Ripple is no longer just about moving money. He wants it to be the entire pipe. The company shared a press release with CoinDesk on Wednesday outlining a major expansion of Ripple Payments that transforms the platform into a comprehensive infrastructure layer for the movement of fiat and stablecoin money. Businesses can now collect, hold, […]
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Punters have long been able to speculate on the possibility of a nuclear weapon being detonated on Polymarket, but the current conflict with Iran – and increased scrutiny of pro-war insider trading – has apparently caused the platform to pull contracts. Polymarket created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid growing concerns about
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Bitcoin’s rebound toward $70,000 – trading at $68,000 as Hong Kong hit midday – appears to have been driven more by positioning than conviction, according to market maker Enflux, which said the move largely reflected short covering after traders turned bearish amid geopolitical headlines. “The market is not a pricing disaster, but it is not
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Core Scientific (CORZ), a bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure company, sold just over 1,900 bitcoins in January for approximately $175 million, according to CORZ’s fourth-quarter earnings call. The sale implies an average price of around $92,100 per BTC, around 35% higher than the current price of $67,000, as it accelerates its transition to AI-driven data
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OKX rolled out an AI-driven upgrade to OnchainOS, its developer platform, on Tuesday, introducing it as infrastructure for autonomous crypto trading agents. The AI layer builds on familiar components such as wallet infrastructure, liquidity routing, and on-chain data feeds, combining them into a unified execution framework for AI agents operating across multiple chains. Rather than
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The crypto market, US stocks and precious metals all fell on Tuesday as the dollar index (DXY) rose 0.5% since midnight UTC to reach its highest level since January 19. This risk aversion comes after the escalation of the conflict in Iran, with Israel launching new strikes on Tehran and Beirut while the American embassy
The Harvard University Foundation’s decision to cut your bitcoin BTC$68,198.19 assets while the addition of ether (ETH) exposure raised a familiar question: is the endowment betting on Ethereum rather than Bitcoin, or is it simply adjusting for risk? The answer could be less dramatic than it seems and potentially optimistic for the sector. Michael Markov,
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WASHINGTON, DC — Perpetual cryptocurrency futures have largely expanded overseas due to U.S. reluctance to pursue regulation of the sector, said Mike Selig, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and his agency will soon provide guidance on how the activity should be managed. These derivative contracts, which do not expire and are often
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US President Donald Trump said bankers were trying to undermine the GENIUS Act – the iconic stablecoin law he signed into law last year – in a Truth Social article on Tuesday, and he called for congressional legislation on crypto market structure to pass without interference. “The United States needs to get the market structure
As many publicly traded Bitcoin miners shift their business plans and capital to AI infrastructure, the Trump family-backed American Bitcoin (ABTC) is doubling down on its investment in BTC mining. The company announced the purchase of 11,298 ASIC miners on Tuesday, a move it said will increase its mining capacity by around 12%. Read more:
