ECB puts AI agent payments on the digital euro drawing board
The ECB is seeking firms to explore AI agents and machine-to-machine interactions as it prepares a separate digital euro pilot for 2027.
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Ethereum schedules Glamsterdam upgrade on Sepolia for Oct. 6
Glamsterdam will bring proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists and new gas pricing, while its mainnet date remains unset.
Bitcoin ETF inflows leave institutional demand unclear: CoinShares
CoinShares says IBIT offers clues to institutional buying, but basis trades mean inflows are not necessarily bets on rising Bitcoin prices.
XRP ETF Records $3.96M Inflow as Canary Capital Buys It All
The post XRP ETF Records $3.96M Inflow as Canary Capital Buys It All appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News U.S. spot XRP ETFs are seeing strong institutional demand. Canary Capital’s spot XRP ETF recorded a $3.96 mil…
White House Blames Democrats After Senate Blocks Crypto Clarity Act
White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt called the Clarity Act vote a âmajor disappointment.â
How High Can Ethereum Price Go This Cycle? Analyst Maps Road To $12,000
The post How High Can Ethereum Price Go This Cycle? Analyst Maps Road To $12,000 appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Ethereum has cleared the level analyst John Gillen says mattered most. According to him, ETH’s mo…
CLARITY Act Fails 49-50: Morpho’s Faustine Fleuret Explains What It Means For US DeFi Builders
The post CLARITY Act Fails 49-50: Morpho’s Faustine Fleuret Explains What It Means For US DeFi Builders appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Washington is writing crypto rules with or without Congress. That is the v…
Kanye West-Linked Wallet Transfers 1,445 ETH to Binance After 11 Months
The post Kanye West-Linked Wallet Transfers 1,445 ETH to Binance After 11 Months appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News A wallet linked to Kanye West transferred 1,445 ETH to Binance, marking its first substantial act…
Near Intents blocks $50 million in Bitget hacker swaps, here's what happened
Crypto swap platform NEAR Intents calls itself permissionless, open and uncensorable. Yet it slammed the doors when stolen funds from Bitget tried to move through the protocol.
Greece gets first MiCA entrants as watchdog denies Binance-Lagarde claim
Greece joined the EU MiCA register with four providers as HCMC expanded its denial of remarks attributed to officials in a report on Binance.
Zcash developers begin moving Tachyon code into faster private-payment software
The developers behind privacy-focused Zcash are moving part of their proposed scaling upgrade into software already used across the network, preparing for a future with far more private transactions.
Anthropic plans to spend $518 billion on AI infrastructure. Pre-IPO perps barely blink.
The prospectus frames the spending as a bet that AI will change the global economy more than industrialization, electricity and the internet did.
Strategy Moves 3,568 BTC Across Linked Wallets
Strategy-linked wallets moved 3,568 BTC worth about $297 million within nine hours, according to on-chain data shared by Lookonchain and attributed to Arkham Intelligence. The 11 transfers moved Bitcoin between wallets …
U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: Why 328,372 BTC Isn’t the Full Story
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AAVE Price Surges 16% as Tokenized Stocks Enter DeFi — Can AAVE Break $200?
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BitMine could hit its 5% Ether supply target within weeks — then what?
BitMine could reach 5% of Ether’s supply by early November, while Tom Lee has left open whether it would continue buying beyond that level.
Tether says it helped freeze $550M in Iran-linked USDT this year
Stablecoin issuer Tether said it helped authorities freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT during 2026, as a Senate Democrat called for an investigation into the stablecoin issuer on Monday.
Bond Volatility Spike Raises Alarm As MOVE Index Jumps To 104
The MOVE Index, which tracks volatility in US Treasury yields, jumped from around 80 to above 104 in just two days, the sharpest move in months. Past spikes of this kind preceded major stress events: the 2008 financial …
Michael Saylor’s Crypto Market Prediction For Next 24 Months
Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said the next 24 months could be important for the digital asset industry, highlighting the leadership of the CFTC, SEC, Treasury and White House. Speaking at the Bitcoin Polic…
Bitcoin holds $83,000 as ZEC drops 12% and oil climbs again
Bitcoin slipped under 1% to just above $83,100 as of Tuesday Asian morning hours, testing the floor of last week's range, after the 10-year Treasury yield touched its highest level since 2007.
NEAR Intents says it blocked $50M tied to Bitget hackers
The cross-chain protocol said it actively prevents stolen funds from being laundered, drawing a contrast with THORChain’s position that it does not selectively censor transactions.
XRP ETF Net Assets Hit All-Time High Of $1.77 Billion, Up 80% In Q3
XRP ETF net assets have grown 80% during the third quarter to reach an all-time high of $1.77 billion. Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said institutional demand comes down to two simple factors. Financial advisors’ confidence t…
Nvidia unveils AI safety platform to rein in ‘rogue’ AI agents
The launch comes after several AI agents breached their testing environments this year, adding to calls for companies to slow the development of autonomous AI systems.
A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here's What It Means for Crypto
Researchers at UC San Diego and France's Institute for Research in Computer Science impersonated a hardware security module—a tamper-resistant device that stores private keys and signs on request—without ever pulling th…