TRUMP meme co2026-10-04 01:40:56TRUMP meme coin sets third holder dinner, with top 185 invited to dine with Trump in NovemberTRUMP meme coin’s official X account said the project will hold its third holder dinner on Nov. 22 at Trump National in Virginia, near Washington, D.C. The event is open to the top 185 registered holders, with rankings determined by a time-weighted formula that rewards both larger balances and longer holding periods between Sept. 30 and Nov. 12. A final snapshot is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET on Nov. 12, and wallets must hold at least 1 TRUMP to qualify for the leaderboard. The top 29 holders will receive access to a VIP reception and front-row seating, while the top four will also receive an 18K gold Trump watch. The event page states that prizes will only be distributed in person, attendance is required, invitations are non-transferable, and VIP benefits will be revoked if holdings fall below snapshot levels after the cutoff. The page also says twice that no private meeting with the president will be arranged. According to Decrypt, the event page is operated by Fight Fight Fight LLC, the company behind the TRUMP meme coin.20
Decrypt2026-09-30 16:37:36Decrypt launches The Information Exchange on Solana with Myriad and MYRDecrypt has announced The Information Exchange, a new information and financial network built on Solana and powered by Myriad and the MYR token. According to the announcement, the platform is designed to combine news, data, market prices, probability information, and direct participation tools in one network. Myriad will support products including prediction markets, spot markets, perpetual futures, and structured event products, while also connecting to third-party protocols and exchange offerings. The MYR token will be used to stake for network functions and to access resources such as APIs and market data. Decrypt said the rollout will happen in phases over the coming weeks, with the full launch scheduled to be completed before Solana Breakpoint.00
Bitcoin2026-09-25 09:53:06Researchers publish Shielded Bitcoin design for Zcash-like privacy on BitcoinResearchers have released a specification called Shielded Bitcoin, outlining a way to add Zcash-style privacy protections to Bitcoin transactions. According to the design, the system is intended to hide the sender, recipient, and transaction amount. The proposal has not yet detailed how bitcoin would move into and out of the shielded system, with that mechanism set to be explained in a later paper. The report also says the design could enable private transfers on Bitcoin Layer1 without requiring a soft fork of the Bitcoin network. The item was reported by Decrypt and republished by Techub as a brief market analysis update. At this stage, the available information is limited to the high-level design goals and implementation claim described in the summary.220
Sony2026-09-21 16:46:03Sony digital ownership dispute puts blockchain back in the conversationSony’s court argument that players do not truly own the digital games they buy has reopened a broader debate over what ownership means online. In a report by Decrypt, executives, researchers, and blockchain builders said the issue reaches far beyond gaming, touching ebooks, film, television, and music streaming, where purchases often amount to revocable licenses rather than durable property rights. They argued that centralized platforms retain the power to delete, edit, or restrict access to digital goods after the fact. Several of the people interviewed said blockchain and Web3 still offer a technical route toward clearer digital ownership, but only if both the ownership record and the underlying content are handled in a decentralized way. They also pointed to major shortcomings in earlier NFT models, including reliance on company-hosted files, public metadata that exposes content to anyone, and weak integration with wallets and marketplaces. While the technology for private or encrypted NFTs already exists, they said mainstream adoption still faces a credibility problem after the speculative NFT boom damaged public trust.420
Bitcoin2026-09-20 02:43:17Bitcoin jumps 5.9% in a day to reclaim $80,000 as short liquidations drive the moveBitcoin rose about 5.9% on Sept. 19, climbing from around $76,000 to above $80,000 and reaching an intraday high of $80,857, according to ABMedia. The outlet, citing Decrypt, said the rally was driven mainly by forced liquidations of short positions rather than fresh spot buying. Bitcoin had fallen to roughly $75,590 on Sept. 16, when crypto-related assets weakened after the CLARITY Act failed to clear a procedural vote in the Senate by a 49-50 margin. After two days of sideways trading, the market turned sharply higher on Friday, with Bitcoin closing near $80,874 and later trading around $80,900. From the Sept. 16 low, the gain was about 7.5%. ABMedia also cited figures saying more than $445 million in crypto short positions were liquidated, with Bitcoin accounting for about $230 million. A separate CoinGlass figure put total 24-hour liquidations at about $529 million, mostly from shorts. The report added that the liquidation data could not be independently verified by Chain News because CoinGlass raw data requires a paid key, while price data was cross-checked against market quotes. ABMedia linked the repricing to the Federal Reserve’s rate projections released alongside its Sept. 16 decision to raise rates by 25 basis points.350
OpenAI2026-09-12 16:08:48Users question GPT-6 Astra performance a week after launchOpenAI’s new flagship model, GPT-6 Astra, is facing a wave of complaints on X just one week after release, according to Decrypt. Several developers said the model now feels weaker than it did at launch, with some describing a pattern of faster responses but lower-quality output. Anonymous developer synthwavedd wrote that Astra felt "noticeably dumber" and joked that it had undergone a "post-launch lobotomy." Developer Pranjal Paliwal, who had previously praised the model, said after reviewing code written by Astra that "we don’t have AGI, we have a performance regression." Pankaj Kumar suggested OpenAI may have lowered the model’s "juice value," meaning the amount of compute used before generating an answer. Others, including Salio and researcher Md Ismail Sojal, said tests using the same prompts produced worse results than on launch day. T3Chat founder Theo offered a different view, arguing that Astra may simply be less stable than Claude Fable and that users are now posting more bad outputs after the early honeymoon period ended. OpenAI has not yet issued a statement on Astra similar to the one it made earlier about GPT-5.6 Sol.820
GTA V2026-09-12 15:03:42GTA V Mod Adds 235 Flock-Style Cameras That Track Players and Can Be Blown UpA new Grand Theft Auto V mod has placed 235 simulated Flock surveillance cameras across Los Santos, turning automated license plate readers into both a gameplay mechanic and a political statement. Built by modder WTTDOTM, the mod photographs and tracks players, reports in-game offenses to police, and lets users destroy the devices and save footage for sharing online. The release lands as real-world scrutiny of Flock Safety continues to grow in the United States, with criticism centered on privacy, police access to location records, data retention, and oversight. The article also ties the mod to a broader history of player-made game modifications, citing Cyberpunk 2077's once-unofficial Metro System mod as an example that later influenced an official feature. As Rockstar readies Grand Theft Auto VI, interest in the franchise remains high, but so does abuse of that attention, with NordVPN researchers flagging fake apps, phishing pages, and malware campaigns built around supposed GTA VI access.380
Bank for Inte2026-09-12 06:02:58BIS report says AI is shrinking banks’ window to patch software flawsAccording to Decrypt, the Bank for International Settlements said in a new report that advanced AI is cutting the amount of time banks have to fix software vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them. The report warned that periodic security reviews and scheduled patch cycles are becoming less effective against the speed of the threat. It said the gap between the discovery of a vulnerability and its exploitation has fallen from weeks to minutes. The report focused on how banks respond, arguing that financial institutions need to accelerate software remediation and speed up related authorization decisions if they want to keep up with the shorter timeline.700
