Pavel Durov Wants to Give a Billion Telegram Users a Crypto Wallet
The promise of instant, zero-fee crypto transactions for over a billion Telegram users sent its native Gram token up 7%.
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Google Ships New Gemini Flash Models, But Pro Is Still Missing
As Gemini 3.5 Pro stalls in testing limbo, Google ships 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a restricted cybersecurity model—and quietly teases Gemini 4.
Augustus Raises $180 Million to Build a Stablecoin-Ready 'Global Dollar Bank'
The Tiger Global-led round values the startup at $1 billion as it wires stablecoin rails directly into a federally chartered bank, aiming to modernize the correspondent-banking plumbing behind cross-border payments.
Google Is Building an AI Chip Just for Gemini—And Investors Already Moved On It
Codenamed Frozen v2, Google's new server chip would bake part of Gemini's architecture directly into hardware for a projected 6–10x efficiency gain.
XRP Breaks Out on Clarity Act Hopes. The Charts Are Still Cautious
The Ripple-linked token just had its best day in weeks, as Washington may finally be delivering what the XRP Army has been waiting for.
Jack Mallers Quits Twenty One Capital as Tether's Bitcoin Merger Collapses
XXI stock dropped nearly 18% after the company's co-founder stepped down and Tether's plan to combine three Bitcoin firms officially fell apart.
Galaxy Commits Up to $5 Million to Prepare Bitcoin for Quantum Threat
The crypto firm's initiative arrives as researchers, exchanges, and the U.S. government warn that "Q-Day" may land as soon as 2030.
Morning Minute: The Clarity Act Has New Life
Odds of the Clarity Act passing in 2026 jumped to 42% after a surprising new development from the White House.
Pakistan Launches Crypto Investigation Unit to Fight Money Laundering
Islamabad is building the enforcement side of its crypto push, standing up a unit to police money laundering even as it licenses exchanges.
Worldcoin’s WLD Jumps 8% on Grayscale ETF Filing
The asset manager's S-1 for a spot WLD fund would be the first U.S. ETF tied to Sam Altman's biometric crypto project.
UK Lawmakers Launch Inquiry Into Crypto Banking Access
A cross-party group is examining why UK banks block accounts and payments for crypto firms—and whether it's holding the sector back.
Bank of Korea Scales Up CBDC Pilot With Half a Million Users
Phase 1 of Project Hangang opened 81,000 wallets with 42% of them using the CBDC. Phase 2 is bigger, and this time it moves real government money.
Russia's First Comprehensive Crypto Law Is Two Votes Away From Passing
The bill licenses exchanges, caps retail investors at about $3,800 a year, and creates a legal pathway for Russian companies to pay foreign partners in crypto—bypassing Western sanctions.
Cardano Triggers Hard Fork With First Community-Voted Upgrade
For the first time in Cardano's history, no company flipped the switch on a major protocol update.
Bitcoin ETFs Are Green Again—Here’s Why Investors Should Zoom Out
Two consecutive weeks of inflows ended the worst sustained outflow streak in Bitcoin ETF history. Here's why patience may be required from investors.
Tom Lee's Bitmine Taps the Brakes on ETH Buys, Pivots $86M Into Stock Buyback
"The reduced pace of buys reflects that Bitmine repurchased 5.5 million common shares," Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said in a statement.
Strategy Pads Cash Reserve By $225M With MSTR Sale, Bitcoin Stash Remains Untouched
For the second consecutive week, Saylor's company sold MSTR stock instead of BTC to pad its reserves to $3.2 billion.
Allbridge Pauses Cross-Chain Protocol After $1.65M Flash Loan Attack
An attacker used a flash loan to distort the bridge's Solana stablecoin pools before moving the proceeds to Ethereum, security firms said.
Morning Minute: Hyperliquid Opens Prediction Markets to Anyone in HIP-4 Upgrade
Plus, a selloff in Oil has markets looking green into the Monday open. And PUMP is leading all alt movers on the week at a surprising time.
Strategy's Michael Saylor Makes 110-Point Case Against Bitcoin's BIP-110
The Strategy chairman argued that the soft fork is a 'bad idea,' warning that it would cause more harm than the problem it aims to solve.