RippleX Head of Engineering J. Ayo Akinyele has detailed how the team plans to reinforce XRP Ledger security after the recent Batch amendment bug exposed a critical destabilization risk. He explained that RippleX is rolling out an AI-assisted development cycle with automated code review, invariant detection and agent-based fuzzing to spot edge cases and attack scenarios before deployment. The upgraded process aims to minimize blind spots and ensure high-risk amendments undergo multiple audits while preserving the ledger's core security and reliability properties.

On March 4, 2026, EtherMail announced Moltmail, a new infrastructure that lets AI agents independently generate email addresses tied to crypto wallets. The service is designed to bypass traditional email barriers that block non-human users, giving agents programmatic access to both internet and Web3 tools. With this launch, agents will also be able to earn and spend EMT tokens, potentially increasing the token's on-chain activity.

According to Alibaba AI, crypto markets have largely priced in earlier war-related fears and could see strong upside into 2026, with fresh highs projected for XRP, Bitcoin and Ethereum. The model points to XRP potentially reaching $12 from around $1.38, Bitcoin climbing toward $150,000, and Ethereum breaking above $5,000 and possibly hitting $6,000 by year's end. It also flags early-stage meme coin Maxi Doge, built on Ethereum, as a high-risk play seeking outsized returns through its ongoing presale and staking incentives.

On March 3, 2026, OpenAI introduced the GPT-5.3 Instant model, making it the new default for ChatGPT with a focus on reliability. Internal tests show hallucination rates decreasing by 26.8% when web search is enabled and by 19.7% without web access in sensitive fields such as medicine, law and finance. The update also aims to be less restrictive in tone and will see the older GPT-5.2 Instant model retired on June 3, 2026.

In the fourth quarter of 2025, Bybit reported that its AI-assisted risk monitoring system disrupted or stopped more than $300 million in suspected scam-related withdrawals. The platform said around $500 million in withdrawals were flagged overall, protecting over 4,000 users, many of whom canceled transfers after receiving real-time alerts.

Core Scientific plans to sell substantially all of its bitcoin holdings in 2026, with most sales expected in the first quarter, to support its expansion into AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. The company held 2,537 BTC valued at $222 million at the end of 2025 and had already liquidated just over 1,900 BTC for about $175 million in January, leaving fewer than 1,000 BTC on its balance sheet.

Core Scientific plans to liquidate around 2,500 BTC from its treasury, with most of the sales expected in the first quarter of 2026, to fund capital expenditures for AI data centers. The miner, which reported a 57% drop in BTC production and lower revenue in Q4 2025, will also sell current block rewards and does not intend to rebuild its Bitcoin reserve.

Blockchain security firm OpenZeppelin reported that OpenAI's EVMbench benchmark suffers from training data contamination and methodological issues in classifying smart contract vulnerabilities. The audit found that several AI models may have been pre-exposed to the underlying vulnerability reports and identified at least four cases labeled as high-severity that are not practically exploitable.