Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Electric Capital Partners and investment bank Goldman Sachs were the two largest buyers of spot Solana exchange-traded funds, which launched for trading in the US in October last year. Data shared by Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart on Monday shows that the top 30 institutional holders of US spot Solana
Cryptocurrencies linked to artificial intelligence, such as Bittensor’s $TAO, $NEAR Protocol, Internet Computer, and others rallied after Wired reported that Nvidia is preparing a new open-source platform for autonomous AI agents, a concept similar to the OpenClaw framework, ahead of its annual developer conference. The broader artificial intelligence token category rose about 4.8% to roughly
Fairshake, the political action committee backed by crypto companies Ripple Labs and Coinbase, among others, has reported additional spending on Illinois congressional races with the US midterm elections less than eight months away. In filings on Sunday with the Federal Election Commission, Fairshake reported a $16,000 media buy to oppose Illinois state representative La Shawn
US President Donald Trump, in statements regarding the ongoing conflict with Iran, said the war could be short. Trump described the operation against Iran as a “short-term operation,” while claiming the US had made significant progress in military operations. In his statement, Trump said the military campaign against Iran was progressing faster than expected, adding,
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has taken to the X social media network to opine that the future of financial transactions will be dominated not by humans, but by autonomous AI programs. “Very soon, there are going to be more AI agents than humans making transactions,” Armstrong stated. He pinpointed a critical friction point in traditional
Investors continue to move into dollar-pegged tokens as geopolitical risk and prolonged weakness in crypto markets push them toward perceived safety on-chain. The total stablecoin market capitalization hit a record $313 billion on Sunday, underscoring resilient demand even as the broader digital asset space remains under pressure and tensions escalate in the Middle East. Latest
Already on a tear ahead of the war in Iran, Circle (CRCL) might be an unlikely beneficiary of the conflict. The stock rose 10% on Monday, outperforming other crypto-linked equities, with the shares now up by 86% over the past month, though they remain sharply lower since their peak post-IPO frenzy last summer. Japanese bank
Longtime Bitcoiner and Block Inc. CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey has very reluctantly gotten onboard with the idea that the company’s customers are embracing stablecoins. “I don’t like that we’re going to support stablecoins, but our customers want to use them,” he told Wired. “I don’t think it’s wise to go from one gatekeeper to
US President Donald Trump’s statements on the war with Iran, oil prices, and global energy security attracted attention in global markets. In particular, messages suggesting that the ongoing conflict with Iran was nearing its end, and potential interventions in oil prices, were the focus of investors. In an interview with CBS, Trump stated that the