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Bitcoin network activity has a dramatic rebound – hits highest since 2024 even as price struggles
Bitcoin’s blockchain is showing its strongest activity since late 2024, creating a rare split between rising networ…
Base targets June 25 mainnet launch for Beryl upgrade and new B20 token standard
Base's Beryl upgrade introduces the B20 native token standard, cuts withdrawal delays to 5 days, and activates on mai…
Alchemy AgentCard Brings Visa Payments To AI Agent Commerce
Alchemy’s AgentCard gives AI agents a virtual payment layer with spending controls, identity tools and support for …
Global $2.75B payments deal shows stablecoins moving into the rails they were meant to bypass
The $2.75 billion acquisition points to token settlement moving inside regulated payment networks before it replaces …
DeFi’s next institutional wave may come from users who never see “behind the scenes” – CEO of Katana
For years, DeFi's growth strategy was to pull users on-chain, and the next institutional wave is testing where users …
Solana’s $1B USDC mint collides with DeFi app shutdown as users face unfinished Drift recovery
Users face a September exit deadline while fresh Solana minting signals show liquidity moving faster than recovery sy…
Trace Finance raises $32M for cross-border stablecoin settlement expansion
The raise comes as stablecoin regulation advances globally and financial firms invest in infrastructure connecting bl…
Ready USDC card halts non-EEA service after issuer change, users report
Users reported losing access to Ready’s USDC card outside the EEA after a card provider change triggered rapid deac…
Coinbase unveils ‘System Update’ unlocking an AI advisor, global unified liquidity, options trading and more
Coinbase's latest System Update includes a new AI-powered advisor and global unified liquidity between its U.S. and i…
Squid adds Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin for cross-chain swaps
Cross-chain platform Squid has integrated Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin, allowing users to swap into and out of RLUSD acr…
Ripple targets Africa’s remittance market with Flutterwave investment
Ripple’s investment in Flutterwave will bring RLUSD, Ripple Payments and XRPL to one of Africa’s largest fintechs…
Ripple buys into Flutterwave Series E at $3.2 billion valuation, backs RLUSD integration
Ripple backs Flutterwave's $3.2 billion Series E with RLUSD and XRP Ledger integration across 34 African markets thro…
Coinbase, AWS enable publishers on CloudFront and WAF to charge AI agents via x402 protocol
Coinbase and AWS are allowing publishers on CloudFront and WAF to charge AI agents for content via the x402 protocol.
Hester Peirce Farewell Speech Highlights SEC Crypto Rulemaking Divide
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered a farewell speech titled “Peirce Out.”
Wholesale inflation is back in focus. Here’s what PPI means for your money and Bitcoin
Bitcoin was designed as a hedge against inflation, but every hot inflation report in the past year has knocked its pr…
Ripple chases AI’s machine economy as XRPL stablecoins near $1 billion
Stablecoin liquidity on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has nearly doubled over the past month, putting the network within reac…
‘Anarchistic neobanks’ are bitcoin’s next frontier, says Blockrise CEO
Blockrise CEO Jos Lazet sees bitcoin-native institutions evolving into alternatives to banks, in an interview at BTC …
Visa says stablecoins are ‘reshaping the back end’ of commerce as it expands AI, tokenization efforts
Visa said stablecoins are reshaping commerce as it unveiled new AI tools, tokenization features, and a partnership wi…
Solana infrastructure firm Helius acquires Light Protocol to expand onchain privacy
The acquisition comes amid a moment of consolidation in the crypto industry and during a resurgent interest in onchai…
MetaMask just gave AI agents a DeFi wallet with a leash
Agent Wallet lets software trade across DeFi, but every permission rule becomes part of the security boundary. The po…
Mastercard unveils Agent Pay for Machines to support autonomous AI transactions, including stablecoins
Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines infrastructure will support high-volume, low-value payments by autonomous AI agents.
Lamborghini Bitcoin carjacking puts crypto’s wrench-attack crisis in a US courtroom
A Missouri man's guilty plea links a Danbury kidnapping to the same human-targeting pattern already visible in France…
A $239B claim on dormant Bitcoin wallets faces a new obstacle after old address moves
A June 5 court stay and a June 2 spend turned the Noah Doe case into a test of legal title versus private-key control…
MetaMask debuts Agent Wallet giving AI bots self-custody access to Ethereum
Consensys-backed MetaMask is rolling out a non-custodial wallet for AI agents for general availability this summer.
Big banks may have found their answer to the CLARITY Act’s stablecoin challenge
The Clearing House plan gives banks 24/7 tokenized settlement while keeping customer money inside regulated deposit a…
Bitcoin traders blamed Saylor’s 32 BTC sale but larger selling pressure built elsewhere
Bitcoin traders have identified Michael Saylor as a new suspect in the latest sell-off, while the numbers tell a diff…
JPMorgan, Citi-backed consortium plans to launch tokenized deposit network in early 2027: WSJ
The initiative would enable tokenized deposits to move instantly and support around-the-clock settlement, the Wall St…
A 2011 physical Bitcoin loaded with 25 BTC was just unlocked during the $62k selloff
A Casascius coin tied to 25 BTC moved this week, converting a 2011 physical Bitcoin artifact into spendable BTC durin…
Travala debuts agentic AI travel protocol with gasless USDC payments on Base
Travala launched an agentic AI travel protocol on Base supporting gasless USDC hotel bookings and AI-assisted payment…
Visa, Brale test privacy-enabled SBC stablecoin settlement on Canton Network
Visa and Brale initiate a proof of concept testing SBC stablecoin settlement with privacy controls on the Canton Netw…