UK court grants appeal from Craig Wright in Bitcoin rights lawsuit

A British court granted an appeal on July 20 that gave Craig Wright the right to argue in litigation that the Bitcoin file format is well-defined enoug...

AI21 Labs debuts anti-hallucination feature for GPT chatbots

AI21 Labs recently launched Contextual Answers, a question-answering engine for large language models (LLMs). When connected to an LLM, the new engine ...

Crypto Biz: Binance slashes costs, Ripple ready for US banks and crypto VCs return

The crackdown on crypto firms by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appears to have severely affected Binance’s business. Dur...

Curve omnipool platform Conic Finance hacked for $3.2 million in ETH

Conic Finance, a liquidity pool balancing platform for the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve, has suffered an exploit on the Ethereum omnipoo...

Binance CEO warns of phishing scams as Uniswap founder gets hacked

Binance CEO Changpeng CZ Zhao is the latest figure in the cryptocurrency industry to warn against the increasing number of phishing attacks. CZ took to...

Stablecoin dominance slides as market cap falls to near 2-year lows: CCData

The market capitalization of stablecoins has hit the lowest level since August 2021 following 16 consecutive months of decline, a new report says....

Coin Center and Blockchain Association slam ‘unworkable’ US Senate DeFi bill

Crypto industry advocacy bodies have slammed a newly proposed United States Senate bill for what they say is a confused approach to regulating the dece...

Solana records 1 outage in first half of 2023, 100% uptime in Q2

Layer-1 blockchain network Solana has shown an improvement in reliability and uptime so far this year only having one outage in 2023, according to a re...

US DoJ accuses FTX founder of leaking private diary of Caroline Ellison

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a complaint against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), accusing him of leaking the private papers...

Cerebras Systems secures $100M AI supercomputer deal with UAE’s G42

Cerebras Systems has announced a deal worth around $100 million with G42, a technology group based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The agreement ent...