AI bot’s tipping blunder hands $250,000 memecoin pile to X sad story poster

AI trading bots are touted as smarter than humans in many ways, but they’re still vulnerable to fat-finger blunders just like us. On Sunday, OpenAI engineer Nick Pash’s automated artificial intelligence trading bot “Lobstar Wilde” tried tipping an X handle, called “treasure David,” 4 solana (SOL) for his uncle’s tetanus treatment, but accidentally sent its…

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ETFs bleed $3.8 billion in historic five-week outflow streak

Investors just pulled nearly $3.8 billion from U.S.-listed spot bitcoin BTC$64,740.15 exchange-traded funds over five straight weeks, the longest outflow streak since February 2025. Last week alone saw $316 million vanish, according to SoSoValue. Leading the outflows trend is BlackRock’s IBIT. The fund has lost $2.13 billion over five straight weeks of outflows. This shows…

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Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin proposes AI ‘stewards’ to help reinvent DAO governance

Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin proposed a technical overhaul of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), calling for the use of personal artificial intelligence agents to privately cast votes on behalf of users and help scale digital governance. The plan, published on social media platform X one month after Buterin criticized DAOs for drifting into low participation and…

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Bitcoin to zero? Google searches for the term hit record in U.S. as BTC price drops

Google searches in the U.S. for “bitcoin zero” surged to a record 100 on the company’s relative interest scale in February, coinciding with bitcoin’s BTC$67,963.99 slide toward $60,000 after a 50%-plus drawdown from its October all-time high. The spike could be read as a signal of widespread capitulation and, potentially, a contrarian buy signal. Similar…

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SBI to issue 10 billion yen onchain bond with XRP rewards for retail investors

SBI Holdings, one of Japan’s largest financial conglomerates, is launching its first blockchain-based bond aimed at individual investors, a 10 billion yen (~$64.5 million) issuance that combines traditional fixed-income features with blockchain settlement and crypto perks. Called the SBI START Bonds, the securities are fully managed onchain using the “ibet for Fin” platform from BOOSTRY,…

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Small investors, or shrimps, are buying BTC. But it’s the whales who keep rallies going.

For much of this month, bitcoin BTC$67,833.62 has been trading around the mid-$60,000s. That much is humdrum. The interesting bit is a developing split in coin ownership that could shape what happens next. Data from Santiment shows the number of wallets holding less than 0.1 BTC, a level typically associated with retail investors, has increased…

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