AI agents will become more relevant than humans on the internet within the next decade, a shift already already forcing Google, Facebook and Amazon to react, said Charles Hoskinson. In his keynote at Consensus Miami 2026 on Wednesday, Hoskinson also said that “by 2035, the majority of searches, commerce and activity on the internet will
Bitcoin’s developer community should stop waiting for certainty about quantum-computing timelines and focus on getting a post-quantum signature scheme into production, Alex Pruden, CEO of Project Eleven, told CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference on Wednesday. Pruden said the asymmetry between acting now and waiting favors action. “We added some new cryptography, we kind of built in
What was once viewed as a speculative fringe movement is rapidly becoming part of the world’s financial plumbing, according to executives from Binance, Revolut and Circle (CRCL) speaking at Consensus Miami on Wednesday. “We were in the Prohibition era,” said Rachel Conlan, chief marketing officer at Binance. “Now we are in the infrastructure phase.” Conlan
Mastercard is under investigation by the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for alleged anti-competitive conduct tied to digital wallets. The news landed as the payments giant joined JPMorgan, Ripple and Ondo Finance in completing what they call the first cross-border, cross-bank redemption of tokenized US Treasuries. Mastercard is not alone in the latest FCA
Spot bitcoin ETFs cleared crypto’s long-standing access hurdle by placing bitcoin inside brokerage and advisor accounts already used for stocks and bonds. Two and a half years in, panelists at CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference agreed that part had worked. However, they said custody concentration, modest advisor uptake and back-office plumbing all remain unresolved. Christopher Russell,
Bitcoin surges above $81K — and this time, the global stock market is watching. Bitcoin broke through the $81,000 threshold during Tuesday’s Asian trading window, posting its strongest performance since the closing days of January. The digital asset climbed from approximately $79,000 at Monday’s U.S. market close — a 5.3% weekly gain. Global stock indexes
Pavel Durov posted a chart this week that is worth looking at twice. According to Chainspect’s May 2026 data, $TON sits at 0.6 seconds to finality, beating Avalanche (1 sec), BNB Smart Chain (1.1 sec), $SUI (1.5 sec), Hedera (2.5 sec), XRP Ledger (4 sec), and Solana (13 sec). Bitcoin and Ethereum do not even
In brief Sandisk shares have surged 3,314% in the past year, from $32.11 to over $1,096, powered by a global NAND flash shortage and accelerating AI infrastructure spending. Per Sandisk’s earnings release, Q3 FY2026 revenue hit $5.95 billion—up 251% year over year—with gross margins expanding from 22.5% to 78.4% in a single year. NAND flash
An announcement about the long-anticipated U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) is coming “in the next few weeks,” Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, told CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference on Wednesday. The federal effort to inventory, centralize and secure U.S.-held bitcoin and other digital assets has been running in
Bitcoin is trading above $82,000 on May 6, while oil, Treasury yields, the dollar, and US stocks shift around the same volatile geopolitical and macro backdrop that has left investors exhausted after the last few months. The move reopens the inflation-hedge debate while leaving it unresolved. It also puts pressure on the claim that $BTC