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JUST IN: Aave faces a new sign of internal tension following the departure of Chaos Labs, one of the most important firms in the protocol's risk management.
The company justified its decision by citing strategic differences, the increased complexity associated with V4, and an economic structure that, it claims, is no longer sustainable.
Chaos Labs will leave the Aave ecosystem after denouncing a fundamental misalignment regarding how risk should be managed.

JUST IN: South Korea's largest securities firms are reportedly accelerating their entry into the crypto market.
Korea Investment & Securities is considering a potential acquisition of Coinone, while Mirae Asset is looking to finalize its acquisition of Korbit, in a strategic shift that reflects the sector's frustration with the regulatory delays surrounding tokenization.
Korea Investment & Securities, backed by a parent company valued at up to $8.5 billion, is reportedly exploring the acquisition of Coinone.

JUST IN: Visa believes South Korea possesses two key factors for accelerating stablecoins high cryptocurrency adoption and significant spending on artificial intelligence.
However, the sector's enthusiasm clashes with a regulatory framework that still blocks token issuance in the country.
Visa described South Korea as an ideal location for experimenting with stablecoins outside the United States.

JUST IN: Google quietly launched a new AI powered dictation app on iOS called Google AI Edge Eloquent, focused on offline use and automatic text cleanup to compete with a new generation of speech to text tools.
The app can function offline after downloading speech recognition models based on Gemma.
It also offers a cloud mode with Gemini models to refine the dictated text.

JUST IN: Iran's threat against data centers linked to the Stargate project introduces a new level of risk to artificial intelligence infrastructure in the Middle East, at a time when the war is already impacting supply chains, technological assets, and energy networks of high strategic value.
Iran warned that it could attack data centers in the Middle East if the United States intensifies attacks against its civilian infrastructure.
A video released by military spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari showed a close up of the Stargate data center in the United Arab Emirates.

JUST IN: US federal highway safety regulators have closed their investigation into Actually Smart Summon, Tesla's remote parking feature, after concluding that the associated crashes were infrequent, low-speed, and without serious consequences.
However, the agency clarified that the closure does not rule out a safety defect and that the case could be reopened.
The NHTSA closed the investigation into Actually Smart Summon after reviewing millions of usage sessions.

BREAKING: DeFi Development presented a comprehensive defense of its Solana centric strategy, combining a scarcity and demand thesis for SOL, a target of 1 SOL per share by 2028, and new leverage options through Apex and preferred equity.
The company also warned that the digital asset treasury market faces NAV compression and potential market consolidation among competitors.
The company maintains that SOL should be analyzed using supply and demand, not traditional discounted cash flow models.

JUST IN: The used electric vehicle market in the United States is moving in the opposite direction to that of new models.
While new EV sales weakened after the elimination of the federal tax credit, the used segment is gaining momentum due to a combination of higher gasoline prices, more units available from expired leases, and a price gap that is almost disappearing compared to combustion engine cars.
Used electric vehicle sales grew 12% year over year in the first quarter and 17% compared to the previous quarter.

JUST IN: A new study by BTQ Technologies revisits one of the most frequently discussed debates in the crypto industry quantum computing doesn't appear to pose a realistic threat to Bitcoin mining, but it could become a serious risk to the digital signatures that protect transactions.
The research calculates that a quantum fleet for mining Bitcoin would require approximately 10^23 physical qubits and 10^25 watts.
Author Pierre Luc Dallaire Demers asserts that the real crypto crisis lies in the vulnerability of digital signatures.

JUST IN: Sharps Technology, known for its medical device business, took an unexpected turn by becoming one of the few publicly traded companies with a strong treasury strategy in Solana.
The change not only altered the composition of its balance sheet but also its primary source of revenue.
Sharps Technology reported over SOL 2,000,000 in holdings at the end of 2025, mostly allocated to staking.
The company's total assets increased from just over USD $7,000,000 to over USD $269,000,000 in one year.

JUST IN: Marc Andreessen asserted that fears of massive job losses due to artificial intelligence are unfounded and predicted a strong job boom.
However, his stance clashes with recent US labor market data and layoffs at tech and crypto companies that are already attributing some of their cutbacks to AI adoption.
Marc Andreessen stated on X that AI will drive a massive job boom thanks to increased productivity and demand.

JUST IN: Ethena announced a strategic shift to diversify the reserves backing USDe, its synthetic stablecoin pegged to the dollar.
The plan includes overcollateralized institutional loans, greater exposure to real world assets, and new yield strategies outside of crypto perpetuals, in a move that promises to reduce concentration but also raises questions about security, liquidity, and credit risk.
Ethena said it seeks to reduce USDe concentration risk through a more diversified reserve portfolio.

BREAKING: Figure Technology Solutions faces a market paradox while its stock has fallen sharply in 2025, its loan originations and tokenized lending infrastructure continue to grow.
A new report from Bernstein argues that the company may be undervalued and sees room for a significant recovery if it maintains its current pace.
Bernstein assigned Figure an Outperform rating and a price target of $67, compared to a recent trading price near $32.

BREAKING: A new cybercrime package allegedly being sold on the dark web is raising alarms in the financial sector.
The tool combines deepfakes, real time facial swapping, and voice modulation to deceive KYC systems at banks and cryptocurrency platforms, in a context where digital fraud is becoming more accessible and sophisticated.
An actor identified as Jinkusu is reportedly offering a kit to evade KYC verifications using deepfakes and real time voice alteration.

JUST IN: OpenAI escalated its conflict with Elon Musk by asking the attorneys general of California and Delaware to investigate what it describes as improper and anticompetitive conduct.
The request comes just weeks before a key trial and adds new allegations of efforts to undermine the company in the race to develop artificial general intelligence.
OpenAI sent letters to the attorneys general of California and Delaware requesting an investigation into Elon Musk and his associates.
The company maintains that Musk has attempted to undermine OpenAI through legal and media attacks, as well as by

JUST IN: Anthropic announced a key expansion of its partnership with Google and Broadcom to secure multiple gigawatts of next generation TPU capacity starting in 2027, a move aimed at sustaining the strong growth of Claude and meeting soaring enterprise demand in 2026.
Anthropic signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom to access multiple gigawatts of next generation TPU starting in 2027.

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JUST IN: A new theory on artificial intelligence argues that the technology will not only automate tasks but could also reduce the minimum viable size of a business to as little as a single person.
That's the idea behind HIM, a firm that promises to operate fleets of microbusinesses with AI agents under human supervision.
The proposal argues that AI is collapsing coordination costs, a key concept in Ronald Coase's theory of enterprise. HIM is announcing a layer of AI agents to assemble, operate, and scale fleets of microbusinesses for individual owners.

JUST IN: A new academic study of 20 blockchains and 16 bridge protocols concludes that cross chain interoperability not only facilitates the movement of capital between networks, but also alters returns, reduces certain operating costs, and makes the ecosystem more interdependent and vulnerable to contagion when a key component fails.
The research distinguishes between structural interoperability, based on the deployed infrastructure, and active interoperability, based on the actual use of the bridges.
The authors identify a paradox: greater connectivity is associated with higher TVL (TVL), mo

JUST IN: A team of researchers has unveiled LibScan, a hybrid tool that combines language modeling and static analysis to detect library misuse in smart contracts.
The tool targets a class of flaws that are difficult to identify but capable of causing multimillion dollar losses in ecosystems like Ethereum and DeFi.
LibScan detected eight categories of library misuse in smart contracts with an overall accuracy of 85.15% across 662 real contracts.