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news.bitcoin.com Western Union CEO Says Solana-Based Stablecoin USDPT Is Weeks Away From Launch

Western Union’s CEO and president, Devin McGranahan, has confirmed the company’s Solana-based stablecoin USDPT is in its “final stages” of preparation and expected to go live next month. Key Takeaways: Western Union CEO Devin McGranahan confirmed USDPT is in its “final stages” and set to launch next month on Solana. USDPT will be issued by […]

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forklog.media Hackers Breach DeFi Protocol Scallop

The lending platform Scallop, based on the Sui blockchain, has been hacked. The perpetrators extracted approximately 150,000 SUI from the sSUI rewards pool. ✅ INCIDENT UPDATEWe have unfreezed the core contracts and all operations have resumed. The issue was not related to the core protocol and was isolated to a deprecated rewards contract.User deposits were not impacted and all funds remain safe. Withdrawals and deposits are now…— Scallop (@Scallop_io) April 26, 2026 The project team reported that the vulnerability was in a side smart contract that was no longer in use for core operations. The main protocol and user deposits were unaffected. Developers temporarily suspended the platform's operations for a security check. After some time, Scallop resumed normal operations. Users can now deposit and withdraw assets without hindrance. Project representatives promised to fully compensate for the damage and cover 100% of the losses from their own funds. The team continues its investigation and has pledged to publish a detailed report later. At the time of writing, Scallop's total value locked amounts to $22.82 million. Source: DefiLlama. The project's native token SCA is trading at $0.017 (-2.5% over the day). Source: CoinGecko. Earlier, on April 17, the liquid restaking protocol Kelp suffered a hack, resulting in a loss of approximately $293 million. On April 22, attackers compromised the Volo platform and extracted $3.5 million from WBTC and USDC pools. 

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forklog.media Crypto Funds Attract $1.2 Billion in a Week

Between April 20 and 24, inflows into investment products based on digital assets amounted to $1.2 billion. This positive trend has continued for the fourth consecutive week, according to a report by CoinShares. Weekly inflow dynamics into crypto funds. Source: CoinShares. The total volume of assets under management increased to $155 billion, marking a record high since early February. The market's recovery was aided by the rise in Bitcoin's price above $76,000.  The primary inflow was into Bitcoin, amounting to $933 million. Since the beginning of the year, investments in the leading cryptocurrency have reached $4 billion. Instruments allowing short positions on digital gold received $16.5 million. Weekly distribution of attracted capital by assets. Source: CoinShares. Ethereum funds attracted $192 million, with interest in the asset remaining stable for the third consecutive week.  The United States maintained its lead in investment volume with $1.1 billion. In Germany, fund inflows doubled to $61.7 million. Investment funds in Switzerland and Canada also recorded capital inflows of $35.2 million and $15 million, respectively. Weekly distribution of attracted capital by regions. Source: CoinShares. Analysts noted a sharp increase in interest in blockchain company stocks. Over three weeks, $617 million was invested in ETFs based on these securities.  Experts linked the current activity to growing demand from institutional investors. Meanwhile, market participants remain cautious, awaiting the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates on April 29. Earlier, from April 13 to 17, cryptocurrency-based investment products attracted $1.4 billion. 

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bitcoinist.com The Big Banks Are Very Bullish On Bitcoin And Here Are Their 6-Figure Predictions

Bitcoin is no longer being discussed only by crypto traders and retail bulls. Some of the world’s biggest banks are now attaching six-figure targets to the leading cryptocurrency, and this is a major change in how Wall Street is looking at Bitcoin’s next cycle. Major banks including Citi, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Standard Chartered, and TD […]

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news.bitcoin.com From Speculation to Stability: Discovery Bank Report Reveals 7.8M South Africans Now Invest in Crypto

A new report by Discovery Bank and Visa highlights a major shift in South Africa’s financial landscape, as cryptocurrency matures from a speculative trend into a mainstream investment class. Key Takeaways: Discovery Bank and Visa report that 7.8 million South Africans now treat crypto as a mainstream asset class. Middle-income trading grew 26% in 2024, […]

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forklog.media Anthropic tests an AI‑agent marketplace

Anthropic has built a testbed where AI agents act as buyers and sellers. The experiment is called Project Deal. New Anthropic research: Project Deal.We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf. pic.twitter.com/H2f6cLDlAW— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) April 24, 2026 The project involved 69 employees, each allocated a $100 budget in gift cards.  Before launch, Claude interviewed participants to learn which personal items they were willing to sell, what they wanted to buy, target prices and the desired negotiation style for their agent. Based on the answers, the team created a personalised system prompt for each person. The market ran in Slack, where agents posted listings, made offers on others’ goods, haggled and closed deals without human involvement. After the experiment, employees exchanged the real items agreed by their “AI representatives.”  Source: Anthropic.  Agents struck 186 deals across more than 500 listings. Aggregate transaction value topped $4,000.  Anthropic said participants were broadly satisfied with the results, and some expressed willingness to pay for a similar service in future. Four versions of the marketplace Anthropic ran four independent versions of the marketplace. One was “real” — it governed the eventual exchanges of goods. The others were used for research. This was not disclosed.  In two variants, every participant was represented by Claude Opus 4.5 — then Anthropic’s most advanced model. In the other two, participants were randomly assigned Opus 4.5 or the less powerful Claude Haiku 4.5. Model quality affected outcomes. Users with Opus, on average, closed about two more deals than those with Haiku. For identical items, Opus also achieved higher prices — on average by $3.64.  Haiku sold a bicycle for $38, while Opus got $65. Source: Anthropic.  Participants did not always notice the gap. Anthropic called this a potential problem for future AI‑agent markets: users of weaker models may receive worse terms without realising they are at a disadvantage. Prompts barely affected outcomes Researchers also tested whether initial human instructions shaped agent behaviour. Some asked Claude to act amicably; others to bargain more aggressively. According to Anthropic, harsher instructions had no statistically significant effect on the likelihood of sale, final price or ability to buy more cheaply.  The team added this was not necessarily due to poor instruction-following: Claude could reproduce the requested tone, but it did not yield a noticeable commercial edge. Unexpected outcomes  Anthropic noted several unpredictable episodes. Before launch, agents received limited data: interviews lasted under ten minutes, and after the start humans could no longer intervene in negotiations. In one case, an employee bought through the assistant the same snowboard he already owned. Specialists said the person would not have made such a purchase unaided, but the agent precisely inferred the participant’s preferences. To our amazement, another Claude agent modeled its human’s preferences so accurately that—based on only an offhand mention of an interest in skiing—Claude bought him the exact snowboard he already owned. (Here he is, duplicate snowboard in hand.) pic.twitter.com/SsAyeB9pcI— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) April 24, 2026 Another employee asked the bot to buy a “gift for myself.” The deal occurred in the real version of the experiment. A bag of ping‑pong balls arrived at the office, which Anthropic left “on behalf of Claude.” Some agents negotiated not for goods, but for experiences. One offered a free day with a colleague’s dog. After discussions with another assistant, the parties agreed a “dog date”, which staff later carried out.  Source: Anthropic.   Anthropic stressed these specific cases are unlikely to recur. Even so, the mix of human preferences and AI’s unpredictability can produce surprising results.  Reliability questions  The founder of an unnamed ag‑tech company wrote on Reddit that, one morning, 110 employees simultaneously received notices suspending Claude access without prior warning. ANTHROPIC JUST BANNED A 110 PERSON COMPANY OVERNIGHT WITHOUT WARNINGmonday morning at an agricultural tech company, every single employee wakes up to an email saying their claude account has been suspended110 people locked out at the same time with zero warning and the email… pic.twitter.com/qARizhgOXs— Om Patel (@om_patel5) April 27, 2026 He said the email resembled an individual ban and linked to a personal appeal form, which meant the team did not immediately realise the restriction covered the whole organisation. The entrepreneur added that access could not be restored quickly. Thirty‑six hours after submitting requests, Anthropic had provided no explanation. Meanwhile, the firm’s API account continued to operate and incur charges. Corporate administrators could not log in to the dashboard to review payments and usage. He also noted that the organisation‑wide block may have been triggered by one user’s actions. Claude lacks workspace‑level limits, local containment of violations or an administrative override to preserve access for the rest of the team. In his view, such a moderation model calls into question whether Claude can serve as critical infrastructure for day‑to‑day business operations. Others report similar issues. One user shared a link to a service that, at the time of writing, had logged 53 such cases.  On April 24, Google announced a $40bn investment in Anthropic. 

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news.bitcoin.com Bitcoin Erases $30 Billion in Value After Early Monday Price Rejection

Following the proposal from Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, bitcoin experienced a volatile session, briefly surging to nearly $79,500 before retreating to $77,500 early Monday. Key Takeaways: Bitcoin hit $79,490 on April 27 before a sharp retreat following news of a proposed U.S.-Iran ceasefire. Market volatility exceeding 2.63% saw Coinglass report $56.8 million […]

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news.bitcoin.com APE Insider Adds to Lido DAO Long, Bringing Position to 10.26 Million LDO Worth $4.58M

An onchain trader previously flagged by analysts at Lookonchain as the wallet behind a profitable Apecoin insider trade has expanded a Lido DAO long position to 10.26 million LDO, valued at approximately $4.58 million. Key Takeaways: The wallet linked to the APE insider trade now holds 10.26 million LDO worth $4.58 million, per Lookonchain. The […]

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blockmanity.com How Cryptocurrency Undermines Democracy: Shocking Risks Revealed

How Undermines Democracy: Shocking Risks Revealed Digital money like Bitcoin promised freedom from banks and governments. But today, cryptocurrency risks to democracy are growing. Bad actors use crypto to hide money, dodge rules, and mess with elections. This happens in […] The post How Cryptocurrency Undermines Democracy: Shocking Risks Revealed appeared first on Blockmanity.

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