Matt and Nic are back with another week of news. In this episode:

  • Marathon Fusion says it has turned mercury into stable gold

  • What would commercially viable alchemy mean for Bitcoin's scarcity argument?

  • AI tools uncover a major vulnerability in PHP

  • A certificate authority's private keys turn out to be trivially guessable

  • Railway warns developers to revoke their secrets after a cyberattack

  • Banks are finding third-party AI agents inside customer accounts

  • Who's responsible when your AI agent acts without instructions?

  • The OCC finalizes its GENIUS Act rules

  • Stablecoin issuers can't pay yield directly, but where does that leave third-party rewards?

  • a16z reportedly plans to drop "crypto" from its flagship fund's name

  • Ali Yahya is leaving to start a company

  • Microsoft, Alphabet, and Goldman Sachs object to tokenized versions of their shares

  • Should public companies have a veto over tokenizing their stock?

  • Polymarket faces growing pains as Kalshi gains ground

  • Are perpetual preferred shares a new source of Bitcoin demand?

  • Can compute derivatives give investors a way to short the AI boom?

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