Crypto

A cryptocurrency trader lost nearly $1 million on Wednesday after falling victim to a phishing token approval scam on the Ethereum blockchain, according to onchain data from security firm Scam Sniffer.

xAI launched Grok 4.5 this week, calling it their smartest model yet, trained alongside Cursor for coding and agentic tasks.

Decentralized finance (DeFi) analytics platform Zapper announced it will shut down next month, joining a growing list of crypto platforms folding amid a prolonged market downturn.

AI is shortening the shelf life of crypto security audits, researchers warn, as hackers increasingly exploit vulnerabilities in smart contracts at an accelerating pace.

Crypto venture capital firm Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion for its fourth fund, marking a strategic expansion into artificial intelligence and other frontier technologies.