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Vitalik Buterin Says Real AI Must Run Across Hardware, Not Just in the Cloud

May 28, 2026 Paulo Mendes

Vitalik Buterin updated his view on AI, arguing that genuine ‘CROPS AI’ must run across diverse hardware and not be confined to centralized data centers.

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Eightco Holdings Discloses $337M Portfolio with OpenAI, 11,000 ETH, and 283M WLD

May 24, 2026 Paulo Mendes

Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ:ORBS) revealed a $337M portfolio including OpenAI equity, 11,000 ETH, and 283M WLD tokens, marking a notable convergence of public markets, AI, and crypto.

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Ex-OpenAI’s Leopold Aschenbrenner Bets $13.6B on Crypto Miners as AI Infrastructure Play

May 18, 2026 Daniel Moore

Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is shorting Nvidia and AMD while going long on Bitcoin miners that control electricity and data centers for AI, viewing them as the next infrastructure layer.

Vitalik Buterin Says AI + Formal Verification May Rewrite the Rules of Secure Software

May 18, 2026 Paulo Mendes

Vitalik Buterin says combining AI with formal verification could fundamentally reshape secure software development, lowering the barrier to provable correctness and raising the standard for smart contracts and infrastructure.

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Crypto Security Turns Into an AI Arms Race as Agents Threaten to Overwhelm Compliance

May 18, 2026 Paulo Mendes

Crypto Security Turns Into an AI Arms Race as Agents Threaten to Overwhelm Compliance

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Crypto Wallets Are Being Rebuilt for AI Agents — Trust Wallet and Mesh Chart a New Course

May 9, 2026 Paulo Mendes

Trust Wallet and Mesh executives at Consensus Miami argue that AI agents are redefining crypto wallets, moving from human tools to autonomous economic actors.

AI Agents Could Solve Crypto’s User Problem

May 8, 2026 Daniel Moore

AI agents might be the natural users of crypto wallets and stablecoins, solving the industry’s persistent user experience problem, but real-world agentic payments remain mostly theoretical.

Anthropic Partners with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for Colossus 1 Compute as AI Infrastructure War Heats Up

May 6, 2026 Daniel Moore

Anthropic has secured all of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 compute capacity, marking a major AI infrastructure move ahead of its June IPO and echoing trends in crypto infrastructure.

The End of Ads: Coinbase Engineer Says AI Agents Will Destroy the Web’s Business Model

May 6, 2026 Daniel Moore

AI agents don’t see ads. Coinbase engineer Erik Reppel says that could break the digital advertising industry and force a shift to machine-to-machine micropayments using stablecoins.

ClawBank Says An AI Agent Formed A U.S. Company — And Crypto Rails May Be The Missing Execution Layer

May 2, 2026 Paulo Mendes

ClawBank says its AI agent formed a U.S. company and received an EIN, turning agentic finance from a theory into a legal and crypto rails problem.