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Once a $2.3 Billion Network, Ethereum Layer-2 Blast Is Shutting Down
Blast, the Ethereum layer-2 network that once drew billions of dollars with promises of built-in yield and airdrops, is calling it quits. The team said Friday on X that maintaining the network now costs more than it earns, and that it sees no credible path to making the chain economically sustainable. "As a result, we've made the difficult decision to wind Blast down," the team wrote. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. Users are being asked to move their assets b...
Oct 1, 2026
Markets
Zcash Drops 21% From Recent High—Here’s Why the Rally May Not Be Over
Zcash is having a rough Thursday. ZEC is trading at $1,333.50, down 7.29% on the day, with about three hours left before the daily candle closes. That puts the privacy coin roughly 21% below the $1,698.00 peak it hit in late September. It also shows how far ZEC had run: the coin climbed about 253% from a $480.72 base to that high. Myriad: Where does XRP go next? Click to make your prediction. The wider market isn't offering a lifeline. Bitcoin spiked to $85,600 on Wednesday after softer-than-exp...
Oct 1, 2026
Law and Order
SEC Proposes Rules to Clear Up How Advisers and Funds Can Hold Crypto
The Securities and Exchange Commission is moving to settle one of the thorniest questions in institutional crypto: how professional money managers are supposed to hold the assets. The agency on Wednesday proposed a tailored framework governing how registered investment advisers and regulated funds can custody crypto, aiming to replace years of regulatory ambiguity with a clear compliance path. Myriad: Who wins the midterm elections? Click to make your prediction. Advisers are required to keep cl...
Oct 1, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI Scrapers
Reddit is shutting two of the main ways outsiders pull data from the site. The company said in an announcement yesterday that RSS feeds will stop working on November 13, and public access to its API closes in March 2027. “In August, we shared plans to modernize Reddit’s infrastructure, build better mod tools, and make it harder for bad actors to scrape Reddit and abuse communities. Today, we have specifics on what’s changing, when, and how to plan ahead,” Reddit said. CS2 knife index next move:...
Oct 1, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Says People Linked to China's Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI's Hidden Reasoning
OpenAI claims to have shut down a coordinated effort to copy the way its AI models think, and it traces a core cluster of that activity to people associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese startup behind the Kimi chatbot. The campaign began on July 1, according to OpenAI. On July 24 and 25 alone, it logged 16,000 extraction requests from more than 4,000 users, part of a wider cluster of over 15,000 users. OpenAI says it fully disrupted the activity by July 28. Myriad: Which company IPOs next? Clic...
Oct 1, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Meta Pushes Back on Claim That Muse AI Read a User's Messages Without Consent
Meta says its Muse AI agent can't read your Messages on a Mac unless you let it, disputing an account from a tech journalist last week who said Muse was all up in his iMessages without permission. Andy Stone, the company's head of communications, said Wednesday on X that the integration is "entirely opt-in." Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. “It can't read your Messages unless you do this. And it can be revoked at any time,” he wrote. Two switches have to be on,...