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The bitcoin mining industry is undergoing the most fundamental transformation in its history, and the clearest sign isn’t the hashrate or the difficulty adjustments. It’s the balance sheets.CoinShares’ Q1 2026 mining report, published this week, reveals that the weighted average cash cost to produce one bitcoin among publicly listed miners rose to approximately $79,995 in Q4 2025. Bitcoin has traded in the $68,000 to $70,000 band, with a CoinDesk report last week estimating losses of $19,000 per BTC mined.These numbers aren’t sustainable, and the industry knows it. The response has been a wholesale pivot toward artificial intelligence infrastructure that is…

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday, expanding rules to curb public servants and those close to them from benefiting from insider trading on prediction markets tied to political or economic events they can influence or are privy to.The order prohibits “gubernatorial appointees,” public officials appointed to office by the governor of the state, from using “confidential or non-public information” gleaned from performing their duties to profit from related prediction markets.Newsom’s executive order also extends the prohibition to include spouses, family members or former business partners of the appointed officials from using non-public information to profit. “Public…

LangChain has published a detailed agent evaluation readiness checklist aimed at developers struggling to test AI agents before production deployment. The framework, authored by Victor Moreira from LangChain’s deployed engineering team, addresses a persistent gap between traditional software testing and the unique challenges of evaluating non-deterministic AI systems.The core message? Start simple. “A few end-to-end evals that test whether your agent completes its core tasks will give you a baseline immediately, even if your architecture is still changing,” the guide states.The Pre-Evaluation FoundationBefore writing a single line of evaluation code, developers should manually review 20-50 real agent traces. This hands-on…

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…