Strategy CEO Advocates Using Mortgages to Invest in Bitcoin Giant's STRC Preferred Shares

Vercel's CEO suspects a highly sophisticated hacking group, potentially AI-assisted, was behind a recent security breach that exposed customer credentials. The breach originated from a compromised third-party AI tool, allowing attackers to access internal systems and non-sensitive environment variables.

Coinbase is testing AI agents modeled after co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former CTO Balaji Srinivasan to provide employee feedback and assist with refining documents and sparking innovation. These agents integrate into workplace communications like human teammates, with plans to expand the program in the future.

Bitcoin options worth $7.9 billion are expiring on Deribit, with $62,000 and $75,000 as key levels. The $75,000 level has the most call options trading, leading to heightened volatility.

Bitcoin CME open interest is at a 14-month low as basis trade unwinds, with Strategy stockpiling nearly $60 billion in Bitcoin. One dominant buyer is reshaping the market structure, leading to a shift in futures positioning and a decrease in perpetual funding rates.

Ripple is partnering with Kyobo Life Insurance, one of South Korea's major insurance firms, to offer tokenized government bond offerings. The collaboration aims to introduce real-time bond trading using blockchain technology in South Korea's $2.3 trillion bond market.

World, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, introduced a new World ID app for managing proof-of-human verification. The company also launched Concert Kit for artists to reserve tickets for verified humans, aiming to combat ticket scalping.

An Ethereum trader turned $2,455 into nearly $500,000 by trading the ASTEROID meme coin, which surged over 71,000% in 24 hours. The token's value skyrocketed after a social media post from Glenn Beck and a reply from Elon Musk.

Strategy's stock price surged 10% to $164, driven by easing Middle East tensions and Bitcoin's rise to $77,200. With nearly 781,000 Bitcoin acquired at $75,577, the firm's $60.5 billion investment turned profitable after three months.

Tether-related entities Northern Data and Rumble are in the process of merging, with Rumble offering equity for shares of Northern Data. Shareholders will receive 2.0281 shares of Rumble stock for each Northern Data share held.

Bitcoin linked to the $9 billion Bitfinex hack in 2016 was recently transferred to Coinbase Prime by U.S. government addresses. The move, valued at $628,000, raises questions about the government's intentions for the seized funds.