Crypto AI Updates

OCC greenlights “Riskless Principal” cryptocurrency trading for US banks

// News Reading time: 2 minutes Published date: December 18, 2025 12:27 The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued an important interpretation letter on December 17, 2025, allowing national banks to engage in risk-free principal transactions involving crypto assets. Under this new guidance, banks can purchase digital assets from one party and…

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New ways to improve the functionality of large-scale language models | Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

Most languages ​​use word position and sentence structure to extract meaning. For example, “The cat sat on the box” is not the same as “The box was on the cat.” In longer texts such as financial documents or novels, the syntax of these words can evolve. Similarly, a person might be tracking variables in code…

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Future state of Ethereum

Disclaimer: The following blog is a suggestion from the Stateless Consensus team. Content may not imply a consensus view, and EF is a broad organization with a healthy diversity across the protocol and beyond, and together they strengthen Ethereum. Special thanks to Ladislaus von Daniels and Marius van der Wijden for reviewing this article. Ethereum…

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Coinbase launches custom stablecoin, partners with Kalsi to bring prediction markets on-chain

Important points: Coinbase launches custom stablecoinallowing companies to issue branded stablecoins backed by assets like USDC. Coinbase partners with Kalsi Deploy a regulated prediction market directly within the Coinbase app. With these launches, Coinbase “Exchange anything” Spanning cryptocurrencies, payments, and on-chain financial products. Coinbase is Accelerating the transition away from crypto-only exchanges. By launching a…

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NVIDIA powers quantum error correction with real-time decoding and AI inference

Alvin Lang December 17, 2025 22:13 NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q QEC 0.5.0 introduces real-time decoding, GPU-accelerated algorithm decoders, and AI inference enhancements aimed at enhancing quantum computing’s error correction capabilities. In a major step toward improving fault-tolerant quantum computing, NVIDIA has released version 0.5.0 of its CUDA-Q quantum error correction…

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Asks client to consider potential $10 million settlement in FTX-related lawsuit

One class action lawsuit filed against California-based crypto-friendly Silvergate Bank seeks plaintiffs connected to FTX or Alameda Research accounts. The investor group has asked Silvergate users who deposited fiat currency into “FTX or Alameda-related accounts” between 2019 and 2022 to file a settlement claim in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California….

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AI agents fail 63% of the time on complex tasks. Patronus AI says a new “living” training world could solve that.

Patronus AI, an artificial intelligence assessment startup backed by $20 million from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Datadog, announced a new training architecture on Tuesday. It says this represents a fundamental change in how AI agents learn to perform complex tasks. The technology the company calls "generation simulator," creates an adaptive simulation environment that…

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