The New York Times obtained a virtually 300-page draft of Changpeng Zhao’s unpublished memoir, detailing secret DOJ negotiations, jail life, and his rivalry with Sam Bankman-Fried. But what NYT framed as a essential exposé, CZ and the crypto neighborhood rapidly recast because the 12 months’s greatest free e book promotion. Inside the Manuscript The New…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly rejected the Pentagon’s demand on Thursday. The Defense Department needs unrestricted army use of the corporate’s AI know-how. The deadline, simply hours away, might see the $380 billion startup expelled from the US army’s provide chain. The showdown marks the primary time a significant AI firm has publicly defied a…
By Federico Variola, CEO of Phemex On February 11, Coinbase launched Agentic Wallets, the primary pockets infrastructure constructed particularly for AI brokers. The similar week, Stripe launched machine funds utilizing USDC stablecoins. Visa, PayPal, and Mastercard all introduced or expanded agentic commerce initiatives. In the span of some days, the biggest funds firms on this…
Stablecoins are starting for use as a default strategy to transfer cash digitally, particularly for companies that want quick transfers, clear data, and predictable settlement. It’s exhibiting up within the numbers too. Circle’s USDC circulation has been climbing sharply, and current reporting factors to reserve-income development tied on to that increasing stablecoin footprint. Morph plans…
Institutional engagement with digital property is not a uniform story. In latest years, main monetary establishments have taken markedly completely different approaches to blockchain-based markets. Some have targeted on tokenization, placing conventional devices into programmable type. Banks, in the meantime, have explored tokenized deposit fashions and inner settlement rails in addition to issuing their very…
After reaching an all-time high of roughly $4 trillion in complete market worth in October, crypto markets have entered one in all their sharpest corrections in years. Bitcoin, which peaked close to $126,000 in the course of the rally, has since retraced to the low $60,000 vary. Billions of {dollars} in leveraged positions have been…
Cross-border B2B funds in 2026 nonetheless pose issues that everybody agrees on. Yet the day-to-day barely modifications. Cut-off instances, intermediaries, handbook reconciliation, shock charges. It’s nonetheless all too frequent for a easy worldwide switch to show into a days-long train in ready, chasing, and explaining variance on the ledger. As a matter of reality, the…
The Midnight Foundation has added Blockdaemon and Shielded Technologies as federated node operators for the Midnight Network, increasing its early operator set to 4 because the challenge prepares for mainnet. The two be part of Google Cloud and AlphaTON Capital, which Midnight has already named as launch companions supporting the community’s preliminary infrastructure layer. This…
Consensus Hong Kong 2026 was, by many accounts, an RWA conference that occurred to be about crypto. Across principal levels, facet occasions, and sponsored panels, real-world asset tokenization dominated the dialog — however not in the best way it did a yr in the past. The pitch decks have given strategy to real disagreements about…
Victoria, Seychelles, February 9, 2026 — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), immediately introduced the launch of The UEX Security Standard: From Proof to Protection, a joint analysis report authored with blockchain safety agency BlockSec. The report outlines a system-level safety framework designed for exchanges working throughout crypto, tokenized property, and conventional monetary markets…