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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly rejected the Pentagon’s demand on Thursday. The Defense Department wants unrestricted military use of the company’s AI technology. The deadline, just hours away, could see the $380 billion startup expelled from the US military’s supply chain. The showdown marks the first time a major AI company has publicly defied a US government threat to seize control of its technology. The Standoff In a blog post published on Anthropic’s website, Amodei called the Pentagon’s threats “inherently contradictory,” noting that one designates Anthropic as a security risk while the other treats Claude as essential to national security.…

Decibel, a fully onchain perpetuals exchange incubated by Aptos Labs, is now live on the Aptos mainnet, the Decibel Foundation said Wednesday. The debut follows a public testnet that drew more than 700,000 unique accounts and 132,000 daily active users, according to the foundation. Users executed over 1 million trades per day during testing, and more than $58 million was committed through a pre-deposit campaign ahead of mainnet activation. Decibel’s debut comes during an intensifying race among onchain perpetuals exchanges. The past year has seen a surge of competition, led by Hyperliquid, which remains the category’s dominant venue by volume.…

The Ethereum Foundation (EF), which supports the development of the Ethereum blockchain, has started staking a portion of its treasury holdings to fund operations and bolster network security, the team announced on Tuesday. 1/ The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its treasury, in line with its Treasury Policy announced last year. Today, the EF made a 2016 $ETH deposit. Approximately 70,000 $ETH will be staked with rewards directed back to the EF treasury. — Ethereum Foundation (@ethereumfndn) February 24, 2026 The foundation made an initial deposit of 2,016 $ETH today, with plans to stake roughly 70,000 $ETH in…

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would exempt certain decentralized software developers from criminal liability. With crypto’s stalled market structure bill poised to contain similar language, what does the bill’s introduction mean for the state of privacy-focused crypto legislation in Washington? The new bill goes further than similar language currently being debated in market structure legislation—but should not be seen as an indication that the market structure bill’s language on developer protections is too weak, nor that the market structure bill itself is doomed, a source familiar with the thinking behind the new bill told Decrypt.…

Binance is positioning Greece as its gateway to the European Union as the bloc prepares to implement its Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. The move comes ahead of a July 2026 deadline requiring crypto firms to hold a MiCA licence to continue operating in the EU. The decision signals that regulatory strategy in Europe is about more than speed, reflecting considerations around talent, security, and expansion. MiCA licence strategy Binance, which holds about $44 billion worth of bitcoin in customer wallets, applied last month in Greece to operate across the EU under MiCA. The regulation creates a single licensing framework across…

On March 12, 2020, a single bot acquired $8.32M in $ETH and paid absolutely nothing. MakerDAO’s liquidation system worked exactly as designed, which was the problem. Every major DeFi protocol built after 2020 traces its risk design back to one 40-minute window. On March 12, 2020, one bot acquired $8.32 million worth of $ETH and paid absolutely nothing for it. There was no hack and no exploit. Just a broken assumption inside one of DeFi’s most trusted protocols and a 40-minute window that nobody saw coming. Here’s the story. What MakerDAO’s System Was Built to Do MakerDAO lets users lock…

Ethereum hovered near $1,850 on Binance’s 4 hour ETHUSD chart after recent swings tightened into a narrowing triangle, while an analyst flagged $1,896 as the key level that still keeps the upside setup intact. $ETH chart pins momentum on $1,896 as triangle tightens X user Man of Bitcoin said Ethereum needs to hold $1,896 to keep upward momentum alive. He added that a break below that level would shift focus to his “yellow roadmap,” which outlines lower downside targets. Ethereum/U.S. Dollar 4 hour chart (ETHUSD, Binance). Source: Man of Bitcoin on X On the chart, price action compresses between a…

The world’s most valuable company is pouring billions of dollars into two tech stocks. In the October-to-December quarter of 2025, Nvidia (NVDA) invested approximately $7.93 billion in chipmaker Intel Corporation (INTC). Since September 2nd, INTC has rallied from a price of $24.21 to $46.51 at time of writing, a gain of roughly 92%. During the same period, Nvidia also invested approximately $1.08 billion in telecommunications infrastructure firm Nokia (NOK). Since September 2nd, NOK has rallied from $4.23 to $7.57 at time of writing, a gain of around 79%. Not all of Nvidia’s investments during the fourth quarter have posted massive…

As debates continue in the cryptocurrency sector surrounding stablecoin regulations, the “interest” controversy surrounding the GENIUS Act has sparked a new debate. Milana Valmont, founder of Valmont Group, argued that banning interest payments on stablecoins could create a structural bullish scenario for Ethereum in the long term. In the US, a bill progressing through Congress is generating intense debate over issues such as whether stablecoin holders will receive interest and whether banks will be able to pass on Treasury bond yields to users. According to Valmont, however, this debate itself shows that stablecoins are no longer just a “crypto experiment”…

StoneX Digital, part of StoneX Group, has introduced a digital asset lending platform for institutional traders. It adds to StoneX’s existing digital brokerage and financing toolkit as traditional and digital markets continue to merge. The lending feature positions StoneX Digital as a bridge between conventional financial systems and emerging crypto markets. The firm already offers clients spot trading, exchange-traded funds, and futures linked to digital assets, all within its established institutional framework. [#highlighted-links#] According to StoneX, the new lending product aims to meet growing demand from professional market participants looking for financing tools that align digital and traditional assets. You…