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For anyone worried that AI would eliminate every profession except the one sending messages about your frozen crypto account, there's unwelcome news for that last bastion of human enterprise. Fraud has found an automation budget. Scamming has always required a surprising amount of manual labor. Romance scams need someone to keep a conversation going for […] The post AI was supposed to take scammers’ jobs, but it gave them superpowers instead appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, shifting the industry’s focus to a new wave of action from the SEC and CFTC.

VanEck said Metaplanet’s executive equity exposure remains well above its digital asset treasury peers, even after the company cut its potential share pool by 41%. Asset manager VanEck has criticized Metaplanet’s executive compensation structure, arguing that recent efforts by the Bitcoin treasury company to curb shareholder dilution still fall short of adequately aligning management with investors. In a Friday report examining executive compensation across the 10 largest digital asset treasury companies, VanEck labeled Metaplanet’s compensation structure “Bad,” making it the only firm to fall into the lowest category. VanEck cited an equity plan equal to 14.7% of fully diluted shares and officer exposure of 8.2%. VanEck said Metaplanet’s officer exposure is roughly 10 times the 0.8% average of the other nine companies analyzed, while its overall equity plan is nearly four times the peer average. Read more

A Glassnode and Bybit report found Bitcoin climbed 24.6% in five August days even as active leverage fell, with short positions supplying 89% of every liquidated dollar.

U.S. agencies are racing to substitute their regulations for the law that was meant to set crypto markets in governmental bedrock, but will the stand-ins last?

ZCSH holders would receive three shares for every one held as the fund cuts per-share NAV proportionately without changing investment value solely because of the split. The post ZEC’s 100% rally above $1500 sends Grayscale’s Zcash ETF within $85 million of $1 billion appeared first on CryptoSlate.

XRP rebounded past a key resistance level after the Friday resurgence but can it climb higher?

The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto's hottest privacy trade.

Bitcoin has recovered sharply from the latest pullback and is once again pressing against the upper boundary of its consolidation. With BTC trading around $81.5K, the market is approaching a decisive area where a confirmed bullish breakout could trigger another expansion higher. Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart The daily chart continues to show Bitcoin […]

Marc van der Chijs sold much of his bitcoin to invest in AI. Now, growing concerns about the technology accompany a move to put some profits back into crypto.

The upcoming Batch V1.1 can make linked asset and payment transfers succeed together or fail together, and Ripple says commercial projects are already being built around the feature after an extensive security review.

Trump’s new law sets the clock, but rates, targets and energy-market spillovers will decide whether crypto feels it. The post Bitcoin faces an October 18 test as Trump prepares new Russia tariffs appeared first on CryptoSlate.

ETH surged past $2,600 on Friday for the second time this month. Can this break out be different?

The network's clock just sped up again, but the extra speed goes to freshness, not capacity.

"Bitcoin feels like the CD in the age of Spotify, the DVD in the age of Netflix," wrote Jason Calacanis.

A $107.6 billion crossover on selected venues shrinks to about 15.2% when compared with CoinDesk's broader CEX derivatives total. The post Did RWA futures really overtake crypto? Only if you ignore 90% of the market appeared first on CryptoSlate.

BTC is above $81,000 despite the week it had. But the real test comes now.

JPMorgan and Citi move billions in tokenized deposits, but only among their branches. A U.K. challenger bank is about to do something neither has done.

Seven-day average fees fell 82% while transaction counts slipped 6%, with about $1.5 billion a day still changing hands.

Bastion Platforms National Trust Company will offer stablecoin custody and wallets, payment infrastructure and white-label issuance from a single federally regulated entity.  Stablecoin infrastructure provider Bastion said the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) had granted it preliminary conditional approval for a US trust bank charter. The charter adds federal supervision from the OCC to the state licenses Bastion already holds, according to a news release on Friday. Still, the proposed bank could not accept deposits or make loans, separating it from a conventional commercial bank. Licensed as Bastion Platforms National Trust Company, it will offer stablecoin custody and wallets, payment infrastructure and white-label issuance from a single federally regulated entity. Read more