Lawsuit accuses North Korea and Lazarus Group of orchestrating the $1.5 billion theft, as court-ordered asset freeze supports recovery efforts and Bybit expands collaboration with law enforcement and industry partners to strengthen accountability for crypto-related cybercrime Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today announced that it has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), its Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), and the Lazarus Group, which U.S. authorities have identified as the DPRK-linked hacking group responsible for the February 2025 cyberattack. Bybit has also secured…
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Ted Hisokawa Aug 07, 2026 12:22 USDC and CCTP are now live on OKX’s X Layer, offering regulated stablecoin functionality and cross-chain interoperability for DeFi and payments. Circle has launched native support for USDC and its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) on X Layer, OKX’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible Layer-2 blockchain. The move introduces regulated stablecoin infrastructure to X Layer, potentially boosting adoption for payments, DeFi protocols, and cross-chain transactions. USDC, Circle’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, now enables dollar-denominated payments, lending, and borrowing on X Layer. The integration also brings institutional-grade on/offramps via Circle Mint, deepening USDC’s presence in OKX’s trading ecosystem, which…
Key TakeawaysWintermute USA registered with SEC and FINRA, opening access to regulated U.S. securities trading.Wintermute’s $10B daily volume could intensify competition with Jane Street and Citadel Securities.Wintermute targets tokenized stocks and market-maker roles over the next 3-5 years. Wintermute Challenges Jane Street, Citadel With US Securities Push Wintermute is moving deeper into traditional finance, registering its U.S. business as a broker-dealer and setting up a direct challenge to some of Wall Street’s largest market-making firms. Wintermute USA LLC is now registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The approval allows it to…
Road Town, British Virgin Islands, August 7th, 2026, Chainwire 250+ TradFi markets join Carbon’s 530+ crypto perpetuals & 150 24/7 RWAs in one venue. Wall Street depth at listing, stable overnight rates, and on-chain settlement. Carbon, the on-chain prime broker for global markets, today opened public trading on 250+ Carbon TradFi markets spanning equities, indices, forex, and commodities. Each position is hedged 1:1 at regulated TradFi venues, making Carbon the largest TradFi-native on-chain derivatives venue. Alongside 530+ crypto perpetuals and 150 24/7 RWAs, total tradeable instruments now exceed 950 in one account. Carbon TradFi is Carbon’s own on-chain instrument. A…
Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 7th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has listed five new Ondo tokenized stock trading pairs on Spot, expanding user access to stocks spanning AI infrastructure, semiconductors, enterprise software and rare earth materials. The new pairs are AXTION/USDT (AXT Inc), AEHRON/USDT (Aehr Test Systems), APLDON/USDT (Applied Digital), USARON/USDT (USA Rare Earth) and SAPON/USDT (SAP SE). The pairs went live on Spot on August 6, 2026, at 13:30 (UTC), with deposits now open. Withdrawals will open on August 7, 2026, at 13:30 (UTC). Report data jointly published by MEXC and CoinGecko shows that demand…
More details continue to trickle out about OpenAI’s mysterious new hardware device — described previously as an AI-fueled smart speaker that will be the “physical manifestation” of ChatGPT. Bloomberg now reports that the device will be “donut-shaped,” designed thusly to allow users to carry it around their home and place it in different locations, like a bedside table or a kitchen counter. It will be constructed from “high-quality metal,” have a “premium look,” and (in a detail that mystifies) will have distinct “moving parts,” sources told Bloomberg. It also could be slightly more expensive than your average smart speaker, perhaps…
Aug 06, 2026 10:52 Binance invests $300M a year in compliance to expand its financial super app, intercepting $10.53B in fraud since 2021 and recovering $8.2B for users. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is doubling down on compliance as it pushes forward with its ambition to build a financial super app. The company disclosed that it invests $300 million annually in compliance operations, a figure significantly higher than what traditional financial institutions typically allocate. This effort supports the company’s broader strategy to integrate trading, payments, savings, and Web3 services into a single platform. With nearly 1…
Eightco treasury composition as of August 5, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, nearly 302 million WLD holdings, and $142M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $378 million Eightco recently participated in World Foundation’s $52.5M funding round, led by Pantera with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Selini Capital, Susquehanna Crypto, and additional investors OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for a potential future initial public offering Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco…
Key TakeawaysWorld Chain is deploying streamed EIP-7928 block access lists every 200 ms for parallel checks.The technology targets 1 gigagas/sec throughput on World Chain without raising validator hardware costs.The feature goes live on World Chain Mainnet Aug. 17 via a runtime flag ahead of Ethereum’s upgrade. Tackling the Decentralization Dilemma World Chain says it will introduce full block access lists on Aug. 17, becoming the “first” production layer‑2 (L2) network to stream EIP‑7928 access‑list data inside every flashblock. The rollout marks a significant step in efforts to scale blockchain throughput without increasing hardware demands on independent validators. According to a…
Meta, considered a bit of a straggler in the AI harnesses realm, is making strides to catch up. This week, the company released a new terminal coding agent aimed at programmers looking for assistance with complex tasks across large software code bases. Muse Code, which is currently available in beta, can accomplish “complete software engineering tasks across large repos,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a social media post on Wednesday. Those tasks include “planning changes, writing code, validating the results,” he added. Code, which can be installed with a single command, is powered by Meta’s previously released coding model,…