Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolled out new payments infrastructure for AI agents on Thursday, built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe. AWS explained that autonomous software agents will be allowed to purchase APIs, web content, MCP servers, and other online services in real-time using stablecoins. He added, however, that future versions would support larger purchases […]
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Bitcoin BTC$79,741.05 funding rates are issuing one of the most bearish positioning signals in years, even as spot prices continue to climb. Funding rates are close to minus 4% annualized, James Aitchison, founder and CIO of Caerus Global, said during a panel at Consensus Miami 2026. That means long positions are paid to maintain exposure,
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XRP gave up ground after failing to hold above $1.45, the pullback coming even as Ripple moved deeper into institutional finance thanks to a symbolic Treasury cross-border settlement alongside JPMorgan and Mastercard. This drop is significant because XRP is now near the same breakout zone that traders were waiting for confirmation of just days earlier.
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It’s the third and final day of Consensus Miami. To recap yesterday, ICYMI, Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council on Digital Assets, told the Consensus Miami day two hearing that if the Senate Banking Committee implemented a markup this month, it would give the Senate four weeks to merge the bill with the
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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 2171.96, down 0.2% (-4.96) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Thirteen of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: ICP (+9.7%) and DOT (+1.7%). Lagging behind: BCH (-1.2%)
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3 trillion dollars. That’s the scale of the opportunity that Bitcoin treasury officials see in digital credit, a rapidly growing class of Bitcoin-backed debt instruments designed to generate a return on Bitcoin holdings. The market has already grown to about $10 billion in less than a year, participants say. “What we’re seeing right now with
VCI Global signs term sheet for investment in gold mines in Brazil
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This is an excerpt from the CoinDesk “Daybook” newsletter. Register here, if you haven’t already. Bitcoin BTC$80,953.28 fell back below $81,000 after narrowly missing a test of the closely watched 200-day simple moving average (SMA), currently near $83,300, on Wednesday. The broader crypto market is also trading in the red, with the CoinDesk Smart Contract
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Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream, said recent exploits in decentralized finance (DeFi) increase Bitcoin’s appeal to institutions seeking secure, politically neutral financial infrastructure, while opening the door to more conservative forms of tokenization and decentralized finance built on Bitcoin rails. Speaking at Consensus Miami 2026, the longtime cryptographer and early Bitcoin contributor argued that the
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The crypto market fell on Thursday with bitcoin BTC$80,953.28 losing about 0.7% since midnight UTC following Wednesday’s rally to a three-month high of $82,800. Ether lost about 1% during opening hours in Asia and Europe, now trading at $2,325 after briefly surpassing $2,420 on Wednesday. The market as a whole is showing early signs of
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