BlackRock: AI could become one of crypto's biggest drivers

According to CryptoSlate, Coinbase's intelligence team followed about USD 1.1 million in payments across four Tron addresses between October 2025 and June 2026 and passed its analysis to London's Metropolitan Police. That figure is the service's revenue, not victims' losses. EvilTokens targeted about 10,000 organizations and compromised more than 12,000 mailboxes.

The system sits in the DNA of bacteriophages. Next to the enzyme's gene is a long array of repeating DNA, a structure Anthropic says looks somewhat like CRISPR. The company wrote on X that it does not yet know what the system does, and that the few known systems with these features can cut, copy and paste DNA.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote on X that the discovery's precise function, biotech utility and significance are not yet clear. According to Amodei, the life sciences team suggested a broad research area, Claude read the literature and genome data, found the system and proposed the experiments, and the human team ran them in the lab. Anthropic's post on X passed 13,000 likes.

According to the Financial Times, Amodei called for "narrow" safety agreements: common model testing standards and a notification system for internationally significant AI incidents. Altman called for "extreme care" with AI, according to Yahoo. Hours earlier, a Bloomberg post on X said he would propose global standards.

According to analysts cited by CNBC, AI safety will also be on the table when Trump and Xi Jinping meet. In Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar introduced a bill to ban the development of artificial superintelligence, with penalties of up to 20 years in prison, according to The Verge.

According to TechCrunch, Plus and Pro users can use the Work tab on their phones to ask by voice for documents, presentations or sites, while Free and Go users get plugins and connected apps. OpenAI says the feature is rolling out globally today in the latest version of the app.

Muse, Meta's agent that shops and schedules, is the most downloaded app in the US, according to the Financial Times, which reports that Mark Zuckerberg will unveil new AI products. Earlier, Wired reported that Meta fixed a zero-day vulnerability in the Muse app for Mac.

The report hit Chinese AI stocks listed in Hong Kong: Z.ai, also known as Zhipu, fell 12.4%, MiniMax 4% and Alibaba 4.4%.

The same day, Alibaba unveiled the Zhenwu V900, an AI chip the company calls the most powerful in China, and announced plans for Qwen models of up to 10 trillion parameters.

According to K33, cited by The Block, bitcoin ETPs just had their largest daily inflow since November 2024. Bitcoin had touched USD 86,000 for the first time since January.

On Friday at 8:00 UTC, bitcoin options worth USD 15.9 billion and ether options worth USD 2.1 billion expire on Deribit, according to CoinDesk. Bitcoin's put/call ratio is 0.69 and the "max pain" price is USD 75,000.

According to the adoption index Chainalysis published today, cross-border stablecoin transfers rose 77.5%, from USD 124.2 billion to USD 220.3 billion, and domestic person-to-person transfers grew 302.9% to USD 228.7 billion.

Brazil tops the global ranking, followed by the United States, Nigeria, Japan and South Korea. Latin America moved USD 593.8 billion, 9.8% more than a year earlier, and Venezuela grew 107.2% to USD 39.1 billion.

The NYSE deal is a non-binding memorandum and depends on regulatory approvals, according to Unchained. MoonPay is paying more than USD 60 million in stock for North Capital, a firm with SEC broker-dealer registrations; the purchase also needs approval, according to CoinDesk.

In Canada, RBC, TD, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and National Bank are exploring a shared network of tokenized Canadian-dollar deposits. The first phase covers only transfers between the banks themselves and has no launch date, according to Decrypt.

Every Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee asked committee chair Tim Scott for a public hearing on prediction markets. Today the committee's Republicans met privately with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, according to The Block.

Patrick Witt, the White House crypto adviser, blamed Democrats and banks for the Clarity Act's defeat in the Senate and said the work now shifts to regulators such as the SEC, according to CoinDesk. A financial disclosure filed today shows Trump's accounts bought up to USD 115,000 in Strategy shares in July, according to Unchained.