Hester Peirce, head of the SEC’s crypto task force, said the context of a digital asset transfer could make it a securities transaction. What qualifies as a securities transaction depends…
The news comes at a time when many banks are considering issuing their own private stablecoins. Banco Santander SA, a global banking institution, is considering expanding crypto services to retail…
The SEC and Binance have filed a joint motion to end a nearly two-year legal battle in the agency’s latest backdown from its prior crypto enforcement actions. The US Securities…
Business-to-business transactions and card-linked stablecoin payments have grown, while Tether’s USDt has established dominance. Stablecoins are gaining ground as a reliable tool for digital payments. New data from Artemis shows…
Chinese state-backed think tank highlights Bitcoin as a reserve asset against USD, Sony’s online bank launches new crypto unit. Asia Express. The International Monetary Institution (IMI), Chinas state-backed finance think…
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced plans to build “CryptoCity,” aiming to establish a regulatory sandbox for digital assets. Kazakhstan plans to launch “CryptoCity,” a pilot zone where cryptocurrencies can be used…
Donut’s AI agents understand page intent and autonomously execute blockchain transactions for token swaps, yield farming or portfolio optimization. New York-based Donut Labs has raised $7 million in a pre-seed…
Aave founder Stani Kulechov says the Ethereum Foundation is now both supplying and borrowing from Aave, completing what he calls “the full DeFi circle.” The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has borrowed…
DeFi Development Corp. has become the first publicly traded company to adopt Solana-based liquid staking tokens (LSTs), integrating Sanctum’s technology to enhance its SOL treasury management and validator operations. Sanctum…
BitcoinOS has revealed deploying a zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup for Litecoin, by leveraging its BitSNARK verifier on the new LitVM infrastructure to enable trustless cross-chain functionality between Litecoin and Bitcoin. ZK…
Cantor Fitzgerald, a major global financial services firm, has executed its first trades this month within its newly launched $2 billion bitcoin financing business, Chairman Brandon Lutnick explained at the…
Eduardo Nogueira Liberato, an official from the Central Bank of Brazil, stated that this stablecoin proposal is not set in stone, and that there is room to flexibilize the methods…
The messaging platform will use most of the proceeds to repay existing bondholders, with the remainder allocated as working capital to support ongoing operations. Telegram, a messaging platform, raised $1.7…
The R1-0528 model features enhanced reasoning capabilities, with DeepSeek asserting it’s closing the gap with OpenAI’s and Google’s latest models. DeepSeek, a China-based artificial intelligence company, has announced an upgrade…
Backed by lawmakers from both parties, the bill proposes rules to govern digital assets and define agency roles in enforcement and oversight. US Representative French Hill has announced the introduction…
