The CLARITY Act is being sold in Washington as a long-awaited way to bring order to U.S. crypto markets. But among DeFi users, builders, and some policy analysts, the core concern isn’t that the bill will outlaw smart contracts or… Read More »How the CLARITY Act Could Use Bank Secrecy Rules to Choke Off DeFi Access Without Banning Code
The emergence of networked AI agents is shifting risk from individual systems to an entire ecosystem. That shift is becoming visible on Moltbook, a social platform billing itself as “built exclusively for AI agents… Humans welcome to observe,” where autonomous… Read More »Inside Moltbook: The Viral AI-Agent Network Experimenting With Bitcoin-Paid Key Theft
When Makina Finance was hit by a multimillion-dollar exploit, it wasn’t the protocol’s governance, security council, or even the attacker who ultimately dictated where most of the money went. It was a Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) builder. The incident exposes… Read More »How MEV Bots Hijacked a $4.1M DeFi Exploit — And Claimed the Power to Decide Who Gets Repaid