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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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Adam Back Warns Bitcoin’s Simplicity Is Its Strongest Defense Against DeFi Risks

May 28, 2026 Daniel Moore

Adam Back argues Bitcoin’s simplicity sidesteps DeFi’s smart contract risks, AI-driven attacks, and restaking leverage problems, pointing toward cold storage and ETFs as the safer route for institutional capital.

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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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Tether’s $500B Valuation Surpasses OpenAI and ByteDance — But the Numbers Don’t Justify It

May 21, 2026 Paulo Mendes

Tether’s $500 billion implied valuation dwarfs OpenAI and ByteDance, yet its profit, regulatory, and rate-sensitive nature make that premium questionable.

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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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Arthur Hayes Slashes Bitcoin Target from $500,000 to $125,000 — Here’s What Changed

May 18, 2026 Daniel Moore

Arthur Hayes Slashes Bitcoin Target from $500,000 to $125,000 — Here’s What Changed

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Pre-IPO Tokenization Takes Shape: Arkstream Capital’s Retail Framework for SpaceX and AI Giants

May 14, 2026 Paulo Mendes

Arkstream Capital outlines a four-layer tokenization framework to give retail investors access to pre-IPO assets like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with a projected crypto growth cycle from 2026 to 2031.

Agentic Commerce Will Run on Crypto Rails, PayPal and Google Tell Consensus Miami

May 10, 2026 Paulo Mendes

Senior figures from PayPal and Google Cloud argued at Consensus Miami that open payment protocols, machine-readable merchant catalogs, and multi-party crypto custody are needed to scale agentic commerce.