South African Reserve Bank Backs Payshap Over Digital Rand as Cassim Targets Real-Time Payments
The South African Reserve Bank has decided to pause the immediate implementation of a digital rand despite successfully testing its...
Bitcoin News
Nasdaq-Listed Fold Sells $45M in Bitcoin, Clears $20M Debt and Frees Cash for Expansion
Fold Holdings recently sold $45 million in bitcoin and used the proceeds to pay off $20 million in bitcoin-collateralized loans....
Dragonfly’s Rob Hadick Says Stablecoins Could Grow 10x as Payments Adoption Expands
Stablecoins may have begun as a reserve-yield business. Still, Dragonfly’s Rob Hadick argues the next phase of value creation will...
200,000 Human Neurons Learned to Play Doom, Pointing to Low-Power Biological Computing
Cortical Labs connected 200,000 human neurons grown from blood-derived stem cells to its CL1 silicon interface, teaching the culture to...
ASK Group Taps Eric Schimdt-Backed Keeta to Tokenize Oil, Gold and Copper
The UAE-based investment group ASK Group and U.S. blockchain company Keeta have partnered to launch a public exchange where physical...
Bitcoin Treasuries Are Ticking Time Bombs as Leverage Hits Record Rates, Warns Capriole’s Charles Edwards
Bitcoin treasury companies are piling on debt at record rates to fund their BTC buying, Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards...
Tim Draper Says Quantum Will Crack Banks Before Bitcoin
Tim Draper argued bitcoin faces less quantum risk than banks, comparing its security to Fort Knox. His comments shifted attention...
Tesla–SpaceX Merger? ‘Big Short’ Investor Steve Eisman Says He Wouldn’t Doubt It
Big Short investor Steve Eisman said he would not be surprised by a Tesla-SpaceX deal, fueling speculation about Elon Musk’s...
XRPL and RLUSD Take Center Stage as Ripple Joins Mastercard’s AI Payments Push
Ripple is participating in Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines effort, placing XRPL and RLUSD in a wider push to support...
Noah Doe-Linked Bitcoin Awakens Again as Another 2011 Casascius Coin Cashes Out
Onchain records show yet another Casascius physical bitcoin has been redeemed, this time from an address originally created on Nov....
Spain and France Split the Favorite Tag as World Cup Prediction Markets Cross $2B
Prediction market traders across Polymarket and Kalshi have committed more than $2 billion to the 2026 FIFA World Cup winner...
Tether Leads $1.4B NEURA Robotics Round to Give Machines Built-In Crypto Wallets
Tether is leading one of the largest private investment rounds in humanoid robotics history, committing up to $1.4 billion to...
Traders Watch Gold Crash 3.25% to $4,120 After May CPI Confirms 4.2% Inflation
Gold dropped $138.60 on Wednesday as a hotter-than-expected May consumer price index (CPI) print erased any safe-haven premium built on...
SpaceX IPO Hits Nasdaq June 12 at $135 — Retail Investors Face Long Odds on Allocation
SpaceX is set to price its $75 billion IPO at $135 per share on June 11, with shares debuting on...
Mastercard’s AI Payment Debut Brings Coinbase, Ripple and 30+ Partners Into Agent Commerce
Mastercard has launched Agent Pay for Machines, a new payment framework that allows AI agents to authorize, coordinate, and settle...
