AI analysis group OpenAI disclosed a seed-stage funding in Merge Labs, a mind–laptop interface startup that just lately exited stealth mode alongside a $252 million funding spherical, with OpenAI changing into the corporate’s largest investor. Merge Labs was co-founded by Sam Altman, who’s concerned within the enterprise in a private capability. In a press release…
Institutional-grade analytics supplier Artemis has launched a brand new report titled “Stablecoin Payments at Scale: How Cards Bridge Digital Assets and Global Commerce,” analyzing the shortly increasing position of cryptocurrency playing cards in digital funds. Cryptocurrency playing cards permit customers to spend stablecoins and different digital property at conventional retailers, rising as one of many…
TRM Labs reports that stablecoin transaction volumes exceeded $4 trillion between January and July 2025, representing an 83% year-on-year enhance in annualized exercise. Industry surveys and consulting analysis additional indicate that institutional curiosity is rapidly changing into actual adoption, with 13% of economic establishments and corporates already utilizing stablecoins, and greater than half of remaining…
Bitcoin (BTC) almost touched $98,000 in a single day earlier than settling round $96,000, up roughly 5.5% over current periods. The rally reignited a acquainted query: is this the setup for a sustained move above $100,000, or one other fragile push constructed on skinny order books and positioning video games? #1 Bitcoin BTC $95,279.40 -1.59%…
Veera, a crypto-focused monetary providers platform, has secured $10 million by means of its pre-seed and seed funding rounds to advance product growth and develop world entry to on-chain monetary providers. The newest $4 million seed spherical included $2.8 million from CMCC Titan Fund and Sigma Capital, alongside strategic angel traders, following a $6 million…
Nonprofit group behind the Wikipedia free-content encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, introduced that the venture has turned 25, marking a quarter-century of offering dependable, human-curated data to customers worldwide. In conjunction with its twenty fifth anniversary, Wikipedia unveiled partnerships with a number of AI corporations, together with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity. Through Wikimedia Enterprise,…
Starknet, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 scaling community, launched availability of its native STRK token on Solana, marking an growth into Solana’s decentralized finance panorama by way of NEAR Intents. NEAR Intents gives a chain-abstracted execution framework designed to cut back complexity sometimes related to cross-chain asset transfers. The transfer represents coordinated alignment between Starknet,…
The worldwide development in direction of the regulation of digital property has clearly shifted to taxation. In the US, Congress has proposed a draft laws that may repair the long-standing discrepancies within the taxation of crypto exercise. Meanwhile, Europe and a few Latin American nations are implementing extra intensive reporting regimes that present the tax…
SEC Chair Paul Atkins advised Fox Business in December that he expects US monetary markets to transfer on-chain “in a few years.” The assertion landed someplace between prophecy and coverage directive, particularly coming from the architect of “Project Crypto,” the Commission’s formal initiative to allow tokenized market infrastructure. However, what does “on-chain” imply when utilized…
Ripple has secured a vital regulatory foothold within the European Union, marking the agency’s second main licensing victory in lower than a week. On Jan. 14, the crypto-focused fee firm introduced it acquired preliminary approval from Luxembourg’s regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), for an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence. While the…