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News & Education about Disruptive Technologies in Finance, Banking, Blockchain, Digital Assets, DeFi, Artificial Intelligence & Much More

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a day ago

Lawmakers Push for Crypto Donation Ban Amid Foreign Interference Risks

Senior MPs urge the Electoral Commission to halt cryptocurrency donations to UK political parties, citing concerns over foreign interference and "crypto mixers. ...

Moonpay launches MoonPay Agents, a software layer designed to provide autonomous AI systems with their own blockchain-based financial identities

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Economy

2 days ago

MoonPay Launches ‘Agents’ to Empower AI with Onchain Economic Agency

MoonPay introduces "Agents," a non-custodial tool allowing agentic AI to manage wallets and execute onchain transactions independently in a $236B market. ...

Crypto payment provider Oobit has officially launched a native crypto-to-bank transfer service designed to bypass the friction of traditional correspondent banking

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Banking

3 days ago

Tether-Backed Oobit Bridges Self-Custody and Local Bank Rails

Tether-backed Oobit enables direct crypto-to-bank transfers from self-custody wallets, utilizing local rails like ACH and SEPA for instant settlement. ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has overhauled a punitive capital rule that previously stifled on-chain settlement

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Stablecoins

4 days ago

SEC Slashing Stablecoin Capital Haircuts to 2%

The SEC officially treats payment stablecoins as cash equivalents for broker-dealers, cutting capital haircuts to 2% ...

Stani Kulechov, the founder of Aave Labs, has proposed a massive evolution of the on-chain economy driven by what he calls abundance assets

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DeFi

Digital Assets

12 days ago

Solar Power and 'Abundance Assets' Tipped to Rewrite DeFi Rules

Stani Kulechov forecasts a $50 trillion boom in abundance assets like solar energy, transforming DeFi collateral and on-chain lending by 2050. ...

Mainland China has officially extended its comprehensive cryptocurrency prohibition

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Crypto

Regulation

14 days ago

China Widens Crypto Ban to Stablecoins and Tokenized Assets

The PBoC and CSRC have officially extended China's virtual currency ban to include RMB-pegged stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets, targeting illegal fin ...

Harvard University has quietly elevated its exposure to digital assets, positioning Bitcoin ETFs as a primary pillar of its publicly disclosed portfolio

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Bitcoin

17 days ago

Harvard Endowment Surpasses Google Holdings with Strategic Bitcoin ETF Pivot

Harvard University now holds more Bitcoin ETFs than Alphabet stock, marking a massive $443M institutional bet on "digital gold" over Big Tech. ...

The TON Foundation has officially released TON Pay, a new payments software development kit (SDK)

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Crypto

18 days ago

TON Foundation Debuts TON Pay to Transform Telegram Commerce

The TON Foundation launches TON Pay, a wallet-agnostic SDK allowing Mini App developers to integrate instant, low-fee crypto payments ...

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Regulation

Tokenization

21 days ago

EU Tokenization Firms Urge Rapid Pilot Regime Reforms as US Gains Ground

European operators urge a "quick fix" to the DLT Pilot Regime, warning that the SEC's clear taxonomy on tokenized securities is drawing global capital to the US ...

House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee has cast a critical eye on the role of digital assets in Britain's economic future

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Regulation

Stablecoins

23 days ago

House of Lords Grills Witnesses Over UK Stablecoin Plans

Critics tell the House of Lords that stablecoins are merely "on-ramps" to crypto, calling the US GENIUS Act a "disastrous mistake" for the UK financial system. ...

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Lawmakers Push for Crypto Dona ...

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Crypto

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Moonpay launches MoonPay Agents, a software layer designed to provide autonomous AI systems with their own blockchain-based financial identities
MoonPay Launches ‘Agents’ to E ...

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Economy

Crypto payment provider Oobit has officially launched a native crypto-to-bank transfer service designed to bypass the friction of traditional correspondent banking
Tether-Backed Oobit Bridges Se ...

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Banking

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has overhauled a punitive capital rule that previously stifled on-chain settlement
SEC Slashing Stablecoin Capita ...

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Stablecoins

Stani Kulechov, the founder of Aave Labs, has proposed a massive evolution of the on-chain economy driven by what he calls abundance assets
Solar Power and 'Abundance Ass ...

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DeFi

Digital Assets

Mainland China has officially extended its comprehensive cryptocurrency prohibition
China Widens Crypto Ban to Sta ...

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Crypto

Regulation

Harvard University has quietly elevated its exposure to digital assets, positioning Bitcoin ETFs as a primary pillar of its publicly disclosed portfolio
Harvard Endowment Surpasses Go ...

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Bitcoin

The TON Foundation has officially released TON Pay, a new payments software development kit (SDK)
TON Foundation Debuts TON Pay ...

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Crypto

EU Tokenization Firms Urge Rap ...

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Tokenization

House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee has cast a critical eye on the role of digital assets in Britain's economic future
House of Lords Grills Witnesse ...

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Regulation

Stablecoins