JPMorgan warns the window for passing the CLARITY Act is narrowing as election-year politics and stablecoin disputes slow progress.

Bitcoin network use drops to a seven-year low as active addresses decline and BTC trades near key 2026 support levels.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is rolling out a perpetual futures product for pre-initial public offering (IPO) companies, allowing traders to speculate on a company's valuation before its debut. The first pre-IPO company to be traded on the platform is Elon Musk's aerospace company, SpaceX. The SpaceX pre-IPO will be settled using the USDC stablecoin, can be traded 24/7, and all positions will automatically translate when the IPO is complete. That means traders could make massive profits or l...

Russia sanctions 17-year-old Alexander Browder after his crypto research helped UK officials target the A7A5 stablecoin network.

Ripple has expanded access to its RLUSD stablecoin across more than 40 blockchain networks through a new integration with cross-chain interoperability

Bitcoin falls into bear territory as Saylor blames AI capital flows, and Strategy’s small BTC sale adds pressure.

Coinbase and Better Mortgage have funded the first Fannie Mae-insured Bitcoin-backed mortgage, allowing borrowers to pledge crypto collateral.

Ethereum treasury firm BitMine is seeking to raise up to $300 million through the sale of 3 million preferred shares to support ETH purchases, staking, validator infrastructure, and related investments. If BitMine’s board approves the payments, the Series A preferred shares would have a $100 stated amount and pay a 9.50% annual cash dividend in weekly installments, according to a preliminary prospectus filed with the SEC on Wednesday. BitMine has applied to list the shares on the NYSE under the...

Six Senate Republicans have challenged Basel crypto capital standards and called on federal regulators to provide clearer guidance for banks handling digital assets.

As people increasingly turn to AI chatbots for advice, companionship, and emotional support, a new study suggests that even the most advanced models still struggle to maintain healthy boundaries with users. The study by researchers at the University of Southern California introduced EUDAIMONIA, a benchmark designed to measure what they call undesirable dynamics in human-AI conversations. “Large language models are increasingly used as conversational partners for companionship, emotional disclos...

Ethereum treasury firm FG Nexus has continued reducing its holdings, while BitMine and other institutional buyers keep adding to their ETH positions.

Following the sunsetting of Cardano analytics firm TapTools, network founder Charles Hoskinson warned that more firms in the ecosystem will likely shut down this year as the market squeezes Cardano (ADA) and the broader crypto ecosystem.  The network’s token, ADA, is down a further 6% in the last 24 hours, recently changing hands at $0.20—a more than five-year low price for one of crypto’s most prominent tokens. ADA is now down around 70% in the last year of trading, and more than 93% from its...

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.