Bitcoin Hits $78K While Powell Chairs His Last Fed Meeting
The dollar price of Bitcoin just became a referendum on whether the Fed's new boss will print or defend.
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Crypto's Infrastructure War: Miners Ditch Bitcoin for AI Billions
The crypto capital stack is fracturing in real time, and nobody's waiting for a new narrative to catch up. Crypto miners are pivoting infrastructure to AI compute, while BitMine doubles down on Ethereum mining in a clear split on where the value is.
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Tether Banks $1B While Refusing to Prove Reserves Actually Exist
The company that prints the most important currency in crypto just posted a profit bigger than most banks, and nobody can verify what's actually in the vault.
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Ripple CEO Uses Bitcoin Conference to Crush XRP Abandonment Rumors
While critics claimed Ripple had quietly abandoned XRP for stablecoin plays, the CEO just used Bitcoin's biggest stage to prove them wrong.
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MoonPay's AI Agents Can Now Swipe Credit Cards at 100 Million Stores
The credit card economy just opened its doors to non-human customers. MoonPay launched the "MoonAgents Card," a Mastercard-network debit card that lets AI agents spend stablecoins directly from onchain wallets
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Gold's Blockchain Twin Just Did a Year's Trading in 90 Days
The safe-haven trade just went 24/7, and it's not slowing down. Tokenized gold spot trading hit $90.7 billion in Q1 2026, already surpassing 2025's full-year total of $84.6 billion
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AI Agents Can Now Swipe Visa Cards Funded by Stablecoins
AI agents just got their first credit cards, and they're spending stablecoins on the legacy payment rails that crypto was supposed to replace. Tether-backed Oobit launched Agent Cards, virtual Visa corporate cards that let AI agents spend USDT without human approval for each transaction
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Tether Just Bet $14M That Latin America Ditches Banks for Stablecoins
The world's largest stablecoin issuer is no longer content printing dollars—it's funding the rails that move them. Tether led a $14 million Series A round for Belo, a Latin American fintech with 3 million users offering a digital wallet for local currencies and digital dollars
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Thoma Bravo Abandons Its Own Playbook for AI
The world's largest software-focused private equity firm just told you exactly how fast the ground is shifting under enterprise tech.
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Coinbase Launches First Fund That Pays You to Hold Stablecoins
Stablecoin holders finally get somewhere to park their capital that isn't a savings account masquerading as DeFi. Coinbase Asset Management launched CUSHY, a tokenized credit fund targeting yield from onchain lending and private credit for qualified investors
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Visa Moves $7 Billion Through Stablecoins and Just Added Five More Blockchains
The payments company that moves $14 trillion a year just quintupled its blockchain settlement infrastructure in one day.
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OKX Built a Payment System Where AIs Pay Each Other Without Humans
The first crypto exchange just built a payment rail where no human needs to approve the invoice, contest the charge, or sign the receipt. OKX launched the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), a system designed to handle full AI-to-AI commercial transactions including quotes, payments, and disputes.
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KAST Hires Ex-SEC Insider as Stablecoin Rules Take Shape
The stablecoin regulatory window is open for exactly as long as it takes Congress to screw it up, and KAST just hired someone who knows which hallways to walk down. KAST hired Stephanie Allen, a former SEC advisor, to lead policy communications as stablecoin legislation moves through Washington.
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Polymarket Hit $25B in One Month as Election Tourists Became Crypto Gamblers
The casino opened, the tourists came for one event, then they stayed and became regulars. Polymarket hit $25.7 billion in March volume, driven by retail traders betting across sports, politics, and crypto, not just tentpole events
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Shinhan Card's 13 Million Customers Get Stablecoin Payments on Solana
A credit card company with 13 million customers just picked the network everyone said was too risky for enterprise. Shinhan Card partnered with Solana Foundation for a proof-of-concept testing stablecoin payments in real-world retail scenarios
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Solana Bets $18M That Stablecoin Infrastructure Beats DeFi Apps
Solana just wrote an $18 million check to the company building the plumbing for institutional stablecoin transactions, and the smartest money in crypto is betting that multisig wallets are the next infrastructure battleground.
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Homebuyers Just Closed $9.4M in Real Estate Using Stablecoins
The stablecoin bridge to homeownership just processed its first nine-figure proof of concept. RealOpen and TRON verified $9.4M in USDT transactions through their "Fast Moves, Fast Payments" campaign, proving crypto can clear real estate deals faster than wire transfers
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Tether Plans $1.4B Bitcoin Empire Through Twenty One Capital Merger
Tether is assembling Bitcoin's version of a financial services supergroup, and the org chart tells you exactly what they're after.
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XRPL Just Turned Boring Bonds Into Crypto's Fastest Growing Asset
The boring bond market just became the fastest-growing use case for crypto rails, and most people still think this space is about JPEGs. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries on XRP Ledger exploded 700-800% to $418 million, with some sources reporting the figure climbing as high as $537 million in recent days
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Meta Pays Creators in Crypto While Banks Still Process Checks
Web2's biggest creator platform just made fiat the slow option. Meta is now paying Instagram and Facebook creators in USDC stablecoin via Solana and Polygon blockchains, starting in Colombia and the Philippines
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