Elon Mentions Asteroid Meme & It Blows Up, DeFi Shaken With $292M KelpDAO Exploit, BTC at $75K

Crypto majors are red but rebounding after a big Sunday selloff; BTC -0.5% at $75.1k; ETH -1% at $2,307; SOL -1% at $85; HYPE -5% at $41.80. EDGE (+16%), DEXE (+7%), and SKY (+7%) led top movers. Oil +2% at $88; Gold even at $4,780. Stock futures red after record-breaking green streak. Vercel’s CEO confirmed a breach traced to a compromised third-party AI tool (Context.ai), which gave attackers access to internal Vercel environments via a hijacked Google Workspace account; CEO Guillermo Rauch called the actors “highly sophisticated” and said they may have used AI to accelerate the intrusion. Coinbase is deploying AI agents modeled after legendary former executives directly into Slack and email; “Fred” is based on co-founder Fred Ehrsam and acts as a strategic planning agent; “Balaji” is modeled after former CTO Balaji Srinivasan and is designed to challenge assumptions and spark innovation. Sam Altman’s World launched its biggest upgrade yet, bringing iris-scan proof-of-human verification to Zoom, Tinder, and concert ticket sales; Tinder will show a “verified human” badge, Zoom gets a deepfake-detection feature called Deep Face, and Concert Kit lets artists reserve tickets for real humans to block scalper bots.