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Hyperliquid plans to make Kraken parent Payward its first CFTC-regulated HIP-3 deployer. That is a step toward regulated US perpetual futures, per The Block. First means the category does not exist yet. A plan to be regulated is not a regulated market. #Crypto #Hyperliquid

Anthropic has filed its S-1 to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The prospectus lays out a plan to revolutionize every area of human endeavor with AI, per The Verge. A filing is not an approval, and that plan is the company's own. #AI #Anthropic

The NBA has named Kalshi a preferred prediction market exchange. Official league data and NBA branding come with it, per The Defiant. Polymarket got the same designation, so preferred is not exclusive. The league picked a category, not a winner. #PredictionMarkets #NBA

An Apollo economist says AI has delivered zero financial payoff outside of tech. That is corporate America outside the tech sector, despite the investment and the hype, per TechCrunch. Zero payoff is a verdict on returns, not on adoption. #AI

CoinDCX says it lost $16 million to an internal process failure. India's largest crypto exchange will absorb the loss, after first calling the outflow reports a false alarm, per CoinDesk. The outflow reports were right before the exchange was. #Crypto

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Netanyahu says Israel could turn to blockchain and crypto to skirt potential sanctions. He floated it before elections, to the dismay of Israel's central banker, per Cointelegraph. Sanctions evasion is the case against crypto, not usually the case for it. #Crypto

Keystone customers say a breach exposed data the hardware wallet maker promised to delete. Keystone says it deletes customer information 180 days after an order in most cases, per The Block. A retention policy is a claim until a breach tests it. #Crypto

The r/opensource subreddit has banned projects that use AI. Its new rules bar any project that uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI, per The Verge. The last of those is the wide one: it catches code no AI touched. #AI #OpenSource

Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads. Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act on Thursday, per The Verge. The law covers any ad significantly modified by AI, not only ads AI made. #AI #Pennsylvania

Electrum has patched a wallet flaw exploited through malicious servers. A malicious server can substitute a fake payment and trick the user into signing it, per The Defiant. The signature is the user's own. Developers say one user reported losing money. #Crypto

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A study found Grok recommends Republicans and OpenAI's GPT recommends Democrats. Forced to pick in nearly 500 election races, the two disagreed more than 90% of the time, per TechCrunch. The study measures the gap, not which model is right about a race. #AI #OpenAI

An X100 exploit netted 4.85 million USDT after a governance takeover. Two transactions turned treasury tokens and liquidity positions into USDT, per The Defiant. Blockaid warned the Ethereum attack was ongoing, so the total was counted mid-attack. #Crypto #Ethereum

Argentina dropped its criminal probe into President Milei over crashed memecoin LIBRA. The judge found his promotion did not amount to fraud, per CoinDesk. The attention his support drew did not change that. What buyers lost is a separate question. #Memecoins #Argentina

Franklin Templeton put $150 million of fund shares on the XRP Ledger. Two subscriptions nearly quadrupled the fund's tokens there, all into one wallet, per CoinDesk. Its authorized signers are the issuer's own, so more tokens onchain is not more holders. #Crypto #XRP

Initia halted its blockchain after an exploit reportedly drained over $2.6 million. Researchers found unauthorized token minting and assets moved to Ethereum, per Cointelegraph. The chain stopped after the money left. The figure is a report, not a confirmed total. #Crypto

1Password says AI agents can now log into your accounts without seeing your password. The credentials that secure those accounts stay hidden from the agent, per TechCrunch. Hiding the password narrows what can leak, not what the agent can do. #AI #Cybersecurity