Bernstein said agentic AI payments could become a long-term growth opportunity for stablecoins, even though adoption on today’s machine-payment protocols remains small and is not yet material to the broader stablecoin investment case. In a Monday note shared with Cointelegraph, the broker said stablecoins could help unlock machine-to-machine payments by making microtransactions viable and enabling
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2025.84, up 0.2% (+3.37) since 4 p.m. ET on Friday. Seven of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BCH (+2.3%) and SOL (+1.0%). Laggards: APT (-5.3%) and ICP (-3.6%).
The figures come from data collected by The Alliance for Secure AI, a nonprofit organization that educates the public on the implications of AI. Brendan Steinhauser, CEO of the alliance, has called on politicians to step in and take action against this replacement strategy. Over 90K Jobs Have Been Replaced by AI As artificial intelligence
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Ripple makes moves to accelerate its expansion into Brazil, the Brazilian government is reportedly backpedaling on its crypto taxation plans, and Argentina bans access to Polymarket. Ripple Expands Aggressively in Brazil, Targets Institutional
As the war with Iran enters its fourth week, crypto markets will be dominated by macro events. Off the global stage, however, traders will be navigating a number of supply events while Aave prepares for the deployment of its v4 platform and hard forks loom for both the Akash and Casper networks. A number of
SEOUL, South Korea – March 2025: The nomination of Shin Hyun-song as the next Bank of Korea governor has ignited significant discussion within South Korea’s cryptocurrency sector, particularly regarding the future of stablecoin regulations and central bank digital currency development. Industry observers now closely monitor how Shin’s international experience at the Bank for International Settlements
President Xi Jinping’s China is back out front telling foreign companies to come in, sell more, build more, and worry less. On Sunday at the China Development Forum in Beijing, Premier Li Qiang said China would push for more balanced trade with global partners after a year of tariff fights and trade tension, especially with
Well-known Economist Peter Schiff has warned that rising U.S. war spending could increase debt and push inflation higher. As of today, U.S. war spending has reached $28.5 billion as the US-Israel & Iran conflict has reached the 24th day. Thus, Schiff said higher oil prices from ongoing conflicts may slow growth and force policymakers to
Autonomous AI agent commerce could mean the end of online advertising as it is currently known today and shift the internet’s economic model, according to a16z Crypto. Since the dawn of the internet, buying goods or services typically involves navigating to online stores (some through online advertisements). However, Merit Systems co-founder Sam Ragsdale argues this
Hong Kong-based Web3 gaming firm Boyaa Interactive International said it is seeking shareholder approval to expand its crypto treasury, planning up to $70 million in purchases over the next year. In a statement on Sunday, the Hong Kong-listed company said it is looking to use its “idle cash reserves during periods of weakness in the