Category: Economy

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan argued in an Oct. 14 memo that nearly every macroeconomic path ends with Bitcoin higher, including an extraordinary AI productivity boom that makes scarce assets more valuable. Two days earlier, the Bank for International Settlements published a working paper that models a fourth path. In it, AI automates work and lifts […]

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Eleven years in crypto is not simply an anniversary. It means navigating multiple boom-and-bust cycles, changing asset narratives, exchange failures, and the growing convergence between traditional finance and onchain markets. At its 11-year mark, LBank reports more than 30 million registered users […]

Metaplanet will issue 52 billion yen ($329 million) in zero-coupon, euro-yen convertible bonds due in 2031. Japanese investment and Bitcoin treasury company plans to use about 23.6 billion yen ($149 million) of the net proceeds to repay Bitcoin-collateralized loans and about 28.3 billion yen ($179 million) for share buybacks, according to a Tuesday announcement. The […]

Key Takeaways Sydney Sweeney’s new Novig ad mocks insider trading on “dictators dying” and bets on war. Novig posted the 30-second spot on Oct. 11, a month after its Sept. 9 launch ad drew athletes’ criticism. A Sports-Only Pitch Aimed at Rivals’ Other Markets Novig posted the 30-second ad on X on Sunday, Oct. 11, […]

The searches specifically for BTC are also quite high, but not as those for the entire industry. Let’s start with a quick disclaimer – we used to write a lot of similar articles several years ago. The reason was simple: searches on Google typically show the demand for the cryptocurrency industry among retail investors. […]

An AI agent uncovered a decade-old bug in the XRP Ledger (XRPL) that could create trillions of XRP, prompting an emergency fix. The vulnerability could have let an attacker generate about 18 trillion XRP through a single payment transaction, roughly 180 times the cryptocurrency’s original 100 billion token supply, according to security firm Veria Labs. Veria founder […]

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: Sui and Alibaba Cloud are working on an integration that would let AI agents pay for cloud services per request using stablecoins within budgets set by their owners. The collaboration was unveiled at Sui Basecamp and remains under development, with no […]

Amazon’s Bedrock AgentCore Payments, built with Coinbase and Stripe, lets AI agents discover paid services, authenticate, and pay with stablecoins and x402 under preset spending limits. AI agents are getting wallets before merchants get a court, and shopping agents have started placing orders across the open internet. The harder problem arrives once the payment clears, […]

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: BitGo and HashKey Cloud have expanded an earlier staking relationship into a broader Asia-Pacific partnership covering staking, trading, custody and real-world asset tokenization. HashKey will support validator services for eligible BitGo clients, initially across Ethereum and Solana. BitGo and HashKey are […]

BingX chief strategy officer Kevin Lee says wealthy “old money” investors are taking a longer-term approach to Bitcoin (BTC) than many crypto-native traders. In a Token2049 fireside chat with Cointelegraph head of multimedia Ciaran Lyons, Lee said he deals with “a lot of old money” seeking alternative investments. “They have stronger diamond hands than any […]