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While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.

Geopolitical tensions and renewed fears of U.S.-China frictions are weighing on risk assets, including bitcoin.

T. Rowe Price launched what it says is the industry’s first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, offering diversified exposure to digital assets.

The exchange’s first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.

If Stripe acquires PayPal, the real prize could be consumer wallets, stablecoin issuance or the infrastructure powering the next generation of digital payments.

Visa launched a stablecoin platform that lets banks and fintechs issue, manage and settle digital dollars through its payments network.

The deal adds institutional trading clients, derivatives expertise and regulatory licenses as Keyrock looks to deepen its presence in crypto capital markets.

Consumers should not have to wait for another crisis to get the protections they deserve, argues Summer Mersinger, CEO of the Blockchain Association.

Strengthening defenses against AI fraud

The company has previously cleared or held in custody roughly 94% of tokenized U.S. equities and now holds over $1.5 billion in underlying stocks.

AI agents can read wallet balances and analyze portfolios but requires every sensitive action to be approved on a Ledger hardware device before it can be executed.

The crypto financial services firm launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform that gives Fireblocks’ 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain yield strategies.

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The newly-convened x402 Foundation is a neutral space where competitors and payment methods can work together to create an open standard for AI agentic commerce.

Profit-taking after bitcoin hit a $65,500 monthly high combined with fresh Iranian strikes on U.S. bases sent crypto lower, with bears leading price action across most tokens.

Ualá’s CEO clarified Tether is acting solely as a financial investor, citing current regional regulations preventing any immediate USDT integration.

The freeze targets TRON-based addresses that held over $165 million, preventing those specific funds from being transferred or redeemed.

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT came down heavily on hardware wallets. BTC traded steady near $65,000 after South Korea’s rate hike.

The nonbinding resolution passed without objection after Bankman-Fried asked for clemency, months after Trump pardoned other major crypto figures, including Changpeng Zhao and Ross Ulbricht.

The coins went to a fresh address rather than an exchange, so nothing has been sold yet.

This is not a broad rally as bitcoin is up 4% over the same stretch, and solana, TRON and hyperliquid are all lower.

Bitcoin surges toward $65,000 on softer-than-expected inflation data, but on-chain signals show two key investor groups selling into the bounce.

Pollak said that Jordan Fish, also known on X as ‘Cobie,’ will lead the Base app team.

DTCC’s first live production trades using tokenized securities show how blockchain could reshape the infrastructure behind Wall Street.

The move creates a pathway for public companies to raise capital onchain and issue tokenized securities.

A hacker used Ostium’s own price-reporting infrastructure against the protocol, submitting falsified future-dated oracle data to manufacture fake trading profits and trigger an $18 million payout.

We don’t need to imagine the privacy pitfalls of age verification. They’ve been happening for years, argues Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard.

In this week’s, Morgan Stanley’s Denny Galindo writes that as the crypto market expands, solana has historically been a better portfolio diversifier than ether, despite being more volatile.

The most contentious piece of the crypto market structure bill is unresolved in the final weeks of Senate runway, and administration officials are expected to meet on it.

The government also reaffirmed plans to pilot tokenized government bonds next year and explore tokenizing state-owned real estate.