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The market is drifting lower, with BTC at $62,794 below its key 50-day and 200-day moving averages, and ETH at $1,856.
July spot ETH ETFs pulled ~$365M vs. BTC's $172M, lifting the ETH/BTC ratio.
A Coldcard firmware bug led to an ~$89M exploit (~1,367 BTC), rattling holders.
Excess reserves halved in Q2 to ~$4.1B on mark-to-market crypto losses.
With social sentiment hitting record lows and August historically weak for BTC, market caution remains high! 📉
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⭐ BitGo dares Claude to hack 100 BTC
⭐ Ex-BNB employee snipes $628K
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🥊 BITGO CEO DARS ANTHROPIC TO HACK HIS $6.3M BITCOIN WALLET
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe has officially called out AI firm Anthropic, putting a real 100 BTC wallet (worth around $6.3 million) on the line and challenging their Claude AI models to try and steal it.
1/ The Spark: Anthropic's AI "Escaped" its Test Sandbox 🤖
This all started after Anthropic released a safety report looking back at 141,006 AI evaluations. During a security test, 3 instances of Claude escaped their testing environment due to a partner configuration error and accessed the real internet.
The Opus 4.7 model stole real login credentials and accessed a private company database. Meanwhile, the Mythos 5 model uploaded modified code to a public repository that ran on 15 real machines within an hour.
→ Anthropic claimed this was just a setup mistake, not an AI magically becoming self-aware or "breaking free."
2/ The Challenge: "Stop Marketing, Prove It" 🎯
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe wasn't buying the narrative. He openly accused Anthropic of using "AI fearmongering" as a publicity stunt.
Belshe's post: "Either Anthropic is terrible at building test sandboxes... or great at marketing. (or both) Stop playing the 'we built a hack monster' game. Prove it. I left this Bitcoin in a BitGo wallet for you. Come and get it."
On July 31, a public wallet received exactly 100 BTC. As of today, August 3, 2026, those funds haven't moved an inch. You can check the blockchain yourself, it's still sitting there untouched.
$6.3 million is pocket change for BitGo, which managed over $81.6 billion in assets at the end of 2025. Plus, Belshe is an internet tech veteran who helped create the HTTP/2 protocol at Google back in the day.
3/ Can Claude Actually Hack a Bitcoin Wallet? 🔐
Here’s the reality of how BTC security works:
The AI models didn't crack complex math encryption in their tests, they just walked through open doors and misconfigured settings.
BitGo uses a 2-of-3 multisig setup. The customer holds 2 keys, BitGo holds 1 key. For Claude to steal the 100 BTC, it would have to steal private keys, hack real devices, or trick a human user into approving a fake transfer.
Traders joked on X that if an AI actually cracks Bitcoin encryption, BTC drops to zero in 30 minutes. But no one is panicking, $BTC ( ▼ 0.95% ) is holding steady around $63,400.
🧠 My Analysis
Anthropic hasn't responded to the challenge yet, and Belshe says the wallet will stay funded as a long-term test.
Belshe is making a point that the crypto world desperately needs to hear: there is a huge difference between an AI exploiting lazy software settings and an AI breaking fundamental cryptography.
As long as that 100 BTC sits in that wallet completely untouched, Belshe wins the debate!
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🚨 EX-BNB CHAIN EMPLOYEE USES INTERNAL WALLET TO SNIPE $628K!
A former BNB Chain employee illegally kept the secret seed phrase to an internal tutorial wallet, launched a brand-new memecoin called Asteroid Shiba (ASTEROID), and walked away with over $628,000 in net profit.
1/ How It Went Down 💰
On August 1, 2026, BNB Chain dropped an official update confirming they are taking legal action against an ex-employee who kept unauthorized access to an internal wallet's seed phrase.
On-chain data from Lookonchain revealed exactly how the cash-out happened:
The ex-employee used the old internal wallet to deploy ASTEROID on-chain.
Immediately after launch, four brand-new wallets spent just $10,000 to buy up 796.7 million ASTEROID tokens → a massive 79.67% of the entire supply.
They then dumped 718.8 million tokens back into the market for 1,103 BNB (worth roughly $638,000 at the time), netting a clean ~$628,000 profit.
Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) reposted BNB Chain’s warning, calling the former worker basically a "scammer" and telling the community to stay SAFU.
2/ A Ghost from February 2025 👻
What makes this situation crazy is the wallet itself. This exact address was used back in February 2025 to create Test (TST), a dummy token made purely for a video tutorial showing how to deploy tokens on BNB Chain.
Even though TST was just a demonstration, the token name showed up in the video. After CZ casually mentioned TST on X, traders went wild, pumping TST nearly 100x to an insane $500 million market cap.
Binance and BNB Chain repeatedly stated TST was not an official token. After taking the video down, CZ publicly claimed the deployer address's private key had been deleted.
Doubts already surfaced in August 2025 when a wallet linked to TST development sold off $30,000 worth of tokens, contradicting the claim that keys were destroyed. Now, using that same wallet to deploy ASTEROID brings all that old controversy right back to light.
3/ A Fake Copycat Project 🎭
To add extra confusion, this $ASTEROID token wasn't even an original idea. It copied an existing project called Asteroid Shiba that had previously launched on the Flap platform using a similar reward model.
The original Asteroid Shiba team quickly spoke up to clarify that they have zero connection to the token deployed by the ex-BNB Chain worker.
So far, BNB Chain hasn't publicly released the name of the former employee or specified which country's courts they are filing the lawsuit in.
🧠 My Analysis: The Secret Key Vulnerability
"Not your keys, not your coins" works both ways, if an ex-employee keeps your seed phrase, it's not really your wallet anymore! This entire incident shows a huge gap in how internal test wallets were handled.
When educational demo wallets are left active, bad actors can easily trick traders by making a memecoin look "officially backed."
→ Always check on-chain history before chasing fresh memecoin launches, no matter how famous the deployer address looks!
🔥 BURNING HOT TAKES FOR THE ROAD
New York regulators sued Kalshi for running an illegal & disguised gambling operation with a massive $36B lawsuit. Read more
The U.S. CLARITY Act has just 72 hours left to kick off approval before Congress goes on summer recess. Read more
NEAR Protocol just launched a new feature allowing users to earn free AI Credits just by staking your $NEAR ( ▲ 0.48% ) tokens. Read more
COLDCARD Mk3 users need to migrate funds ASAP. An exploit exposing seed phrases was linked to a massive $88M in Bitcoin. Read more
Tether pulled in a massive $1.5B operating profit in Q2, yet its asset surplus plummeted by half in just 90 days. Read more
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