Crypto billionaire Justin Sun says crypto’s next breakout could come from artificial intelligence (AI), writing on Tuesday the X that he’s all-in on AI, but the industry has yet to produce a product that resonates with consumers. In an interview with CoinDesk ahead of Consensus Hong Kong 2026, the Tron founder argued that most AI-linked […]
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Billiton Diamond and tokenization firm Ctrl Alt said on Tuesday they had moved more than $280 million of certified polished diamonds on-chain in the UAE, using Ripple’s escrow technology to secure the assets and the XRP Ledger to mint tokens tied to physical inventory. The initiative — framed as an institutional-grade tokenization pipeline for polished
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xAI has opened an external ‘Finance Expert – Crypto’ role as it looks to deepen its AI models’ understanding of digital asset markets, signaling growing interest in crypto-native financial reasoning rather than simple price prediction. The role is designed to support xAI’s frontier models by providing high-quality annotations, evaluations and expert explanations drawn from real-world
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Tether has released an open-source operating system for bitcoin mining, pitching it as a way to make it easier to run mining infrastructure while reducing reliance on closed, vendor-controlled software. The stablecoin issuer said Monday it has rolled out MiningOS (MOS), describing it as a modular, scalable mining system designed for everyone from hobby miners
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ING Deutschland, Germany’s largest retail bank, now lets customers buy crypto products that track bitcoin BTC$78,105.22ether ETH$2,305.86and solana SUN$103.17 right from their bank linked securities accounts. These products are genuine crypto-backed exchange-traded products issued by heavyweights such as 21Shares, Bitwise and VanEck, the bank’s website says, adding that these alternative investment vehicles mirror coin movements
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Bitcoins BTC$78,443.11 price sale has been paused for the last 24 hours. But prospects for a sustained recovery look dimmer as the dollar index springs back to life and threatens to pressure crypto prices. Prices for the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization have stabilized between $75,000 and $80,000 after a weekend slump that saw valuations
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Elon Musk’s decision to merge SpaceX with artificial intelligence firm xAI has effectively created a trillion-dollar tech heavyweight — and quietly pulled one of the world’s biggest companies’ bitcoin positions back into focus as the company nears a public listing. While the deal was framed around building “space-based AI,” the combined entity actually inherits SpaceX’s
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By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless otherwise noted) As the crypto market licks its wounds from the weekend’s slide, decentralized exchange Hyperliquid’s permissionless markets have exploded to record highs. Introduced in October with Hyperliquid Improvement Proposal 3 (HIP-3), the markets hit a record high of $1 billion in open interest and $4.8 billion in
Hong Kong’s financial watchdog will issue a first batch of “very few” stablecoin issuer licenses in March, according to Reuters. Eddie Yue, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), said he expects to issue the first batch of stablecoin issuer licenses in March while addressing a meeting of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council on
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Good morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to the Asia Morning Briefing, a daily overview of top stories in US hours and an overview of market movements and analysis. For a detailed overview of US markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Diary Americas. Entering the “Year of the Horse”, crypto markets look less
