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Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) has appointed Canadian digital-asset manager 3iQ to manage a mandate backed by part of its Bitcoin treasury as the special administrative region develops a digital-asset investment hub.Under the partnership, 3iQ will manage an undisclosed portion of the Bitcoi…
Crypto exchange Coinbase reported mixed second-quarter results on Thursday, missing Wall Street expectations on profitability as weaker trading activity weighed on results despite the company capturing a record share of the crypto market.In the second quarter, Coinbase generated roughly $1.2 billion…
Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded in 2024 by ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has approached investors and lenders for fresh capital after suffering heavy losses in the recent artificial intelligence stock sell-off, the Financial Times reported Thursday.The fund, which the Wal…
MoonPay has launched PayBox, a payment vault that lets ChatGPT and Claude users authorize AI to buy crypto, swap tokens and bridge assets from within a conversation while keeping control of their funds.Users connect a crypto wallet and payment methods to ChatGPT or Claude, which prepare transactions…
Bitcoin (BTC) whipsawed around $64,000 on Wednesday as geopolitical and macroeconomic tensions pressured US stocks.Key points:Bitcoin constricts near $64,000 as traders contend with multiple macro headwinds.Downside in Asian stocks continues to spill over into US markets.The US Federal Reserve prepa…
Binance will launch USDT-settled options on gold and silver through its Abu Dhabi-regulated exchange, expanding its lineup of traditional financial products alongside cryptocurrencies.The contracts will be listed through Nest Exchange Limited, Binance’s Abu Dhabi Global Market-regulated Recognized I…
[Update, 11:13 am UTC: Adds wanted list clarification in third paragraph.]Russian authorities have placed Telegram founder Pavel Durov on an international wanted list as they escalate a criminal case accusing him of facilitating terrorist activity.Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wedn…
Russian authorities have placed Telegram founder Pavel Durov on an international wanted list as they escalate a criminal case accusing him of facilitating terrorist activity.Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that it had charged Durov with facilitating terrorist activity and i…
Cross-border payments are the clearest near-term use case for stablecoins, while consumer adoption in United Kingdom retail payments is likely to be slower, according to the Financial Conduct Authority’s Stablecoin Sprint.The FCA published findings from its March policy initiative that brought toget…
Crypto losses topped $1 billion in the first half of 2026 as the industry recorded its highest number of hacks in a six-month period, according to onchain security platform Blockaid.Ethereum and Solana recorded the largest losses from incidents affecting their networks, with roughly $332 million and…
Real-world asset tokenization platform Ondo Finance has launched an offchain execution network in an apparent pivot away from the institution-focused layer-1 blockchain it introduced in 2025.The company said Monday that Ondo Network will handle trades away from public blockchains and is already bein…
The International Monetary Fund said Brazil’s crypto asset market, particularly US dollar-pegged stablecoins, has expanded rapidly since 2017 and requires closer oversight as cross-border crypto flows grow faster than traditional capital flows.In its Financial System Stability Assessment released Th…