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White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks is changing titles and joining the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology as co-chair, he announced Thursday. Sacks, who was named U.S. President Donald Trump’s crypto and AI czar before Trump retook office last January, has overseen the White House’s early work on crypto initiatives, including the passage of the stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act and more recently, work around the crypto market structure bill. “PCAST is the principal body of external advisors tasked with shaping science, technology, and innovation policy for the President and the White House,” he said in a…

Celo’s gamble on becoming an Ethereum Layer 2 has paid off. One year after migrating from a standalone blockchain, the network now leads all Ethereum L2s in daily active users while processing over $65 billion in stablecoin volume.The March 26, 2025 migration—built on Optimism’s OP Stack with support from 100+ launch partners—preserved nearly five years of transaction history while slashing security costs by 99.8%. CELO currently trades at $0.083, up 2.18% in the past 24 hours.The Numbers Tell the StoryPeak daily active users hit 840,000, making Celo the top Ethereum L2 by this metric. Monthly actives reached an all-time high…

Michael Selig, chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said blockchain could play a key role in verifying AI-generated content, contending the technology can help distinguish authentic media from synthetic outputs as concerns over misinformation grow.During an appearance on The Pomp Podcast on Thursday, Selig was asked by host Anthony Pompliano about the use of AI-generated memes and images in markets, and whether intent matters or such content should be restricted altogether. He told Pompliano:The private markets have solutions — blockchain technology is a great one. If you can timestamp things and make sure there’s an identifier for each…

Coinbase is walking a tightrope in the negotiation over the Clarity Act, telling the staffs of U.S. senators that the company is not happy with where the lawmakers landed in their latest compromise, according to people familiar with the situation, but it hasn’t openly declared its opposition.The proposed agreement was shown to stakeholders in the crypto industry on Monday and the banking industry on Tuesday. From the crypto industry side, it received mixed reactions, according to people familiar with the meeting on Monday. Some stakeholders were dissatisfied — most notably Coinbase — but others were “pleasantly surprised,” one of the…

OpenAI has launched a public Safety Bug Bounty program aimed at identifying AI abuse and safety risks across its product suite, marking a significant expansion of the company’s approach to securing increasingly autonomous AI systems. The program, announced March 25, 2026, specifically targets vulnerabilities in agentic AI products that could lead to real-world harm.The new initiative complements OpenAI’s existing Security Bug Bounty by accepting submissions that pose meaningful abuse and safety risks even when they don’t qualify as traditional security vulnerabilities. Researchers who identify issues will have their submissions triaged by both Safety and Security teams, with reports routed between…

Opinion by: Joshua Kim, CEO and founder of DonaFi.Traditional crowdfunding has always been pitched as a lifeline for creators. For non-fungible token (NFT) artists, most centralized models feel out of sync with reality. Fees are high, visibility is inconsistent and platforms increasingly optimize for momentum rather than need. During a market downturn, when liquidity dries up dramatically, the deck is stacked even higher against artists.Decentralized crowdfunding ensures a more direct, transparent capital flow onchain from collectors who care about art, as opposed to quick flips. The recent effort led by longtime collector Batsoupyum and curator Lanett Bennett Grant makes the…

NEW YORK — BNY Mellon CEO Robin Vince said the next phase of crypto adoption will depend on large financial institutions, arguing that banks are positioned to connect digital assets with the broader financial system.“We can act as a very effective bridge between the traditional finance and the digital finance ecosystems,” Vince said during a conversation at the Digital Asset Summit in New York on Tuesday.His comments come as long-established banks expand their role in digital assets after years of caution. BNY Mellon was among the first major custodians to offer digital asset custody, and Vince framed that move as…

Moda has revealed the technical architecture behind its AI-native design platform, showcasing a three-agent system built on LangChain’s Deep Agents framework that lets marketers, founders, and small business owners produce professional presentations and marketing materials without design expertise.The platform—positioned as a Canva alternative with Cursor-style AI assistance—addresses a fundamental problem in AI-generated design: LLMs struggle with visual layouts because they’re terrible at reasoning about pixel coordinates.Why PowerPoint’s DNA Breaks AI DesignMost design tools rely on formats like PowerPoint’s XML spec, which uses absolute XY coordinates to position elements. “LLMs are not good at math,” said Ravi Parikh, highlighting why AI-generated…

NVIDIA has released OpenShell, an open-source runtime designed to lock down autonomous AI agents through kernel-level isolation and policy enforcement. The Apache 2.0-licensed tool addresses a growing problem: AI agents that can read files, execute code, and modify systems also represent significant security liabilities.The core innovation here is separating what an agent wants to do from what it’s allowed to do. OpenShell sits between the AI and the operating system, using Linux Landlock LSM to create sandboxed environments where agents operate under strict constraints they cannot override—even if compromised.How It Actually WorksThink of it like browser tabs for AI agents.…

BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink used his annual letter to shareholders to argue that digital assets and tokenization could help update the financial system, even as he warned that the U.S. economic model is leaving too many people behind.In the letter, Fink said the current system has delivered most of its gains to people who already own assets, while many workers have been shut out of market growth. He tied that imbalance to a wider problem in the U.S., where rising inequality, high government debt and weak participation in capital markets are putting pressure on the old model of…