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Coinbase’s (COIN) Brian Armstrong Urges Wall Street Not To Be ‘Left Behind’

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Coinbase ( COIN ) is partnering with some of the largest banks in the United States on pilot programs involving stablecoins, crypto-escrow and trading, CEO Brian Armstrong said Wednesday at the New York Times DealBook Summit. “The best banks are leaning into this as an opportunity,” Armstrong said during a discussion with BlackRock CEO Larry […]

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Trump’s CFTC, FDIC vote closer to taking over agencies as they advance in Senate

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Two key positions in US crypto watchdog are moving forward this week in the Senate as the chamber draws up a slate of dozens of nominees it will consider for confirmation at once, including Mike Selig to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Travis Hill to chair the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Senate Majority

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What Investors Need to Know About Ethereum’s ‘Fusaka’ Upgrade

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Crypto asset management firm Bitwise said Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade, expected to go live later Wednesday, is the kind of crude infrastructure change that markets tend to overlook in real time and then credit later for making the network feel more robust and more investable. The upgrade is constructive for Ethereum over time because it expands

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Filecoin (FIL) Rises 2.2% as Crypto Markets Rally

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Filecoin rose 2% to $1.57 over the past 24 hours, posting modest gains that tracked broader moves in the cryptocurrency market. The broader market gauge, the CoinDesk 20 Index, rose 1.6%. The token’s volume remained muted at just 9.7% above its seven-day average, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. Price action showed Filecoin’s continued

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Ethereum preparations for upcoming Fusaka upgrade

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Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency technology development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk. In this issue: Ethereum developers prepare for Fusaka, second upgrade in 2025 Anthropic research shows that AI agents are approaching true DeFi attack capabilities Ethereum developers push ZK ‘Secret Santa’ system towards

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BlackRock’s 2026 AI report is bullish on digital assets, bearish on US economy

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Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, laid out its vision for 2026 and – read past its bearish outlook for US bonds and the world’s largest economy – it’s a bullish plan for institutional crypto adoption. The US federal debt will swell above $38 trillion, setting the tone for a market outlook defined by fragility

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TON gains 3.7% as STON.fi DAO launch and Telegram-backed AI platform bring demand

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TON’s price rose 3.7% to $1,605 over the last 24-hour period, supported by increasing trading volume and back-to-back developments in decentralized governance and AI infrastructure. Trading activity rose 16% above its seven-day moving average, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis data model, with large market participant flows supporting the move. The price jump came as

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Jane Street leads $105M round in antithesis, a testing tool used by the Ethereum Network

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Antithesis, a Northern Virginia startup pitching itself as infrastructure for never-down software, raised a $105 million Series A led by Jane Street, a bet that stress testing distributed systems means as much to blockchains as it does to high-speed trading. The company’s platform uses deterministic simulation testing and runs large-scale production-like simulations to show the

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