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The company reported strong 2025 performance, with a $2.3 billion pre-tax profit, $6 billion in revenue, and over 75 million customers.

Ethereum has staged a notable recovery from its June lows. It has reclaimed some important support levels and is now pushing toward a major technical barrier. While short-term momentum continues to favor buyers, the broader trend remains challenged by overhead resistance and a still-negative Coinbase Premium Index, suggesting institutional demand from U.S. investors has yet […]

The commissioner said onchain vaults and lending strategies could resemble investment funds or advisers, depending on how they are structured.

Experts say Britain's digital gilt pilot can unlock trapped liquidity in financial markets only if regulators approve an onchain stablecoin.

Together, the court-entered orders restrict marketing across deposit, exchange, investment, withdrawal and trading products, including assisted activity. The post Celsius founders face permanent crypto bans that could cost more than their $16.5M obligations appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Check out the recent and most important development surrounding Ripple's ecosystem.

Prosecutors filed five forfeiture cases as Secret Service agents traced funds from thousands of victims to launderers in Southeast Asia.

In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Lionsoul Global’s Gregory Mall writes that the primary crypto allocation decision is size, not selection.

Nearly every country has yet to apply the rules, the watchdog said, warning of outright bans for platforms that don’t comply.

The cases add to more than $800 million that authorities say a dedicated federal scam task force has recovered.

Franklin Templeton’s Sandy Kaul and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire argue that as autonomous AI agents start spending money on their own, blockchain networks will power the next big AI trade.

Proponents of the digital euro say its a better alternative to cash that’s fully backed by the ECB. But critics argue it could provide the EU with too much power over its citizens. The digital euro is one of Europe’s most contentious financial projects. Supporters see it as a way to preserve the bloc’s monetary sovereignty, reduce its reliance on foreign payment providers, and ensure central bank money survives in an online economy dominated by USD stablecoins. Critics, however, argue the digital euro could be a way for a supranational organization to surveil — and in certain circumstances, even control — the population of Europe. Read more

A real model-driven compromise is being squeezed between singularity rhetoric and claims of marketing hype, making it harder to recognize what the incident actually proves. The post OpenAI’s model breach is not the singularity, but dismissing it as hype is dangerous appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A weekly close below $51,000 would invalidate the entire setup, making that support level the key line to watch.

Franklin Templeton’s digital assets lead said that the autonomous AI agent economy will increase demand for blockchain protocols hosting machine-to-machine micropayments. Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are the next “killer” use case for blockchain and cryptocurrency, according to investment management giant Franklin Templeton’s head of digital assets and innovation. Sandy Kaul said in a X post on Wednesday that the AI agent economy will increase demand for blockchain protocols hosting machine-to-machine micropayments, as legacy card networks are unsuitable for agentic payments due to high fees and settlement times. “To capture the AI growth opportunity today, most investors buy shares of AI-aligned companies and related verticals. But will the same playbook work for agentic AI,” Kaul said in the introduction to his more-than-1,800 word post. Read more

Bitcoin's realized volatility has dropped to its lowest since 2016, placing BTC in the bottom 8% of its historical distribution. Here's what the technicals say about the $68K breakout and $61,800 breakdown scenarios. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Bitcoin Volatility Hits 2016 Low, Could Trigger Liquidations appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin surged past $66,000 for the first time since early June, extending a recovery that is beginning to repair some of the losses left by the market’s recent downturn. The rebound comes from a much weaker starting point than the price alone suggests. VanEck data showed that investors who sold Bitcoin over the past month […] The post Bitcoin breaks $66,000 but 4 key signals show this rally is far from normal appeared first on CryptoSlate.

TRM Labs says the UK-sanctioned exchange has rotated hot wallets across blockchains, leaving address-list screening struggling to keep pace.

The disclosures have triggered little to no price volatility for the affected tokens.

OKX added Andrew Cuomo to its board of directors this month, framing it as a natural progression from two years of him advising the company. Cuomo also co-chairs a joint venture between OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, the operator of the New York Stock Exchange. That venture is building infrastructure for tokenized assets, institutional derivatives and […] The post Why OKX hired Andrew Cuomo: Crypto’s next battle isn’t for users appeared first on CryptoSlate.