OpenAI and Paradigm unveiled EVMbench, a benchmark to test AI agents on detecting, patching, and exploiting vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts. The dataset includes 120 high-severity bugs from 40 audit projects.
Vietnam is drafting rules to bar citizens from using overseas crypto platforms while pushing a domestic licensed exchange pilot. Five local banking and securities groups have passed the first review stage.
Long-term Bitcoin holders accumulated about 316,000 BTC in 30 days, lifting their total holdings to 15.26 million BTC, while trader realized profit margins rose to 17%, a setup one analyst compared with March 2022.
Crypto-backed PACs tied to Fairshake have spent over $8 million in House primary races across Maryland, New York, and Utah, with most of the money backing Adrian Boafo and Ritchie Torres.
Judge Margaret Garnett modified a restraining order, allowing Arbitrum DAO to transfer $71 million in ETH to Aave via on-chain governance. Participants are shielded from liability in a case tied to North Korean hacking allegations.
NUVA, backed by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, connects $19 billion in tokenized real-world assets from Figure’s Provenance blockchain to Ethereum, enabling DeFi users to trade, lend, and collateralize them via ERC-20 tokens.
Binance starts a 4-week USD1 holding airdrop distributing $40M in WLFI tokens. Hold USD1 automatically qualify; 1.2x multiplier for contract or margin collateral. First rewards on Feb 2.
The Algorand Foundation said it cut 25% of its staff because of macro pressure and the crypto downturn, one day after SEC and CFTC guidance classified ALGO as a digital commodity rather than a security.
