How Tokenized Deposits Work These assets are issued exclusively by regulated, licensed depository institutions. While they often operate within private, permissioned blockchain systems to ensure security and compliance, some implementations utilize public networks. Transactions are account-based and authorized by the issuing bank, using smart contracts—self-executing code on a blockchain—to enable automated treasury operations, conditional payments,…
Anthropic is establishing its first dedicated European AI compute footprint, marking a significant geographic expansion in the race for sovereign-grade processing power. The company has reportedly entered into a six-year, $10 billion compute capacity agreement centered on a 133 MW data center in Norway. This deployment, operated by Bitdeer Technologies Group at its Tydal campus…
Tenet Security’s DEF CON 34 presentation carried a blunt title: “Your WAF Blocked Us, That Was The Exploit — Remote Agent Takeover via Cloudflare, Sentry and Claude Zero-Day for data exfil.” On Sunday at LVCC Exhibit Hall West 3, CEO Barak Sternberg, CTO Nevo Poran, and researcher Ron Bobrov walked through how a publicly exposed…
Your router is supposed to be the silent, trustworthy bouncer of your digital life, standing guard between your private data and the chaos of the internet. But what happens when that bouncer isn’t just incompetent, but fundamentally compromised by design? At Black Hat USA 2026, researchers Stanislav Dashevskyi and Francesco La Spina of Forescout Vedere…
CISA added CVE-2026-9198 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 4, setting a federal remediation deadline of August 7. That date has passed. The recurring critical vulnerabilities demonstrate that agent infrastructure builders are not merely tools but high-risk single points of failure.
The CLARITY Act’s viability hinges on a single distinction: the functional line between prohibited passive yield and permitted activity-based rewards. Section 404 of the bill, born from the Tillis-Alsobrooks compromise and advanced by the Senate Banking Committee in a 15-9 vote on May 14, 2026, attempts to codify this boundary. While the GENIUS Act already…
The agent ecosystem has spent the past two years running AI agents through human-designed browsers. Cloudflare just rendered that arrangement obsolete. On August 6, the company launched Kitesurf — a web browser purpose-built for AI agents, running entirely in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers. No Chromium. No human-oriented rendering pipeline. Just a machine-optimized execution layer…
There is a quiet contradiction running through enterprise hiring right now. AI is everywhere in the corporate stack — 95% of organizations have implemented it in some form over the past year — yet only 1 in 5 say they have seen significant or transformational value from it. That gap between deployment and payoff has…
The agent payment stack has formally split into two layers. Below sits the protocol layer — x402, Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), and Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) — where individual stablecoin transactions execute on-chain. Above now sits the settlement infrastructure layer, where routing, signing, and compliance decisions happen before a single coin moves. OSL Group’s launch…
The bottleneck for AI has shifted from compute capacity to the electricity required to run it. Nvidia, which has spent the past two years underwriting the financial existence of its largest customers through vendor financing and credit substitution, is now crossing a different threshold entirely: equity ownership in the power infrastructure that sustains its hardware.…