Jeremy De Groodt

On May 4, a message hidden in Morse code helped trigger a six-figure crypto transfer. It passed through two connected AI systems. One was Elon Musk’s Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI. The other was Bankrbot, a crypto agent that could make payments from a linked wallet.  The attacker first sent the wallet a digital membership token that unlocked Bankr’s payment tools. Grok then decoded the message, and Bankrbot treated the response as a payment order. It transferred an estimated...

BitcoinWorld Keyrock to Acquire Bankrupt Crypto Trading Firm BlockFills for $3.25 Million Digital asset market maker Keyrock has agreed to acquire the assets of bankrupt U.S. crypto trading firm BlockFills for $3.25 million, according to a report by CoinDesk. The deal, which is subject to court and regulatory approval, would see Keyrock take over BlockFills’ equity, customer lists, proprietary technology, intellectual property, and certain liabilities. Details of […] This post Keyrock to...

BitcoinWorld AI Agents Settle $73 Million in On-Chain Payments, Signaling Rise of Machine Economy A new report from crypto market maker Keyrock reveals that autonomous AI agents have settled over $73 million through 176 million on-chain transactions over the past year, with a staggering 98.6% of those payments conducted in the USDC stablecoin. The data, covering May 2025 through April 2026, paints a clear picture of a rapidly emerging […] This post AI Agents Settle $73 Million in On-Chain...

Ekiden plans to launch on Canton with cBTC collateral support and integrations with key ecosystem partners.

BitcoinWorld Hyperliquid’s Perpetual Futures Emerge as a New Benchmark for Unlisted Stock Valuations A decentralized perpetual futures platform operating within the Hyperliquid ecosystem is gaining traction as an unconventional method for pricing shares of private companies. Known as TradeXYZ, the platform has recently listed pre-market perpetual contracts for Cerebras Systems (CBRS) and SpaceX (SPCX), allowing traders to speculate on the value of these unlisted equities before they debut...

BitcoinWorld BTC Options Traders Hedge Aggressively, Casting Doubt on $80K Rally Sustainability New York, NY – March 27, 2025 – A wave of aggressive hedging by BTC options traders is raising questions about the sustainability of Bitcoin’s recent push above $75,000. According to a report from DL News, market participants are buying long-term put options at an accelerated pace, signaling a lack of full confidence in a […] This post BTC Options Traders Hedge Aggressively, Casting Doubt on $80K...

A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The robotics sector led unicorn creation last month, with six new billion-dollar startups.

BitcoinWorld Keyrock Achieves Landmark $1.1B Valuation with Ripple-Backed Series C Funding Round In a significant development for the digital asset infrastructure sector, Keyrock has achieved a formidable $1.1 billion valuation following its successful Series C funding round announced this week. The funding […] This post Keyrock Achieves Landmark $1.1B Valuation with Ripple-Backed Series C Funding Round first appeared on BitcoinWorld.

Dragonfly Capital closed its fourth fund at $650 million this week, the same size as its 2022 vehicle, raised into a venture market Fortune calls a “mass extinction event.” The headline reads like a vote of confidence: institutional capital returning, crypto winter thawing, alt season loading. But peel back one layer and the picture warps. […] The post Crypto VC funding surging again sounds like a rally, until you trace where the money actually lands appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin’s grip on the crypto market is tightening again, and the numbers behind that shift help explain why a broad basket of altcoins is unlikely to beat the top crypto. Data from CoinMarketCap indicate that Bitcoin's dominance is edging upwards towards 60% of the total crypto market capitalization. In comparison, altcoins' dominance has been trending […] The post A $1.2T shift toward Bitcoin may be starting — and one grim index says altcoins may never rally appeared first on CryptoSlate.