Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday, its most capable public model running on Mythos, as it pursues a fall listing it has already filed for confidentially alongside OpenAI, which filed Monday, and SpaceX.

Mythos is Anthropic’s most advanced tier of artificial intelligence models, and Fable is the first publicly released version of this powerful underlying architecture but it comes with strict built-in safety filters.

Bitcoin has spent the past week trading as the high-beta arm of the Nasdaq, sliding with chipmakers and Asian tech as the AI trade unwound. An Anthropic listing, after its $65 billion round at a $965 billion valuation, would hand index funds and retail traders a single AI-lab stock to pile into. Crypto already moves with the AI trade, and giving that trade its own ticker only tightens its grip.

AI-linked tokens caught a modest bid on Fable’s launch while bitcoin barely moved, because model releases are narrative for the sector’s small caps while the majors now trade on what the AI trade does to risk appetite, not on the models themselves.

Ripple has joined Water.org’s Get Blue campaign as its exclusive digital asset and payments partner. 

The blockchain company will provide seed funding and support fund transfers to local finance partners in emerging markets.

Water.org says more than two billion people lack safe water at home. The nonprofit, co-founded by actor Matt Damon and engineer Gary White, uses small loans to help families pay for water and sanitation systems.

Ripple brings RLUSD into the Get Blue campaign

Ripple said Water.org will use its U.S. dollar-backed RLUSD stablecoin to move funds to microfinance partners. Those organizations provide affordable financing for household pipes, pumps, toilets and other basic water systems.

The arrangement builds on Ripple’s existing support for Water.org through Ripple Payments. Water.org says the platform can reduce costs and shorten transfer times when sending capital to partners across different markets.

“We’re proud to join Water.org in support of Get Blue,” Ripple said.

Get Blue named Ripple alongside Amazon, Gap, Starbucks, Ecolab, AccuWeather and TikTok. The campaign first appeared at the World Economic Forum in January and is now moving into a wider consumer rollout.

Ripple-backed WaterCredit turns donations into affordable household loans

Get Blue directs corporate funding and consumer donations into Water.org’s WaterCredit model. Local financial institutions then provide small loans that families use to install safe water or sanitation services at home.

Water.org reports a 98% repayment rate for WaterCredit loans. Repaid funds can support more borrowers, allowing the same pool of capital to finance additional household projects over time.

“When brands join us, they invite their communities into this work,” Water.org CEO Gary White said.

The wider campaign links donations to everyday purchases and services. Gap contributes $5 from each item in its Get Blue collection. Starbucks will donate $0.25 from selected drinks between June 16 and July 7.

RLUSD expands beyond trading and settlement

Ripple launched RLUSD as a stablecoin backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term Treasuries and cash equivalents. It operates on the XRP Ledger and Ethereum and supports payments, settlement and other blockchain transactions.

The Water.org partnership adds another humanitarian use for the token. Ripple previously used RLUSD in a drought insurance pilot for pastoral communities in Kenya and committed $25 million to education groups in the U.S.

As crypto.news reported, the education funding supported DonorsChoose and Teach For America. Separate reporting covered RLUSD’s African expansion through Chipper Cash, VALR and Yellow Card for payments and treasury services.

The Get Blue partnership does not disclose how much RLUSD Water.org will receive or which countries will receive the first transfers. Ripple and Water.org have also not published transaction volumes or named the first microfinance recipients.

Kraken has been named the official crypto exchange supporter of the FIFA World Cup 2026, giving the crypto exchange a presence at one of the world’s largest sporting events.

The company said Tuesday that the partnership will include fan activations and product experiences throughout the tournament.

The 2026 World Cup is expected to be the largest in FIFA history, with an expanded field of 48 teams and 104 matches across 16 host cities in the United States, Mexico and Canada. FIFA projects the competition will attract a cumulative global audience of more than 6 billion viewers during its seven-week run.

The partnership places Kraken alongside some of FIFA’s longest-standing corporate sponsors, including Adidas, Coca-Cola, Visa and Hyundai-Kia.

The agreement also expands Kraken’s sports sponsorship efforts, which already include partnerships with Tottenham Hotspur, Atlético de Madrid, RB Leipzig and Atlassian Williams Racing.

The tournament kicks off on June 11 in Mexico City, where Mexico is scheduled to face South Africa at Estadio Azteca.

Source: Kraken

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Prediction markets expand their sports presence

The partnership comes four years after the 2022 “Crypto Bowl,” when Coinbase, FTX, Crypto.com and eToro aired advertisements during Super Bowl LVI. Sports marketing activity across the crypto industry slowed following the collapse of FTX later that year and the broader market downturn.

While some digital asset companies have returned to major sporting events, their approach has been more measured. Coinbase aired its first Super Bowl commercial since 2022 during this year’s broadcast, while Crypto.com used the event to launch its AI-focused platform, ai.com.

At the same time, prediction markets, where users buy and sell contracts tied to the likelihood of specific outcomes, have expanded their presence in professional sports.

In November 2025, Polymarket became the official prediction market partner of UFC and Zuffa Boxing under a multiyear agreement that brought prediction market data into live events and broadcasts.

Source: UFC

In January, the company signed a multiyear agreement with Major League Soccer to become the league’s exclusive prediction market partner for MLS and the Leagues Cup. Major League Baseball followed in March, naming Polymarket its official prediction market exchange while signing a separate integrity agreement with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

FIFA’s commercial roster also includes ADI Predict, a blockchain-based prediction market platform backed by Abu Dhabi institutions.

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AI company Anthropic on Tuesday released the first public version of its powerful Claude Mythos model, called Fable 5, with some crypto users worried it could be used for malicious purposes, despite embedded guardrails. 

Anthropic said last month that its Mythos model uncovered more than 10,000 high or critical-severity vulnerabilities in “systemically important software,” leading many to question if it should be publicly released.

This was despite the company saying on Tuesday that Fable 5 was “made safe for general use,” and has safeguards that reroute some topics, such as cybersecurity, to a different model, Claude Opus 4.8 

“Releasing a model this capable comes with risks. Without safeguards, Fable 5’s capabilities in areas like cybersecurity could be misused to cause serious damage,” it said.

Source: Claude

The guardrails have done little to reassure crypto users, with AI increasingly being used to attack crypto platforms. In April, the value of crypto stolen in hacks hit $629.7 million, the highest since February 2025, which analysts linked to the use of the technology. 

Mythos release sparks warnings from crypto users

Simon Dedic, founder of the venture firm Moonrock Capital, posted to X on Tuesday that with Fable 5, the “cost and skill required to find exploitable flaws in smart contracts is about to drop to basically zero.”

“For DeFi, this should be a massive wake-up call. Unaudited protocols will become sitting ducks. Known exploits will get replayed on forks around the clock. Even small projects will get targeted simply because trying costs next to nothing now,” he added.

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Dedic repeated calls online, suggesting that crypto users should protect themselves from the model, including revoking wallet approvals, removing as much value from protocols as possible and moving crypto to fresh hardware wallets.

Curve Finance co-founder Michael Egorov, however, said that the threat Claude Mythos posed to crypto was likely overblown as its success in finding bugs in other software might not translate to funding smart contract vulnerabilities in DeFi. 

In May, Anthropic said Claude Mythos found thousands of critical vulnerabilities in important software through Project Glasswing. For open-source projects, which are central to how crypto protocols are managed, Mythos found around 6,200 high or critical-severity vulnerabilities in more than 1,000 projects it investigated.

Egorov argued that the software Mythos found vulnerabilities in had millions of lines of code, while smart contracts have a few thousand, “and both humans and ‘usual’ AI perfectly fit that code in context and can reason well about it.”

“I suspect we might not be having a wave of DeFi code hacks, but we may see a lot of things in OpSec [operational security] getting hacked (looking like multisig keys compromises) and supply chain attacks on frontend dependencies, and those are way less dangerous in true DeFi,” he said.

Meanwhile, Anthropic said a “small group” of cybersecurity and infrastructure providers would get access to Claude Mythos 5, the same model as Fable 5 but with safeguards lifted in some areas.

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Bitcoin’s bounce off last week’s lows is rolling over, and gold is going down with it.

BTC changed hands at $61,233 on Wednesday, down 3% over 24 hours and 6.9% on the week, while gold fell 2% to below $4,200 an ounce. The market is betting on higher interest rates punishes anything that doesn’t pay one, and that is weighing on crypto and gold markets at once.

Ether fell 3.4% to $1,625 and solana dropped 4.1% to $64.24, according to CoinDesk data. XRP lost 4.3% to $1.12, while BNB and dogecoin each slid less than 3%. Hyperliquid’s HYPE was the worst of the majors again, down 10.2% on the day and 21.3% on the week to $55.52, the highest-beta name in the group as risk came off.

South Korea’s Kospi, the market most exposed to the artificial-intelligence trade through its chipmakers, tumbled 6.3%, leading a 2.5% drop in MSCI’s broad Asia-Pacific equity gauge and its fourth loss in five days. Nasdaq 100 futures pointed 0.8% lower after a volatile Wall Street session. Brent crude traded near $92 a barrel as renewed US strikes on Iran kept a bid under oil, and the 10-year Treasury yield rose to 4.54%.

Gold and bitcoin rarely fall in lockstep, as both are stores of value that pay no yield, so both lose their appeal when traders bet on higher rates, and that is what Wednesday’s US inflation report could force.

A hot reading would harden the case for new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh to keep rates higher for longer, draining liquidity from the assets that ran hardest on cheap money.

The bounce that ran into Monday was a short squeeze, not fresh buying, as over $500 million in bearish bets were liquidated in the highest such figures since April.

Some market watchers say spot demand never showed up behind it.

“Buyers have stepped in after the move lower, but spot demand has yet to return in a meaningful way,” said Diana Pires, chief business officer at sFOX, pointing to a run of US spot bitcoin ETF outflows that has kept institutional money cautious. When new demand isn’t broad enough to cover the selling, she said, rallies struggle to hold.

Watch whether bitcoin can hold a bid through the inflation print or keeps trading tick for tick with the Nasdaq. If gold steadies and bitcoin keeps falling, the case for it as a macro hedge thins further.

EU antitrust regulators have ordered Meta to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp during an active competition probe. The European Commission said Meta must maintain access while Brussels investigates its policy toward competing AI assistants.

The interim measure follows complaints from three AI companies and targets Meta’s October 2025 access change.

EU requires WhatsApp access during Meta probe

The European Commission issued the interim measure on Tuesday against Meta Platforms. It represents the Commission’s first interim measure in an antitrust case in 17 years. The order followed complaints from The Interaction Company, French AI startup Agentik, and a Spanish rival. 

The Interaction Company, based in California, develops the Poke.com AI assistant. The EU opened its investigation in December after Meta restricted rival AI providers from WhatsApp. The probe examines whether Meta abused market power by blocking competitors from the messaging app.

 “Today, we require Meta to restore access to WhatsApp for competing AI assistants,” Teresa Ribera said. Ribera serves as the EU antitrust commissioner and oversees competition enforcement. The Commission said the measure will prevent serious harm to competition during the probe. It said Meta’s conduct appears to infringe EU competition rules at an early stage.

The commission rejects Meta fee proposal

The EU warned Meta in February that interim measures could follow without restored access. Meta later introduced an access fee for rival AI assistant providers. Brussels rejected that proposal in April and called it unsatisfactory. The Commission said the fee was, at first sight, equivalent to the earlier access ban.

The EU wants Meta to restore third-party access under the same conditions used before October 2025. According to the Commission, Meta’s policy change effectively barred rival AI assistants from WhatsApp. Traditional antitrust cases can take years before regulators issue final decisions. 

European officials argue that late fines may fail to address damage already done. The Commission said Meta must comply with the interim measure while the investigation continues. Brussels has not set a legal deadline for the probe’s completion.

Meta faces possible fines and separate EU cases

The Commission said Meta could face fines if it breaches the interim order. The penalty could reach 10% of Meta’s total turnover from the prior business year. The fine would apply if Meta intentionally or negligently violated the decision. The Commission said it has the authority to impose penalties under EU competition rules.

Brussels described an urgent need to protect the market for general-purpose AI assistants. It said smaller players and new entrants need fair access to compete with large platforms. Meta has faced several EU enforcement actions in recent years. In April, EU regulators said Meta failed to keep under-13 users off Facebook and Instagram.

Regulators also continue to examine Meta’s protections for users’ physical and mental well-being. The same probe covers the design of Facebook and Instagram under digital content rules. Meta has appealed a 200 million euro fine issued under the Digital Markets Act. Apple also criticized the DMA on Monday over its delayed rollout of an AI-enhanced Siri.

BitGo has opened access to Aave, Spark and Tesseract for eligible institutional clients through its integration with Narval. 

The service connects approved decentralized finance protocols to wallets held within BitGo Bank & Trust’s qualified custody environment.

The setup allows institutions to use onchain markets without transferring assets to wallets. BitGo said more protocols will join the service after launch.

BitGo connects qualified custody to DeFi

Narval’s gateway links DeFi applications to BitGo’s custody and wallet systems. It uses delegated wallet connections and an embedded software kit to route approved transactions through signing and approval processes.