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Base Creator Jesse Pollak Steps Back From App Leadership After Admitting Social Bet 'Was Wrong'
Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leading the Base App, handing responsibility for the product back to Coinbase while shifting his full attention to growing Base as a blockchain for global finance.
BlackRock, Goldman, and JP Morgan Will Give Tokenized Stocks a Try
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the clearinghouse that processes U.S. securities transactions, on Wednesday launched a pilot to test tokenized stocks and U.S. Treasuries with nearly 40 financial institution…
Bitcoin Giant Strategy Isn't Panicking—Unless BTC Crashes to $10K: CEO
Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy will start buying the cryptocurrency again once its preferred shares recover, CEO Phong Le said, as the company leans on a retooled financing model to ride out the crypto downturn.
OpenAI Uses AI Red Team to Strengthen GPT-5.6 Against Prompt Injection Attacks
OpenAI has introduced GPT-Red, an automated AI system designed to find security vulnerabilities in its language models.
Meet Bonsai: The First 27B AI Model That Fits on Your Phone
I models eat up a lot of memory. A 27-billion-parameter AI model, considered medium-sized by industry standards, needs roughly 54 GB of memory to run on half precision. Most laptops can't hold that. Some desktop rigs ca…
Revolut receives in-principle approval from UAE authorities for crypto services
Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority approved the London-headquartered fintech company for broker-dealer, management and investment, and exchange services in the UAE.
Bitcoin hits $65.5K as more surprise US inflation data sparks three-week BTC price high
Bitcoin moved up to its highest levels since June 22 as US PPI inflation numbers provided the week’s second surprise macro data drop.
Aave launches V4 on Avalanche, laying groundwork for tokenized credit markets
The deployment marks Aave V4’s first expansion beyond Ethereum and introduces lending infrastructure designed to support future markets for tokenized real-world assets.
US Treasury Freezes $131 Million in Iran-Linked Crypto Wallets
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned multiple cryptocurrency wallets tied to Iran's Central Bank and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Tuesday, with stablecoin issuer Tether freezing ov…
Bitcoin Breaks Heavy Resistance—But Death Cross Looms: Analysis
Wall Street had a solid Tuesday, but Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market finds itself on less steady ground.
Securitize, Cantor target tokenized IPOs for public markets
Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald are developing infrastructure for tokenized IPOs and secondary equity offerings within the existing US securities framework.
Japan passes crypto overhaul to bring digital assets under financial rules
Japan’s revised Financial Instruments and Exchange Act introduces crypto insider trading rules, tougher penalties and new oversight requirements for crypto businesses.
Is Robinhood Chain’s success bullish or bearish for ETH the asset?
Surging volumes on Robinhood Chain could be very good for Ethereum, but only if the “ETH is money” crowd turn out to be right.
Morning Minute: Crypto Rips on Cool CPI
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Stripe mounts blockbuster $53 billion bid to buy PayPal
Payments giant Stripe offered to buy PayPal (PYPL) in a deal worth $53 billion, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
UK Fraud Review Calls for Judge Training on Crypto Laundering, AI Scams
A major UK review of fraud has recommended that judges and magistrates be trained to handle a coming wave of cases involving cryptocurrency money laundering and fraud powered by artificial intelligence.
A timeline of the Ethereum Foundation's ongoing shakeup
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s tech newsletter covering the most important stories in blockchain. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk.
Cathie Wood’s ARK buys another 220K Circle shares despite sell-off
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest added $13.9 million worth of Circle shares on Tuesday, extending its July buying spree to 725,517 shares amid a steep stock decline.
Team Behind Ethereum's Institutional Privacy Push Spins Out For-Profit Firm EthSystems
The group that spent the past year running the Ethereum Foundation's institutional privacy work has spun out to start its own company. EthSystems launched Tuesday as an independent, for-profit firm building privacy and …
Crypto steadies as Middle East tensions counter U.S. inflation report boost
Bitcoin held near a three-week high and ether steadied around its highest since June 3 as U.S.-Iran hostilities capped gains from a softer-than-expected U.S. inflation report on Tuesday.
Stripe, Advent offer $53B to acquire PayPal: Report
Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for $53 billion, at a 28% premium compared to the company’s Tuesday closing price.
Bitcoin nears $65,000 as cooling U.S. inflation guts the Fed rate-hike trade
Bitcoin climbed to near $64,800 on Wednesday, its best session in weeks, after U.S. inflation cooled by more than economists expected and traders abandoned bets that the Federal Reserve would raise rates this month.
Visa, Mastercard and Ripple back x402 as agent payments average 32 cents
Every major card network has signed on to a payment standard built so that software can pay software without a human involved.