Security· ★★★· bearish·

Daily digest: Drift hacker moves $61M in ETH, Mastercard opens AI-agent payments

  • —Drift-linked hacker sent 25,700 ETH worth $61M to Tornado Cash, 81,454 ETH remain
  • —Mastercard opened early developer access to AI-agent payments via x402
  • —Circle and Allaria to provide two-way USDC/ARS quotes for institutions
  • —NGRAVE phishing hit about 84 wallets with losses of $2.65 million
Why it matters: The digest captures three trends: laundering of large stolen sums, TradFi's push into AI-agent payments, and growing institutional USDC use in Argentina.
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Source: DiarioBitcoin
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