8-27
Onslaught of AIfound bugs forces Bitcoin's Core Lightning into a secret 14day emergency lockdown
Core Lightning is urging node operators to upgrade or go offline as multiple vulnerabilities remain under embargo.
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Oh man... AI payments on $XRP Ledger are exploding. This grew during a brutal market. Imagine what happens at full scale. Ripple launched the XRPL AI Starter Kit on June 9. Just 77 days later, the live XRPL AI Hub shows: 2,435,627 agentic transactions 5,407.50 XRP settled 2,349.26 RLUSD settled 144 merchant addresses 1,669 live x402 services That growth curve is wild. XRPL crossed 1 million AI payments in less than a month. Then 2 million. Now it’s already above 2.43 million. And this wasn’t dr
8-18
AI TRENDS | Ethereum Foundation Member Says Hegotá Upgrade Is Taking Shape
Ethereum Foundation protocol architecture team member Toni Wahrstätter said the Ethereum Hegotá upgrade is taking shape. According to PANews, the core recommended plan includes FOCIL as the main upgrade to improve censorship resistance and Frame Transactions as the execution-layer upgrade to improve transaction expressiveness and user experience.
8-16
HIVE just posted $79.1M in quarterly revenue. Up 74% year over year. $72.1M from Bitcoin mining. $7.1M from HPC/AI, up 52% QoQ. Full results on the Q1 FY2027 earnings call, Monday 8/17 at 8:00 AM ET:
8-15
Bitcoin Funds AI: Hyperscale Sells 685 BTC to Build Data Center
Hyperscale Data sold 685 bitcoin for $43 million to fund an AI data center in Michigan, inverting the bitcoin treasury playbook. It's a signal, not an outlier.
8-14
Pasteur activates on BSC mainnet at 02:30 UTC on 25 August. Every mainnet node needs to be running v1.7.7 before then. It tightens crosschain verification and the rules around validator key rotation, and lets blocks carry more transactions at the same 450ms block time.
8-14
NonCustodial Bitcoin Bridge Boltz Shuts Down After AIAssisted Attacks
A new group of veteran Bitcoiners will take over operations after supplying fresh capital and engineering resources.
8-14
Algorand Just Made Quantum Resistance Native
This is the first upgrade where the fee you owe depends on what your transaction actually contains.
