Florida man pleads guilty for promoting $1.8B βHyperFundβ crypto fraud






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Maelstromβs Arthur Hayes has been on a selling spree recently, offloading positions in HYPE, ZEC, NEAR and now WLD.
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The firm announced that the US securities regulator has declared its S-4 registration statement effective, bringing it closer to a SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II.
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The Ethereum rollup market is dominated by Arbitrum and Base, which have a combined 68% market share, according to L2Beat.
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The attacker tricked the Butter Network cross-chain bridge into minting millions more tokens than the legitimate supply of MAPO.
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GitHub said the activity involved the exfiltration of about 3,800 internal repositories, and it removed the malicious code extension.
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βCongress has the power to slam the brakes on this unwise conflict,β said bill sponsor and Democratic Senator Tim Kaine.
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Global internet freedom has declined for 15 consecutive years, with more countries restricting access to more of the internet, according to Freedom House.
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The hacker has already laundered nearly 5% of the loot through Tornado Cash and is still holding the remaining 955 eBTC.
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AI agents need βfood,β and that food is not physical food; it is tokens, said Jordi Visser.
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Privacy-conscious internet users are being βdemotedβ from second to third-class netizens, said Bitcoiner Jameson Lopp.
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Crypto trader Ran Neuner said Bitcoin could be at risk if AI continues to pull miners away from the network, but others disagree.
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The past 11 years have shown that Bitcoin has been resilient to random intercontinental subsea cable failures, but could be susceptible to targeted attacks.
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Andreessen Horowitz partner Noah Levine says AI agents made $1.6 million in payments in the past month, which βis not a big number, but the infrastructure being built around it is.β
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Fed policymakers said easing may not be warranted until there is a clear indication that the progress of disinflation is firmly back on track.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren said it was βdeeply unclearβ if the US government has plans to intervene in the current Bitcoin selloff.