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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…
The quantum clock is ticking: it's Bitcoin's problem, not Ethereum's
A recent research note published by Citi analysts reached a conclusion about quantum risk that should give every inst…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mastercard expands stablecoin settlement options with USDC, PYUSD and RLUSD
Mastercard expanded settlement to USDC, PYUSD, and RLUSD, enabling intraday, weekend, and holiday card settlement acr…
Ripple is bringing its regulated RLUSD stablecoin to MENA’s biggest crypto market
Ripple is pushing its dollar-backed stablecoin into Turkey, betting that one of the world’s most active digital-ass…
Here's how one decentralized cloud provider says private citizens can make money from AI
Titan Network says its crowdsourced computing network has signed tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba as clients, sav…
Coinbase investing into stablecoin reserves ETF issued by ProShares
The fund, called ProShares GENIUS Money Market ETF, has $22 billion in assets under management and launched this year.
Aave now has a regulated path from bank accounts to DeFi lending – The hard part is keeping users there
On May 28, Aave Labs announced that its UK subsidiaries Push Labs Ltd. and Push Virtual Assets Ltd. received FCA regi…
Court-ordered Circle freeze traps $12.6 million in Zama cUSDC contract amid Overnight Finance suit
Zama CEO Rand Hindi said the protocol's confidential USDC contract was "caught in a crossfire" and that his team is i…
Base launches Azul on mainnet, pushing Coinbase’s Ethereum L2 toward full decentralization
Base has deployed its Azul upgrade on mainnet, with multiproofs and a new client stack advancing decentralization.
Stablecoins were supposed to bypass credit cards, but now Visa is winning crypto card payments
Stablecoins were built on the premise that removing intermediaries between sender and recipient would erode the relev…
Hyperliquid Enters Top 10 Crypto With New ATH, But How High Will It Be If It Overtakes Ethereum?
Hyperliquid (HYPE) recently broke into the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, sitting alongside top pl…
Aztec Labs acquires ZKPassport, pledges to keep privacy protocol and iOS mobile app open-source
The Obsidion team, including co-founders Michael Elliot and Theo Madzou, will join Aztec Labs to continue developing …
Mastercard secures New York State Bitlicense as it continues to expand crypto services
New York has now officially granted three Virtual Currency Business Activity Licenses (aka BitLicenses) in 2026.
Tiny x402 payments expose the approval gap holding AI agents back
Agentic payment protocol x402 volume collapsed roughly 77% from its November 2025 peak of $5.15 million to $1.19 mill…
Circle partners with Nium to connect USDC settlement to global payout rails
Circle and Nium have partnered to connect stablecoin settlement with global payout rails across more than 190 countri…
SoFi rolls out SoFiUSD stablecoin to banking app users
SoFi rolls out bank-issued SoFiUSD stablecoin to 14.7 million members inside its app on Ethereum and Solana.
Stablecoins just hit a record $322 billion – and the bank-run warnings are getting louder
The global stablecoin market has climbed to a record $322 billion valuation, cementing the rise of digital dollars as…
Coinbase-incubated Base blockchain rolls out MCP gateway to AI interfaces like Claude, ChatGPT
With the integration, users will now be able to use natural language prompts to swap tokens, transfer funds, and inte…