Crypto Regulations

Text version of the latest “Deconstruction.”

Microsoft has unveiled a new version of Copilot, integrating chat, application development tools, and autonomous AI agents. The service will be built around three main modes: Home, Code, and Autopilot.

U.S. authorities have seized assets worth approximately $84.2 million linked to the payment company Capstone Limited. Through Capstone, Dominica-registered EQIBank accessed the U.S. banking system. The bank provided services to Tether, reports The Information.

The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new AI models with a UK government testing agency, according to Politico.

The Kelp protocol has filed a lawsuit against LayerZero and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino following the April exploit of the rsETH bridge, which caused approximately $292 million in damages.

Google plans to launch an experimental MVP satellite with its own AI chips. This marks the first orbital test of Project Suncatcher, the company’s initiative to develop AI computing infrastructure in space, according to The New York Times.

Researchers at IonQ tested a quantum generative model on real satellite radar images. On the most challenging data, it significantly outperformed two classical methods in detecting surface changes, although this advantage disappeared with more favorable statistics.

Tezos developers launched Quantumnet, an experimental testnet to evaluate a post-quantum blockchain architecture. It changes user signatures, block production rights distribution, consensus, and the data-availability layer.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce proposed replacing some KYC/AML procedures with zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) and attribute-based digital credentials.

Bitcoin has maintained its position around $84,000, but the Bitcoin Regime Score has returned to nearly neutral, with the indicator’s ‘confidence’ level dropping to 22%. This was reported by analyst Alex Adler Jr.