The biggest decentralization move bitcoin mining has seen in years just happened quietly, with seven of the biggest pools agreeing to support the same open standard. Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, MARA Pool, Block Inc and DMND have all joined the Stratum V2 working group, the group announced last week. Stratum V2 is an open source […]
XRP finally forced its way through the $1.45 area that had capped rallies for weeks, and the move came quickly. Volume came in at once during the breakout, which usually points to more positioning rather than retail hunting, although the rally began to lose momentum as the price neared the psychological $1.50 level. News background
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A bitcoin whale came back to life on Sunday, moving $40 billion worth of coins to a new address after more than a decade of inactivity. The transfer took place around 19:16 UTC, according to blockchain tracking service Whale Alert. The coins were moved from the address “1KAA8GGhVjjUjVTz1HKAjCyGNzAKQd882j” to “bc1qm6m6d33d02edr0k8yj9jgt027zl6dvx6thjrxy.” The wallet had been inactive
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White House counsel Patrick Witt said it’s possible the Clarity Act will become law by July 4, while Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand pushed for an ethics provision in the market structure bill. Consensus Miami 2026 ended with a heated debate on the role of prediction markets, and a lot else happened at our first conference in
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Senior people from Google Cloud and PayPal told CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference Thursday that the next wave of internet commerce will ride on crypto rails because AI agents structurally cannot use traditional financial accounts. Richard Widmann, global head of Web3 strategy at Google Cloud, said the existing Internet user experience does
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible tokens are rising again, offering hope for a broader revival in the battered NFT market as speculative appetite returns across crypto. Floor prices, or the lowest value for the flagship Yuga Labs collection, have risen from around 5 ETH to 10 ETH over the past month, while apecoin (APE),
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BlackRock ( BK ), the world’s largest asset manager overseeing $14 trillion in assets, is deepening its push into tokenized finance with a pair of new filings tied to blockchain-based U.S. treasury and money market funds. In a Friday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the asset management giant proposed to launch
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Crypto wallets are being retooled for AI agents, executives from Trust Wallet and Mesh said Thursday, as companies scramble to give autonomous software a way to hold value, prove identity and transact on-chain. Speaking at CoinDesk Miami, Arjun Mukherjee, chief technology officer at Mesh, said the shift is driven by what he
Swiss campaigners will drop a bid to get the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to hold bitcoin BTC$80,799.18 in its reserves after collecting only about half of the 100,000 signatures needed to trigger a national referendum. The initiative sought to change Switzerland’s constitution so that the SNB would hold bitcoin alongside gold and foreign exchange reserves.
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Emerging markets accounted for 77% of Binance users in 2026, up from 49% in 2020, as users in these countries increasingly used the exchange for savings, payments and investment access, the exchange said. Binance Research’s latest report frames crypto adoption as a financial access story rather than a trade story. Binance said that 83% of
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