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The bank added five Asia-Pacific currencies to its Kinexys blockchain platform, allowing institutional clients to settle payments and FX around the clock.

BitMine Immersion Technologies continued adding to its Ethereum stockpile, even as its Bitcoin counterpart Strategy stood pat.

Over the past year, the artificial intelligence trade has become one of the main pillars supporting global risk appetite. However, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is now warning that the same spending boom could become a source of financial stress if expected returns fail to arrive. The Basel-based organization, which advises central banks, said […] The post Why a collapse in $1 trillion AI spending boom could hit Bitcoin traders first appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The blockchain analysis company published a proposed ontology for how investigators can identify clusters of crypto addresses and link them together.

As MiCA takes full effect on July 1, SwissBorg's Alex Fazel told CoinDesk users should choose platforms built to withstand EU regulators' tightening oversight.

Claude Mythos has raised concerns about AI-driven attacks on DeFi protocols. However, the same AI tools are also available to security teams, not just attackers. When Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos-class models as its most advanced AI system for cybersecurity, it drew the usual mix of reactions from crypto communities. The lineup included Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model intended for broad use, although access was later suspended after a US government directive. The concern around decentralized finance (DeFi) was easy to understand. If AI systems can find software flaws faster and with less human input, attackers may also use them to spot weak points in protocols before security teams can fix them.  Those concerns may seem overstated, but they come from a real shift in technology. AI tools have become better at reviewing code, spotting flaws and supporting security teams. At the same time, DeFi remains a major target for attackers because its code is often public, its protocols hold large amounts of m...

A proposed XRPL standard would let institutions borrow against tokenized assets, with the blockchain enforcing loan terms while the underwriting stays with human credit teams. It still needs validator approval to go live.

America's oldest bank will allow institutional clients to store, mint, redeem, and transfer USDC.

The world's largest custody bank is adding USDC custody and minting services as stablecoins move deeper into traditional finance.

XRP is still under heavy selling pressure, mirroring the broader crypto market. Both its USDT and BTC pairs continue to trade within clear downtrend structures. While the dollar pair is testing a major demand zone, the BTC pair is also hovering just above an important support level, leaving the market at a key decision point. […]

The company can now sell bitcoin to fund the USD reserve, support preferred dividends, and finance up to $2 billion in stock buybacks.

After yielding to heavy selling pressure and losing several key support levels over the past few weeks, Bitcoin is now holding at a key support level. The broader market structure continues to favor the sellers, but the market’s reaction to the $60k critical demand zone could determine the next major move. Bitcoin Price Analysis: The […]

The funds were seized during an investigation into an international hacker group accused of laundering proceeds from data theft through high-value property.

The deal adds Ethena's yield-generating token to BlackRock's risk management platform and create a $100 million liquidity facility for BlackRock's tokenized money market fund.

On June 22, Strategy sold $335.5 million of its own common stock, set aside roughly $300 million of it in cash to bring its reserve up to $1.4 billion, and bought a total of 520 Bitcoin with what was left. So the company that wrote the entire corporate Bitcoin playbook spent the bulk of a […] The post Bitcoin treasury investors are turning on companies diluting them to keep buying appeared first on CryptoSlate.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Here are five crypto skeptics who have reluctantly embraced the opportunity of making loads of money with blockchain. The road from believing “crypto is a scam” to “Bitcoin is a legitimate asset class” is a long way to travel, fraught with many a twist and turn. Yet against all the odds, a surprising number of high-profile skeptics have undertaken the journey unscathed and, perhaps more remarkably, without ever admitting they were wrong. The very naysayers who once warned of a “crypto apocalypse” have begun preaching the virtues of blockchain rails and launching tokenized products of their own. Read more

Michael Saylor’s Strategy unveiled a capital framework allowing Bitcoin sales to fund dividends, a $2.55 billion reserve and buybacks while raising STRC payout to 12%. Strategy is adopting a new capital framework that allows it to monetize part of its Bitcoin holdings to fund dividends, build cash reserves and repurchase securities while maintaining its long-term Bitcoin strategy. In a Monday 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Strategy introduced its “Digital Credit Capital Framework,” which includes a Bitcoin monetization program and changes to its STRC preferred stock dividend policy. The company has raised the STRC annual dividend rate to 12% from 11.5% and authorized separate buyback programs for preferred securities and its Class A MSTR common stock. Strategy said it may sell Bitcoin (BTC) to raise as much as $1.25 billion to increase its cash reserve, pay dividends and debt costs, as well as fund stock buybacks. Read more

The new SDK feature lets developers route payments from Bitcoin balances to recipients in USDC and USDT without requiring users to hold stablecoins. Bitcoin infrastructure company Breez has added a feature to its developer toolkit that lets users send USDC (USDC) and USDt (USDT) across more than 30 blockchain networks directly from a Bitcoin balance, without first converting or holding stablecoins. Read more

The broker said operational consolidation is blurring the lines between exchanges, brokerages and sportsbooks, creating conditions for acquisitions across the prediction market ecosystem.

Bitmine made its smallest purchase since early May as Lee pointed to investors cutting losses before the start of the second half of the year.