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Visa and Stripe-owned Bridge aim to expand stablecoin-linked Visa cards to 18 countries, and plan 100-plus by the end of the year, while testing stablecoin settlement with Lead Bank.

Strive’s Joe Burnett argues AI-driven deflation may force looser policy, pushing Bitcoin toward $11 million a coin by 2036 and a $230 trillion market cap.

Ether needed to hold a key support recently established at $1,800, coinciding with the lower trend line of a classic chart pattern that warns of a drop below $1,500.

The move follows a 52.58% Snapshot vote on a $42.5 million funding package for Aave Labs, now headed to the ARFC stage before any binding onchain decision.

Big Four firm Deloitte attested to $17.6 million in reserves backing USAt, Tether’s new US-regulated stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank.

Bybit says most of the $300 million “saved” came from users backing out after real-time warnings, highlighting how exchanges are shifting from recovery to preemptive fraud stops.

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi said she had no knowledge of the token, as Kyodo reported the FSA was considering whether unregistered operators were involved.

The European Central Bank warns in a new working paper that as stablecoin adoption grows, deposits may leave banks, affecting lending and monetary policy transmission.

BTC price has slid about 35% on average over a month after similar trend line crossovers, keeping downside risk in focus for traders.

The two separate rulings add new regulatory pressure as prediction markets also face scrutiny over information advantages and suspected insider activity tied to event-driven contracts.

Riot Platforms posted record 2025 revenue of $647 million, driven by $576 million in Bitcoin mining revenue, while holding 18,005 BTC worth $1.6 billion.

US spot Bitcoin funds saw strong inflows and increasing volumes on Monday as institutional demand held up in spite of increasing Middle East tensions and broader market uncertainty.

BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda said the experiments will examine links between blockchain systems and Japan’s existing settlement infrastructure.

Ben Delo paid a $10 million fine after pleading guilty to US banking violations in 2022 and was granted a pardon by President Donald Trump in March 2025.

Jan van Eck suggested that analysts have been overcomplicating recent Bitcoin price action, arguing that the four-year cycle has been the main driver holding prices down.

Core Scientific missed revenue expectations in the fourth quarter as Bitcoin miners were squeezed by lower prices and higher costs.

Compressed volatility, strengthening ETF flows and a diminished Coinbase discount “are not characteristics of a market accelerating into a fresh leg lower,” said 10x Research.

The ClickFix technique gained popularity among crypto hackers last year, but security researchers have been tracking it since 2024, with targets spanning several industries.

The offering could enable traders to bet on the stock performance of Nasdaq-100 companies such as Nvidia, Apple, Google and Tesla.

Security auditor OpenZepplin found that EVMbench’s dataset contains training data leaks and at least four invalid high-severity vulnerability classifications.

The amendment appears in a broader housing bill and revives language from earlier standalone efforts to block a Fed-issued digital dollar.

A federal judge said Uniswap isn’t responsible for scam tokens traded on the crypto platform, a decision that its founder Hayden Adams said was a “sensible outcome.”

Elliptic’s initial tracing found many of the funds were sent to foreign crypto exchanges, potentially indicating capital flight from Iran amid rising uncertainty in the region.

A February report claimed that Tether had frozen about $4.2 billion worth of its USDt stablecoin allegedly connected to illicit activities since 2023.

Month-on-month Bitcoin open interest continues to decline, while BTC options markets highlight balanced demand. Does the data point to reduced institutional investor activity?

The regulatory nod will let UAE-based financial institutions deal in tokenized equities on Binance's regulated trading venue.

Bridge has partnered with Lead Bank, a participant in Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot, to help businesses and fintechs offer stablecoin-backed Visa cards.

Fabian Dori says a short-term liquidity squeeze is driving crypto’s slump, with further downside possible, though improving macro data and fundamentals could speed a recovery.

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Risk assets fell across the board Tuesday as the U.S. dollar strengthened to a near two-month high following renewed military escalation in Iran, pressuring the crypto market.

District Judge says that due to the protocol’s decentralized nature, the identities of the scam token issuers are basically unknown, leaving plaintiffs with no identifiable defendant.

Japan’s prime minister says she has no knowledge of or involvement in a Solana-based meme token that briefly reached a $27.7 million market cap before tumbling.

The report is a third-party attestation, which provides a snapshot of reserves at a specific point in time, rather than a full audit of the company's finances.

Risk off sentiment builds ahead of Tuesday’s open, with investors moving into the dollar and watching energy markets amid ongoing Middle East tensions.

Developer layer aims to stitch together wallets, swaps and data feeds for autonomous bots.

CORZ still holds under 1,000 BTC but look to "remain opportunistic" moving forward.

Out of a fixed maximum supply of 21 million coins, more than 95% of all bitcoin that will ever exist is now in circulation.

U.S. BTC ETFs added $458 million, suggesting institutional buyers are absorbing the weekend shock that briefly sent BTC to $63,000.

Private execution layer aims to curb MEV and front-running as the token extends 40% weekly rally despite modest onchain earnings.

The Senate Banking Committee's bipartisan "ROAD to Housing Act" includes a provision banning the Fed from issuing a CBDC before 2031.

The Nasdaq-bound payments firm backed by SoftBank targets a valuation above $10 billion.

Riot Platforms topped revenue estimates as it reported earnings for the final three months of 2025.

An OKX-backed report estimates tokenization and digital finance could generate A$24 billion annually, with productivity gains hinging on reforms to licensing, sandboxes and financial market rules.

Market data show rising open interest and large liquidation clusters around $65,000 and above $70,000, underscoring that the rally may be fragile without stronger spot demand

Another focus of his post is so-called “toxic MEV,” where traders exploit visibility into pending transactions to front-run or “sandwich” users’ trades.

It's no longer a matter of if major banks will custody crypto but a matter of when, with Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Barclays all lining up.

Bitcoin pulled back from Monday’s peak near $70,000 as geopolitical and economic headwinds hold a recovery rally in check.

Circle’s post-earnings breakout gains continue to rise as USDC growth, policy shifts, and macro volatility converge.

A federal judge has sent Nevada’s cases against Kalshi and Polymarket back to state court, allowing regulators to seek temporary injunctions.

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

The vote marks one of the strongest bipartisan showings of this Congress, suggesting the package could clear further procedural hurdles.

Deloitte performed USAT’s first attestation, linking the Big Four accounting firm with Tether’s U.S.-regulated stablecoin.

Researchers combined milk protein, starch, and volcanic clay to create a biodegradable packaging film that degrades in 13 weeks.

Prosecutors are trying to recover over $327,000 worth of Tether's USDT stablecoin linked to a crypto romance scam from 2024.

The Pentagon deal sparked a mass exodus from ChatGPT—and pushed Anthropic's Claude to the top of the App Store. But the bigger story is in the contract language.

U.S. justices leave human authorship rule intact, reinforcing legal limits on AI intellectual property claims.

Publicly traded Bitcoin treasury ProCap Financial boosted its BTC stash to $376 million as it continues buying back its own shares.

David Miller, a white-collar attorney specializing in the defense of crypto clients, will lead the CFTC’s reduced enforcement team at a critical juncture for the agency.

Nasdaq wants in on prediction markets—and it's going through the SEC to get there.

Despite battlefield blowback fears, Bitcoin’s network is likely to shrug off disruptions, experts told Decrypt.

The price of Bitcoin immediately fell following bombings on Iran this weekend, but then surged Monday as markets began to recover.

A former Labour minister has argued that foreign “enemies of democracy” are using crypto political donations to undermine British politics.

Bitcoin ETFs rebounded as crypto funds saw $1 billion in fresh inflows last week—but is the worst really over?

Publicly traded Ethereum treasury BitMine Immersion Technologies added to its ETH stack last week despite its recent decline.

Strategy disclosed its third-largest Bitcoin purchase of the year, scooping up the asset using proceeds that partially came from STRC.

Just days after President Trump slammed Anthropic for disputes over wartime use of its AI, a major Claude outage has stretched on for hours.

Hyperliquid that was the weekend's crypto winner, setting a new record and being featured by a major news outlet's weekend market coverage.

Polkadot, Near, and Jupiter jumped as Bitcoin stabilized, but experts warn the move is a positioning rebound, not a trend shift.

Claude was reportedly embedded in U.S. Central Command even as the White House ordered federal agencies to cut all ties with the company.

The pledge follows examples of custody lapses that have exposed weaknesses in how South Korean authorities secure seized crypto.

Hyperliquid's token is trading higher on the day as traders use the always-on venue to speculate on ongoing tensions in the Middle East.

Attention has shifted to whether the Iran conflict remains contained, as Bitcoin traders weigh elevated oil prices and a rising gold price.

Big Tech AI tools treat your data like a buffet. Here are nine alternatives that don't—and which one wins for your specific threat model.

Bitcoin Empire on iOS and Android pays out real BTC to players, but is the digital mining grind worth the meager rewards?

Backpack co-founder Can Sun said the exchange's upcoming token-to-equity conversion program threads the needle on securities laws.

The price of Bitcoin plummeted to nearly $63,000 overnight amid U.S. and Israel strikes on Iran, but has mostly recovered in the hours since.

The proposed rules would limit the ability of third parties to pass stablecoin rewards on to users, but experts are split on what the language could mean for America’s top crypto firms.

President Trump gave government agencies six months to phase out Anthropic's products after a clash over military safeguards.

Publicly traded banking giant Barclays is considering making a push into crypto payments and deposits, according to a report from Bloomberg.

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