If Stripe owns PayPal, Bridge becomes the shared infrastructure layer under PYUSD, OpenUSD and Tempo. It’s infrastructure consolidation, not token competition, and it’s a much bigger deal than the acquisition headline suggests.” That kind of infrastructure scale could allow Stripe to introduce lower settlement fees and payment incentives for PYUSD, while Tempo could gradually steer […]
Visa introduced a new platform aimed at making it easier for banks, fintech companies and crypto firms to build products using stablecoins, expanding its efforts into blockchain-based payments as competition in the sector heats up. The company announced Thursday that it launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP), an enterprise service that allows institutions to issue,
Keyrock, a digital asset firm, acquired the trading and brokerage assets of BlockFills’ institutional digital asset business, strengthening its push into institutional crypto markets, the company said in a press release Thursday. The completed transaction adds BlockFills’ customer relations, trading technology and derivatives expertise to Brussels-based Keyrock’s existing businesses spanning market making, over-the-counter (OTC) trading,
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– Kriti Bansal, Deputy Director of Finance and Accounting, AlphaPoint Ask an expert Q. Can advisors work with artificial intelligence to ensure clients are safe from fraud? A. Yes, but AI should support advisors and not act as an independent decision maker. It can flag unusual wallet behavior, suspicious contracts, phishing patterns, and risky authorizations
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Crypto brokerage infrastructure firm Alpaca raised $135 million to expand the rails used by exchanges and tokenization platforms to offer US stocks onchain. Peak XV led Alpaca’s equity round with participation from Elefund, BNP Paribas’ Opera Tech Ventures and Unbound, according to an announcement Thursday. The raise follows a $150 million Series D in January
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The stakes are high because AI agents, which are likely to account for a large portion of internet commerce, some of it in the form of tiny micropayments, could completely reshape the web. “It may seem geeky to care so much about standards, but we have the opportunity to create this truly open public global
Ledger said it is bringing its hardware security model to the fast-growing world of AI agents with the launch of the Ledger Agent Stack, an open source toolkit that allows autonomous software to interact with crypto wallets without ever checking private keys. The toolkit lets AI agents read wallet balances, analyze portfolios, prepare transactions and
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Galaxy Digital (GLXY) has launched an institutional vault curation business on decentralized lending protocol Morpho, expanding its efforts into onchain financing with a product designed to help customers earn returns on idle stablecoin balances without managing decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure themselves. The offering, called Galaxy Curator, is available through Fireblocks Earn, giving the custody platform’s
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The implication doesn’t stop there. According to Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insights, traders have a “net long gamma exposure” above $70,000. This means that traders striving to maintain market neutral exposure while making money on the bid-ask spread will short or sell to strength above 70,000 to remain neutral or hedged. “That hedging acts
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The crypto market is facing a wave of selling pressure with bitcoin BTC$64,166.70 and ether (ETH) lost 1.1% and 1.7% respectively since midnight UTC. The move to the downside comes after bitcoin surged to a monthly high of $65,500 on Wednesday, prompting some traders to take profits. Altcoins PUMP and ZEC also fell, falling 4.4%
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