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Mastercard prepares agent commerce platform for a future where AI agents make payments

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Mastercard (MA) is betting that AI agents will soon become active participants in the economy and wants its payments network to be at the center of that change. The payments giant on Tuesday unveiled Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a service that allows AI agents and software systems to make payments to each other securely […]

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Coinbase-backed Stand With Crypto calls on members to campaign against banks blocking digital asset transactions

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The Coinbase-backed Stand With Crypto UK group has called on its 286,000 members to lodge formal complaints against UK retail banks over blanket restrictions on crypto transactions, it announced on Wednesday. The campaign is a protest against nationwide banking rules that block or cap customer transfers to exchanges, including those registered with the Financial Conduct

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BlackRock and Fidelity quietly transform Bitcoin ETFs into a two-company marketplace

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When Bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States launched in January 2024, investors had more than a dozen funds to choose from. BlackRock, Fidelity, Ark Invest, Bitwise, VanEck, Franklin Templeton and several others entered what many hoped would become an extremely competitive market. Eighteen months later, the battle is looking more and more

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Ethereum (ETH) developers are exploring new token standards as privacy returns to center stage.

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For years, transaction privacy has been one of crypto’s most ambitious promises. Then it faded into the background as other trends took off. As developers focused on scaling blockchains and regulators examined privacy tools like Tornado Cash, much of the industry’s attention shifted elsewhere. But a new Ethereum proposal and a growing number of privacy-focused

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Netomi CEO Says $5 Trillion AI Customer Experience Market Could Drive Stablecoin Demand

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The customer experience sector will become a $5 trillion market by 2030, according to Netomi founder and CEO Puneet Mehta, who says the growth will create demand for stablecoins and blockchain-based payment infrastructure rather than driving capital out of crypto. Mehta said companies currently spend around $500 billion annually on customer experience-related knowledge work. As

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World Series of Poker adds SOL payouts for tournament buy-ins

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The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is integrating cryptocurrency payments into its global tournament circuit by partnering with the Solana Foundation. The world’s largest and most prestigious poker tournament series will allow players to use Solana-based payments, powered by MoonPay, to enter tournaments with no processing fees, starting with the WSOP in Las Vegas. Blockchain-based

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Michael Saylor publicly engages with critics

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Tempers flare as Bitcoin BTC$62,008.12 the bear market deepens. Strategy’s (MSTR) latest purchase of Bitcoin sparked a public debate on X between Executive Chairman Michael Saylor and Bitcoin advocate Matthew Kratter over whether the company’s most recent capital raise was accretive or dilutive to shareholders. The disagreement centers on Strategy’s own Bitcoin performance metric, BTC

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Prediction Markets Receive First US Rule Proposal as CFTC Continues Contract Review

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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Wednesday proposed its first regulation of prediction markets, offering an approach for how it can conduct widespread assessments to determine whether contracts exceed the federal standard for what is prohibited. The agency that regulates U.S. derivatives is a defender of prediction markets such as those run by Kalshi,

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