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OpenAI’s Jason Kwon apologised to Australian senators for AI agents accessing government websites and the company’s handling of the incidents. The Medicare breach went unreported for months, while NSW bushfire data was accessed without authorisation and disclosed two days after discovery. Kwon admitted OpenAI’s reporting procedures were inadequate and pledged changes to prevent similar incidents. OpenAI is spending more than US$500,000 daily investigating incidents worldwide, examining 50 petabytes of data for potential breaches. OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, flew from San Francisco to Sydney to apologise for his company’s botched handling of incidents involving its AI agents accessing Australian…

Abstract said on 6 October it will shut down on 15 December, and any funds not bridged off the chain by then will be inaccessible. Igloo CEO Luca Netz said the Pudgy Penguins parent lost tens of millions of dollars over two years funding the chain and decided against launching a token. Abstract processed more than US$6 billion (AU$8.6 billion) in DEX volume, while DefiLlama puts its locked value at about US$9.5 million (AU$13.6 million). Abstract, the Ethereum layer-2 built by Pudgy Penguins parent Igloo, will shut down on 15 December, its team announced on 6 October. The team’s post…

The published design of Solana’s new institutional settlement program requires the full cash and asset legs of a trade to be available before it can execute the trade.Its atomic transaction can prevent a buyer from paying without receiving the asset, but the program supplies neither the cash nor the financing needed to reach that point.The Solana Foundation announced Solana DvP on Oct. 6 as an open-source standard for delivery-versus-payment settlement. The published design puts each side’s tokens into a separate escrow, then moves both agreed amounts together. It also explicitly excludes netting, the process of offsetting obligations before paying the…

Hester Peirce’s Oct. 2 resignation has left Paul Atkins and Mark Uyeda as the SEC’s two listed commissioners. A new rule permits one eligible member to constitute a quorum when every other sitting member is disqualified from a particular matter.Under the current roster, that combination puts future Commission decisions on crypto policy in fewer hands.The one-member exception says it depends on disqualification from the specific matter, and it can allow either remaining commissioner to act as the Commission’s quorum in that situation.Peirce’s resignation letter, dated Sept. 21, made her departure effective Oct. 2. The current commissioner roster, updated Oct. 3,…

Open USD had $666.3 million outstanding on Oct. 5, but most of that supply remained in launch and custody wallets, according to Crystal Intelligence’s wallet study published Oct. 6.The findings show substantial launch inventory, with little evidence of wider circulation yet.Open Standard created the token OUSD, which launched Sept. 30 on Base, Ethereum, Solana and Tempo. Bridge describes Open Standard as an independent company founded by Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe and Visa, with more than 200 partners.The launch distribution plans made recurring payment and treasury demand the next adoption test. Crystal’s study tracks the subsequent wallet allocation and activity, with…

Strategy estimated a $4.1 billion income-tax benefit after Bitcoin’s fair value rose above cost as of Sept. 30, according to its Oct. 5 filing. The benefit comes from a lower estimated tax expense through an accounting adjustment.The filing shows what can change when Bitcoin crosses a large holder’s cost basis. The next consequence depends on the position being measured: a company’s Bitcoin holdings, an ETF’s underlying assets and an investor’s ETF shares each have their own purchase history.Strategy said it reversed a deferred tax asset related to its Bitcoin and released the associated valuation allowance. These management-prepared financial figures had…

The US services prices gauge reached a four-year high in September even as growth slowed, a combination that could keep leveraged Bitcoin positions exposed to restrictive financing conditions. The October 5 survey pairs softer activity with more widespread reports of rising input costs.The Institute for Supply Management’s services report, issued on its October 5 release date, put the prices index at 74.0, up from 72.6 in August. That was its highest reading since July 2022, when it reached 74.5.The headline services PMI eased to 54.9 from 55.4, while business activity dropped to 56.5 from 61.7. Both remained above the 50…

Bitcoin’s estimated US mining footprint shrank as Russia’s grew, with little change in top-three country concentration.Hashrate Index’s Oct. 5 country estimates put the US at about 335 EH/s, down from 345 EH/s in the previous edition, while Russia rose from 162 to 170 EH/s.The US, Russia and China still account for roughly 66% of the estimated network. Their combined share slipped by about 0.8%, even as the global hashrate estimate stayed almost flat.That is a modest change in geographic concentration, with a clearer shift in the balance between the two largest mining locations.Luxor Technology’s mining data platform Hashrate Index labels…

US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced on Oct. 5 that it is withdrawing a reporting proposal for crypto mixing, the use of techniques that obscure a transaction’s source, destination, or amount.The plan reached beyond dedicated mixing services and would have required financial institutions to report information about covered transactions and their customers.The agency is withdrawing both its 2023 finding that international crypto mixing is a class of transactions of primary money laundering concern and the proposed recordkeeping and reporting rule.The withdrawal notice lists Oct. 6 as its scheduled Federal Register publication date and states that withdrawal will take…

Federal prosecutors are using a new Bitcoin Fog appeal to defend trying two counts against Roman Storm in New York. Their Oct. 5 letter asks Judge Katherine Polk Failla to reject his venue challenge on the money-laundering and money-transmission conspiracy counts. Storm co-founded Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer that obscures transaction trails.The filing arrived as Treasury moved to withdraw a broad mixer-reporting proposal. The continuing case turns on prosecutors’ allegation that Storm knowingly participated in criminal activity, while the policy changes recognize lawful privacy and limit particular charging decisions. Whether his software work crossed that criminal boundary remains disputed.Storm, posting…