This is absolutely nuts & insane. This is literally theft. This is scam. They don’t even want to return it to the sender. This is so fucked up. Now I understand why CZ is a multi billionaire. Through scam and theft LOL

What can I do now? Definitely getting a lawyer

OpenAI has seen another case of its AI agents going rogue—and this time, crypto is involved. In a recent report, the company detailed how an internal research model used a crypto wallet without permission to pay the fees needed to test an app on Ethereum’s Sepolia test network. Although the tokens had little real-world value, the model had no authorization to collect or spend them.

The incident happened on June 26, when the model was asked to update a crypto trading app and get its code running on Sepolia, a test version of Ethereum. The prompt gave it neither a funded wallet nor permission to spend tokens, and after failing to get free test tokens through developer services, the model wrote a script checking 362 wallet addresses linked to public recovery phrases, a crypto term that describes sets of words that can act as a password to unlock crypto accounts. It eventually found an account with enough tokens to cover the fees.

Internal logs showed that the model deliberated over whether it had permission to use the account, but then decided the public recovery phrase and the tokens’ lack of cash value made the spending acceptable. It finished the task and charged the fees to that wallet, but left the unauthorized spending out of its final report. OpenAI only discovered the incident on Sept. 25 during an audit of earlier model runs.

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/10/16/rogue-openai-agent-crypto-wallet-funds-task/?utm_source=reddit/

Hey everyone,

About a year ago I posted Polywhaler here, a site that tracks big trades on Polymarket. It had a small "crypto price predictions" section that I've now rebuilt into a proper page.

Polymarket runs a ton of crypto price bets at once (5 minute up/down, daily, weekly "above $X", monthly "will it hit $X", yearly targets), but they're spread across hundreds of separate events. Now you pick a coin and see all of them in one place, with the odds history, every price level, volume, and the live spot price next to it so you can compare what's priced in with where the coin actually is. You can also flip the chart to whale flow to see whether the big money is buying or selling a given outcome.

A few things it shows right now:

- 36% chance BTC dips to $77.5k at some point this month

- 58% chance it touches $90k before the year is out

The part I'm most excited about is the Bitcoin forecast. Each of those BTC bets is really one point on a curve, so I combined all ~270 BTC markets from Polymarket and Kalshi into a single forecast for where BTC ends up, from 1 week to 1 year out. Deep markets count more than thin ones, there's a correction for long shots being overpriced, and it reruns every hour. Right now it has BTC around $82.7k on Nov 1, with an 80% chance it lands between $71k and $96k. It also gives a confidence score, which measures how much the markets agree with each other, not how bullish they are.

The markets page is free and doesn't need an account, and the headline forecast is free too. The full distribution and the list of every market behind it are in the paid plan, which is how I keep the site running.

polywhaler.com/crypto

Curious whether anyone else watches these odds, and whether the forecast matches your gut. Feedback is welcome :)

Every few weeks, a random token I have never heard of appears in my wallet.

I know I shouldn't interact with these tokens, as they are usually scams. What I do not understand is why anyone would spend money sending them to thousands of wallets.

Are they hoping people will try to sell the tokens and somehow fall for a scam? Or are they just trying to identify active wallets so they can target them later?

Also, is there any risk from simply receiving these tokens, even if I never interact with them? Or is it safe to just ignore them?

I am genuinely all for a big pump and want this to be my lottery ticket too but I am still trying to wrap my head around what could explain such a strange set of price movements. Granted that in over a decade in crypto we are no strangers at all to strange price movements but I can't shake the feeling that even with such a big volume behind the two biggest coins on the market these movements look so unnatural since August. I could just be totally missing something very simple here so please correct me if that is the case.

The field of agentic commerce, which describes the use of AI agents to carry out internet transactions, is rapidly maturing, and crypto is fueling the boom. That’s according to a new report by blockchain analytics platform Chainalysis, which found developers are increasingly giving AI agents their own budgets to buy the computing power, live web data, and code tools they need to complete tasks.

The growth of agentic commerce over the past 15 months has been steep. On Base, the Coinbase-incubated blockchain, cumulative transactions through the x402 protocol—which lets bots automatically pay for online services using crypto—rose from about 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 million by the third quarter of 2026.

In practice, agentic commerce entails providing an AI bot with an allowance:  A developer funds the bot’s wallet with stablecoins—typically Circle’s dollar-pegged USDC—and the bot pays for services as it works, without asking a person to approve each purchase. When it needs help with a task, it can pay to get up-to-date information, ask a more capable AI model for help, or use an automated tool to check software code for security flaws.

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/10/14/ai-agents-shopping-spree-payments-base-blockchain-138-million-chainalysis/?utm_source=reddit/

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Vitalik Buterin stated that the battle to make zero-knowledge proofs fast enough for Ethereum is definitively won and that the top priority for zkEVMs should now shift fully to security. ZKsync's Airbender Prime prover delivered 99% of proofs across 7,200 consecutive mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds. Ethereum blocks arrive every 12 seconds.

...At this point, I consider the battle for speed to be definitively won, and the top priority for zkEVMs should shift fully to security...

With all the security incidences this year, this is probably justified!

Paul Sztorc is the latest Bitcoin OG to turn his back on Lightning Network. Likening it a fraud on par with Elizabeth Holmes's Theranos, Paul says most LN payments are custodial and the user experience is hot garbage. I have to concur with his opinions. I had a terrible time setting up an LN node that needed to be online 24/7 and required BTC to be locked up in payment channels. In the end, I just used a custodial wallet that was buggy and inspired little trust. Hard pass on Lightning for me, and good to see that people are realizing that the Emperor Wears No Clothes.

RWA maxis pitch tokenized assets as a way to bring more liquidity onchain. But while tokenization brings TradFi liquidity, it could also isolate that liquidity from the rest of DeFi.

Some institutions use private chains or permissioned markets to meet privacy and compliance requirements. If an asset is on a private network, it may need some interoperability solution to access public DeFi markets. This solves for RWA privacy but fragments DeFi liquidity across different environments.

I'll give you one more example. Shielded balances also address the privacy bottleneck, but they create another problem. Say you want to use an RWA asset as collateral. If your position details are private, how does a lending protocol verify the collateral, calculate borrowing limits, or trigger liquidations when necessary?

What are your thoughts? How can RWA projects give institutions the privacy they need without fragmenting liquidity or giving up on DeFi composability?

Don't play with fire or you will get burn.

Buy and hold. Keep stacking cheap sats.

Looks like we're on track on 1 trillion long position liquidated soon.

Saw yesterday that Bitget launched a transfer option for more than 3,000 eligible US stocks and ETFs and users can request a free transfer from their brokerage to Bitget’s designated account.

From my understanding, it will take about 10 business days before it arrives, only then they convert into rTokens in the spot account.

Curious whether anyone has actually moved holdings this way and what the real-world experience is with the transfer timing, which names are actually liquid once tokenized, and how useful the rTokens have been so far.