TON’s agentic wallets turn Telegram bots into spending entities

Salley Vickers and Carrie Eckersley respond to a letter on Richard Dawkins and his chats with AI bots I was delighted to read Dr Simon Nieder’s cogent rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’s attribution of consciousness to the responses engendered by AI (Letters, 10 May). That human consciousness appears to have an innate tendency to project itself on to various othernesses has long been understood – John Ruskin termed it the pathetic fallacy – and that children animate their loved toys is readily observable. But Wordsworth’s attribution of emotion to a mountain or my granddaughter’s lively conversations with Spice, her toy sloth, are, happily, unlikely to be dangerous. The conclusion that a widely harvested body of data on human response is equivalent to consciousness is naive and rather shocking in someone such as Prof Dawkins, who has founded his reputation and criticism of religious beliefs on a stringent rationalism. Salley Vickers London Continue reading...

The post TON’s agentic wallets turn Telegram bots into spending entities appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. TON’s new Agentic Wallets standard lets Telegram AI bots hold user‑funded wallets on TON, spending within tight limits as semi‑autonomous financial actors inside chat. Summary TON Tech has launched “Agentic Wallets,” an open, self‑custodial standard that lets AI agents on Telegram hold funds and execute on‑chain transactions on the TON blockchain without per‑action user approval. Each agent gets a dedicated wallet funded and owned by the user, with hard spending limits and revocable access, effectively turning bots into bounded financial actors that can trade, pay subscriptions, and interact with DeFi inside Telegram’s roughly 1 billion‑user ecosystem. The move is being pitched by TON Tech’s Andrew Grekov as the shift from “assistants to actors,” but it also opens a new attack and governance surface around agent misbehavior, prompt‑injection, and blurred liability between users

Schwartz warned of a dramatic surge in fake XRP giveaways, airdrops, and impersonation accounts targeting the community. Scammers are now using deepfake AI videos and fraudulent NFTs with hidden buy offers to drain investor wallets. Schwartz warns that anyone claiming to be him on Instagram, Telegram, or most platforms is a scammer. The digital asset […] The post XRP Scam Wave Explodes as David Schwartz Issues Urgent Warning appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

Toncoin price continued consolidating near a critical support region this week after a sharp post-breakout correction, while technical indicators suggested a potential longer-term trend reversal could still be developing. According to data from crypto.news, Toncoin (TON) price traded around $2.01…

Thorchain suffered an estimated $10 to $11 million exploit on Friday, after attackers used vault churn address poisoning to redirect funds during a routine migration process across multiple blockchains. Thorchain Funds Compromised Onchain investigator ZachXBT first flagged the incident via his Telegram channel, placing initial losses above $7.4 million before revised estimates pushed the total […]

David Schwartz warned XRP Ledger users about rising airdrop and giveaway scams targeting the community. The Ripple CTO Emeritus said impersonators on Instagram, Telegram, and other platforms are likely scammers. David Schwartz Warns XRP Users as Fake Airdrops Spread David Schwartz, CTO Emeritus at Ripple, alerted XRP Ledger users on May 13 to a sharp […]

The post Ripple CTO Sounds Alarm as XRP Giveaway Scams Surge Across XRPL Social Channels appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Takeaways: David Schwartz, CTO of Ripple cautioned users to expect a major surge in the number of giveaway and airdrop scams. There’s a reasonable possibility that many of the accounts that have impersonated him on Instagram, Telegram and other social media sites are fake, Schwartz said. It is coming as scammers are taking multiple approaches to target XRPL users by providing fake promotions and phishing attacks. Ripple CTO Emeritus, David “JoelKatz” Schwartz has issued a fresh warning to members of the XRP community following a widespread rise in cryptos scams targeting Ripple users on various social media platforms. The founding figure of XRP Ledger called on people to exercise caution, as con artists keep impersonating Ripple-related individuals and trying to lure consumers into stealing their wallet or cash through fake airdrops, giveaways and token sale

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