SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Crypto isn’t just building faster payment rails. It could be building the financial system for non-humans. As AI agents become more autonomous, developers are already providing them with crypto-wallets, enabling software to store assets, pay for services, trade tokens, and even hire other agents. The technical pieces fall into place. The […]
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – As artificial intelligence races forward, some crypto executives believe it could become the force that finally pushes blockchain infrastructure into widespread use. Others aren’t convinced the leap is so straightforward. In a recent panel discussion at NEARCON 2026, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley described AI as “an unstoppable freight train,” arguing that
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – As artificial intelligence dominates both venture funding and headlines, some in crypto are beginning to wonder if the industry has missed its “ChatGPT moment” – or worse, if capital is permanently spinning away. Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at crypto venture firm Dragonfly, flatly rejects this framing. “I would completely dispute this
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Russian company, Operation Zero, and the people behind it after accusing them of buying stolen cyber tools for millions in cryptocurrency and reselling those technologies that were created for use by the U.S. government. The tools bought and sold by the recently sanctioned Sergey Sergeyevich Zelenyuk and his
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Bitcoin BTC$63,304.16 pushed back above $64,000 in early U.S. trading Tuesday, tracking a broader rebound in risk assets after several sessions of turbulence. Recently trading at $64,200, bitcoin was still lower by 0.75% over the past 24 hours, but well above the morning’s low of $62,500. Ether (ETH) and solana (SOL) also pared big early
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Days after JPMorgan Chase & Co. admitted to bashing President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, the Federal Reserve is seeking comments on its proposal that would stop government oversight from pressuring banks to cut ties with legitimate customers based on their activities, including crypto businesses. “We’ve heard troubling cases
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Growth in prediction markets is increasing as traders seek more precise ways to price and hedge discrete events, from elections to interest rate decisions, without relying on blunt proxy trades. Prediction markets are running at an annual turnover rate of more than $3 billion, up from about $2 billion in December, and could reach $10
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It may be “crypto winter,” but it’s a “stablecoin summer” as digital dollar adoption booms, payments giant Stripe said Tuesday in its annual letter. Bridge, the stablecoin orchestration platform Stripe acquired in 2024, saw transaction volume more than quadruple last year, according to the letter. The firm also said it will “soon” launch the mainnet
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved a special request from asset manager WisdomTree to allow shares of its Treasury Money Market Digital Fund to trade at $1 with a dealer on an intraday basis, regardless of the fund’s end-of-day net asset value. Until now, investors in the fund, which trades under the
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Undaunted by the jump in bitcoin BTC$63,837.33 and the even worse price action for bitcoin tax companies Adam Back, CEO of the Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR), says shareholder approval for a public listing could come as soon as April. The public listing would come via a SPAC merger with Brandon Lutnick’s Cantor Equity Partners
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