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Lenders want AI to turn months of private-credit paperwork into one-day on-chain loans
The $650 million equipment-finance target gives RWAs a real-economy use case, but loan performance will still depend …
UK mutual funds may soon be allowed to hold crypto ETNs, but only with a 10% leash
The proposal opens a route into UCITS and most NURS while keeping direct crypto holdings outside authorized funds. Th…
Bitcoin takes back seat to stablecoins and tokenization among financial advisors: Bitwise CIO
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said financial advisors are now showing more interest in stablecoins and tokenization than bi…
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.
MegaETH-based MNX raises $6.4 million pre-seed at $40 million valuation to build AI-focused futures exchange
MNX, a decentralized futures exchange focused on the AI economy, has raised $6.4 million in a pre-seed funding round.
Crypto’s killer app may be selling stocks after its own tokens failed retail
A Delphi Consulting analysis of 652 CEX listings from January 2025 onward found that a user buying every new token ac…
Crypto tax bills a work-in-progress as U.S. House lawmakers pose concerns
The effort to push several tax bills is meant to be bipartisan, but the parties may not be comfortable with all detai…
Circle wants wrapped Bitcoin to look bank grade before institutions trust it as collateral
cirBTC gives Circle a BTC wrapper, but the harder test is whether custody, reserves, liquidity, and redemption contro…
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…
Backpack US appoints former SEC Acting Chairman Piwowar to board amid push for crypto perps
Michael S. Piwowar was appointed by President Barack Obama and served as an SEC commissioner from 2013 to 2018.
FTX token (FTT) spikes 50% as Sam Bankman-Fried seeks Donald Trump’s pardon
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder of the bankrupt FTX exchange, is serving a quarter-century in federal …
Coinbase strategist says institutions aren’t panicking about bitcoin, ‘love it even more’ at lower prices
Family offices and sovereign wealth funds continue accumulating bitcoin despite the recent selloff, according to Coin…
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…
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried officially files for a presidential pardon from Trump
Sam Bankman-Fried is pressing ahead with his bid for a presidential pardon, even after President Trump said he has no…
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.
Coinbase, Ripple among over 200 crypto organizations urging Senate Clarity Act vote
More than 200 organizations, including Coinbase and Ripple, urged Senate leaders to advance the Clarity Act to a floo…
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…
Trump’s family crypto feud spills into customer accounts after wallet freeze
Crypto exchange HTX will permanently remove President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial’s fiat-backed USD…
Morgan Stanley’s Galaxy deal points to Bitcoin’s next institutional test: lending collateral
Morgan Stanley announced on June 5 that eligible wealth management clients can now lend Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana …
Bybit follows Kraken in offering tokenized SpaceX IPO access via xStocks
The product is built on Payward's xStocks framework, the tokenized equities platform Kraken acquired through its purc…
HTX to delist Trump-linked USD1 after saying World Liberty Financial froze exchange-linked addresses
The move follows World Liberty Financial's apparent freeze of HTX-linked on-chain addresses, citing UK sanctions comp…
Crypto exchanges are losing retail traders but are filling the gap with Wall Street-style bets
Crypto exchanges are seeing the weakest retail-driven activity in years, but some of the biggest platforms are findin…
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…
Cosmos Labs acquires block explorer Mintscan, forms Korea subsidiary to expand ecosystem
Cosmos Labs has acquired Cosmos block explorer Mintscan and formed a new Korea-based subsidiary, Cosmos Labs Korea.
Coinbase and Better fund first bitcoin-backed mortgage, plan nationwide rollout soon
Coinbase and Better have funded the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage using bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide r…
Coinbase launches pre-IPO perpetual futures, starting with SpaceX
Coinbase has entered the pre-IPO perpetual futures market, starting with a SpaceX contract, offering up to 5x leverage.
Banks pushed Congress to kill stablecoin yield with CLARITY Act – Coinbase may have found the loophole
For traditional US banks, the CLARITY Act was intended as a firewall that effectively barred crypto companies from of…