Crypto

Mira Murati's Inkling won't dethrone the best Chinese open-weights models, but it gives Western developers something they haven't yet had.

Future-dated reports allegedly cleared an authorized signer check, while Ostium has yet to publish final loss accounting or a postmortem. The post How prices from the future fooled a crypto oracle into paying out up to $24 million appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.

The Visa Stablecoin Platform will let financial institutions integrate stablecoin payments and treasury operations into Visa's existing network.

Both resolutions need 75% of votes cast, and failure of either keeps the sale and delisting off the table. The post Bitcoin treasury troubles reach London as company votes to sell its entire BTC stack and delist appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ethereum has had a notable recovery from its June lows, reclaiming an important resistance zone while testing a major descending trendline on the higher timeframe. Although the latest rally has strengthened short-term sentiment, ETH is still approaching a cluster of technical barriers that could determine whether the recovery extends above $2K or transitions into another […]

Bitcoin fell 1.5% from local highs amid a reversal in US stocks as markets moved from bullish US inflation cues to retail profit-taking. Bitcoin (BTC) cooled off with US stocks on Thursday as tech selling tempered gains from low inflation. Key points: Read more

The post-CPI rally gave XRP a nudge. The coin barely moved. Now the chart is filling in the picture.

A former CFTC commissioner urged lawmakers not to “kill all the hard work that we put in the rest of the bill” by making ethics a make-or-break issue on crypto market structure. Summer Mersinger, the CEO of the Blockchain Association and a former commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), anticipated a vote on a cryptocurrency market structure bill as soon as next week with the window closing for lawmakers before August state work periods.  Speaking at the Injective Summit in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Mersinger said that US lawmakers working to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act in Congress had a “few little nits that they’re still working out” but were “very close on the main part of the language” around the bill. According to the Blockchain Association CEO, a vote in the Senate could come as early as next week, provided lawmakers reached an agreement on ethics. “Ethics is the big elephant in the room,” said Mersinger on the crypto bill. “That’s what we hear fr...

If Stripe acquires PayPal, the real prize could be consumer wallets, stablecoin issuance or the infrastructure powering the next generation of digital payments.

Eligible E*TRADE retail clients can now buy, sell and hold Bitcoin, Ether and Solana through a partnership with crypto infrastructure provider Zero Hash. Morgan Stanley’s E*TRADE platform has launched spot cryptocurrency trading, allowing eligible clients to buy, sell and hold Bitcoin, Ether and Solana through a partnership with crypto infrastructure provider Zero Hash. Clients can view their crypto holdings alongside stocks and other traditional investments on the E*TRADE platform, while transfer functionality for moving digital assets on and off the platform is expected later this year. The self-directed channel served 8.6 million households and held about $1.56 trillion in client assets as of March 31, according to Morgan Stanley’s latest financial supplement. Read more

Tradable will bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets to Stellar, extending the blockchain’s push into institutional finance and tokenized real-world assets. Tokenization platform Tradable plans to bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets onto the Stellar blockchain, expanding institutional access to tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) as demand for onchain private markets continues to grow. Tradable said Thursday that $500 million in notional value is expected to be available when the initiative launches, and it will increase the amount to $1 billion over time. The company will use Stellar’s network to support institutional functions, including compliance, investor onboarding and asset lifecycle management. The timing of the initiative’s launch was not disclosed. Read more

Visa launched a stablecoin platform that lets banks and fintechs issue, manage and settle digital dollars through its payments network.

At $64,073.49, Bitcoin needed 12.7% to reach the first cost basis and 92.2% to make that buyer whole. The post Bitcoin must climb 92% to rescue last year’s $120K buyers and the escape routes begin at $72K appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The wallet holding nearly 5,908 BTC since 2017 transferred its entire balance to a new address.

The adviser reported 12,380 XRPI shares worth $71,059, not $71 million, under the SEC's current nearest-dollar convention. The post SEC filing shows viral $71 million XRP ETF claims are out by 1,000x appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The following is a guest post from Yuliya Barabash, Founder and Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers. MiCA may make Europe safer, but it also risks making it smaller. In its effort to impose order on crypto, the EU is building a regulatory framework that many early-stage startups simply cannot afford to comply with. Yet […] The post You may hate MiCA, but the truth is more complicated than both sides admit appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The deal adds institutional trading clients, derivatives expertise and regulatory licenses as Keyrock looks to deepen its presence in crypto capital markets.

Consumers should not have to wait for another crisis to get the protections they deserve, argues Summer Mersinger, CEO of the Blockchain Association.

Coinbase is reshaping its Ethereum layer-2 network, Base, around trading, payments and tokenized assets as Robinhood’s new blockchain rapidly gains users and liquidity in many of the same markets. On July 15, Base creator Jesse Pollak acknowledged that the network’s earlier emphasis on social products had allowed it to lose ground in several of crypto’s […] The post Robinhood tackled Coinbase head-on then immediately inherited Base’s biggest problem appeared first on CryptoSlate.