Global payments giant Stripe is building what it calls “AWS for money,” and crypto technology is at the center of that plan. At the RWA Summit in Cannes, France, Adrien Duchâteau, Stripe’s head of crypto go-to-market, said the company is now integrating stablecoins and blockchain across its core payments stack as it looks to modernize […]
A bitcoin mining pool built to reject both the industrial pay-per-share model and the pure lottery approach has now proven its design works. Twice. Upstart mining pool Parasite Pool mined block 945,601 on Friday morning, its second block since launching in April 2025 and about 48 days after the pool’s first block of #938,713 in
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A post by Udi Wertheimer a few weeks ago made headlines across crypto media with a stark claim: The Lightning Network is “helplessly broken” in a post-quantum world, and its developers can’t do anything about it. The headline traveled quickly. For companies that have built real payment infrastructure on Lightning or are evaluating it, the
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Binance and Bitget, two major cryptocurrency exchanges, have opened investigations into trading activity surrounding RaveDAO’s RAVE token after alleged insiders on chain ZachXBT made a large short squeeze that fueled the token’s rapid rise. Crypto exchange Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said the exchange had “begun to investigate” the matter, while Binance CEO Richard Teng later
new video loaded: Why your paycheck feels smaller Ben Casselman, our chief economist correspondent, explains why wages are not keeping up with inflation and what that means for American workers and the economy. By Ben Casselman, Nour Idriss, Sutton Raphael and Stephanie Swart 18 April 2026
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Wrapped XRP went live on Solana on Friday, issued by custodian Hex Trust and linked through LayerZero, making the token available in Solana’s DeFi apps for the first time. XRP holders can now use the wrapped asset on Jupiter, Phantom, Titan Exchange and Meteora without selling their underlying position. Each wXRP is backed 1:1 by
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Polish cryptocurrency exchange Zondacrypto’s problems just keep mounting. Already under fire following reports of frozen or delayed customer withdrawals, the company drew the ire of Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday, who told parliament that the company had sponsored some politicians opposed to regulation of the crypto market. Blocking the legislation by some politicians showed
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Crypto’s next big turning point will come from artificial intelligence (AI). Consensys CEO and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin says so. He told CoinDesk that autonomous or semi-autonomous agents can act, coordinate and verify each other on decentralized networks using crypto tokens as the basis for machine-driven activity. Lubin, who will speak at Consensus Miami 2026
Liz Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, said the country’s economy had been stagnant for decades and that many of the problems were due to a lack of sound money and the deterioration of the currency, an erosion of the pound’s value caused by inflation and the printing of new banknotes. Truss, who led a Conservative
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One of the biggest short squeezes of 2026 came and went in a single session. Bitcoin rose to $78,000 late Friday, sparking $762 million in liquidations across 168,336 traders, with $593 million of that on the short side, as of CoinGlass. By Saturday evening hours in Asia, bitcoin had pulled back to $76,091, up just
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