 customers and has not confirmed the 200,000 figure.CryptoBriefing and Coinfomania report a breach affecting roughly 200,000 Bits of Gold customers, but c

According to The Hacker News, the Netherlands National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned that a critical authentication vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Screen Sharing component, CVE-2026-65400, is being actively exploited in the wild, allowing attackers to access Macs exposed to the internet withou

According to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai, the address 0x333…29cd2 sold 5.12 million tokens at $0.00006885 two days before the MarsCoin surge, incurring a loss of $4,533; at the current price, this portion is worth $171,000. The address recently bought back $2,308 worth of tokens 55 minutes ago, realizi

Huo Xing Finance reports that on August 16, the U.S. Treasury’s reliance on short-term debt is increasing: currently, Treasury bills account for 21% of the tradable U.S. debt securities market, a level nearing the highest since 2020, when the federal government significantly increased borrowing to r

BlockBeats report: On August 16, the U.S. Treasury’s reliance on short-term debt is increasing: U.S. Treasury bills now account for 21% of the tradable U.S. debt securities market, a level nearing the highest since 2020, when the federal government significantly increased borrowing to respond to the