Infrastructure
AI

'We have lost control': Crypto pioneer warns AI could trigger systemic banking and infrastructure shocks

Marc van der Chijs sold much of his bitcoin to invest in AI. Now, growing concerns about the technology accompany…
Sep 19, 2026
Infrastructure

Ripple says asset managers are preparing for XRP Ledger’s next payments upgrade

The upcoming Batch V1.1 can make linked asset and payment transfers succeed together or fail together, and Ripple says commercial…
Sep 19, 2026
Infrastructure

Solana's Heartbeat Quickens: Block Times Fall 17% in Latest Speed Upgrade

The network’s clock just sped up again, but the extra speed goes to freshness, not capacity. Read Full Story at…
Sep 19, 2026
Infrastructure

Bastion wins conditional OCC approval for national trust bank charter

Bastion Platforms National Trust Company will offer stablecoin custody and wallets, payment infrastructure and white-label issuance from a single federally…
Sep 19, 2026
AI

Anthropic’s Claude helped 3 researchers breach OpenAI in under 72 hours

Anthropic’s Claude helped three security researchers breach OpenAI accounts and reach an internal code repository within 72 hours. Researchers at…
Sep 19, 2026
Infrastructure

Polygon Prepares Permissionless Burn of 100 Million POL

Contracts are on testnet and await final Security Council signatures, with later base-fee burns set to become community-callable each quarter,…
Sep 18, 2026
Infrastructure

Zcash Is Running—Devs Want to Make It Faster

A new upgrade would cut Zcash block time from 75 seconds to 25, while quietly rewriting how the network pays…
Sep 18, 2026
DeFi

XRPL tries to mathematically prove its new lending market cannot be drained

XRP Ledger (XRPL) developers are using mathematical proofs to test whether the network’s forthcoming lending market can be drained or…
Sep 18, 2026
DeFi

Hyperliquid opens native lending as HYPE hits new ATH above $90

Hyperliquid has launched native manual borrowing, extending its trading infrastructure into credit as HYPE climbed to a fresh all-time high…
Sep 18, 2026
Infrastructure

Zcash holders vote to preserve halvings and defer recycled ZEC until 2031

The advisory poll also favored Sprout transaction deprecation, faster blocks and shipping the upgrade without features that miss its deadline.…
Sep 18, 2026