Crypto & Web3
A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here's What It Means for Crypto
A UC San Diego-led team impersonated a hardware security module without extracting its key.
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Topic
Decrypt
13 reports on Decrypt across Crypto & Web3, AI Products and Trading & Fintech. Last updated Sep 28, 2026.
AI Products
Citi Clients Can Now Take Stablecoin Payments Through Coinbase—Without Touching Crypto
Coinbase and Citi expanded an existing deal so Citi's institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments, while Coinbase business accounts run on Citi's banking rails.
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AI Products
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price
Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.
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AI Products
After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI agent quietly accessed Australia's Medicare data and nobody said a word for months.
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AI Products
Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out
OpenShell and Sentry give AI agents a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agents breaching a government site, hacking their own tests, and going rogue during a security evaluation.
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Crypto & Web3
Strive Buys $94.5 Million in Bitcoin, Pushing Holdings Past 27,000 BTC
Strive bought 1,107 BTC for $94.5 million last week, lifting its holdings to 27,462 BTC, with its SATA preferred stock supplying 85% of the capital.
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AI Products
Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks
Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 lets banks run their own security checks on cross-chain transfers, five months after a rival's setup lost $292 million to hackers.
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AI Products
Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum
Hegota will be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork, he argues, with everything after built on recursive STARKs and formal verification.
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Crypto & Web3
Bitcoin Falls Lower as Trump's Iran Snub Sends Oil, Yields Higher
Bitcoin extends last week's pullback as Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire plan, sending oil above $100 and yields higher ahead of Wednesday's PCE report.
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Crypto & Web3
Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys Another $47M of ETH, Taking It to 4.9% of Ethereum Supply
Bitmine has staked 84% of its tokens, a position it projects will generate some $358 million a year in staking rewards.
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Trading & Fintech
Strategy Sets New BTC Holdings Record After $143M Bitcoin Purchase
Michael Saylor's Bitcoin treasury firm bought 1,665 BTC last week, taking its holdings above its previous record to 847,666 BTC.
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Crypto & Web3
Morning Minute: SEC Clears Token Buybacks for Crypto Networks
The Gary Gensler era is long gone and now the SEC is providing clarity on what crypto protocols can and can’t do with their tokens.
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Crypto & Web3
California Bans Public Officials From Issuing Meme Coins Under New Newsom Law
Governor Gavin Newsom’s legislation bars public officials from issuing meme coins and exchanges from listing tokens tied to politicians.
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