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Bitget Wallet turns cashback into Bitcoin and stocks

30 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments DanMalam

  Bitget Wallet will launch Assetback on Aug. 1, allowing eligible card users to convert purchase rewards automatically into Bitcoin, tokenized gold, U.S. equity tokens, an exchange-traded fund token or USDC.   The company said users can select one o...

Aave moves to wind down six chains in $98M cleanup

30 Jul 2026 1 minute read 1 comment DanMalam

  Aave founder Stani Kulechov said on July 30 that the lending protocol plans to retire dozens of low-use asset reserves and wind down its deployments on six blockchain networks.   The changes cover approximately $98.1 million in supplied assets and...

OpenAI’s rogue agent hacked an account at a second technology firm: Report

29 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments DanMalam

The latest hack comes after an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers. The rogue artificial intelligence model that broke out of a controlled test and hacked another AI company also compromised a custom...

Tokenization aided by MiCA, insights with Wojciech Kaszycki

12 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments DanMalam

Selva Ozelli Esq, CPA, Author of Sustainably Investing in Digital Assets asks Wojciech Kaszycki, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of BTCS SA Europe’s first dedicated Digital Asset Treasury Company why he thinks there will be a consolidation of crypto tre...

Ethereum News: Foundation Unstakes $49.6M in ETH for Treasury Rebalancing

12 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments DanMalam

The Ethereum Foundation unstaked 21,271 ETH worth approximately $49.66 million just now, marking its largest ETH unstaking news in the first half of the year. The stated purpose is treasury rebalancing by freeing operational liquidity to cover protoc...

Pi KYC Validator Rewards: First Round of Distributions Completed

10 May 2026 2 minute read 0 comments DanMalam

The first distribution of KYC validator rewards has been completed! This first round began on Pi Day 2026, and all KYC validators with Mainnet wallets have now received their rewards on the Mainnet blockchain.    Over 526 million validations were suc...

BlackRock Crypto Cuts Ethereum Staking Fee to 18%: Too Cheap to Ignore?

10 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments DanMalam

BlackRock crypto just moved on Ethereum staking fees, and the number is 18%. The world’s largest asset manager has set its commission on gross staking rewards at 18% inside its iShares Staked Ethereum Trust, a fresh product that launched March 12 und...

Man arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's house.

10 Apr 2026 1 minute read 2 comments DanMalam

San Francisco police early Friday arrested a person who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman's home and made threats outside the AI giant's San Francisco headquarters, the company said in a statement. In a separate...

Delaware Moves to Regulate Stablecoins Under Banking Framework

25 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments DanMalam

Delaware is rewriting its banking code for the first time since 1981 to capture the regulated stablecoin market, once a world-leading corporate registration hub, is Delaware crypto the next big thing?   Senate Bill 19, introduced Monday, proposes a b...

OpenAI cuts Sora app as wider retreat from video products deepens

25 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments DanMalam

OpenAI has started shutting down the Sora app, a move that marks a sharp pullback from its consumer video push. On Tuesday, the Sora app account said, “We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app,” and added that more details would follow on timelines for t...