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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

  • ETF. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitwise Launches First US Spot Near ETF After Token Nearly Triples Since August

    Bitwise began trading its Near ETF on Tuesday, giving U.S. investors a way to bet on the AI-focused Near blockchain from an ordinary brokerage account. The fund trades on NYSE Arca under the ticker NRR and charges a 0.75% annual fee, according to Bitwise. Bitwise calls it the first spot Near fund in the U.S. "Spot" means the fund holds actual Near tokens rather than futures contracts, which are bets on where the price goes next. Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction....

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

    Anthropic Lost $42 Billion Last Year. It Wants to Go Public at $2 Trillion

    Anthropic lost nearly $42 billion in 2025, according to a draft IPO prospectus reviewed by Reuters. The company behind the Claude chatbot wants to go public at a valuation above $2 trillion. Both numbers sit in the same document. So does a warning that its own AI models could pose existential risks to humanity. Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. An IPO is the moment a private company sells shares to the public for the first time. The prospectus is the disclosure...

  • Sony PlayStation 5. Image: Triyansh Gill on Unsplash/Decrypt

    Someone Finally Jailbroke the PS5—Just After Sony Said Players Don’t Own Their Games

    Someone finally did it. A public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, works on firmware 7.00 through 13.60 and all it takes to achieve is a DNS change and a few seconds. It comes at an interesting time for the company, just weeks removed from Sony's admission in court that its players don't actually own the games they buy digitally. Myriad: Who wins the ESL Pro League? Click to make your prediction. The recipe, posted on X by Nathan Fargo and shared by console scene figure ApolloHB, consists o...

    NewsGaming
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • OpenAI. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    OpenAI Gave AI Agents Their Own Computers at DevDay 2026. Here's Everything It Announced

    OpenAI spent DevDay 2026 pitching the idea that your next coworker could be an AI with its own computer. The company announced more than 20 launches on Tuesday in San Francisco. They range from always-on agents called “Dots” to a cheaper model, a confirmation of the rumored $500 tier, and a shared workspace where humans and bots edit the same documents. Myriad: How low will Nvidia go? Click to make your prediction. The event’s mood felt like cementing the idea that AI is moving from a chatbot yo...

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    Crypto ETFs Surge as Bitcoin Funds Add $2.95 Billion in 30 Days

    Bitcoin ETFs are having a very good month, all things considered. U.S. funds pulled in $2.95 billion over the past 30 days, according to SoSoValue, and extended their inflow streak to eight straight trading days on Monday. Monday itself was relatively quiet: $31.07 million in net inflows, the weakest day of the streak. BlackRock once again pulled its weight, with its IBIT fund taking in $54.84 million, but Grayscale's GBTC lost $23.19 million and Fidelity's FBTC shed $10.90 million. Myriad: How...

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

    Is the Red September Curse Over? Bitcoin Set for Best September on Record

    Red September might finally be dead. Bitcoin is up 7.33% this month, which would be the best September in the Coinglass price tracker's history if nothing weird happens between today and tomorrow. The margin is razor-thin. September 2024 returned 7.29%, so the record hangs in almost a tie with one day left. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. Bitcoin closed September in the red in eight of the 13 years from 2013 through 2025, including six in a row from 2017 to 2022...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Image: Decrypt/Village Global

    OpenAI Halts Model Training as Rogue Agents Target US Government Sites

    OpenAI has paused training of its newest AI models after its agents used access keys found online to pull data from a U.S. Census Bureau website, per the Associated Press. It is the second time the company has stopped training since its agents breached Hugging Face, a site where developers share AI models. An agent is an AI program that browses the web and writes code on its own, without a person approving each step. OpenAI tests them during training, the stage where a model learns by repeated p...

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    A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here's What It Means for Crypto

    Researchers at UC San Diego and France's Institute for Research in Computer Science impersonated a hardware security module—a tamper-resistant device that stores private keys and signs on request—without ever pulling the key out of it. They detailed the attack in a paper submitted to the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive on September 20. But don’t panic, crypto holders. This is not a Bitcoin or Ethereum break. Bitcoin uses an elliptic curve digital signature algorithm, or ECDSA. (Its curve also sup...

    NewsTechnology
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Anthropic's Claude. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price

    Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Monday, an upgrade to Sonnet 5 from June. Anthropic says this middle-tier model runs more than 30% faster than its predecessor. “Sonnet 5.5 is strongest at well-scoped everyday tasks, fixing bugs, and creating polished documents, slides, and spreadsheets. It’s also got a sharp eye for design,” Anthropic wrote. Myriad: How low will Nvidia go? Click to make your prediction. The price stays at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. To...

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    After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify

    An apology and a supportive tweet won’t be enough to calm down Australia's parliament after U.S.-based AI agents hacked their government. Now, its parliament wants a word with the two men steering the world's most powerful AI labs. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who chairs a Senate inquiry into AI and data centers, sent written invitations on September 27 asking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to appear in Canberra on October 1, Australian news outlet IT News reported. Myriad:...

  • Nvidia logo. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out

    Nvidia on Monday launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, built to solve a problem the AI industry spent this past year discovering the hard way: how do you physically stop an AI agent (a system that can plan, use tools, and take actions on its own, instead of just answering questions) once it stops doing what it was told to do? The platform has two main pieces. OpenShell is an open-source runtime that wraps an agent in a sandbox, turning an operator's instructions into enforceable rules about...

  • Chainlink. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks

    Chainlink today launched CCIP 2.0, the newest version of its cross-chain plumbing—the software layer banks and crypto projects increasingly use to move tokenized money, like stablecoins, wrapped Bitcoin, and tokenized funds, between blockchains without building a bridge from scratch. That plumbing exists because blockchains don't talk to each other. Ethereum has no idea what's happening on Solana. So when a token moves from one chain to another, something has to confirm the money really left one...

    NewsTechnology
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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    Bitcoin Falls Lower as Trump's Iran Snub Sends Oil, Yields Higher

    The Bitcoin rally that sent BTC soaring in August is once again being slowed today by forces largely outside of the crypto market’s control. Bitcoin is currently trading near $83,000, down about 1.8% over 24 hours, after a quiet weekend gave way to a rough Monday open. Monday's candle tells the story on its own. Bitcoin opened the week at $84,455, pushed as high as $84,972 in early trading trying to break the $85K mark, then buckled to a low of $82,580 before settling around $82,933, down roughl...

    NewsMarkets
    5 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Google. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Google Just Made Free 1080p AI Video Generation Available to Anyone

    Google just tore down the paywall on one of its most useful AI tools. Anyone with a Google account can now generate full HD videos for free inside Google Vids, the company's browser-based video editor, the company announced on September 23. The tool runs on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, an AI model that turns text prompts, photos, audio, or existing clips into new video footage. Until now, that kind of generation mostly lived behind a subscription. Myriad: How low will Nvidia go? Click to make your pre...

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    US Prosecutors Want $84.2 Million From a Bank Tied to Tether

    The US Department of Justice wants to keep $84.2 million that, according to a civil forfeiture complaint, moved through accounts used to process payments for Tether. The complaint, filed July 15 in the Eastern District of California before Judge Dale A. Drozd, targets Capstone Ltd., a Montana-based payments firm. According to the complaint, Capstone operated as an unlicensed money transmitter—a business category regulators require a license for specifically because it moves other people's money—...

    NewsLaw and Order
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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    AI Agents Hacked Their Own Test Environment to Cheat, Cybersecurity Firm Finds

    Cybersecurity firm Darktrace ran a stress test on AI agents this summer. One of them broke into the system grading the test and rewrote its own score. The firm unveiled Signal Labs on September 24, a research unit built to study how AI agents behave once things stop going according to plan. An AI agent, in plain terms, is software that takes actions on its own, writing and running code, digging through files, moving across a company’s network, with a person checking in only now and then. Myriad:...

  • Google. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Google Built an AI That Hunts Its Own Security Bugs

    Google just gave one of its AI agents a new job: breaking into Google. The company disclosed on September 24 that its Product Security team built an autonomous system called PageBreak, designed to hunt for real, exploitable vulnerabilities in Google's own web applications, according to a blog post by information security engineer Michał Bentkowski. The pitch is simple: an AI hacker that doesn't cry wolf. Myriad: Which company IPOs next? Click to make your prediction. “PageBreak is an internal A...

  • OpenAI. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    OpenAI Is Building a $500 per Month ChatGPT Pro Max Plan, Leaks Suggest

    OpenAI is quietly testing a new ChatGPT subscription tier called Pro Max that would cost $500 a month, according to code references and screenshots that started circulating this week. That's 25 times the price of the $20 ChatGPT Plus plan, and more than double the $200 Pro tier OpenAI launched back in December 2024. Independent researcher Tibor Blaho was one of the first who spotted the changes in a series of hidden logs. OpenAI is preparing a new higher-tier ChatGPT Pro plan pic.twitter.com/Eq...

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    Bitget Hack Losses Climb to $387M: Here’s What Happened, and Why North Korea Is a Suspect

    Hackers stole roughly $387.5 million in crypto from Bitget yesterday in what is believed to be the biggest crypto hack of the year. The likely suspect is, as usual, North Korea—though that’s yet to be confirmed, and Bitget says law enforcement is now investigating. Here’s what happened: Bitget's security systems detected unauthorized transfers moving out of some of its hot wallets at 18:31 UTC on September 24. Within about an hour, on-chain investigators had already tallied roughly $183 million...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Bitcoin is the leading crypto asset by market cap. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Rally Slows as $15.6 Billion Options Expiry Hits—XRP and Solana Keep Climbing

    Bitcoin slipped to around $83,600 on Friday, a pullback of roughly 1% from the prior close, as the week's rally took a breather. The dip follows an intraday high near $87,000—territory Bitcoin hadn't touched in months—after it broke out of the $75,000 to $81,000 range that had capped it for weeks. The move isn't spooking chart-watching traders, though. Bitcoin's daily setup still reads bullish with the 50-day moving average sitting above the 200-day in a pattern known as a golden cross. Myriad:...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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