๐ค A Bitcoin bridge shut down because AI found bugs faster than the team could fix them
Boltz โ a non-custodial bridge between Lightning Network and Bitcoin's base layer โ has suspended swaps indefinitely. The reason is disarmingly honest: AI-assisted attacks are now iterating faster than a small team can patch.
No user funds were touched โ the platform is non-custodial,
The quiet irony: a project built to cut out the middleman turned out to be the weak link โ and said so plainly. Most would've just shipped a v2.
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Boltz โ a non-custodial bridge between Lightning Network and Bitcoin's base layer โ has suspended swaps indefinitely. The reason is disarmingly honest: AI-assisted attacks are now iterating faster than a small team can patch.
"Attackers now iterate faster than a team our size can find and patch."
No user funds were touched โ the platform is non-custodial,
$262K TVL per DeFiLlama. Refund APIs still work, support is available.The quiet irony: a project built to cut out the middleman turned out to be the weak link โ and said so plainly. Most would've just shipped a v2.
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๐ธ ElizaOS founder calls the token 'dead' โ down 19% to all-time low
The
Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters announced the token is "completely dead." The Eliza Foundation is winding down after settling a tokenholder lawsuit by transferring its remaining treasury to claimants. The April suit alleged false advertising and unjust enrichment; Walters called it "ridiculous" but said the project had no funds left to fight it.
Development of the open-source Eliza framework continues โ without a token. Cointelegraph had not received comment from either party by publication time.
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ElizaOS token โ formerly AI16Z โ hit a record low of $0.000284, with a market cap of $2.1 million. In January 2025, that figure was $2.5 billion.Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters announced the token is "completely dead." The Eliza Foundation is winding down after settling a tokenholder lawsuit by transferring its remaining treasury to claimants. The April suit alleged false advertising and unjust enrichment; Walters called it "ridiculous" but said the project had no funds left to fight it.
Development of the open-source Eliza framework continues โ without a token. Cointelegraph had not received comment from either party by publication time.
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๐ Daily Recap ยท Aug 07
๐ง Spotify crosses 300 million paying subscribers milestone
๐ฅ UFC fought on the White House lawn and lost millions
๐ฎ Rockstar finally shows GTA VI on August 27th
๐ค AI broke a Bitcoin bridge faster than humans could patch it
๐ ElizaOS token called 'dead' after losing 99% of value
Forward this to whoever spent the day in meetings โ they missed a lot
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
๐ง Spotify crosses 300 million paying subscribers milestone
๐ฅ UFC fought on the White House lawn and lost millions
๐ฎ Rockstar finally shows GTA VI on August 27th
๐ค AI broke a Bitcoin bridge faster than humans could patch it
๐ ElizaOS token called 'dead' after losing 99% of value
Forward this to whoever spent the day in meetings โ they missed a lot
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
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๐ฎ Game Boy Advance turns 25 โ and someone finally remade it
Not Nintendo. Ayaneo, the Chinese handheld maker, just revealed the Konkr Pocket Advance: same iconic horizontal shape, but a
Two colorways: deep navy (hello, Indigo GBA) and coral orange (Spice Orange lives). Price and release date? Ayaneo isn't saying โ classic move.
Twenty-five years Nintendo didn't bother. Turns out you just had to wait for someone else, per The Verge.
Engadget
Not Nintendo. Ayaneo, the Chinese handheld maker, just revealed the Konkr Pocket Advance: same iconic horizontal shape, but a
960ร640 LCD, full ABXY layout, USB-C, microSD, Wi-Fi โ plus a volume wheel and 3.5mm jack, because retro is in the details.Two colorways: deep navy (hello, Indigo GBA) and coral orange (Spice Orange lives). Price and release date? Ayaneo isn't saying โ classic move.
Twenty-five years Nintendo didn't bother. Turns out you just had to wait for someone else, per The Verge.
Engadget
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๐ A $9 key that outsmarts your willpower
Every app blocker has the same flaw: it's software, and software folds the moment your resolve does. One tap and the "block" is gone.
Autonomous Key goes physical. It's an NFC key for $9 โ tap it to your phone, get 60 minutes of access to your locked apps, then the door shuts again. Leave the key at the office or in another room, and opening TikTok stops being a reflex and becomes an actual decision.
Competitors charge far more: Blok
Ancient idea, new hardware: don't want to eat the cookies, don't keep them on the counter. Now that's a nine-dollar product.
TechCrunch
Every app blocker has the same flaw: it's software, and software folds the moment your resolve does. One tap and the "block" is gone.
Autonomous Key goes physical. It's an NFC key for $9 โ tap it to your phone, get 60 minutes of access to your locked apps, then the door shuts again. Leave the key at the office or in another room, and opening TikTok stops being a reflex and becomes an actual decision.
Competitors charge far more: Blok
$29, Unpluq $26.50, Brick $59. No subscription required. The catch: NFC occasionally needs multiple scans, and if you lose the key while apps are locked, the only fix right now is reinstalling the companion app.Ancient idea, new hardware: don't want to eat the cookies, don't keep them on the counter. Now that's a nine-dollar product.
TechCrunch
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๐ถ๏ธ Sunglasses with infinite battery life (no battery required)
DuckDuckGo โ the search engine built entirely on not watching you โ just released sunglasses. No camera, no mic, no battery, no electronics of any kind. They're called "Normal F\*\*\*ing Sunglasses," cost $35, and the first run sold out in under a week.
The context: Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have spent 2025 collecting bad headlines โ covert filming, changing-room footage reviewed by contractors, a class-action lawsuit, a Texas AG investigation. DEF CON and Comic Con banned them at the door.
DuckDuckGo's answer is a spec sheet that brags about absences: "zero notifications guaranteed," 0% surveillance risk, infinite charge life. The lenses are real UV400 polarized glass, per TechSpot.
The hottest wearable of the year does absolutely nothing.
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DuckDuckGo โ the search engine built entirely on not watching you โ just released sunglasses. No camera, no mic, no battery, no electronics of any kind. They're called "Normal F\*\*\*ing Sunglasses," cost $35, and the first run sold out in under a week.
The context: Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have spent 2025 collecting bad headlines โ covert filming, changing-room footage reviewed by contractors, a class-action lawsuit, a Texas AG investigation. DEF CON and Comic Con banned them at the door.
DuckDuckGo's answer is a spec sheet that brags about absences: "zero notifications guaranteed," 0% surveillance risk, infinite charge life. The lenses are real UV400 polarized glass, per TechSpot.
The hottest wearable of the year does absolutely nothing.
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๐ Finland was kind to its trees today
Rally Finland is one of WRC's fastest rounds โ forest roads that forgive mistakes roughly the way nature forgives debts. Saturday delivered that lesson to several crews at once.
Elfyn Evans, the championship leader, rolled his Toyota three times on stage 14, got pulled from a ditch by spectators, survived a lunch-break rebuild โ and somehow ended the day third overall.
Sรฉbastien Ogier was leading until stage 17, when his Toyota met the trees on a fast right-hander. The nine-time champion and co-driver Ingrassia got out unaided; Toyota's update was cautiously reassuring.
Sami Pajari inherited the lead โ 46.4 seconds clear โ with two stages left on Sunday.
Finland decided this championship needed a plot. Objective achieved.
BBC Sport
Rally Finland is one of WRC's fastest rounds โ forest roads that forgive mistakes roughly the way nature forgives debts. Saturday delivered that lesson to several crews at once.
Elfyn Evans, the championship leader, rolled his Toyota three times on stage 14, got pulled from a ditch by spectators, survived a lunch-break rebuild โ and somehow ended the day third overall.
Sรฉbastien Ogier was leading until stage 17, when his Toyota met the trees on a fast right-hander. The nine-time champion and co-driver Ingrassia got out unaided; Toyota's update was cautiously reassuring.
Sami Pajari inherited the lead โ 46.4 seconds clear โ with two stages left on Sunday.
Finland decided this championship needed a plot. Objective achieved.
BBC Sport
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๐พ Memory is the new gold โ and it's gone
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron โ the three companies that produce the vast majority of the world's DRAM and HBM โ have sold out their entire manufacturing capacity for 2027. Every last chip, allocated.
DigiTimes reports that some AI firms have been "begging" suppliers and paying above market rates just to secure whatever scraps remain. The demand driven by the AI arms race has simply outrun what fabs can physically produce โ a ceiling no amount of money or urgency can raise overnight.
The ripple effect is already hitting consumers. Xbox Series X is up
AI hoarded the future and handed gamers the invoice.
IGN
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron โ the three companies that produce the vast majority of the world's DRAM and HBM โ have sold out their entire manufacturing capacity for 2027. Every last chip, allocated.
DigiTimes reports that some AI firms have been "begging" suppliers and paying above market rates just to secure whatever scraps remain. The demand driven by the AI arms race has simply outrun what fabs can physically produce โ a ceiling no amount of money or urgency can raise overnight.
The ripple effect is already hitting consumers. Xbox Series X is up
$150, Nintendo's Switch 2 price hike is coming next month, and the iPhone 18 Pro is shaping up to breach $1,399. Hardware normally gets cheaper as it ages โ someone forgot to tell 2025 that.AI hoarded the future and handed gamers the invoice.
IGN
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๐ Daily Recap ยท Aug 08
๐ฎ Ayaneo remade the Game Boy Advance without Nintendo
๐ A $9 NFC key defeats your own screen addiction
๐ถ๏ธ DuckDuckGo launched sunglasses with zero tech inside
๐ Championship leader Evans rolled his Toyota three times
๐พ Samsung, Hynix, Micron sold out all of 2027 already
Whoever was offline today deserves to catch up โ pass this along
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
๐ฎ Ayaneo remade the Game Boy Advance without Nintendo
๐ A $9 NFC key defeats your own screen addiction
๐ถ๏ธ DuckDuckGo launched sunglasses with zero tech inside
๐ Championship leader Evans rolled his Toyota three times
๐พ Samsung, Hynix, Micron sold out all of 2027 already
Whoever was offline today deserves to catch up โ pass this along
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
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๐ธ Three first-print Pokรฉmon games sell for $2 million
First-print copies of Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow for Game Boy โ PSA-graded 9.8 and 10 โ have sold to the owner of the Dubai Collection for
First-print copies of Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow for Game Boy โ PSA-graded 9.8 and 10 โ have sold to the owner of the Dubai Collection for
$2,000,000, per IGN. The second-largest graded video game transaction ever recorded.โค1
๐ฐ๏ธ Europe signs off on IRISยฒ satellite broadband plan
The European Commission has signed a formal agreement with manufacturers, ESA and other partners to move IRISยฒ โ the EU's sovereign satellite broadband service โ from planning into full-scale deployment. Negotiations ran from January.
Under the deal, the constellation grows to 348 satellites, up 66 from the original plan. ESA says the additional spacecraft will increase secure governmental capacity by 60% within the EU and 54% globally.
IRISยฒ's primary mandate is reliable, secure connectivity for government users during emergencies, humanitarian operations and border surveillance. Broader commercial and civilian access is planned as a secondary layer, focused on areas without existing network coverage.
First launches are scheduled for 2029. Starlink currently operates more than 10,000 active satellites.
Engadget
The European Commission has signed a formal agreement with manufacturers, ESA and other partners to move IRISยฒ โ the EU's sovereign satellite broadband service โ from planning into full-scale deployment. Negotiations ran from January.
Under the deal, the constellation grows to 348 satellites, up 66 from the original plan. ESA says the additional spacecraft will increase secure governmental capacity by 60% within the EU and 54% globally.
IRISยฒ's primary mandate is reliable, secure connectivity for government users during emergencies, humanitarian operations and border surveillance. Broader commercial and civilian access is planned as a secondary layer, focused on areas without existing network coverage.
First launches are scheduled for 2029. Starlink currently operates more than 10,000 active satellites.
Engadget
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๐ Target is slitting Pokรฉmon card shrink wrap โ a retail patch, not a cure
Pokรฉmon cards have spent the last few years operating as a speculative asset: scalpers bulk-buy new releases, genuine collectors get nothing. Target now appears to have a corporate directive to cut the shrink wrap off boxes in-store and before online orders ship.
The logic is simple: a factory-sealed box is what commands the resale premium. Without the wrap, a flipper can't prove the rare pulls are untouched โ secondary value drops. For a collector who wants the cards, the packaging is beside the point.
This is a friction measure at one retailer. Scalpers will likely shift to stores without the policy. The root imbalance stays intact: The Pokรฉmon Company printed 10 billion cards last year and demand still outpaces supply. No official comment from Target yet, per IGN.
Pokรฉmon cards have spent the last few years operating as a speculative asset: scalpers bulk-buy new releases, genuine collectors get nothing. Target now appears to have a corporate directive to cut the shrink wrap off boxes in-store and before online orders ship.
The logic is simple: a factory-sealed box is what commands the resale premium. Without the wrap, a flipper can't prove the rare pulls are untouched โ secondary value drops. For a collector who wants the cards, the packaging is beside the point.
This is a friction measure at one retailer. Scalpers will likely shift to stores without the policy. The root imbalance stays intact: The Pokรฉmon Company printed 10 billion cards last year and demand still outpaces supply. No official comment from Target yet, per IGN.
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๐ฌ Four years off the screen โ look what happens
Tom Holland's Spider-Man last appeared in cinemas in 2021. Four years of absence, apparently, does wonders for demand.
*Brand New Day* has grossed $1.67 billion in 12 days โ the second-fastest film ever to cross $1 billion internationally, behind only *Avengers: Endgame*. Its second weekend alone pulled $236M overseas and $145M domestically, numbers most films never see on opening day.
Nolan's *The Odyssey*, meanwhile, crossed $1.104 billion to become his highest-grossing film ever โ past both Dark Knight entries โ and broke the all-time IMAX record previously held by *Avatar*, per Variety.
Peter Parker spent four years at home. Apparently so did everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62bIsvRcPv0
Tom Holland's Spider-Man last appeared in cinemas in 2021. Four years of absence, apparently, does wonders for demand.
*Brand New Day* has grossed $1.67 billion in 12 days โ the second-fastest film ever to cross $1 billion internationally, behind only *Avengers: Endgame*. Its second weekend alone pulled $236M overseas and $145M domestically, numbers most films never see on opening day.
Nolan's *The Odyssey*, meanwhile, crossed $1.104 billion to become his highest-grossing film ever โ past both Dark Knight entries โ and broke the all-time IMAX record previously held by *Avatar*, per Variety.
Peter Parker spent four years at home. Apparently so did everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62bIsvRcPv0
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๐ฎ Maximilian Dood uninstalled Marvel Tokon live on stream
The PC launch of the 4v4 superhero fighter has been a disaster from day one โ constant stuttering, no fixes across the whole weekend, and a Steam rating that slid to 41% positive. Famed FGC creator Maximilian Dood lasted two days before uninstalling on stream and switching to PS5, where the game apparently runs fine. IGN has the full picture.
The PC launch of the 4v4 superhero fighter has been a disaster from day one โ constant stuttering, no fixes across the whole weekend, and a Steam rating that slid to 41% positive. Famed FGC creator Maximilian Dood lasted two days before uninstalling on stream and switching to PS5, where the game apparently runs fine. IGN has the full picture.
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๐ธ Bitcoin ETFs just pulled in $853 million in a week
So here's the thing โ
The read is that institutions are quietly tiptoeing back in. The first half of the year was rough โ ETFs are still down $4.5 billion net year-to-date, and bitcoin slid all the way to $60k by June. But the mood's shifted a bit:
That said, one good week doesn't make a trend. Analysts who've watched previous bull runs say you'd want consistent weekly inflows above a billion to actually fuel a rally. The next thing to watch is the US CPI print on August 12th โ that one could move things either way.
CoinDesk has the numbers.
So here's the thing โ
BTC spot ETFs just had their best week since April: $853 million in net inflows, and out of that, $693 million went straight into BlackRock's IBIT alone.The read is that institutions are quietly tiptoeing back in. The first half of the year was rough โ ETFs are still down $4.5 billion net year-to-date, and bitcoin slid all the way to $60k by June. But the mood's shifted a bit:
BTC is sitting around $65k, and bad headlines haven't really been moving it.That said, one good week doesn't make a trend. Analysts who've watched previous bull runs say you'd want consistent weekly inflows above a billion to actually fuel a rally. The next thing to watch is the US CPI print on August 12th โ that one could move things either way.
CoinDesk has the numbers.
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๐ Daily Recap ยท Aug 11
๐ฐ๏ธ Europe's IRISยฒ satellite internet is officially happening now
๐ Target is slitting Pokรฉmon boxes to fight scalpers
๐ฌ Spider-Man took four years off and made $1.67B
๐ฎ Marvel Tokon's PC launch is a stuttering 41% disaster
๐ธ Bitcoin ETFs pulled $853M โ institutions quietly sneaking back
Someone you know had a long day and missed every single one of these โ pass it along.
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
๐ฐ๏ธ Europe's IRISยฒ satellite internet is officially happening now
๐ Target is slitting Pokรฉmon boxes to fight scalpers
๐ฌ Spider-Man took four years off and made $1.67B
๐ฎ Marvel Tokon's PC launch is a stuttering 41% disaster
๐ธ Bitcoin ETFs pulled $853M โ institutions quietly sneaking back
Someone you know had a long day and missed every single one of these โ pass it along.
CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News
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