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Stablecoins Processed More Money Than Visa Last Year, AI Agents the Next Big Driver
7+ hour, 51+ min ago (505+ words) A new Morph report documents a market that has grown 60-fold in five years and identifies the region's payment corridors and autonomous AI systems as the next major demand drivers. A new report from Morph, the Ethereum Layer-2 settlement network…...
The Quiet Professionalisation of Truth
6+ hour, 8+ min ago (377+ words) Polymarket's infrastructure overhaul is the most visible signal yet that prediction markets are evolving from a crypto sideshow into institutional-grade financial infrastructure. But professionalisation brings its own risks. Something unusual has been happening in prediction markets this year. While the…...
Crypto-Native Rails Becoming Top Infra for AI Commerce
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (1202+ words) AI agents are moving from recommendation to execution, turning commerce into a stream of autonomous transactions'and pushing payments infrastructure away from cards toward crypto-native rails built for speed, scale, and machine-driven demand. The next phase of digital commerce is characterised…...
OpenAI's $122 Billion Raise Validates the Decentralized AI Case
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (395+ words) As frontier AI consolidates around massive capital requirements, the economic argument for distributed compute networks grows sharper. The question is no longer whether alternatives exist, but whether they can scale before the winners are decided. OpenAI's $122 billion Series C funding…...
Marathon's $1B Bitcoin Sale Signals End of Mining's Profitability Era
1+ week, 5+ day ago (440+ words) As Bitcoin mining rewards collapse post-halving, the industry's largest miner bets on energy arbitrage from AI infrastructure rather than block rewards. Marathon Holdings (Nasdaq: MARA) sold 15,133 bitcoin for $1.1 billion over the past three weeks, deploying the proceeds to retire $1 billion…...
Katana Buys IDEX, Launches Perps Platform in Crowded Onchain Derivatives Market
2+ week, 1+ day ago (317+ words) The Polygon-GSR backed chain enters a sector where monthly volumes have hit $739 billion " but where Hyperliquid already commands the majority of open interest Katana, a DeFi blockchain backed by Polygon Labs and GSR, has acquired IDEX and launched a perpetual…...
Jack Dorsey Says Block Will Support Stablecoins Despite Personal Opposition
4+ week, 2+ day ago (555+ words) "I don't like that we're going to support stablecoins but our customers want to use them," the Bitcoin advocate told WIRED. Block CEO Jack Dorsey has confirmed the payments company will add stablecoin support, marking a pragmatic retreat from his…...
SeekerClaw Brings 24/7 AI Agents to the Solana Seeker Phone
4+ week, 2+ day ago (598+ words) The open-source project turns the crypto-native smartphone into an autonomous assistant with wallet integration, device control, and Telegram connectivity " all set up in under a minute. The Solana Seeker just got a new trick.SeekerClaw, an open-source application, allows owners…...
The Legal Personhood of Decentralized Systems
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (448+ words) Major crypto investors who warned about DAO legal risks in 2022 are now proposing complex new structures that may be too late to shield them from liability'and too restrictive to work for most projects. This is, for most of the world,…...
Southeast Asia Leads Expansion as APAC Fintech Prioritizes AI, Inclusion and Fraud Resilience
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (504+ words) New report reveals 90.6% of executives now prioritize financial inclusion while Southeast Asia emerges as the region's top expansion target Money20/20 has unveiled its annual Future of Fintech in APAC report ahead of Money20/20 Asia, happening in Bangkok on April 21-23 at the Queen…...