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Recently, AI researcher Bilal Chughtai, who resigned from Google DeepMind, posted on X and LinkedIn on Monday, stating that humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence from causing widespread harm. He wrote: At Google, I witnessed the development of AI firsthand. I am also extremely concerned about the default trajectory of this technology. I sincerely believe that AI has the potential to kill us all.Chughtai stated that he worked on AI safety and alignment at the company under Alphabet. This is another employee expressing concerns about the direction of technological development. Google has not yet responded to requests for comments.

Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike, stated in the first episode of Bitcoin Magazine's television program that Bitcoin and artificial intelligence can help humanity regain time and re-engage in creation. He believes that currency is essentially an abstract form of human time and energy, and poor-quality currency erodes people's time and energy, forcing them to work longer hours to buy a house, go on vacation, or pursue artistic interests; whereas high-quality currency rewards time and energy, and Bitcoin and AI can liberate humanity from the "hard labor" of poor-quality currency. Mallers also cited the Wright brothers as an example, stating that when they invented the airplane, the United States was in a gold standard period.At the time of Mallers' remarks, Bitcoin was experiencing its best market performance in years. In August, Bitcoin rose about 25%, marking the strongest single-month performance since 2026 and the first August since 2021 to record positive returns, closing at around $78,000. This surge was driven by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's expansion of long-term bond repurchases, which lowered yields and triggered billions of dollars in short liquidations, making "devaluation trades" the focus of the market again, with the dollar weakening and the scale of U.S. Treasury debt reaching $40 trillion.Regarding the U.S. economy, Mallers stated that such a level of debt is unsustainable, and whether interest rates rise or fall is irrelevant; everything is inflationary and difficult to sustain. Data released last Friday showed that the core CPI in the U.S. for August, excluding food and energy, rose 0.3% month-on-month, higher than expected. The U.S. is deeply mired in an affordability crisis, and the market widely expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this week to curb inflation.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X stating: Any pursuit of superintelligence must be based on core principles, namely that if the AI we build cannot help humanity and is not under human control, it is not worth pursuing.He also mentioned the need to accelerate and widely disseminate the benefits of AI, allowing it to spread broadly across nations, communities, and companies, which requires a thriving frontier ecosystem for both closed-source and open-source models. For enterprises, it is essential to retain complete control over their unique and tacit knowledge, and each organization should be able to build its own continuous learning loop without relying on any single model provider, embedding its own knowledge into the models and weights it controls.Nadella welcomed the necessary research, attention, and careful pacing for proper alignment, as well as ideas like "embedded evaluators." This cannot be controlled by a few entities; it must have broad representation across ecosystems, nations, and fields including academia. Microsoft's approach is broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack, enterprise control over learning loops and models, and the release of its proprietary MAI model "Code of Conduct" for public consultation tomorrow.

Cathie Wood posted on platform X, stating that David Sacks believes recent reports about "AI will destroy humanity" may be orchestrated by humans.Wood pointed out that the relevant remarks initially came from a long-inactive X account of an employee at Anthropic, who left the company just six weeks after joining, and the related content quickly entered mainstream media. David Sacks also identified the parties involved in the incident and criticized the role played by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).Cathie Wood stated that all technologies can potentially be used for malicious purposes. She believes that some individuals, including Elon Musk, who continuously emphasize the potential risks of AI are not participants in a political conspiracy but are playing a positive role. Wood said, "Half of solving the problem, including AI, is understanding the problem."

According to The Block, Humanity Protocol founder Terence Kwok publicly responded for the first time after the project suffered an attack of approximately $36 million, stating that the team will reduce its focus on blockchain and decentralized identity projects and shift towards enterprise-level AI products and services.Kwok stated that the attack originated from the developer's device being compromised, rather than a smart contract vulnerability; the probability of recovering the stolen funds is low, and the current focus will be on token migration, claims and compensation processes, as well as subsequent business reconstruction.

According to on-chain detective ZachXBT's monitoring, it was found that signs of mixing appeared in the funds stolen from the Humanity Protocol and Kelp DAO vulnerability attacks one hour ago, indicating that there may be an overlap between the attackers of these two incidents.Based on this new evidence, it can be largely ruled out that the theft case of Humanity Protocol was committed by an insider.

According to Business Insider, Worldcoin developer Tools For Humanity previously hired two law firms to investigate internal financial irregularities, employee classification, and whether there were violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in its operations in Thailand.The report also stated that the investigation involves allegations of senior management approving large payments to foreign companies to boost the performance of Worldcoin tokens. The company stated that after the investigation, it has terminated its relationships with Thai partners and strengthened internal compliance policies and due diligence processes, and currently has not found sufficient evidence to prove that the company or its employees violated relevant anti-bribery laws.

According to on-chain data monitoring, the Humanity Protocol ($H) Foundation's related addresses have completed the planned token transfers, involving a "3:10" structured hedging profit-taking plan aimed at early investors, with a token scale exceeding 540 million. According to the previously announced schedule, the related tokens will officially enter the unlocking process on June 25, marking that the plan has completed the preparatory work for payment and has entered the formal performance stage.Previously, Humanity Protocol underwent a series of ecological recovery processes due to a hacking incident, including promoting a 1:1 exchange of new and old tokens for real holding users on exchanges, and implementing KYC and AML compliance verification for the abnormal on-chain issuance chips generated after the attack to reduce market circulation risks. The timely advancement of this unlocking plan is seen as an important progress node for the project in fulfilling commitments to investors and restoring ecological order after the security incident.Humanity Protocol mainly focuses on AI identity verification and Web3 identity infrastructure. As the demand for AI agents, real-person verification, anti-witch attacks, and on-chain identity applications continues to grow, this sector still has long-term development potential. If Humanity Protocol can continue to promote product and application implementation after completing token migration and ecological recovery, its subsequent performance will still attract market attention.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the Humanity Protocol attacker has exchanged part of the stolen funds for USDC and deposited them into KuCoin.

According to on-chain analyst PeckShield (@PeckShieldAlert), the Humanity attacker address has transferred 130 ETH (approximately $220,600) from Ethereum to BNB Chain (381 BNB).

Humanity released an independent investigation report by Quantstamp, which disclosed that in the H token security incident, the attacker used tools and methods characteristic of North Korean hackers, disguising themselves as communication from the Bithumb exchange through phishing emails, inducing project directors to click on malicious attachments, thereby deploying a remote control Trojan on their devices, ultimately gaining full desktop control and wallet private keys. Subsequently, on Ethereum and BNB Chain, they launched on-chain attacks: on the Ethereum side, by stealing keys to upgrade contracts and transferring approximately 141.18 million H tokens, and on the BSC side, by taking over the ProxyAdmin contract and minting new tokens. The stolen assets were then continuously sold on Uniswap and PancakeSwap for about 8 hours, causing significant impact on liquidity and market prices.Currently, the H token contract on the Ethereum side has been frozen, the mainnet bridge remains unaffected, but the BSC deployment has been controlled by the attacker and still has minting permissions. The team is working with exchanges and security parties to advance subsequent disposal and recovery plans, while reminding users to be wary of false "compensation/claim" links, and stated that further progress will be announced through official channels.Previously, the Humanity Protocol was attacked, resulting in the leak of a private key from a member of the Humanity Foundation, leading to over 31 million dollars in funds being stolen.

According to the official announcement, Humanity has shared the real-time tracking page of the stolen funds with all CEXs, DEXs, and trading aggregators, and will continue to update the relevant data. The project team has also set up a reward of 1 million USDT for any information that helps recover the stolen funds, and all recovered funds will be used to repurchase H tokens.In addition, while formulating a recovery plan for affected users, the team has launched a real-time tracker for the attacker's address and downstream fund flows, publicly displaying the attacker's wallet, fund movements, and asset disposal status to allow users to monitor the progress of the event in real-time.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the Humanity attackers have issued an additional 1 billion H tokens 20 minutes ago.Yu Jin stated that previously the attackers had repeatedly issued H tokens in increments of 100 million, but this time they directly issued 1 billion. However, as market liquidity continues to dry up, the attackers' cash-out ability has significantly decreased. Currently, selling 10 million H tokens at once can only be exchanged for about 6 BNB, worth approximately 3,600 USD. The price of H has now fallen to about 0.0003 USD.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, "private key leakage" has allowed the issuance and selling of H to last for 13 hours, with the so-called "hacker" still able to issue H and sell it on the BSC chain, squeezing the last penny from the pool. The "hacker" has issued 300 million H and has sold approximately 450 million, cashing out 34 million dollars (ETH + BNB).The liquidity in the H pool on BSC has been reduced to only 13 dollars, and the price of H has dropped by 99.9% to 0.0009 dollars. Meanwhile, the perpetual contract price in CEX is 0.09 dollars, a price difference of 100 times. Essentially, it has become two unrelated coins.

On-chain detective ZachXBT released an update on the Humanity $31 million security incident. After further analysis of the flow of funds, ZachXBT believes that the team is likely not involved in "self-theft" or "self-directed performance." The official announcement regarding the private key leak is true, but before the unlocking, the price of H tokens was artificially pumped, resulting in hackers taking advantage of the situation. The private key leak and the previous abnormal price pump should be considered independent events.ZachXBT also questioned whether the team artificially inflated the price of H tokens through suspicious market-making agreements and large over-the-counter transactions before the token unlocking, in order to smoothly offload or alleviate selling pressure ahead of the upcoming unlocking for investors/early contributors (around June 25).

Regarding the incident of "Humanity being stolen over 31 million dollars," on-chain detective ZachXBT stated, "It's unclear whether this is a hacker theft or malicious behavior from the project team. From the K-line chart, given the concentration of supply, the H team is likely collaborating with an active market maker. However, all H tokens were sold on decentralized exchanges (on-chain), not centralized exchanges."

Humanity Protocol founder Terence Kwok posted on the X platform confirming a security incident, stating that this incident involves the private key leak of a Humanity Foundation member. For safety reasons, users are advised not to interact with cross-chain bridges or any liquidity pools until safety is confirmed. The team is working with security experts and exchange partners to resolve the issue.According to previous reports, associated addresses of Humanity Protocol have been stolen for over 31 million dollars.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, addresses associated with Humanity Protocol have been stolen for over $31,000,000. The theft is still ongoing, and hackers are exchanging H tokens for ETH.

According to on-chain analyst Specter, wallets associated with or interacting with Humanity Protocol are being hacked. Currently, more than 17 wallets holding H tokens have been stolen, with total losses exceeding $19 million.The reason for the theft is still unclear, but the attack pattern suggests that the affected wallets may share a common risk exposure related to Humanity Protocol.

Humanity Protocol ($H) recently announced that its Staking feature has officially launched on Humanity Chain. According to the official announcement, this staking event has set a total initial reward pool of 30M $H, which, based on the recent peak of $H, has a total value of approximately 28M USD, open to long-term participants in the ecosystem.The launch of this Staking feature occurs against the backdrop of a rapid increase in trading activity for H. Previously, H recorded high trading volumes on exchanges such as Bithumb and Bybit, and in some trading scenarios, it was directly compared to Worldcoin (WLD). The introduction of the Staking feature is also seen as a further step by Humanity Protocol to enhance long-term holding stickiness, consolidate on-chain liquidity, and promote the construction of the Humanity Chain ecosystem.Two major Humanity Chain staking pools are open, with a maximum APR reaching 10,658%.According to the information on the event page, the Humanity Chain Staking primarily sets up two staking pools.Among them, the 6-month staking pool is configured with 10M $H rewards; the 4-year staking pool is configured with 20M $H rewards. Users can choose the corresponding staking plan based on their different needs for lock-up periods and liquidity.At the beginning of the event, the staking page showed that the maximum APR once reached 10,658%. Since the staking yield will dynamically change with the number of participants, total staking scale, and reward distribution, the actual APR will be based on real-time data from the event page.In terms of participation, users can transfer assets to the Humanity Chain wallet through exchanges that support native H, or they can transfer assets from the ETH chain to Humanity Chain via the official cross-chain bridge to participate in staking.Rewards are distributed according to the proportion of staking, and the ecological transaction fee sharing is expected to be released simultaneously.This staking reward will be allocated based on the user's asset proportion in the corresponding staking pool. In other words, the proportion of the user's staking scale to the total staking scale in the pool will directly affect their share of the rewards.In addition to the fixed reward pool, the official also mentioned that users participating in Staking will have the opportunity to share in the transaction fee income generated by validators and verification services within the Humanity Protocol ecosystem in the future. This means that Staking is not just a short-term incentive activity but is also tied to the subsequent verification services, ecosystem usage, and on-chain economic model of Humanity Chain.From a market perspective, the launch of the 30M $H reward pool provides holders with a new on-chain income entry point while also helping to convert some circulating chips into long-term staking positions. As the Humanity Chain mainnet ecosystem gradually advances, Staking may become an important step for H to transition from trading heat to on-chain ecosystem consolidation.