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Circle’s shares climbed more than 7.7% in premarket trading after the company received final approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A.…
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As the CLARITY Act advances, crypto's growing political influence in Washington is under scrutiny. But the crypto lobby's massive campaign spend is only part of the story.
A group of crypto and Web3 firms that includes OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs and Genlayer have formed the “Internet Court” to reach dispute resolutions between AI agents.
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Bitcoin bulls faced "crucial resistance" at $65,000 next as BTC price action diverged from oil and US dollar strength.
CRYL is offering Bitcoin-backed loans to individuals and businesses as Japanese firms explore broader uses for BTC in lending and credit markets.
Circle (CRCL), the issuer of the world's second largest stablecoin USDC, received approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank.
Metaplanet said it is studying Bitcoin-backed digital credit products in Japan with JPYC and Progmat, but no product has been launched.
A Bulgarian man already serving time for one of the larger crypto laundering cases prosecuted in the U.S. has been charged with pulling off another scheme from inside federal prison, allegedly moving $290,000 in cryptoc…
EU lawmakers have again allowed tech firms to scan chats for abuse material, but exempted end-to-end encrypted messages.
That’s the message coming from a popular technical indicator called the moving average convergence divergence (MACD) histogram, which oscillates around the zero line to show the direction and strength of the market tren…
Robinhood’s choice to use Ethereum further solidifies its position as the “ultimate settlement layer and liquidity foundation for tokenized assets,” said HashKey Group’s Tim Sun.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $95 million on Thursday, per SoSoValue data, while ether ETFs shed about $52 million, ending a five-day inflow run that had been the steadier side of the market.
The incident is significant for developers and applications that handle Injective wallet workflows, Socket researchers said.
Zcash’s next upgrade will replace the once-compromised Orchard pool and may offer clues about whether counterfeit tokens were created via a recent bug.
The soon-to-be former chief legal officer did not announce the details of his next move but said that he would continue working with the Board of Coinbase National Trust Company.
AVAX One Technology, a crypto treasury firm that holds Avalanche (AVAX), announced Thursday that it has regained compliance with Nasdaq's minimum bid price requirement, closing out a listing issue that had put the compa…
AI hallucinations may be more than incorrect answers—they could become a way for hackers to compromise computers, according to new research from Tel Aviv University, Technion, and Intuit.
The companies urged the regulator to exempt blockchain developers and non-custodial wallet providers from rules designed for traditional financial intermediaries.
Both US financial regulators are understaffed at the leadership level and lacking Democratic commissioners, with no announcement from President Donald Trump on filling the roles.
Perplexity has turned a Chinese open-source model into a near-frontier workhorse at roughly a third of what Claude Opus 4.8 costs.
Bitdeer shares rallied after the company announced a $36 million Nevada manufacturing facility that will produce its SEALMINER Bitcoin mining machines and expand its hardware business.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who led the U.S. central bank through the 2008 global financial crisis, has joined Anthropic’s independent oversight body, the AI giant announced Thursday.