SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – For years, the crypto industry has been searching for its next watershed moment – something on the scale of the DeFi summer or the NFT boom. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence has quietly become integrated into daily life. Developers use ChatGPT as a co-pilot. Consumers are relying on AI assistants to write emails, […]
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Shares of stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL) are up more than 20% this week, outperforming the broader market following Israeli and US airstrikes on Iran over the weekend. Japanese bank Mizuho attributed the rise in part to a sharp rise in oil prices as tensions in the Middle East exploded. Rising crude prices could reignite inflationary
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said that “stablecoins are the most popular virtual asset used in illicit transactions”, notably in Iran and North Korea, and therefore called for stricter monitoring of stablecoin issuers in a 42-page report released on Tuesday. In January 2026, the global watchdog said it found that stablecoins accounted for most
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The Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced the expansion of its blockchain experiment to settle central bank reserves, while emphasizing that efforts for a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) are underway. The BOJ has launched a “sandbox project” to experiment with bank settlements and deposits using central bank currency, Governor Kazuo Ueda said Tuesday in
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Yesterday’s modest rally in stocks in response to a new war in the Middle East that broke out over the weekend — for now — appears to have been a sham. At mid-morning in the US, the Nasdaq was at its lowest point of the session, down 2.5%. The S&P 500 is down 2.3%. European
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Bitcoin miners are increasingly moving away from Bitcoin on their balance sheets and selling more BTC to fund new identities as players in the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. What started as holding Bitcoin at all costs, or HODLing, is becoming a thing of the past for most publicly traded miners as they move into the
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Binance’s new push into tokenized stocks gained regulatory support on Tuesday as the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) approved trading of Ondo Finance’s tokenized stocks on the exchange’s regulated platform. The ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority has authorized Ondo Global Markets’ tokenized stocks and ETFs to be traded on Binance’s FSRA-regulated multilateral trading facility, according
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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of the leaders and laggards of the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1924.9, down 3.3% (-66.23) since 4 p.m. ET Monday. One of the 20 assets is trading higher. Leaders: NEAR (+1.3%) and CRO (-1.6%). Lagging behind: AAVE (-10.0%) and
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Bridge, a stablecoin company owned by Visa and Stripe, has globally expanded the stablecoin-linked card issuance product unveiled last year, which focused on Central and South American countries. Lead Bank, which was announced as a participant in Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot earlier this year, is also working with Bridge’s stablecoin infrastructure, according to a press
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Bitcoin BTC$67,418.96 volatility is expected to remain high in the near term and prices could fall further, as crypto markets grapple with tight liquidity and deeply fractured sentiment, according to Fabian Dori, chief investment officer of Sygnum Bank. But the longer-term picture, he says, remains intact. “We can see volatility remaining high in the near
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