Ripple opens Wall Street’s door to Hyperliquid’s $59 billion trading market
Institutions trade swaps referencing more than 100 traditional financial markets around the clock, with Ripple Prime as the principal counterparty,...
DeFi
Bitcoin’s AI-driven rally faces a hidden danger if the machines get richer but workers don’t
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan argued in an Oct. 14 memo that nearly every macroeconomic path ends with Bitcoin higher, including...
Bank of America backed crypto AML rules but reported over $5 billion in suspicious activity late
In December 2023, Senator Elizabeth Warren asked Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan whether crypto companies handling financial transactions should...
STRC buybacks cost Strategy nearly 9x its Bitcoin spending
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) bought 250 Bitcoin for $21.5 million last week while spending $192.4 million to repurchase its STRC preferred...
$10 test, then $30,750 loss
Lookalike payment addresses targeted nearly 4.5 million Solana wallets over 11 months, according to blockchain-data firm Bitquery’s Oct. 9, 2026...
XRP narrowly escapes $94 billion security crisis after AI uncovers 11-year-old flaw
The decade-old vulnerability escaped years of security reviews and forced XRP Ledger (XRPL) developers to bypass established governance procedures.An AI agent...
Celsius founder faces lifetime ban, but can trade his own crypto
Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky has agreed to a permanent ban from the securities, commodities, and crypto business under...
AI agents can pay for your shopping. Who gets your money back?
Amazon's Bedrock AgentCore Payments, built with Coinbase and Stripe, lets AI agents discover paid services, authenticate, and pay with stablecoins...
BitMine’s Ethereum buying spree could end in six weeks
BitMine Immersion Technologies Chairman Tom Lee said the company will stop accumulating Ethereum once its holdings reach 5% of the...
Why Abstract is killing its Ethereum L2 instead of launching a token to save it
Abstract will shut down on Dec. 15 despite onboarding more than 400,000 users, hosting 144 apps, and landing brands including...
China’s crypto ban Is failing to stop a $176 billion P2P economy
China’s underground crypto economy is increasingly shifting toward peer-to-peer stablecoin payments despite Beijing’s longstanding restrictions on digital assets.Chainalysis estimates China...
Circle and Tether find common ground against MiCA’s bank reserve rules
Circle is urging the European Union to open its Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) to foreign-regulated stablecoins and loosen reserve...
