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MoneyGram launches Visa stablecoin card as remittance rivals expand
MoneyGram is following rival Western Union’s lead, rolling out a Visa stablecoin debit card as it expands blockchain-b…
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Monument Bank delays retail tokenized deposits while onboarding custody partner
The London-based challenger bank tapped a Canadian custodian to meet the Financial Conduct Authority’s regulatory requ…
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EU finance groups push to remove tokenized securities cap
European finance and tokenization groups say Brussels should remove limits on assets admitted to DLT infrastructure or s…
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Anthropic Discloses Fourth Claude Hacking Incident as Debate Around Regulation Grows
The company now says attacks during security tests exposed model behavior failures, after initially emphasizing errors i…
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Bitcoin Bancorp snaps up thousands of defunct Bitcoin Depot ATMs for $620,000
Just over a quarter of Bitcoin Depot’s more than 9,200 kiosks have been sold for less than $1 million, court records s…
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Bitcoin falls on US PPI overshoot as 30-year bond yield hits new 19-year high
Bitcoin fell with US stocks as high inflation and a further surge in oil prices coincided with another multidecade high …
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MoneyGram unveils stablecoin-backed card as digital dollars move into everyday spending
The remittance giant is rolling out a Visa card that lets customers hold dollars and spend from a stablecoin-backed bala…
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Nasdaq, Boerse Stuttgart, others ask EU to remove or increase cap in tokenization trial
The coalition warned that the current limit is too low, noting some existing European projects already exceed it.…
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Coinbase, Moov to provide stablecoin infrastructure for US community banks
The partnership will provide stablecoin acceptance, settlement and real-time funding capabilities to over 1,000 communit…
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Bitcoin at $400K by 2030 Still 'Reasonable Target': Coinbase CEO
Brian Armstrong argues the bottom is in, a year into the downturn, with the next halving roughly 18 months out.…
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Crypto researchers cut Bitcoin and Ethereum quantum attack estimate by 50%
A paper shared with CoinDesk shows humans and AI agents beating Google’s March result on a core calculation used by Sh…
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Threatened with arrest online? Recognizing a law enforcement impersonation scam
So-called digital arrest scams use false claims of authority to pressure victims virtually into making rapid digital pay…
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Solana sees record 263K tokens issued in a single day
Memecoin platform Pump.fun accounted for most of the new tokens among launchpads, as the Solana network notched a new al…
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Morning Minute: Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP Crashes
The meme coin plunged on its debut, as recent alt leaders and many onchain darlings slipped in a nasty day for crypto.…
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Ex-BoE deputy governor headlines trio of former central bankers joining Fnality
Jon Cunliffe, Jochen Metzger and Ron Berndsen join Fnality Europe’s supervisory board as the company works to expand b…
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BIS chief warns AI capex arms race relies on opaque debt, posing systemic risks
Pablo Hernandez cited historical railway and dot-com bubbles to caution that spending driven by hype over actual profits…
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Treasury yields continue to rise even as Bessent doubles down on bond buybacks
Long-term yields moved higher despite a $6 billion Treasury buyback, as debt concerns and rising oil prices continue to …
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Nasdaq invests $100M in Kraken parent at $21B valuation: Report
Nasdaq invested $100 million in Payward as part of its push toward tokenized stock products with round-the-clock trading…
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Crypto exchange giant Bybit to offer European ‘super-app’ with stocks, derivatives
Bybit has an electronic money institution license in Austria and is about to snag a MiFID license too, CEO Ben Zhou told…
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Nasdaq Invests $100M in Kraken Parent Payward at $21B Valuation
Deutsche Börse's April stake implied a $13.3 billion valuation. Five months on, Nasdaq is paying at $21 billion.…
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Nasdaq invests $100 million in Kraken parent company Payward at $21 billion valuation
The investment expands a strategic partnership to bring tokenized, voting-enabled equities to crypto exchange users.…
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Treasury Secretary Bessent urges CLARITY Act passage after Senate returns
Secretary Scott Bessent warned that failing to pass the CLARITY Act would send a “troubling signal” about America’…
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Vitalik Buterin Pushes Ethereum Plan to Slash Quantum-Safe Privacy Costs
Buterin wants EIP-8288 in I-star, the upgrade after Hegota, and adopting it would make RISC-V Ethereum's canonical instr…