Industry leaders are warning that AI agents could enable crypto hacks far exceeding today's billion-dollar breaches, even as major platforms like Binance begin integrating AI agents for automated trading. Fidelity Digital Assets identified key risks to the sector's AI thesis, including the possibility that AI agents may not converge on public blockchains.
BlackRock, Fidelity Digital Assets, Coinbase, Strategy, and other leading firms formed the Bitcoin Security Consortium, pledging $15 million over three years to fund Bitcoin security research, including post-quantum cryptography. The initiative follows Galaxy Digital's separate $5 million quantum readiness fund announced days earlier.
EDX Markets, backed by Citadel and Charles Schwab, applied for a national trust charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on April 1, 2026, to offer regulated custody and asset services separate from its trading operations. EDX joins at least eight other crypto firms pursuing similar federal banking charters.
