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Bitcoin could crash to $48,000, if this historical pattern is triggered
A pattern stretching back to bitcoin's earliest days has held through every market cycle. It has yet to be tested in the current one.
Summer of crypto (regs): State of Crypto
Lawmakers are debating taxes, the CFTC put out a prediction market proposal and court cases are heating up.
UK electric car sales target set to be weakened
The new target hasn't yet been decided, with different numbers under consideration, the BBC understands.
UK and Japan agree £18bn investment deal
Japanese firms will spend billions on UK infrastructure and offshore wind, Downing Street says.
Aerodrome is turning liquidity into a prediction market with its biggest upgrade yet
The concept, called Predictive Allocation, will encourage participants to anticipate where liquidity will be needed next, instead of rewarding them for directing incentives toward…
SEC's big swing to clear tokenization path isn't likely to get resilience of full rule
Former SEC lawyers say that using its power to grant tokenization "innovation" efforts an exemption from securities law isn't as strong as a full-fledged rule.
Wall Street and crypto are crashing into each other as tokenized treasury markets hit $14.6 billion
Not all crypto exchange executives agree, but the data does not lie: centralized exchange trading volumes dropped more than 11% to $4.61 trillion, their lowest since late 2024.
Man who built Guernsey finance charity retires
Peter Neville stands down as head of the charity supporting people ineligible for mainstream banking.
Fund boosts support for financial struggles
The £300k fund will expand support for residents struggling with financial pressures in Devon.
David James backs affordable football kit charities
The former England goalie does not want costly kit to be a bar to anyone hoping to play football.
Crypto’s next billion-dollar hacker may move at superhuman speed
Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 puts powerful cyber tools behind safety filters. DeFi, already hit by more than $840 million in hacks this year, is one of the industries with the m…
Here's what SpaceX's IPO means for its $1.3 billion bitcoin reserve
The largest company on public markets now holds bitcoin as a treasury reserve, not as a business model. Its first earnings cycles will test which version of corporate crypto survi…
Stablecoins Were Meant to Disrupt Finance. Instead, They Became Idle Cash.
O’Connor argues that crypto’s clearest success story has scaled as money but not as capital.
Anthropic suspends new AI tools over US government security concerns
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, released publicly this week, sparked concerns about cybersecurity and hacking.
Bitcoin rises above $64,000 after Pakistan prime minister says Iran peace deal is near
Bitcoin traded above $64,000 on Saturday, supported by its strongest ETF inflows in a month and growing optimism around geopolitical developments.
Wall Street is moving past crypto pilots and deeper into Ethereum, says Etherealize founder
In an interview with CoinDesk, Etherealize cofounder Vivek Raman said Ethereum is currently in a transitional phase where the infrastructure has largely been built, but the scale …
Tokenization mirrors the $20 trillion ETF boom as blockchain and AI converge, Ondo exec says
Tokenization is laying the groundwork for autonomous investing and real-time portfolio management, Ondo's new head of portfolio products John Hoffman said.
Perpetual futures could become crypto's next ETF moment
John Palmer, head of derivatives at Kraken, said he expects sophisticated traders to lead adoption of newly approved U.S. perpetual futures, with broader institutional participati…
Saylor to Musk: Thanks to you, 25% of 'Mag8' firms now hold bitcoin
"Thanks to you, 25% of the Mag8 now holds bitcoin on the balance sheet," Saylor wrote on X, congratulating Musk on SpaceX's historic IPO debut.
Crypto should adopt the best of centralization, says LMAX CEO
As digital assets mature the industry should borrow more from traditional market infrastructure, especially credit, clearing and collateral systems, David Mercer argues.
Ripple wants AI agents to pay in XRP and RLUSD. The market is still mostly USDC
The XRPL AI Starter Kit gives developers tools for agent payments, but early x402 activity has clustered on Base and Solana. Ripple’s bet is that XRPL’s speed, low fees and RLUSD …
Top cryptographers can't agree on Bitcoin's biggest quantum question
A Coinbase-convened panel says Bitcoin should start preparing for quantum attacks now, but declines to take a position on whether millions of vulnerable coins, including many link…
Anthropic's pre-IPO shares fall as US government shuts down its most powerful AI model
A jailbreak report prompted Washington to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from all users. Anthropic complied but pushed back hard, saying the finding sets a standard that would halt the…
Bitcoin steadies above $63,000 as its worst week in months got a late macro rescue
A tiny Strategy sale raised a bigger question about Saylor’s never-sell stance, while easing Iran fears and a strong SpaceX debut helped risk assets recover.