Coinbase (COIN) has quietly crossed a threshold that Wall Street would immediately recognize: it has become, by its own definition, the only full-service prime brokerage in crypto. John D’Agostino, chief strategy officer at Coinbase Institutional, said the definition of a prime broker still follows a checklist familiar to Wall Street: trading, custody, funding, derivatives and […]
A chain reorganization of 13 blocks on LTC$56.31 On Friday evening and Saturday, approximately 32 minutes of network activity was restored after attackers used a vulnerability in its Mimblewimble Extension Block (MWEB) protocol. The bug had enabled a denial of service attack against major mining pools, allowing invalid MWEB transactions to pass through nodes that
A few hundred of $TRUMP’s top memecoin holders were treated to a personal moment with US President Donald Trump and his distinguished guests on Saturday at an event at his Florida club where Trump warned bankers against obstructing crypto legislation. Speaking at the private Mar-a-Lago gathering in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump echoed the position his
The modern financial system was never designed for machines. It was built around the constraints of human life: geography, sleep cycles, paperwork and physical presence. But as AI agents begin to act as economic actors, this human-centered design begins to look less like a feature and more like a bottleneck, said the co-founder of crypto
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Something notable happened on Friday, indicating the accelerated institutionalization of bitcoin. BTC$77,372.06 market, which has been pioneered by common people for years. Indeed, options, or hedging instruments, linked to BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), IBIT, rose slightly more on Nasdaq than total Bitcoin options traded on offshore giant Deribit. It is particularly striking that IBIT
Mythos, Anthropic’s new AI model that has sparked fear and confusion in traditional technology and finance, is also driving a massive shift in how the crypto industry thinks about security. For years, decentralized finance has focused its defenses on smart contracts. Code is audited, vulnerabilities are cataloged, and many common exploits are well understood. But
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Bitcoin BTC$77,405.93 Prices fell slightly late in the morning on the U.S. East Coast after comments from U.S. President Donald Trump signaled a halt to planned diplomatic trips related to the Iran negotiations. The largest cryptocurrency fell about $100 to $77,351 just before noon ET, reversing an earlier modest gain. The move came minutes after
A group of cryptocurrency executives, investors and public figures are expected to speak Saturday at a private event hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. The event, billed as “the world’s most exclusive conference”, kicked off with Bill Zanker, co-founder of TRUMP memecoin and was attended by legendary
Bitcoin BTC$77,557.88 Recent gains — they’re up nearly 15% this month — aren’t enough to convince some industry observers that the largest cryptocurrency has escaped the bear market it entered in October. It is, after all, still 40% below its record. There could be larger declines to come, with some unidentified forecasters predicting a drop
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Something important happened in Belgium earlier this year. KBC, the country’s largest bancassurance group, has launched regulated trading of Bitcoin and Ether for retail investors through Bolero, its self-directed brokerage platform. What matters is not just that a major European bank has enabled access to digital assets. This is how this access was introduced: within
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