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Bitcoin (BTC) circled $64,000 into Sunday’s weekly close as a US-Iran peace deal appeared imminent.Key points:Bitcoin stays higher as US president Donald Trump pledges an Iran peace deal on Sunday.The Strait of Hormuz, a key global oil route, will be "open to all,"...Read more

Today in crypto, the US and Iran are edging toward a peace deal that crypto analysts predict could reinvigorate Bitcoin and other risk assets, though the timing remains unclear. On the business front, Strategy's executive chairman has continued to defend his firm's recent Bitcoin sale, saying the ability...Read more

US President Donald Trump said a deal to end the fighting between the US and Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday, despite officials in Tehran previously casting doubt on the timeline. “The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz...Read more

The Trump administration’s decision to cut foreign access to Anthropic’s most powerful AI models was reportedly triggered by calls from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Jassy contacted senior government officials on Thursday after Amazon researchers discovered a way...Read more

In brief The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing a national security concern over a...Read more

However, the two largest incidents were not simple smart-contract exploits of the type AI could engineer. In one, a North Korea-linked group drained about $285 million from Drift Protocol after a six-month social-engineering campaign that won it admin access. For the other, the attacker exploited...Read more

For Elon Musk's company, it's a rounding error against a valuation of over $1.8 trillion: small enough that the stock will never trade on it, yet large enough to normalize the asset in a way no dedicated vehicle can. For years, onchain analysts estimated SpaceX...Read more

Crypto tried to solve this with its own version of yield. We tried staking rewards, liquidity mining, and levered DeFi strategies. At first glance, they looked productive. But too much of that yield was circular. It depended on token emissions and fresh inflows, not real...Read more

In brief Google filed a lawsuit in New York federal court against Outsider Enterprise for allegedly using Gemini AI to power fraudulent campaigns.Read more

Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said a security audit by Anthropic's Claude Mythos artificial intelligence model found no serious vulnerabilities in the privacy-preserving cryptocurrency's protocol.Requested by Shielded Labs, a Swiss-based non-profit supporting the development of Zcash, the AI security audit did not find “any more serious bugs” in the...Read more

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, defended the company's recent Bitcoin sale, saying the ability to sell the asset is necessary to continue issuing “digital credit."Strategy disclosed its first reported Bitcoin sale since 2022 in a June 1 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, offloading...Read more

In brief An AI agent autonomously spun up five high-powered AWS instances to port-scan a hobbyist network, This generated a $6,531.30 bill in...Read more

Investors are increasingly backing stablecoin and credit infrastructure rather than decentralized finance (DeFi) lending alone, with Morpho Labs' latest funding round drawing attention to onchain credit markets, according to Spark CEO Sam MacPherson.Morpho announced Tuesday that it raised $175 million in a round led...Read more

Key takeaways:While bearish ETH futures trends and spot ETF outflows signal weak institutional appetite, staking demand prevents further decline.Falling exchange deposits and accumulation by BitMine indicate holder confidence in ETH's long-term value.Ether (ETH) price failed to reclaim the $1,700 level over the past...Read more

Anthropic said it suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after receiving a US government export control directive citing national security concerns.In a statement posted Friday, Anthropic said it received the directive at 5:21 pm ET, instructing it to suspend all...Read more