Author: CryptoExpert
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Claude faces ‘industrial-scale’ AI model distillation
[ad_1] Anthropic has detailed three “industrial-scale” AI model distillation campaigns by overseas labs designed to extract abilities from Claude. These competitors generated over 16 million exchanges using approximately 24,000 deceptive accounts. Their goal was to acquire proprietary logic to improve their competing platforms. The extraction technique, known as distillation, involves training a weaker system on…
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Entities Offering Crypto Derivatives Likely Fall under Specific Rules: ESMA
[ad_1] The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the financial markets regulator and supervisor in the European Union, issued a notice to remind entities to assess investment vehicles providing leverage exposure to cryptocurrencies. In a Tuesday notice, ESMA said that derivatives products, including those marketed as “perpetual futures or perpetual contracts” tied to cryptocurrencies like…
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World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin slips below dollar peg amid coordinated attack claims
[ad_1] World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump and his family, said today it fended off what it described as a multi-pronged assault on its digital asset ecosystem after its dollar-pegged stablecoin briefly lost parity with the greenback. A coordinated attack was launched against USD1 this morning. Attackers hacked several WLFI…
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Bitcoin Trades Near Fair-Value As Buyer Interest Weakens At $64K
[ad_1] Onchain data tracking Bitcoin’s (BTC) investor profitability has dropped back toward the long-term average, indicating a possible valuation reset. At the same time, crypto exchange order flow shows an easing of aggressive selling pressure, with the spot cumulative volume delta (CVD) rising marginally even as the spot trading volume dropped to $6 billion from…
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Ripple CEO Confirms White House Meeting between Crypto, Banking Reps
[ad_1] Update (Feb. 19 at 7:21 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a statement from the Crypto Council for Innovation. The White House has held another meeting between representatives from the cryptocurrency and banking industries on a market structure bill under consideration in the US Senate, seeking to iron out differences on…
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Ethereum Foundation Begins Treasury Staking with 70,000 ETH
[ad_1] TLDR: Ethereum Foundation stakes 70,000 ETH to generate yield for ecosystem operations. Validators use Dirk and Vouch for distributed signing and client diversity risk mitigation. Type 2 withdrawal credentials allow flexible balance management across validator accounts. EF launches a dedicated DeFi team to expand ecosystem projects and protocol research. Ethereum Foundation Treasury Staking Initiative…
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Bitcoin, Altcoins Fall Toward New Lows As Stocks Digest New Trump Tariffs
[ad_1] Bitcoin’s (BTC) weakness extended into the weekly open as major stocks sold off in response to US President Donald Trump’s threat to enforce a 15% global tariff after the Supreme Court ruled that his IEEPA tariffs were illegal. Market sentiment remains fragile, as the Crypto Fear & Greed Index at 5 out of 100…