Franklin Templeton Says Agentic AI Is Crypto's 'Killer Use Case'
Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at Franklin Templeton, has a message for anyone who thinks buying Nvidia stock covers their AI exposure: It doesn't.
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Alibaba's New Qwen Image 3 AI Wants to Be Useful, Not Just Pretty
Alibaba's Qwen team launched Qwen Image 3.0 on Tuesday, and the pitch has nothing to do with how beautiful the output looks. It's about whether the output can actually be used at work.
Politicians And Crypto Leaders Clash Over Newly Released CLARITY Act Text
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XRP Ledger’s Largest Asset Sits Frozen by Design, Analyst Finds
A new analysis is challenging the widely repeated claim that half of the tokenized asset market has stalled. The argument centers on a single token most XRP watchers have never mentioned.
Bitcoin price avoids major Iran jitters as S&P 500 ‘short squeeze’ on horizon
Bitcoin and US stocks stayed strong in the face of US-Iran escalation as analysis predicted BTC price action outperforming equities later.
Revolut hits $115 billion valuation in employee share sale: WSJ
Crypto-friendly digital bank Revolut has been valued at $115 billion in a secondary share sale, lifting the company’s valuation by 53% in less than a year.
APT Price Holds Near ATL as Aptos Ecosystem Expands Onchain Trading Capabilities
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SEC’s Peirce says crypto vaults and onchain lending may fall under securities laws
The SEC commissioner said crypto vaults, onchain lending products and other asset management tools may trigger US securities laws depending on how they are structured and operated.
Top Reasons Why Cardano (ADA) Price Eyes a Breakout—Can it Reach $0.30?
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Matt Damon’s Crypto Links Stay Charitable as $33.8M Real Estate Portfolio Takes Center Stage
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Bitcoin Is Bouncing: Here’s the Bull and Bear Case for Its Next Move
The crypto market has been watching Bitcoin very carefully this week, and for once, what it found on the chart was at least partly reassuring.
Centralized Elements 'Frequently Persist' in DeFi and Should Be Regulated: FATF
Much of decentralized finance is not as decentralized as it looks, and the platforms behind it should be regulated like other financial businesses, the world's main anti-money-laundering body said in a new report.
BitGo, OTC Markets plan tokenized securities access for broker-dealers
The proposed alliance would enable more than 150 broker-dealers to trade and settle digital asset securities through OTC Link ATS using BitGo’s custody infrastructure.
Digital Chamber sues Illinois officials over new state 0.2% crypto tax
The group alleged that the tax signed into law in June “discriminates against people who transact in digital assets“ and should be blocked from implementation and enforcement.
Hugging Face CEO Thanks Chinese AI for Saving the Day After OpenAI Hack
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue just sent the most pointed thank-you note in AI right now—to a Chinese startup—the day after OpenAI confirmed its own models broke into Hugging Face's servers.
Coinbase Wins FOIA Case as SEC Agrees to Pay $150K and Reform Recordkeeping
Deleted Gary Gensler messages exposed major SEC recordkeeping failures during court proceedings.
New draft of Clarity Act is out, and it would impose limits on Trump's crypto empire
A would-be final version of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act is circulating as the U.S. Senate sets up for its last major effort to get the crypto industry's long-awaited market structure bill into law, and it final…
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Chainlink Price Eyes Breakout as Smart Money Quietly Accumulates LINK
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Jack Dorsey's Block Launches Buzz, a Nostr-Based Slack and GitHub Rival for AI Agents
Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Buzz, a free, open source platform where employees and AI agents work side by side in a shared workspace, the company said Tuesday.
Justin Sun's HTX 'Rotating' On-Chain Wallets Amid UK Sanctions: TRM Labs
Crypto exchange HTX has rebuilt its underlying wallet infrastructure in the weeks since the UK sanctioned it, rotating deposit and hot wallets on a rapid cycle, blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs said in a report Tue…
Talos brings institutional trading tools to Kalshi prediction markets
The integration provides institutional clients with access to Kalshi’s event contracts and crypto perpetuals via Talos’ existing trading infrastructure.
Midnight token rebounds 19% after Wanchain bridge hack, Hoskinson calls for ZK revamp
Midnight's NIGHT token staged a sharp recovery after crashing to an all-time low following a bridge exploit earlier this week, with Charles Hoskinson using the incident to make a broader case for rethinking crypto secur…
U.S. seeks forfeiture of $25 million in crypto tied to romance and investment scams
Federal prosecutors filed five civil forfeiture complaints seeking more than $25 million in cryptocurrency that investigators say came from international romance and investment scams targeting people in the U.S. and Can…