The new AI-powered tool is designed to help "non-technical users" craft prediction market trading strategies.
The upgrade, known as Alpenglow, is live on a community test cluster, said Solana core developer Anza.
The purpose behind the migration is to enhance security, tokenomics and scalability, said Ronin, which suffered the largest DeFi bridge exploit on record in 2022.
During Strategy's earnings call last week, Saylor said the firm will consider tapping its bitcoin holdings to fund STRC dividends.
After initially framing the exploit as a developer configuration failure, LayerZero said it “owns” the decision to let its own verifier secure high-value transfers in a vulnerable setup.
Nearly 1,000 developers competed at the venue, from ecosystems like Base, Solana, and others arriving from companies like Microsoft and Google, most racing to build products around the theme of AI agents.
Bitcoin no longer holds up as the cypherpunk-grade money it was meant to be, Zcash's Zooko Wilcox told an engaged audience.
Public blockchains make transactions traceable, but that transparency can come at the expense of user privacy. Speakers from Moody’s Ratings and ChangeNOW said that hybrid blockchain architecture and address-level monitoring can help solve both problems simultaneously.
In the growing agentic economy, stablecoins are emerging as a key payment rail because of their low cost and programmability.
The Ethereum co-founder, who has spent months campaigning against toxic MEV with proposals for encrypted mempools, just had one of his own swaps front-run and back-run by the network's most notorious sandwich bot.
The Blockstream CEO told Consensus Miami 2026 that sovereigns, pension funds and treasury companies will join the next wave of bitcoin adoption.
Alex Pruden said the asymmetry between acting on a post-quantum signature scheme today and waiting for certainty about quantum-computing hardware timelines means Bitcoin developers should move from research into production.
The Claude maker said Wednesday it would use all the compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, the latest partnership stitched onto its AI infrastructure buildout.
Roughly 6.9 million BTC could be at risk to quantum computers under certain conditions, Project Eleven estimates.
The transaction represents an example of crypto firms and Wall Street institutions jointly exploring 24/7 settlement systems.
Erik Reppel, who created the x402 protocol, said that the web economy depends heavily on advertising revenue generated from humans. AI agents bypass that system entirely.
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President Gustavo Petro said Colombia's Caribbean coast could host bitcoin mining facilities powered by surplus renewable energy, following a path similar to Paraguay.
The company’s Chief Strategy Officer said that more than half of internet traffic is now non-human, but that the x402 Foundation is building the rails for a "golden age of content."
Many onlookers blame LayerZero's default infrastructure setup because the cross-chain bridge that was attacked used a 1-of-1 configuration.
Speaking at Consensus Miami 2026, the Solana co-founder said that he is excited to see 'Alpenglow' upgrade go live later this year, which could come as early as next quarter.
The Solana Foundation's Pay.sh provides a way for AI bots to discover, access, and pay for API usage on Google Cloud.
JTX is the company’s first product built specifically for traders. It allows users to trade tokens on Solana while maintaining self-custody.
Jump will provide institutional liquidity via its PropAMM, while Solana DeFi aggregator Jupiter will support retail and institutional access.
Centrifuge will be the go-to platform for launching tokenized assets on Base, the Ethereum blockchain incubated by Coinbase.
The market is repricing TON as a Telegram-led ecosystem again, not just a foundation-run chain with a messaging app narrative attached.
Ripple said April's $285 million Drift breach revealed a new pattern of long-cycle social engineering replacing traditional smart contract exploits.
Developers and industry figures say the eCash proposal introduces user risk, uneven distribution and philosophical tension.
A new design proposed by venture fund Paradigm would let holders privately timestamp proof that they control vulnerable keys before quantum computers arrive, creating a possible rescue path if Bitcoin ever sunsets old addresses.
Although Manfred will not start trading crypto until the end of May, it already has a crypto wallet and credentials to hire staff, make payments and do business.