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  • Christa Pike ‘conscious and speaking’ after botched execution according to her lawyers

    Christa Pike ‘conscious and speaking’ after botched execution according to her lawyers

    Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after surviving an execution attempt, her lawyers have said.

    In a new statement, her legal team said: “Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care.

    “Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed. Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery.”

    Her lawyers said they are grateful for the first responders and the medical team at the hospital ‘who treated Christa like a human and have provided exceptional care to her’.

    They added: “We also want to thank thousands from all over the world who sent messages offering prayers and support for Christa.”

    Christa Pike survived a botched execution attempt last week (Tennessee Department of Corrections)

    Christa Pike survived a botched execution attempt last week (Tennessee Department of Corrections)

    The statement was the first indication that Pike has improved since an ambulance took her from a Nashville prison last Wednesday.

    Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital as Tennessee officials attempted to put her to death.

    Pike, 50, was set to become the first woman put to death in the state of Tennessee for around 200 years for the murder of Colleen Slemmer in 1995.

    Her execution was scheduled for 30 September and, as planned, Pike was taken into the death chamber and shared what she thought would be her final words.

    However, witnesses said it soon became clear that something had gone wrong.

    Members of the press who were witness to the execution attempt said that shortly after the first dose was administered, Pike said: “My arm feels like it’s about to burst open.”

    She then appeared to sense something has gone wrong, and asked: “Does this happen like that?”

    Her lawyers later confirmed that Pike had been rushed into hospital where she was receiving ‘life-saving’ care.

    In a statement after the execution attempt, the Tennessee Department of Correction said it had followed ‘every step’ of the standard protocol.

    “The Tennessee Department of Correction followed every step of the state’s lawful, established execution protocol approved by the Attorney General’s Office,” the statement said.

    Christa Pike is still alive, having survived her lethal injection (Tennessee Department of Corrections)

    Christa Pike is still alive, having survived her lethal injection (Tennessee Department of Corrections)

    “The lethal injection chemical in the protocol has consistently been effective, and the protocol does not allow for additional procedures beyond what was carried out this evening. Christa Pike has been transported to an off-site medical facility.”

    In an update earlier this week, her legal team said she was on life-support and were unsure if she would recover.

    Her lawyer Stephen Ferrel told CNN of her current status: “She is guarded. I’m not sure who may have seen her.

    “I know I have not seen her. The state of Tennessee has not yet said whether it will ultimately try to execute her again.”

    The incident prompted the state of Tennessee to announce it was halting all executions until an investigation could be carried out.

    It also led to the resignation of Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada.

    Strada will leave his role this month after being the residing commissioner of Tennessee’s Department of Correction for the past three years, and also in the role when the May execution of Tony Carruthers, was called off due to problems finding a vein for his lethal injection.

    Why was Christa Pike given the death penalty?

    Pike was sent to death row for the murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995.

    Pike was sentenced to death for the murder of Colleen Slemmer (Find a Grave)

    Pike was sentenced to death for the murder of Colleen Slemmer (Find a Grave)

    On 12 January 1995, an 18-year-old Pike, her then-boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp and friend Shadolla Peterson lured Slemmer to a secluded woodland in Knoxville.

    According to court documents, Pike and Shipp then brutally attacked Slemmer, while Peterson kept watch.

    The beating lasted around 30 minutes, and saw them carve a pentagram into Slemmer’s chest, before Pike then killed the 19-year-old by delivering a fatal blow to the head, court documents claimed.

    During her incarceration, Pike’s legal team argued that she should not have been given the death penalty due to her age when committing the crime and her troubled background.

    Assistant Federal Defender Stephen Ferrell said she was abused as a child and was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post traumatic stress disorder.

    In her clemency petition, Pike wrote: “I was a mentally ill 18-year-old kid. It took me numerous years to even realise the gravity of what I’d done. Even more to accept how many lives I affected. I took the life of someone’s child, sister, friend. It sickens me now to think I had the ability to commit such a crime.”

  • Bitcoin Falls Asleep, But Privacy Coins Zcash and Monero Are Waking Up

    Bitcoin Falls Asleep, But Privacy Coins Zcash and Monero Are Waking Up

    In brief

    • Zcash and Monero were the two best performers among the largest coins over 24 hours, while Bitcoin gained just 0.59% and Ethereum 0.34%.
    • Zcash still trades about 19% below its late-September high of $1,698, and Grayscale’s Zcash ETF saw $30.25 million in outflows on Sept. 30.
    • Macro is holding everything still: the Fed hiked to 3.75%-4.00% on Sept. 16, then September payrolls came in at 29,000 against 84,000 expected.

    After weeks of Bitcoin turning heads and climbing the charts, the top of the crypto market is now barely moving. Bitcoin trades at $86,264.06, up 0.59% over 24 hours. Ethereum sits at $2,714.39, up just 0.34%.

    The whole market is worth just north of $3 trillion, essentially flat for the day, according to CoinGecko data. The rest of the 12 largest coins are drifting in roughly the same way. Solana gained 1.4% and XRP 1.07%, while BNB lost 0.41% and Tron 0.22%.

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    Most traditional coins are flat, and then there’s privacy coins.

    Zcash, perhaps the best known privacy coin, has been on a tear over the last year, and today is up 3%, recovering from a pullback off its recent peak near $1,600. Monero, meanwhile, is up 2.14% at $562.32 over the last 24 hours, making the privacy coins the standout performers on the day.

    The daily charts tell the two coins apart. Zcash is up 2.62% on Binance since the day’s candle opened, so its move is still running. Monero is riding a spike that began yesterday and kept running during the last 24 hours..

    The overall flat tape for the crypto market has a reason. The Federal Reserve raised rates to 3.75%-4.00% on Sept. 16, its first hike since July 2023. Then the September jobs report landed with just 29,000 new jobs against the 84,000 economists expected, and unemployment ticked up to 4.2%.

    That weak print cut the odds of an October hike to about 22% right after the report, according to CME FedWatch. The likelihood that interest rates do not increase again is a good sign for risk assets, so the September rate hike combined with odds of another hike sinking is essentially a wash—hence, a flat market.

    Bitcoin, though, continues to show bullish momentum. Yesterday, it flashed a second golden cross, with its 100-day exponential moving average crossing above the 200-day. It is still sitting below resistance at $87,354. But even the most sustained bull runs need time to breathe.

    Now, here’s the caveat on Zcash. A green day is not a trend reversal. ZEC still sits about 19% below its late-September high of $1,698, and one day of buying does not close that gap.

    Zcash slid to $1,333.50 intraday on October first as Grayscale’s Zcash ETF lost $30.25 million. Even after that outflow, the fund has taken in about $268 million in net inflows since it launched on Aug. 25.

    Zoom out, and Zcash is its own story. The coin has gained about 2,500% over the previous 12 months, and it still not showing signs of a serious trend reversal.

    The latest leg was a 253% climb from a $480.72 base to the $1,698 high in late September. It came with two big events: Grayscale’s Zcash ETF launched on Aug. 25, and coinholders voted 98.9% on Sept. 17 to keep Bitcoin-style halvings (and keep the coin’s inflation in check).

    A cooldown is not out of character for this coin. ZEC dropped 38% when the Ironwood counterfeiting scare hit earlier this year, then recovered past $1,600. Against that, the current slide of about 19% from the September high is mild.

    Monero is in a similar spot. XMR trades about 11% below its September high of $632.86. Its market cap is $10.57 billion, less than half of Zcash’s $23.18 billion.

    BitcoinBTC · USD

    $85,520+2.22%

    Sep 30Oct 1Oct 3Oct 5Oct 6

    $86.8k$85.6k$84.3k$83.0k

    24h HighHigh$86,648

    24h LowLow$85,122

    VolVol$1.1B

    Market projectionsOdds by Myriad

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    Based on the daily charts, both privacy coins are in consolidation, not breakout. On Zcash’s daily chart, price is at $1,372.69, stuck just under the resistance zone at $1,403.89, measured from the $451.75 low to the $1,698 high. Today’s high of $1,385 did not reach it. The 38.2% level at $1,221.93 sits below as the next marker.

    A faster gauge disagrees on Monero, which is deep in overbought territory, but is showing a more constrained movement, trading sideways since late September.

    Here are the levels to watch in the near term: Bitcoin needs to clear $87,354, Zcash faces $1,403.89 overhead, and Monero needs to keep holding above $558.69.

    Disclaimer

    The views and opinions expressed by the author are for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, or other advice.

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  • Russian lab worker who died of pneumonia had reportedly been working with ‘plague-infested squirrels’

    Russian lab worker who died of pneumonia had reportedly been working with ‘plague-infested squirrels’

    Co-workers of the 28-year-old Russian lab technician who died of pneumonia say she became ill after working with ‘plague-infected squirrels’ prior to her death.

    The death of Daria Shipilova, who worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia, has sparked fears of a possible deadly pneumonic plague outbreak.

    According to several local media reports, Shipilova became infected after ‘breaking a test tube containing a pathogen’.

    She was taken to hospital with severe pneumonia symptoms and placed on a ventilator on 29 September but sadly died two days later.

    However, Shipilova’s co-workers and friends say that she actually became ill after a trip to Buryatia, on Russia’s border with Mongolia plague-infested squirrels.

    Russian outlet Mash, had previously reported that the lab tech had been sent to Buryatia, where ‘an outbreak of the plague had previously been recorded near the Mongolian border’.

    In a new interview with independent Siberian outlet The Baikal Journal, co-workers of Shipilova, who was known as Dasha, shared new details about her illness.

    “There was no fever, but then her condition worsened, and swelling developed,” they said.

    The 28-year-old's death has sparked fears of a plague outbreak (The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East via AP/PA Images)

    The 28-year-old’s death has sparked fears of a plague outbreak (The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East via AP/PA Images)

    “Dasha was extremely afraid of infecting anyone if something happened. This was clear from how often she washed her hands, even outside of work.”

    Meanwhile, her mother Svetlana, who is a doctor, has refuted claims her daughter broke a test tube.

    “‘Only an amateur would say something like that,” she said.

    “It’s simply impossible to spill or break it. They are so heavily protected.”

    Her words echo Russian epidemiologist Mikhal Favorov who said the idea of someone falling ill from breaking a test tube was ‘laughable’.

    Speaking to The Moscow Times, he said: “It’s laughable. Someone working at the Anti-Plague Institute in Irkutsk wears a protective anti-plague suit.

    “If you break a test tube, the likelihood of infection is actually very low. In short, it doesn’t matter to the general public – they’ll believe the ‘broken test tube’ story.”

    Svetlana also accused doctors of failing to save her daughter after she was put on a ventilator.

    “I saved more than one patient like that, but they didn’t save my daughter,” she said.

    “They simply let my daughter die.”

    She said that four days on from her daughter’s death she’s still waiting for answers.

    “I’m waiting for it to become official,” she added.

    Plague bacteria Yersinia pestis (Getty)

    Plague bacteria Yersinia pestis (Getty)

    “It has to be an official document. It’s very hard for me right now. This whole spectacle drags on.”

    Shipilova’s death prompted several hospitals and colleges to go into lockdown while almost 200 people who came into contact with her have been quarantined.

    Governor of Irkutsk Igor Kobzev said that at present there does not appear to be any other individuals who are currently showing signs of infection.

    The UK’s Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said it is looking into the reports.

    In a statement shared with the HuffPost, Chris Lewis, Director of Global Health Protection at UKHSA, said: “UKHSA is aware of media reports that emergency containment measures have been introduced in Russia’s Irkutsk region following the death of an employee at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute.

    “We are seeking information through the International Health Regulations channels to further understand the circumstances and verify the accuracy of these reports.”

    What is pneumonic plague?

    Pneumonic plague is one of three kinds of plague, alongside bubonic and septicaemic.

    It is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, usually found in small mammals and their fleas and can be contracted by humans via bites from infected fleas, unprotected contact with infected bodily fluids, or the inhalation of particles from a patient with pneumonic plague.

    According to the World Health Organisation, pneumonic – or lung-based – plague is the most virulent form of plague.

    “Incubation can be as short as 24 hours,” WHO writes.

    “Any person with pneumonic plague may transmit the disease via respiratory particles to other humans. Untreated pneumonic plague, if not diagnosed and treated early, can be fatal.”

    However, the organisation also notes that recovery rates are ‘high’ if the disease is detected and treated within 24 hours of onset symptoms.

  • NEAR eyes $6 as Grayscale highlights AI agents – A breakout depends on…

    NEAR eyes $6 as Grayscale highlights AI agents – A breakout depends on…

    $NEAR’s Chain Abstraction and intent-based execution could also reduce the steps required for agents to transact across blockchains.

    Source: Grayscale

    Moreover, co-founder Illia Polosukhin co-authored the research that introduced the Transformer architecture, now widely used in AI systems.

    That background lends credibility to $NEAR’s AI ambitions. However, its long-term position depends on whether agents actually use the network.

    $NEAR gained 183% in September, compared with 54% for Grayscale’s AI crypto sector. Growing interest could help $NEAR attract more capital, but sustained agent activity would give that interest firmer backing.

    $NEAR shifts users to new wallets

    As $NEAR’s AI narrative broadens, its existing users face a more immediate change.

    MyNearWallet announced its planned sunset for the 31st of October, with users directed toward alternatives including Meteor Wallet and near.com.

    The migration timeline scheduled guided tools for August and September, followed by reduced functionality from October.

    Source: X

    Since migration can create friction that may result in temporary interruptions of activity despite the funds remaining on-chain, this will become apparent post deadline.

    Thus, stable active addresses and continued staking participation would indicate that the migration was successful. Conversely, decreased activity could demonstrate that there are retention issues.

    A smooth migration process would add credibility to $NEAR’s ecosystem and further reinforce their AI growth story. Disruption would detract from the narrative.

    Can AI activity trigger another $NEAR season?

    Meanwhile, $NEAR’s price action presented a separate test for buyers following September’s rally.

    The token had climbed above $5 after breaking out of its summer trading range. At press time, $NEAR traded near $5.25 after rebounding from $4.70–$4.80 on Monday, the 5th of October.

    The rebound followed September’s strong advance, while rising Trading Volume supported the bullish view. Expanding volatility bands indicated larger price swings, leaving room for sharp moves in either direction.

    Source: TradingView

    However, resistance near $5.39–$5.44 now limits the next advance, while $5.13 offers immediate support. A decisive close above resistance could extend momentum toward $5.56 and $6.00.

    Conversely, losing $5.13 could trigger a deeper reset toward $4.70. Therefore, sustained AI activity and capital flows must support the rally beyond speculation.

    Final Summary

    • $NEAR Protocol gains AI momentum as Grayscale highlights agentic commerce and $NEAR’s 183% September surge.
    • MyNearWallet’s sunset requires users to change interfaces while their tokens and staking positions remain on-chain.
  • Mistral AI Drops ‘Le Chonk’: A Massive AI Model Named After a Cat Meme

    Mistral AI Drops ‘Le Chonk’: A Massive AI Model Named After a Cat Meme

    In brief

    • Mistral launched Large 4 on Oct. 6, a 1-trillion-parameter model that activates 49 billion parameters per query and costs $1.36 per million input tokens and $4.18 per million output tokens.
    • The nickname “Le Chonk” follows the “Le Chaton Fat” meme from June, and Mistral says it will release the model’s weights by the end of October.
    • On Finance Agent v2, the launch chart shows Large 4 at 54.7, ahead of GPT-6 Astra at 53.5 but behind Claude Opus 5.5 at 58.6.

    Paris-based Mistral AI launched Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday, an AI model with 1 trillion parameters. That is the kind of system behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, as parameters are the adjustable numbers it tunes during training—more of them generally means more capacity to learn, and more expensive to run.

    “[Mistral Large 4] is at the frontier of open models, and by far the strongest open-weight model from the US or Europe,” Mistral AI’s Chief scientist Guillaume Lample, wrote on X.

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    Not all of those parameters work at once. Large 4 uses a “mixture of experts” design, meaning the model routes each question to a few specialist sub-networks, so only 49 billion parameters fire per answer. Mistral’s last flagship, Large 3, did the same with 41 billion active out of 675 billion.

    The whole “Le Chonk” nickname has a backstory. In June, after Mistral renamed its Le Chat assistant to Vibe, fans on Reddit and X invented a fictional model called Le Chaton Fat—roughly “the fat kitten”—with 30 trillion parameters, 1,000 meows per second, and fake benchmarks claiming it beat Claude Fable 5.

    CEO Arthur Mensch played along, replying that the model was really called “le gros chaton,” French for “the big kitten.” Mistral then added a cartoon cat to its Vibe website. Its real launch post now lists the model as, “very officially,” le Chonk.

    Mistral sells “sovereign AI”—models a country or company can own and run without handing its data to outside firms. Saudi Arabia’s state-backed HUMAIN signed a deal worth hundreds of millions of euros in August with this company for this exact reason.

    Mistral raised a €3 billion ($3.37 billion) Series D—a funding round that sells shares to investors—in September at a valuation above €21 billion ($23.6 billion), led by Samsung. Mistral says Large 4 is the first milestone on the roadmap that money funds.

    BitcoinBTC · USD

    $85,504+2.2%

    Sep 30Oct 1Oct 3Oct 5Oct 6

    $86.8k$85.6k$84.3k$83.0k

    24h HighHigh$86,648

    24h LowLow$85,122

    VolVol$1.1B

    Market projectionsOdds by Myriad

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    Le Chunk costs $1.36 per million input tokens and $4.18 per million output tokens—the chunks of text, roughly three-quarters of a word each, that AI companies bill by. Claude Opus 5.5 charges $4 and $20, while GPT-6 Astra charges $10 and $50.

    That puts Large 4 at about a third of Opus 5.5’s price on input and a fifth on output. Against Astra, it is roughly a seventh and a twelfth.

    What the benchmarks say

    Mistral’s announcement mostly benchmarks Large 4 against Chinese open-weight models—DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K3, GLM-5.3, and Qwen3.8 Max—and “open-weight” means anyone can download and run the model. Claude and GPT show up in only a handful of comparisons, and the newest Claude, Opus 5.5, appears only in a cybersecurity claim.

    In a blind human evaluation of coding quality by Surge AI, Mistral Large 4 ranked second of five models with 3.74 out of 5, behind Claude Opus 5’s 4.22.

    AutomationBench hands an AI 657 chores in simulated business software—finance, HR, sales, support—and scores the share of each task’s goals it completes, with zero credit if it breaks a rule. Large 4 scored 59.9 points. On Artificial Analysis’s board, Claude Sonnet 5.5 hit 71.8, Opus 5.5 hit 69.5, and Gemini 4 Argon topped the page at 77.5 on that same benchmark.

    On DeepSWE 1.1, which is one of the benchmarks developers check out when trying to assess how good a model is at coding, Large 4 scored 62. That tops GLM-5.3 at 61 and DeepSeek V4 Pro at 57 but trails Kimi K3’s 68. Datacurve’s own leaderboard has GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5 at 74.

    Mistral says it will release Large 4’s weights—the trained numbers that make the model work—by the end of October, which would let outside developers download the model and test those claims themselves.

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  • Billionaire Winklevoss Brothers File Spot ETF Application for a Surprise Altcoin

    Billionaire Winklevoss Brothers File Spot ETF Application for a Surprise Altcoin

    Winklevoss Asset Services, controlled by the Winklevoss twins, has filed an S-1 registration application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a spot Zcash exchange-traded product. According to the application, the product is planned to be listed on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “WINK”.

    The Winklevoss Zcash ETF will directly hold $ZEC, the native token of Zcash, offering investors exposure to price movements in $ZEC after deducting the fund’s operating expenses and other liabilities. The fund’s net asset value will be calculated based on the daily price reference.

    The application also stated that Gemini Trust Company would act as the custodian of $ZEC assets. A sponsorship fee of 0.25% per annum is planned for the fund, while ordinary operating expenses will be covered by the sponsor.

  • Ether.fi taps MoonPay to consolidate payments infrastructure across its crypto neobank

    Ether.fi taps MoonPay to consolidate payments infrastructure across its crypto neobank

    The integration is designed to reduce the number of separate providers involved in funding, moving and withdrawing money from ether.fi. Users will be able to complete identity verification once and reuse that information across supported products, subject to local requirements.

    MoonPay’s Headless Ramps will provide embedded fiat onramps and offramps without redirecting users outside the ether.fi interface. MoonPay Trade will handle cross-chain routing and crypto conversions inside the app.

    The partnership will also give ether.fi users virtual accounts with account and routing details through MoonPay Enterprise, supporting payment rails including ACH, Fedwire, SWIFT, Faster Payments and SEPA. Crypto Deposits will allow users to deposit assets from external wallets or exchanges and have them converted into their ether.fi balance.

    The expansion comes as ether.fi builds beyond its origins as an Ethereum liquid staking protocol and into payments and other consumer financial products.

    Ether.fi said its card processed $123.7 million in spending during September across 1.5 million transactions and more than 48,000 active addresses, citing Paymentscan data. That compares with $24.1 million in September 2025.

    Since launching in April 2025, the card has processed about $918 million in cumulative spending across 11.6 million transactions and 113,000 addresses, according to the company.

    “The bar for ether.fi isn’t other crypto products,” ether.fi co-founder and Chief Growth Officer Rok Kopp said. “It’s whatever banking app a user opens every morning.”

    The partnership preserves ether.fi’s self-custodial model while using MoonPay’s licensed infrastructure for fiat payment rails. Ether.fi said users retain control of their wallet keys while MoonPay handles payments and compliance at the points where funds move between traditional banking systems and crypto.

    “The platforms that win will be the ones that make money move simply,” MoonPay CEO and founder Ivan Soto-Wright said.

  • Peter Thiel-backed Founders Fund leads a $5 million token buy in crypto collateral protocol Anvil

    Peter Thiel-backed Founders Fund leads a $5 million token buy in crypto collateral protocol Anvil

    “Businesses need to know the commitments behind payments and credit will be honored,” Joey Krug, a partner at Founders Fund, said in the announcement. “Anvil lets them secure those commitments with verifiable digital asset collateral, and the new SDK makes it easier to integrate into their products.”

    Anvil Research Labs named Consensus, Bitcoin.com, payments company Flexa and several other companies as partners that are already using or integrating its tooling. Bullish (BLSH), the parent company of CoinDesk, is also working with Anvil to explore how the protocol could be used in its operations.

    The ANVL tokens purchased by Founders Fund and the other investors provide governance rights over the protocol, allowing holders to participate in decisions about its development.

    A different use for crypto collateral

    Anvil is entering a part of decentralized finance where putting crypto up as collateral is already commonplace. DeFi lending protocols currently hold about $56 billion of assets, according to DefiLlama, with Aave and Morpho among the largest platforms.

    The protocol, developed by the Acronym Foundation, was bootstrapped and made fully open source. It currently has about $14 million in total value locked on its network, and remains small compared with established DeFi lending platforms

    But Anvil is aiming to put crypto collateral to a different use. Conventional DeFi lenders generally allow users to deposit assets as collateral and borrow against them, paying interest and potentially facing liquidation if the value of their collateral falls.

  • Eigen Labs and Zcash Launch AI Hash Challenge HashSmash

    Eigen Labs and Zcash Launch AI Hash Challenge HashSmash

    Eigen Labs, a blockchain research company, and Shielded Labs, a Zcash research organization, have launched HashSmash, an open competition that tests whether AI can find weaknesses in widely used cryptographic hash functions. Eigen Labs is a blockchain technology research company, while Shielded Labs is a research organization focused on developing Zcash.

    The competition focuses on SHA-256, SHA-3, BLAKE3, and Poseidon. These hash functions help protect blockchains, zero-knowledge systems, software, and other digital infrastructure. Participants can use AI agents and tools such as SAT solvers, automated searches, and formal methods to develop attacks.

  • Luxxfolio Plans Options Program for LTC

    Luxxfolio Plans Options Program for LTC

    Luxxfolio Holdings has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Hypercall to explore options trading on part of its Litecoin ($LTC) and Dogecoin ($DOGE) holdings. Luxxfolio is a digital asset company focused on Litecoin mining and accumulation, while Hypercall provides options trading products on Hyperliquid.

    Under the proposed program, Luxxfolio would sell covered calls on selected $LTC and $DOGE holdings through Hypercall. The company would decide which assets to use, how much to allocate, and the strike prices and expiration dates. Each option would be backed by the corresponding cryptocurrency.