x402 Crypto Protocol Hit by 31 Flaws Affecting 99% of Integrations
The newly disclosed bugs hit the payment primitive powering AI-agent micropayments, with attackers able to drain wallets or shop for free on most live integrations.
Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
The newly disclosed bugs hit the payment primitive powering AI-agent micropayments, with attackers able to drain wallets or shop for free on most live integrations.
Storj is the fourth crypto firm in seven days to fail or wind down, and the only one offering token holders equity in the restructured business; that alone makes this filing worth watching.
Ripple's CEO frames the bill as the closing piece of a multi-year push to land XRP inside a federally defined digital-asset regime, with consumer protection and AML/KYC at its core.
The Wyoming senator argues gaps in current financial rules let Lazarus launder stolen funds, and that the bill's expanded Treasury sanctions authority plus a safe harbor for freezing suspicious…
Two collateral calls in 2026 have exposed a liquidity risk for Bitcoin treasuries, while opaque loan terms make the next forced-sale threat difficult to assess.
Risk-on trades returned on the second day of the US-Iran ceasefire, with WTI crude down 5% and ETH outperforming BTC; the Fed's July 28-29 meeting still anchors the next major risk window.
The dollar figure dwarfs any single AI infrastructure commitment on record, and a Nvidia guarantee would put the chipmaker's balance sheet behind OpenAI's compute build-out.
The unwind is sharp because the market had priced continued escalation; the pause reframes Iran's near-term export trajectory and pulls geopolitical risk premium out of energy.
The Singapore payments firm says customer funds are safe even as the onchain investigator tracking the bleed reports the figure has climbed $2.5M in days, with incoming deposits still being drained…
A 74% drawdown in centralized-exchange spot turnover since the August peak is not a typical mid-cycle cooldown; it points to structural thinned liquidity that magnifies every directional move.
This is the first major Asian bank to onboard Kinexys for production cross-border USD settlement, and it quietly extends JPMorgan's institutional rail deep into Korea's $700B-a-year trade corridor.
Galaxy is putting $346M into a Texas site that will host CoreWeave compute, while peer miner CleanSpark locked in a 175 MW lease worth $6.6B without yet securing the $2.1B needed to build it.
A 63% run in six months is the kind of move that hits consumer prices with a lag, keeping the Fed's inflation fight alive and bond yields heavy.
Senate Banking and Agriculture Committees released merged text that finally names the Trump crypto issue, but the binding-ethics fight and a packed floor calendar make the August recess deadline a…
Section 20216 of the latest Senate draft would shield any self-custodied asset from being declared abandoned solely for inactivity, directly blunting a New York lawsuit targeting 39,069 addresses…
The sales landed after two collateral calls in 2026 and with some loans able to liquidate inside 12 hours, a reminder that treasury-BTC balance sheets carry leverage few investors price in.
Two weekly expiries through Deribit knocked out the dealer-hedging excuse for Bitcoin's flat tape. The remaining big bet needs 9% upside by July 31, two days after a Fed meeting markets can't call.
The exchange is suspending deposits and new orders immediately, ending trading Aug. 26, and ceasing full operations Jan. 31, 2027, while BMX collapsed nearly 60% on the news.
Fidelity, BlackRock, Schwab and Goldman now back a bill they once avoided, but the obstacle isn't crypto skeptics, it's Trump's own grifts, and failure pushes US market-structure rules into the 2030s.
The suit tests whether perpetuals are futures or swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, a ruling that decides whether the offshore leverage machine becomes a domestic product or stays gated behind…