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Unless President Trump vetoes the bill, it will become law at midnight, banning the Federal Reserve from developing a CBDC until 2031.
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Circle Stock Jumps as Stablecoin Issuer Wins Final Federal Banking Charter Approval
Circle secured final OCC approval to establish a national trust bank, shifting its $73.2 billion stablecoin to a unified federal framework.
Strategy Bitcoin Sales 'Mostly Noise,' Standard Chartered Says, Holding $100K BTC Call
The bank argues that the treasury giant's Bitcoin sales are a short-term distraction, reiterating its $100,000 year-end price target.
Morning Minute: Robinhood Chain Explodes Onto the Crypto Scene
Plus, Circle wins a national bank charter and pops 10%. And the Clarity Act gets a new draft while the clock is ticking…
Jailed Fraudster Charged With Moving $290K in Forfeited Crypto From Prison
A convicted launderer serving time for a $5 million scheme allegedly moved crypto that a court had ordered him to forfeit.
North Carolina Bill Recognizes CFTC's ‘Federal Regulatory Authority’ Over Prediction Markets
The state's budget law leaves oversight of Kalshi and Polymarket to the CFTC and taxes them at 6%, far below what other states are pursuing.
AI Agents Could Be Turned Into Botnets Through Hallucinations, Researchers Warn
Researchers warn AI agents could be tricked into downloading malicious code by exploiting the same hallucinations that cause chatbots to make mistakes.
Avalanche Treasury Firm AVAX One Reclaims Nasdaq Compliance After Reverse Stock Split
AVAX One, which stockpiles the native token of the Avalanche crypto network, is back in Nasdaq's good graces after a reverse stock split.
Perplexity Fine-Tuned a Chinese AI Model to Match Claude Opus 4.8 at One-Third the Cost
The company's post-trained GLM 5.2 preview pairs a cheaper open-source base with a frontier advisor—and it's already live in production.
Anthropic AI Oversight Board Adds Ben Bernanke, Who Oversaw 2008 Financial Crisis at Fed
Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke will have the power to appoint Anthropic board members as part of company's Long-Term Benefit Trust.
Ethereum Foundation Turns AI Loose on ETH Network to Find Bugs Before Hackers Do
Ethereum researchers are using AI agents to hunt for vulnerabilities, shifting security work from finding bugs to proving which ones are real.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 Sol: Here’s How It Stacks Up Against Other AI Models
OpenAI's new flagship model is out, after spending two weeks locked behind a government-approved preview. It lands the same week Fable 5 leaves Anthropic's subscription plans.
Swift Readies Ledger for 24/7 Token Transfers—Though True Settlement Is Stuck on Old Rails
Swift’s pilot allows 17 global banks to transfer tokenized deposits on weekends, but ultimate settlement still relies on legacy systems.
MARA Stock Pops as Bitcoin Miner Agrees to Acquire Massive Powered Texas Land Plot
MARA Holdings has agreed to purchase a sizable plot of land in Texas to power its Bitcoin mining and growing AI compute ambitions.
Labour MPs Push to Make UK Crypto Donation Ban Permanent
The lawmakers have tabled amendments to make the current moratorium permanent, as the fallout over Reform UK's funding widens.
MoonPay Brings Its AI Crypto Agents to Telegram
MoonAgents lets users analyze markets and prepare crypto transactions through Telegram while keeping keys on their own devices.
Morning Minute: Paradigm Raises $1.2B Fund as Crypto’s Top VC Pushes Into AI
BNB Chain rebuilds itself for a world run by AI agents. BTC ETFs flows flip negative. And prediction markets face a new hurdle.
EU Set to Revise MiCA in 2027 to Cover Foreign Stablecoin Issuers
Trump's embrace of stablecoins is pushing Brussels to expand its crypto law to non-EU issuers and tokenized payments, EU diplomats say.
Sony Bank Clears OCC Hurdle for Dollar Stablecoin
The lender's new US subsidiary, Connectia Trust, would issue a dollar-pegged stablecoin once it clears the regulator's final conditions.
A 20-Year-Old's Crypto Wallet Moved $123M in Romance-Scam Cash: Interpol Says
The two Thai arrests were part of Operation First Light, a 97-country sweep that logged 5,811 arrests and intercepted $293 million.