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Visa just gave AI agents the infrastructure to shop without you, and they're betting most businesses are already ready for it. Visa launched Intelligent Commerce, a global platform enabling AI agents to browse, compare prices, and transact autonomously on behalf of consumers
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Bitcoin just became the world's most liquid geopolitical sentiment indicator. Bitcoin and broader crypto markets surged on news of a surprise Trump-announced two-week ceasefire, with oil prices moving inversely
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The Treasury Department just said the quiet part out loud: if you issue stablecoins, you're a bank now. Treasury's FinCEN and OFAC released proposed guidelines under the GENIUS Act treating stablecoin issuers like traditional financial institutions
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The first major US bank just undercut BlackRock on Bitcoin fees and plugged into 16,000 advisors managing $6.2 trillion. Morgan Stanley's MSBT launched on NYSE Arca with $34 million in day-one inflows, making it the first major US bank to issue a spot Bitcoin ETF under its own name
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The SEC just named a new enforcement chief with zero crypto background while senators demand answers about dropped cases against Trump-connected crypto firms. David Woodcock takes over SEC enforcement after Margaret Ryan's exit, which raised concerns over crypto case handling
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AI agents are about to start lending and borrowing crypto on their own. Morpho launches Morpho Agents in beta, giving AI agents machine-readable access to read, simulate, and execute DeFi lending transactions
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The Treasury just drew the compliance line for stablecoins, and it looks a lot like the rules that made banking boring. The U.S. Treasury released joint proposed rules under the GENIUS Act requiring stablecoin issuers to build full AML/CFT and sanctions compliance programs
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Anthropic just shipped an AI so good at finding security holes that it can't measure whether it's safe to release. Claude Mythos identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system, browser, and critically, the cryptography libraries that DeFi runs on
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Iran just turned the Strait of Hormuz into the world's first nation-state crypto toll booth, and the petrodollar's obituary is writing itself. Iran is demanding up to $2 million per tanker in cryptocurrency for oil vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz during a two-week ceasefire
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CZ's prison memoir just turned into a tell-all that reignited the ugliest founder feud in crypto history. CZ's new book "Freedom of Money" includes claims about Huobi founder Li Lin that allegedly prompted Li's arrest by Chinese authorities
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The Ethereum Foundation just announced it's converting $11 million of ETH to stablecoins, and for once they're showing their work. The EF is swapping 5,000 ETH into stablecoins using CoW DAO's time-weighted average price feature to fund research, grants, and donations
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Perplexity just proved that search was never the endgame. Perplexity's monthly revenue jumped 50% as the San Francisco startup pivoted from AI-powered search to autonomous AI agents
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A startup just convinced investors it's worth $1 billion before launching its network, betting everything on a simple premise: the financial system's infrastructure can't handle what's coming.
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Wall Street just told Bitcoin holders to stop panicking about quantum computers and start planning an upgrade. Bernstein analysts say quantum computing poses a real but manageable threat to Bitcoin, framing it as a multi-year upgrade cycle rather than an existential crisis
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A Nasdaq-listed company just put its actual shares on-chain, not a derivative or a wrapper, the real thing. Securitize is tokenizing Currenc Group's ordinary shares on both Ethereum and Solana, making them tradable on public blockchains
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Crypto exchanges don't usually hire journalists to run the show, but MEXC just did. MEXC appointed Vugar Usi Zade as CEO, a former CMO at BeInCrypto who moves from covering the industry to running one of its largest zero-fee trading platforms
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White House economists just called the banking industry's bluff on stablecoins. White House economists say stablecoin rewards won't materially weaken bank lending, directly countering industry warnings of trillion-dollar deposit flight
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The world's richest crypto founder just published the receipts on how the industry's biggest fraud went down, and it reads like a case study in what happens when money moves faster than trust.
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South Korea just drew the battle lines for how tokenized assets will actually work in a regulated world. South Korea's ruling party drafted legislation bringing stablecoins under foreign exchange law and real-world assets under trust law, no new regulatory category needed.
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Switzerland just turned its banking sector into a stablecoin laboratory, and UBS is leading the experiment. Seven major Swiss financial institutions, including UBS, PostFinance, and Sygnum, launched a 2026 sandbox to test regulated Swiss franc stablecoins and blockchain payment rails
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