The move brings onchain yield and lending to the payments-focused chain in a bid to offer full-stack onchain finance platform to companies building on it.
The bitcoin mining firm continues on its investment path into AI data centers after raising $115 million to expand its global footprint in the industry.
Aschenbrenner is shorting Nvidia and AMD in favor of bitcoin miners that own the electricity and data centers needed to fuel the next phase of the AI boom.
The Ethereum co-founder argued that AI-assisted "formal verification" could become one of the most important tools for cybersecurity in a new blog post.
The bank said accelerating advances in quantum computing are compressing the timeline for risks to crypto and broader internet infrastructure, with Bitcoin seen as particularly exposed.
The U.K.’s financial watchdog and central bank unveiled their roadmap for tokenization, the use of stablecoins for institutional settlement and a phased transition toward 24/7 operation.
AI agents and automated payments could reach a scale that crypto monitoring systems built for human-paced markets cannot handle, Elliptic CEO Simone Maini warned.