Crypto billionaire Justin Sun says crypto’s next breakthrough could come from artificial intelligence (AI), posting Tuesday on X that he’s all-in on AI, but that the industry has yet to produce a product that resonates with consumers. In an interview with CoinDesk ahead of the Hong Kong Consensus 2026, the Tron founder argued that most […]
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Billiton Diamond and tokenization company Ctrl Alt said Tuesday they have transferred more than $280 million in on-chain certified cut diamonds to the United Arab Emirates, using Ripple’s custody technology to secure the assets and the XRP Ledger to create tokens tied to physical inventory. The initiative – designed as an institutional-grade tokenization pipeline for
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Cathie Wood’s ARK continues to be a dip buyer, snapping up shares worth millions of dollars Monday as the market swooned and offered bargain prices. The company bought about $72 million worth of crypto stocks in its various funds as bitcoin briefly fell below $75,000, leading to widespread losses in crypto-related stocks. The purchases included
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ING Deutschland, Germany’s largest retail bank, now allows customers to purchase crypto products tracking bitcoin BTC$78,530.21ether ETH$2,321.06and Solana GROUND$103.90 directly from their bank securities accounts. These products are true exchange-traded products backed by cryptocurrencies and issued by heavyweights like 21Shares, Bitwise and VanEck, the bank’s website says, adding that these alternative investment vehicles mirror coin
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Tether has released an open source operating system for Bitcoin mining, touting it as a way to simplify the operation of mining infrastructure while reducing reliance on closed, vendor-controlled software. The stablecoin issuer announced Monday that it has rolled out MiningOS (MOS), describing it as a modular and scalable mining operating system designed for everyone
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Elon Musk’s decision to merge SpaceX with artificial intelligence company xAI has effectively created a trillion-dollar tech juggernaut – and quietly thrust one of the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin positions back into focus as the company moves closer to a public listing. Although the deal was designed around the creation of “space-based AI,” the combined
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Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies have rebounded over the past 24 hours after a brutal weekend sell-off that pushed prices to multi-month lows and triggered billions of dollars of liquidations in derivatives markets. Bitcoin was trading at just under $79,000 during Asian morning hours, recovering from the weekend low near $74,000. Ether climbed above $2,340, while
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Hong Kong’s financial watchdog will grant a first batch of “very few” stablecoin issuer licenses in March, according to Reuters. Eddie Yue, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), said he plans to issue the first round of stablecoin issuer licenses in March, during a speech at a meeting of Hong Kong’s Legislative
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A sharp drop in bitcoin’s price while CME was closed leaves bitcoin futures well below Friday’s close.
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