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Trump defends crypto legislation at private event with boxer Mike Tyson, Tether CEO

A few hundred of the top $TRUMP memecoin holders were treated to some one-on-one time with US President Donald Trump and his high-profile guests on Saturday at an event at his Florida club, where Trump warned bankers against getting in the way of crypto legislation. Speaking at the private Mar-a-Lago gathering in Palm Beach, Florida, […]

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Crypto is built for AI agents, not humans, according to Alchemy’s CEO

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The modern economic system was never designed for machines. It was built around the limitations of human life: geography, sleep cycles, paperwork and physical presence. But as AI agents begin to act as economic participants, human-centered design begins to look less like a feature and more like a bottleneck, said the co-founder of crypto firm

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A year later, Trump’s ‘most exclusive’ Memecoin event is much less exclusive

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But few of his crypto ventures have attracted as much attention or scrutiny as his memecoin. Unveiled three nights before the January 2025 presidential inauguration, $TRUMP emerged from a partnership between Mr. Trump and a longtime employee, serial entrepreneur Bill Zanker. When the coins went on sale, the Trump family and its business partners charged

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Why investors are flocking to BlackRock’s bitcoin options to hedge against a wild global economy

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Something remarkable happened on Friday, indicating the accelerating institutionalization of bitcoin BTC$77,557.88 market that has been pioneered by ordinary people for years. That’s because options, or hedging instruments, tied to BlackRock’s bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), IBIT, have grown slightly larger on the Nasdaq than the total trading of bitcoin options on offshore giant Deribit. It

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Anthropic’s new Mythos AI reveals the hidden cracks in crypto’s foundations

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Mythos, the new AI model from Anthropic that has sparked fear and confusion in traditional tech and finance, is also driving a massive shift in how the crypto industry thinks about security. For years, decentralized finance has focused its defense on smart contracts. The code is audited, vulnerabilities are cataloged, and many common exploits are

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Bitcoin (BTC) falls after Trump reportedly canceled Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s Iran negotiating trip

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Bitcoin BTC$77,386.89 edged lower late in the morning on the US East Coast after US President Donald Trump’s comments signaled a halt to planned diplomatic travel linked to Iran negotiations. The biggest cryptocurrency fell about $100 to $77,351 just before noon ET, reversing a modest earlier gain. The move came minutes after a Fox reporter

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Mike Tyson, Tether CEO, Cathie Wood among speakers at Trump’s ‘most exclusive’ crypto conference

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A group of cryptocurrency executives, investors and public figures are speaking Saturday at a private event hosted by US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Dubbed “the most exclusive conference in the world,” the event kicked off with Bill Zanker, co-founder of TRUMP memecoin and was attended by legendary boxer

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Bitcoin’s $40,000 bear case would be a historical outlier, data suggests

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Bitcoins BTC$77,692.53 recent gains — it’s added nearly 15% this month — aren’t enough to convince some industry observers that the largest cryptocurrency has escaped the bear market it entered in October. After all, it is still 40% below the record. Deeper declines could be coming, with some unidentified forecasters predicting a drop to as

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Europe’s banks are going all in on crypto

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Something important happened in Belgium earlier this year. KBC, the country’s largest bancassurance group, turned on regulated trading of Bitcoin and Ether for retail investors through Bolero, its self-managing brokerage platform. The important thing is not only that a major European bank enabled access to digital assets. This is how that access was introduced: within

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Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak says AI agents are the next big wave for crypto payments

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The rapid rise of AI agents is beginning to reshape how payments are made online, and crypto infrastructure is emerging as a natural fit, according to Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak. “What was almost impossible nine months ago is now completely possible,” Pollak said in an interview with CoinDesk, pointing to the accelerating possibilities of autonomous AI

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