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The fifth-largest U.S. commercial bank just proved it can move money across borders on a blockchain, and traditional banking hours are about to become obsolete. U.S. Bank completed a live cross-border payment test using its USBDC stablecoin on the Stellar blockchain
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The world's most populous nation just drew a red line through 15 crypto platforms, and the enforcement playbook looks a lot like China's. India's Financial Intelligence Unit issued non-compliance notices to 15 crypto platforms and is pushing for app store removals and URL takedowns
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The proof worked, the check cleared, and now the experts are arguing about whether the machine that wrote it counts as a mathematician.
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Bitcoin just did what gold does in a crisis, and that's either the maturation of a $1.5 trillion asset class or a liquidity fluke we'll forget by next quarter.
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The company building Claude just told Wall Street it needs more runway before the market decides what it's worth. Anthropic filed for a US IPO but immediately delayed it to mid-October, signaling cold feet about market reception
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Vivek Ramaswamy's anti-ESG bet is now accumulating bitcoin faster than most publicly traded companies, and retail investors are writing the checks. Strive purchased 1,375 BTC worth $109 million last week, marking its third consecutive week of 5%-plus growth in bitcoin holdings
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The crypto industry just bought a national TV campaign for a bill that Republican senators say is already dead — which tells you everything about who actually believes what in Washington right now.
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The crypto market's dream of a dovish pivot just collided with reality, and the Fed's new chair is bringing a hawk's vocabulary. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is signaling potential rate hikes, marking a hawkish shift just as markets priced in cuts
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The people building the future think there's a coin-flip chance it ends badly, and they're building it anyway.
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While bitcoin pulled nearly a billion dollars last week, every other crypto ETF just learned what it feels like to be the second choice at the dance. Bitcoin ETFs captured $986.9 million in inflows during the week ending September 4, up 6.7% week-over-week, while altcoin funds cratered
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Jack Dorsey just asked the government for permission to become a bank—the Bitcoin kind. Block is seeking OCC approval to establish a national trust bank through its Builders Bank subsidiary for Bitcoin and stablecoin custody services
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When you can't buy the company, buy the company that claims it can get you into the company. DeepSeek's new funding round has triggered a secondary market where intermediaries are offering access through special purpose vehicles with escalating fees and five-year lock-ups
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Self-custody was supposed to protect you from the bank, not invite armed strangers into your living room. Malone Lam, 22, pleaded guilty to leading an international social engineering conspiracy that stole $245 million in cryptocurrency from holders
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The safety-first AI lab just chose secrecy over scrutiny, and Britain's government is reading the tea leaves on what comes next.
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While everyone watches Bitcoin for direction, the real money is quietly rotating into legacy layer-1s that were left for dead.
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The first AI to crack a million-dollar math problem might also be the first AI to get sued for plagiarism. OpenAI claims its AI agents solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems worth $1 million each
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When physical commodities rally harder than crypto, it's not market noise — it's the infrastructure of the AI economy announcing its price. Bitcoin dropped below $78,500 while copper hit record highs and oil surged, a divergence that reveals which assets the market thinks power the next decade
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When the world's most-watched AI lab announces a math breakthrough and gets accused of plagiarism in the same breath, the real discovery is how messy the agent economy's knowledge layer has become.
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DeFi just hung an "accredited investors only" sign on its front door. Compound launched a whitelisted institutional lending market offering USDC loans against ETH, wstETH, WBTC, and cbBTC at up to 87% LTV ratios
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Cathie Wood just asked permission to make venture capital shares trade like tokens — and if the SEC says yes, the line between traditional finance and crypto gets a lot fuzzier.
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