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Ripple wants AI agents to pay in XRP and RLUSD. The market is still mostly USDC
Ripple is trying to put XRP and RLUSD into the market for AI-agent payments in an environment that is still mostly paying in the dollar-pegged USDC stablecoin.
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Saylor to Musk: Thanks to you, 25% of 'Mag8' firms now hold bitcoin
Michael Saylor, co-founder of Strategy, the world's largest publicly listed bitcoin holder, has a new term for Wall Street's most elite stocks and a congratulatory message for Elon Musk.
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Top cryptographers can't agree on Bitcoin's biggest quantum question
A Coinbase-convened advisory board of some of the most prominent cryptographers in the world has laid out what Bitcoin should do about the millions of coins a future quantum computer could steal, and on the hardest ques…
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SpaceX IPO scramble reveals difference between tokenizing a stock and getting one
The race to get into the SpaceX IPO left many crypto investors on the sidelines.
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Bloomberg Analyst: Most Bitcoin ETF Investors Have Stayed Put Despite Outflows
Latest developments: Crypto markets are under pressure as Bitcoin sits around $60,000 and ETF outflows continue.
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VanEck bets BNB’s real-world usage can stand out in a crowded crypto ETF market
Latest developments: VanEck recently launched the first U.S. spot BNB ETF, trading under the ticker VBNB on Nasdaq.
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Bitcoin hit bottom at $59,000 marking end to the crypto winter, says Standard Chartered analyst
The cryptocurrency market reached its definitive bottom for the currency cycle, Standard Chartered Analyst Geoffrey Kendrick said in a note on Friday.
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FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried loses appeal of criminal conviction on fraud, conspiracy charges
FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried lost his effort to overturn his conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges tied to the operation and collapse of his former crypto trading empire on Friday.
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Monero price rockets 33% to $438 amid $120 million onchain laundering maze
Someone routed $120 million in stablecoins through a chain of swaps this week, and a sudden jump in the Monero price made it visible.
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The U.S. government is betting $2 Billion on quantum computing, and the defense side can't keep up
Last month, the United States Commerce Department signed letters of intent to award just over $2 billion to nine quantum computing companies building the machines that break the cryptography defending Bitcoin and Ethere…
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For crypto, SpaceX's stock market debut could go either way
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There's one simple way to tell whether bitcoin has really bottomed. Right now, it hasn't.
There is a simple signal to get that confirmation. Right now, it is saying the rebound has not started.
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The company that makes your TV is taking ads onchain. Arbitrum helped
Blockchain is no longer just a story of Wall Street banks and brokers leveraging the technology to optimize finance. Now, corporates are embracing distributed ledger to streamline business operations.
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Live updates: Bitcoin traders eye rally to $75,000, Japan set to hike rate to 31-year high
The Nasdaq-100 rebalance takes effect on June 22, with CoreWeave (CRWV) and Nebius Group (NBIS) among the five companies being added in the index's quarterly reshuffle.
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Former SEC, CFTC Chair Gary Gensler argues that prediction markets don't overrule state regulations
Prediction markets should not preempt state laws around sports gambling, the former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, said in a court filing late Thur…
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SpaceX's crypto-traded IPO was sharply falling. It now points upward to a $2.4 trillion valuation
A SpaceX-linked perpetual contract on Hyperliquid, trading under SPCX, rebounded sharply into stock's expected Friday debut after spending three weeks cutting the implied first-day premium on Elon Musk’s rocket and sate…
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Bitcoin climbs back into the green as Trump signals an end to the Iran war
The risk-off mood that hammered crypto all week is reversing. Bitcoin is back in the green, and the trigger was a sudden de-escalation in the Iran war.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX prices shares at $135, raising $75 billion in largest-ever IPO
SpaceX has priced its shares at $135, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, setting the stage for one of the most closely watched public market debuts in recent years.
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Coinbase launches AI agent accounts that can trade and spend on your behalf
Coinbase said it launched a new product called Coinbase for Agents, a platform that allows artificial intelligence agents such as ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude to connect directly to users' Coinbase accounts and carry …
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Crypto for Advisors: Crypto ETFs
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Banking rails are moving past the 'stablecoin winner' narrative: Sygnum
Banks are focusing on pulling stablecoins and tokenized forms of more traditional financial instruments into one integrated package to meet growing institutional demand for multi-asset flexibility.