Casper's new AI toolkit could give autonomous agents the ability to pay for services, manage DeFi positions, and deploy smart contracts without human involvement.

“When junk coins are gradually phased out, protocols, infrastructure and financial products that can truly create value will have the opportunity to obtain more reasonable valuations.”

Leading stablecoin issuer Tether is looking to flip the script on gold’s store-of-value framing, making its tokenized version of the commodity the key medium of exchange for a new Visa card.  Made in collaboration with digital banking firm Fasset, the card will allow users to spend their Tether Gold (XAUT) holdings anywhere Visa is accepted worldwide.  “Historically, gold has been a store of value, not a medium of exchange,” said Tether CEO Paolo Adroino, in a statement. “This initiative change...

Law professors preferred answers generated by artificial intelligence over answers written by fellow professors, according to a recent study led by Stanford University that examined how large language models perform on legal reasoning tasks. In the study, 16 professors from 14 U.S. law schools—including Stanford, Yale, New York University, the University of Chicago, Georgetown, UCLA, and the University of Virginia—created 40 contract law questions covering legal doctrine, case law, hypothetical...

Nous Research shipped Hermes Desktop yesterday as a public preview, and now the self-improving agent that the AI community has been obsessing over has an official front door. No terminal or config files. Just download, install, and run. Previously, if you wanted to run Hermes with any kind of visual interface, you had to find it yourself. The community had built some genuinely impressive options—we covered four of the best ones last month—but all of them were unofficial, third-party GUIs, SSH c...

Bitcoin’s fall below $70,000 is not the end of the crypto industry, but a historic turning point for crypto to completely break away from the shackles of Bitcoin.

A 15-year-old treasure was awoken when a physical coin embedded with the private key to a Bitcoin wallet was activated on-chain Tuesday, giving the coin's owner access to about $1.78 million in Bitcoin. The collectible, a part of the Casascius Physical Bitcoins, contained a private key to access a wallet holding 25 BTC—which was collectively worth less than $100 when it was created in December 2011, according to data from Casascius Tracker.  The physical coins, created by Bitcoin enthusiast and...

XRPL builder Mr. Cauliman rejects XRP price predictions, saying his focus on House of Cauliman projects shows long-term conviction.

Coinbase has expanded its derivatives offering with SpaceX linked pre IPO perpetual futures and plans to add more private companies.

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas took the stage at Computex 2026 in Taipei on June 2 alongside Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to announce what the company calls the first hybrid local-server inference orchestrator. The system, coming to Perplexity Computer in July, automatically decides which parts of an AI task to run on your machine and which parts get routed to more powerful models in the cloud—without asking you to choose. “Today we're announcing the next step for Personal Computer: the first hybrid l...

Bitcoin fell below key holder cost basis levels during May's selloff, while asset managers adopted a defensive strategy and raised cash reserves.

Bitcoin trades near $62K as Charles Edwards says a 28% quantum discount reflects market fears over slow post-quantum planning.

Goldman Sachs has partnered with Apex Group and Archax to bring real estate fund units on chain as tokenized property adoption gains pace globally.

Shinhan Financial Group moves to join Canton Network governance as it seeks to expand Korean tokenized financial products overseas.

Arthur Hayes sold HYPE and NEAR after a $100K bet, citing energy prices, AI IPOs and political risk as markets near a possible top.

As AI stocks and high profile IPOs capture investor attention, Charles Schwab says Bitcoin is struggling to remain the market's preferred speculative trade.

Senator Cynthia Lummis said Senate lawmakers are still combining multiple proposals and amendments before a final vote on the CLARITY Act.

Many industry participants see decentralized finance as a proving ground for AI agents, as trading environments offer immediate feedback on decision quality and reliability.

A bubble never tells you at which level it bursts. But you can at least choose not to use other people’s stories to price yourself.

New Chainalysis data offers a look at how AI powered transactions on x402 are evolving from experimental activity into recurring onchain payments.