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04-21
Arbitrum Freezes 30,766 ETH Linked to the KelpDAO Attack
Odaily Planet Daily reports that Arbitrum has posted on X stating that the Arbitrum Security Council has taken emergency measures to freeze approximately 30,766 ETH related to the KelpDAO attack.The committee acted based on identity information provided by law enforcement agencies and used technical...
Amazon Invests $5 Billion in Anthropic, Secures $100 Billion 10-Year AWS Deal
Amazon injected $5 billion into Anthropic on Monday and secured a pledge from the artificial intelligence (AI) company to spend more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services infrastructure over the next ten years.Key Takeaways:Amazon invested $5 billion in Anthropic on April 20, 2026, pushing total ...
Sierra open-sources μ-Bench for multilingual ASR evaluation
ME News reports that on April 21 (UTC+8), according to monitoring by Beating, customer service AI company Sierra has open-sourced a multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) benchmark dataset, μ-Bench. The data consists of 250 real customer service phone recordings and 4,270 manually annotated...
Arbitrum Security Council Freezes 30,766 ETH from KelpDAO Hacker
According to CoinDesk, on April 21, the Arbitrum Security Council announced it had taken emergency action to rescue 30,766 ETH stored at an Arbitrum One address linked to the KelpDAO vulnerability. With assistance from law enforcement, the Security Council identified the attacker and ensured no Arbi...
Ripple Unveils Quantum Resistance Roadmap Targeting 2028 for the XRP Ledger
ChainCatcher report: Ripple has officially unveiled its quantum-resistant roadmap, with the core objective of making the XRP Ledger (XRPL) quantum-resistant by 2028. The roadmap primarily addresses the potential “harvest now, decrypt later” attack model, in which attackers collect encrypted data tod...
Quantum computing poses a greater threat to asymmetric encryption than to symmetric encryption.
Odaily Planet Daily reports: Cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda wrote that quantum computing primarily impacts asymmetric algorithms (such as ECDSA and RSA), while having limited effect on symmetric encryption (such as AES and the SHA series); the Grover algorithm will not significantly weaken t...
Crypto Founder Warns Altcoin Season May Not Return as Before
TL;DR: The crypto sector faces a structural crisis after six years of decline, where $4 trillion valuations hid a lack of actual incoming capital.Projects with locked supplies of up to 90% allowed teams and insiders to manipulate prices and extract liquidity from current retail investors.The Altcoin...
Ripple Unveils Quantum-Resistant Roadmap for the XRP Ledger by 2028
Odaily Planet Daily reports: Ripple has unveiled a phased roadmap aimed at achieving a quantum-resistant upgrade to the XRP Ledger by 2028. The plan includes developing a "Quantum-Day" contingency strategy to address sudden quantum computing threats, and will involve preliminary testing and validati...
xAI Launches Grok 4.1 Fast Model with a 2M Token Context Window
ME News reports that on April 21 (UTC+8), xAI released the Grok 4.1 Fast model, featuring a 2-million-token context window capable of processing thousands of pages of documents, extended logs, or complex databases without losing context. The model is priced at $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.5...
Meta Poaches Two Founding Members from Thinking Machines; Seven Total Depart
ME News reports that, on April 21 (UTC+8), according to monitoring by Beating, Thinking Machines Lab (TML)—an AI startup founded last year by Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI—has a valuation of $12 billion and has raised $2 billion in funding, with its workforce now expanded to 130 employees. Busin...
Wrapped XRP Launches on Solana via Hex Trust and LayerZero
Wrapped XRP – ticker wXRP – went live on the Solana blockchain this week, giving XRP holders direct access to one of the most active decentralized finance networks without requiring them to liquidate their positions. The bridge is facilitated by Hex Trust, which provides institutional-grade custody,...
eToro Acquires Self-Custody Wallet Zengo for $70 Million
Trading platform eToro has agreed to acquire self-custodial crypto wallet provider Zengo for $70 million, paid primarily in cash, according to Bloomberg. The deal combines eToro’s 40 million registered users with Zengo’s keyless, multi-party computation wallet infrastructure – giving the publicly li...
Google Expands Gemini in Chrome to 7 APAC Markets, Agent Capabilities Limited to U.S. Subscribers
ME News reports that on April 21 (UTC+8), according to monitoring by Beating, Google has expanded access to Gemini in Chrome to seven new markets: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. Except for Japan, the other six countries have both desktop and iOS co...
Liv Perrotto's mother receives over $70,000 in $ASTEROID meme coin donations
CoinDesk reports that on April 21, according to the Asteroid charity tracking website (asteroid.charity), Rebecca Perrotto, mother of Liv Perrotto, has withdrawn over $70,000 in creator fees from the $ASTEROID token on the BAGS platform, with a total accumulated value of approximately $111,000. Thes...
Liv Perrotto's family receives over $70,000 in ASTEROID creator fees.
ME News reports that on April 21 (UTC+8), according to the Asteroid charity tracking website, Rebecca Perrotto, mother of Liv Perrotto, has claimed over $70,000 in creator fees from the $ASTEROID token on the BAGS platform, with a cumulative value of approximately $111,000. These fees stem from a 10...
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