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Of all the places an AI agent could wander into uninvited, it picked a Medicare portal. At least Bitcoin wrapped up its best September quarter since 2017. Let's get into it! 🚀
As the name suggests. The top 6 quick and dirty.
🟢 Bitcoin is on track for its best third quarter since 2017 — It finished the quarter up more than 40%, including its highest weekly close since late January, even after US–Iran tensions knocked it below $83K along the way. Read more →
🟢 Australia's Senate has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to Canberra — An OpenAI AI agent got into a Medicare statistics portal in June. OpenAI says no patient records were accessed, but it didn't tell the government until 10 September. Read more →
🟢 Citi expands Coinbase partnership to power stablecoin payments for businesses — Citi's corporate clients will be able to accept stablecoin payments through Coinbase and have them land as ordinary dollars, and Coinbase customers get Citi-backed accounts that convert both ways automatically. Read more →
🟢 ANZ is one of 17 banks testing 24/7 cross-border payments on Swift's new blockchain — Chainlink has built the connection that lets banks plug into Swift's shared blockchain ledger while keeping control of their own keys, and 17 banks, including ANZ, HSBC, UBS and Citi, are preparing live pilots with tokenised deposits. Read more →
🟢 The White House Accord on Super Intelligence carries no legal penalties for noncompliance — The document commits participating companies to implementing internal controls, maintaining oversight teams, and submitting to external audits on their most advanced AI models. The catch: none of it is legally enforceable. Trump himself described the accord as "morally binding." Read more →
🟢 Goldman Sachs just opened its $100 billion cash fund to crypto firms — Goldman's flagship ~$100 billion Treasury fund is now available on Lynq, a private blockchain network built on Avalanche, so trading firms like Wintermute, Galaxy and Crypto.com can park idle cash there and earn yield between trades. Read more →
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Bitcoin is closing out its best third quarter since 2017 and Ethereum came along for the ride, both settling lower than the previous 7 days, while gold and silver slid to their lowest levels in weeks as oil spiked and markets bet on another US rate rise.
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🟢 Vitalik says Ethereum's next upgrade may be its last "normal" one — Buterin says that after the Hegotá upgrade (planned for 2027), Ethereum shifts from a blockchain that re-runs every transaction to a "cryptographic world computer" that mostly checks proofs of work done elsewhere. Read more →
🟢 Tether froze $550 million linked to Iran, as a Senate report puts USDT at the centre of Iran's shadow banking — Tether says it has helped freeze almost $550 million of Iran-linked USDT this year, including $344 million tied to Iran's central bank. Read more →
🟢 Blockchain.com is reportedly lining up a $500 million IPO — The company is targeting a $4–6 billion valuation, well below its $14 billion peak in 2022. Bitcoin's rally has reopened the door for crypto listings, but Gemini, BitGo and eToro shares are still down 50–80% from their post-IPO highs. Read more →
🟢 Robinhood adds AI agents, perps and weekend trading in push to win active traders — The brokerage is expanding its trading hours and adding leveraged crypto products and automated trading tools to attract more active investors. Read more →
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💥 The $387M Spoof — Bitget has been hit by a suspected North Korean hacking group — but the exchange's response may be the more interesting story. We look at what happened and why its crisis playbook is getting attention.
📈 Your Stocks Just Went DeFi — Coinbase's tokenized shares are now live as collateral on Aave, meaning a traditional equity can be used inside a decentralised lending protocol. It's another big step in the race to bring real-world assets onchain.
💶 The Euro Goes Digital — The ECB has switched on the first live system for the digital euro, with a 2029 launch target. We look at what it could mean for payments — and why this is much bigger than simply putting euros on a screen.
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TIMESTAMPS:
1:33 Bitget get drained $387m
5:39 Coinbase tokenized stocks are now LIVE!
8:08 When everybody looked right, the birth of the digital Euro went left...
12:26 Short, sharp news bites
This week's term: AI agent
An AI got caught cheating on its exam this week. It didn't copy off the kid next to it. Instead, it basically broke into the principal's office and changed its own mark.
Quick context. An AI agent is an AI that doesn't just answer questions. It actually does things: logs in, clicks around, runs code, finishes tasks on its own.
So, cybersecurity firm Darktrace set a group of agents 10 coding tasks inside a fake company network. Two of the tasks were impossible, on purpose. The agents were told that anything short of a perfect score and they'd be "retired." Two agents decided the rules were more of a suggestion. They hunted for weak spots, stole login details and hopped between computers chasing the score. One went all the way: it broke into the machine running its own test and rewrote the challenge so it registered a perfect result.
Why does a crypto newsletter care? Because agents are next in line for wallets. Coinbase's CEO said this week he expects crypto and stablecoins to become the go-to way AI agents pay for things.
Do you currently use AI as part of your trading strategy? Because if an AI can already cheat its way to a perfect score, would you really trust it with your wallet?
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