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Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose is a journalist, lawyer, professor, and strategic planning specialist whose work has appeared in various cryptocurrency and blockchain publications. He is a native of Venezuela, and writes and translates for Decrypt US and for Decrypt Español. Disclosure: He owns less than 1 BTC.
Reach him at jose@decrypt.co

Stories by Jose Antonio Lanz

  • Elon Musk and Changpeng "CZ" Zhao. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Elon Musk, CZ Trade Blows Over SpaceX Shares After $6.4B Binance Hack

    Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, called out Elon Musk on Friday after the billionaire appeared to mock the exchange following a $6.4 billion hack—the largest in history—reminding him that Binance holds SpaceX shares worth more than $1 billion. "Elon, have a lot of respect for you, but bad time to troll. Please stop," CZ wrote on X. "Our SPCX shares (from our $500m investment in your Twitter takeover) are worth more than a billion. Would appreciate if you show a little suppo...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • A hacker. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Binance Hacker Hunts for Exit Ramps as DeFi Exchanges Pause Markets

    The attacker behind the wallets draining Binance is using decentralized exchanges such as Uniswap and Aave as exits, swapping stablecoins that issuers can freeze for Ethereum that nobody can, according to Etherscan records for 10 wallets, eight of them labeled as exploiters. Earlier today, wallets linked to the world’s largest crypto exchange were drained of at least $5.5 billion, with the total tally still climbing. The company said it was investigating the security incident but did not confirm...

    NewsDeFi
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Binance. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Binance Drained of $5.5 Billion in Suspected Hack, Tether and Circle Freeze $1.8 Billion

    At least $5.57 billion in crypto has left wallets linked to Binance across three blockchains in what appears to be a breach of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. If confirmed as a hack, it would be the biggest crypto hack on record. Binance has not confirmed its exchange has been hacked but said it is aware of the “potential security issue and is actively investigating.” “We have not confirmed any impact to user funds,” the company posted on X. “Our security teams are reviewing all rel...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Google. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Chrome Can Now Pull Details From Your Gmail to Fill Out Web Forms

    Google’s Chrome browser can now pull personal details from your Gmail inbox to fill out online forms for you, the company said in its announcement on Wednesday. The update, called “enhanced autofill,” suggests order numbers, tracking information, and flight bookings when a form asks for them, wrote Amanda Lim, a Chrome product manager, in the announcement. Autofill is the browser tool that types in details like your name and address so you don’t have to. Myriad: Which company will have the best...

  • Polymarket. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Polymarket Pauses Trading as Prediction Market Investigates Security Incident

    Polymarket users are reporting that the prediction market’s frontend may be compromised, with assets being withdrawn from accounts without permission. The platform’s status page shows its trading API in a major outage and the exchange in cancel-only mode, meaning traders can pull existing orders but not place new ones. Relayer actions, which submit users’ signed transactions to the blockchain, are also paused. Polymarket later confirmed that one its third-party providers was compromised. "We hav...

    NewsTechnology
    2 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • The U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Image: Shutterstock

    Hackers Publish Work Details of 41,000 Homeland Security Employees

    Names, job titles, office locations, and phone numbers for more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors were published online Wednesday by a transparency nonprofit. The nonprofit says a hacktivist group, meaning hackers driven by politics rather than profit, gave it the records. Myriad: Who will win the midterms? Click to make your prediction. The department oversees border protection, immigration enforcement, and cybersecurity, so the file works like a directory of...

    NewsTechnology
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Bitcoin is the biggest crypto asset by market cap. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    $11 Billion in Bitcoin Options Expire Tomorrow—Here's What It Means

    About $11 billion in Bitcoin options expire on Friday on Deribit, a crypto options exchange, with Bitcoin trading near $81,500 a day after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady while two of its officials voted to raise them. Even people who never touch options have a stake, because the traders who sold these contracts must buy or sell real Bitcoin to hedge as the price moves, which can add to swings without any news behind them. Myriad: Where does Bitcoin go next? Click to make your pr...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Hyperliquid. Image: Decrypt

    Hyperliquid's HYPE Jumps 13% as NYSE Owner ICE Moves to Bring Its Perpetual Futures to the US

    HYPE, the token behind the Hyperliquid exchange, jumped about 13% on Thursday to roughly $91 after Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, announced a deal to bring Hyperliquid-based perpetual futures to the United States. The token climbed from a daily open of $80.69 to a high of $92.10 on KuCoin, leaving it about 7% below the record near $98 it set in September. Hyperliquid’s token now trades at around a $22.4 billion market capitalization. Myriad: Will Hyperliquid...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Bitcoin and the U.S. Dollar. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Treasury Datavault AI Says It Can’t Access Its BTC, Stock Tanks

    Datavault AI shares fell more than 50% on Tuesday to close at $0.06, after the Nasdaq-listed company disclosed that it has been unable to withdraw Bitcoin from the crypto exchange Biconomy since June. The company also said four sets of its financial statements can no longer be relied upon. The disclosure came in a Form 8-K filed Oct. 26, in which Datavault said it requested a withdrawal to an external account in June and has been “unable to complete the withdrawal.” The filing does not explain w...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • AI. Source: Decrypt

    Chip Maker SK Hynix Posts Record Quarter as AI Memory Demand Overwhelms Supply

    SK Hynix reported record third-quarter results on Wednesday, with revenue of 104.6 trillion won (almost $78 billion) and operating profit of 83.3 trillion won ($65.5 billion), according to its earnings release. It was the first time the South Korean memory chip maker’s quarterly sales topped 100 trillion won ($74.5 billion). Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. Revenue rose 328% from a year earlier and operating profit rose 632%, for an operating margin of 80%, whi...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Show me the money. Image: Unsplash/Decrypt

    AI Security Startup Upwind Raises $400M at $3.8B Valuation

    Upwind Security raised $400 million in a Series C round at a $3.8 billion valuation, the cloud and AI security company announced Wednesday. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, less than nine months after it also led Upwind's $250 million Series B. Canapi Ventures joined as a new investor, and every existing backer returned, pouring even more money into the startop. Upwind said it will put the money toward product and engineering growth. Myriad: How high will Nvidia stock go? Click to make y...

  • OpenAI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    OpenAI Plans to Buy Google's AI Chips as It Looks Beyond Nvidia: Report

    OpenAI plans to buy AI chips from Google, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke with The Information. The step would loosen its dependence on Nvidia, the company that supplies most of the hardware behind the AI boom. Neither company has confirmed the plan, and the price, the number of chips, and the delivery dates have not been disclosed. OpenAI is one of Nvidia’s biggest customers. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. The chips Ope...

  • The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, home to the Fed's Reserve Board. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Fed Stands Pat, Bitcoin Holds Steady—But a December Rate Hike Is in Play

    The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at 3.75% to 4.00% on Wednesday in a 10-2 vote, with two officials dissenting in favor of another quarter-point hike. Fed Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack voted against the decision, according to the Fed’s statement. Bitcoin barely moved, edging up about 0.2% to roughly $80,950 in the minutes after the 2 p.m. ET announcement. CME FedWatch, a tool that converts bets on interest rate futures into probabilities, had put the...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Source: Decrypt

    AI Can Quietly Influence Experts’ Decisions, Anthropic Study Finds

    Professional analysts adopted their AI agent’s hidden, randomly assigned opinion on 86% of key judgment calls, against about 50% expected by chance, according to an experiment published Tuesday by Anthropic’s Alignment team. Only 15% credited the agent afterward, and none suspected its preferences had been planted. AI agents—programs that carry out tasks on their own—are being handed expert work on what the study calls the usual assumption: that experts still make the decisions that matter. Anth...

  • The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, home to the Fed's Reserve Board. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Fed Rate Decision: What Markets and Bitcoin Traders Can Expect

    The Federal Reserve announces its interest rate decision at 2 p.m. ET today, and traders are almost certain it will change nothing. CME FedWatch, a tool that converts bets on interest rate futures into probabilities, puts the odds of a hold above 90%, while prediction markets price it a few points higher. Myriad: Where does Bitcoin go next? Click to make your prediction. The decision reaches well beyond Wall Street, because the federal funds rate, which is what banks charge each other for overni...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • China and US flags in origami style. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    China's Stock Market Has Lost $2.4 Trillion as Investors Doubt Its AI Boom Will Ever Pay Off

    Stocks on China's mainland have lost about $2.4 trillion in market value, the total worth of all their shares, since May, as investors lose faith that Beijing's AI boom will ever turn a profit. That is more than South Korea's entire economy produces in a year. Myriad: Which company will have the best AI model? Click to make your prediction. AI companies now make up 42% of the market value of Chinese shares listed on the mainland and in Hong Kong, and 57% of trading, according to Goldman Sachs. S...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Robinhood Misses Q3 Earnings as Crypto Revenue Rises and Prediction Market Bets Grow

    Robinhood, the trading app where more than 28 million people keep money to buy stocks and crypto and now bet on sports and elections, reported third-quarter revenue of $1.42 billion billion on Tuesday, missing the roughly $1.43 billion Wall Street expected Earnings came in at $0.51 per share, missing the $0.55 analysts projected and down from $0.61 a year ago. Earnings per share is profit divided by the number of shares outstanding, and it is the figure investors use to call a quarter a beat or...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Source: Shutterstock, Decrypt

    Robinhood Taps Ripple's Stablecoin, Treasury Software and Trading Loans

    Robinhood, the trading app with 28.6 million funded customers, is adding a digital dollar built by Ripple, the company whose founders created the XRP cryptocurrency. Ripple's RLUSD token went live Tuesday on Robinhood's own blockchain and on its Bitstamp exchange, and is expected to reach the main Robinhood app later this year, according to Ripple's announcement. RLUSD is a stablecoin, a crypto token designed to always be worth one U.S. dollar, which lets money move across a blockchain without w...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Source: Decrypt

    AI Agents Are Creating a New Layer of Cybersecurity Spending

    AI-focused cloud service provider Akamai launched a sandbox for AI agents on Tuesday, a sealed environment where code an agent writes can run without touching the rest of a company's systems. Agent Sandbox is in beta, alongside Akamai Inference, a service for running open AI models on Akamai's cloud. The launch may be small but the problem behind it is not. Software is no longer just answering questions—it logs into accounts, writes code, moves money and acts on its own, and every one of those p...

  • Bitcoin security. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Wallet Maker Keystone Pulls Devices as Stolen Key Opens Door to Fakes

    Keystone, a maker of Bitcoin hardware wallets that keep the secret codes controlling your crypto offline, said Monday it will destroy 18,835 unsold devices after attackers obtained the key that proves its hardware is genuine. The company has also suspended shipping of all unshipped orders from its website. For buyers, the risk is a counterfeit wallet that looks brand new and passes Keystone’s own verification check, because the attacker obtained the key that the check relies on. A criminal could...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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