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DTCC CEO Frank La Salla said the clearing giant is working with layer-1 blockchains to bring millions in corporate actions like dividend payments onchain, but challenges remain.

Executives from Binance, Revolut and Circle say crypto is evolving beyond speculation into the financial infrastructure powering payments, remittances and broader global access.

Alex Pruden said the asymmetry between acting on a post-quantum signature scheme today and waiting for certainty about quantum-computing hardware timelines means Bitcoin developers should move from research into production.

The Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder said autonomous agents will need crypto-based trust systems to transact across the open internet.

Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB Gemini Nano model to eligible devices, re-downloads it if deleted, and the AI Mode button users actually see doesn't even use it.

Bitcoin's market dominance climbed above 61% as BTC led crypto market flows. Data also showed Binance-listed altcoins' share of volume hitting 49% in March. Bitcoin dominance climbed to 61% on Wednesday, its highest level since November 2025. The metric has risen from 58.44% at the start of April, proving that the bullish trend continues to favor BTC over the wider crypto market. In the last two months, altcoin volumes on Binance also increased by 49%, while 12.6% of altcoins on Binance reclaimed their 200-day simple moving average (SMA).  Bitcoin dominance, one-week chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Read more

Senior figures from CoinShares, Calamos, ProShares and Flow Traders flagged Coinbase-heavy custody concentration, modest advisor uptake and creation-flow inefficiency as being among the next set of problems to solve.

White House digital-assets adviser Patrick Witt cited a recent exploit involving assets held by the U.S. Marshals as proof federal crypto holdings need safeguarding.

Developers can link a Solana wallet to AI tools like Claude Code or Gemini and have an agent accessing paid APIs within one minute.

Researchers at EPFL built a framework that lets chemists describe what they want in plain language—and have AI sift through thousands of synthesis routes to find the right one.

The executive director of the President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets said the Senate Banking Committee hearing will happen this month on market structure. bill.

Circle and Tether are going to make it harder for stablecoins to feel like money, said Ben O'Neill, head of money movement at Bridge.

Kirsten Gillibrand said that the US Senate had to address lawmakers potentially getting “rich off of these industries because of their insider status“ before any vote on the CLARITY Act. US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said lawmakers working towards passage of a digital asset market structure bill likely need to meet three conditions before the chamber could vote on the legislation. Speaking at the Consensus conference in Miami on Wednesday, Gillibrand said she considered addressing consumer protection, illicit finance, and ethics provisions essential before any potential vote on the CLARITY Act. She said that if Congress were to consider those issues, as well as combine the draft of the market structure bill with the version already passed in the Senate Agriculture Committee and ensure ethics language, lawmakers could have a vote “before the August recess,” which begins Aug. 10. “There will be no one voting for this bill if we don’t have an ethics provision,” said Gillibrand. “Because the truth is, is that we ...

By the time Bitcoin and other networks are ready to defend themselves, it may already be too late, according to a new analysis.

Elon Musk’s combined company of SpaceX and xAI will help boost Anthropic with a deal to provide compute for Claude AI models.

KelpDAO plans to adopt Chainlink CCIP after the massive exploit last month.

Now-shuttered crypto exchange Bittrex settled with the SEC back in 2023 after being accused of offering illegally unregistered securities.

XRP has reclaimed $1.42 with a 9% weekly gain as a bull flag pattern forms. Analysts target $1.78–$5.50 on breakout. Key levels, scenarios, and market risks explained. The post XRP Price Prediction: Bull Flag Forming as Bull Run Style Rally Coils appeared first on Cryptonews.

With Bitcoin trading near $82,000, a move back into price-discovery territory depends on whether ETF buyers keep absorbing supply while macro pressure remains contained. That is the practical answer to the two questions shaping the rest of 2026: when can Bitcoin reach a new all-time high, and is the market bottom already in? Bitcoin has […] The post If the bear market bottom is in, when will Bitcoin price reach a new all-time high above $126k? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The company also announced a new AI energy leasing deal as it continues to diversify into adjacent high-performance computing applications. Investors appeared to disregard Hut 8's reported first quarter 2026 net loss of more than $253 million on Wednesday, lifting the shares of the Bitcoin mining company by more than 33%. Hut 8 attributed the loss to a reduction in the market value of its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings, which fell from a high of over $126,000 apiece in October to a low of $60,000 in February. Revenue for quarter totaled more than $71 million, down by about 22% from the previous period's $88.4 million, according to Hut 8’s earnings statements. Analysts had forecast $78.5 million, according to FactSet. Read more