Mastercard will sponsor an XRP Ledger hackathon in New York on October 24–25, 2025, featuring four tracks including protocol innovation, agentic finance, lending, and borrowing. The 36-hour event, hel…
The Algorand Foundation launched AC2 (Agentic Communication and Control Protocol) on Aug. 25, an open protocol that lets AI agents request signing operations—such as payments, git commits, or API auth…
The Dallas Federal Reserve warned that tokenized deposits could weaken banks' liquidity management and lending capacity, estimating that a 10 percent increase in deposit sensitivity to interest rates …
Virtuals Protocol launched a mission on August 26, 2026, to tokenize every digital agent globally, aiming to prevent a small group of corporations from controlling agent ownership. The project's token…
Mastercard has joined the upcoming XRP Ledger Hackathon in New York as a sponsor, scheduled for Oct. 24–25, 2025. The 36-hour event will feature four tracks focused on protocol innovation, agentic fin…
Shinhan Financial Group (55550) and Visa will jointly build stablecoin infrastructure and AI-powered payment models in South Korea, marking the first adoption of Visa's enterprise stablecoin platform …
Bill Gates is advocating for a new international framework to regulate the riskiest uses of AI, saying individual governments and AI firms cannot handle increasingly sophisticated models alone. Gates …
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong appeared on the Katie Miller Podcast, calling California's billionaire wealth tax an 'unconstitutional asset seizure' and threatening to relocate the company, while also c…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will deliver his first Jackson Hole keynote on Friday, themed 'Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,' marking the first time the symposium cente…
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) shares rose from $192 on June 26 to $213 by August 26, giving investors who put $1,000 into the stock two months ago a gain of about $109, an 11% return. The advance comes as Nvi…
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, now expects a total addressable market of more than $30 trillion as it prepares for an IPO, surpassing SpaceX's $28.5 trillion estimate. The company repor…
Bitfire Group, a Hong Kong-listed company under stock code 01611, launched what it calls Hong Kong's first compliant crypto asset quantitative strategy, using real-world assets (RWA) in a market-neutr…
The Algorand Foundation has launched AC2, an open protocol that enables users to securely communicate with and control AI agents through encrypted peer-to-peer connections. The blockchain-agnostic sta…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the DFINITY Foundation announced a partnership to explore sovereign cloud infrastructure and decentralized artificial intelligence for public-sector…
Shinhan Financial Group has signed a strategic agreement with Visa to build stablecoin payment infrastructure and expand into AI-powered payments, with initial work focusing on testing the issuance, t…
Soluna Holdings is asking shareholders to approve increasing its authorized common stock to 1 billion shares from 375 million at its Oct. 16 annual meeting, a move that would give management more room…
On August 25, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partnered with the DFINITY Foundation, the non-profit behind Internet Computer ($ICP), to develop government-based AI and cloud systems. T…
POSCO International completed a trade-finance pilot on Avalanche infrastructure with Olea, turning real trade receivables into blockchain-based assets and using AI to verify invoices and shipping reco…
Bitdeer Technologies Group will install its Sealminer A2 Pro Air machines at Soluna Holdings' 83 MW wind-powered Project Kati 1 in Willacy County, Texas, under a co-mining agreement announced Aug. 25,…
Virtuals Protocol's token $VIRTUAL rose 15.42% after the protocol expanded its ownable-agent model to the Solana blockchain, enabling autonomous agents to access tools for capital raising, wallet mana…