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
A new platform founded by Wall Street veteran Chan Ahn is aiming to bring one of finance’s most exclusive asset classes — private equity — onto the blockchain. — Tessera has announced the launch of its private equity tokenization platform on Solana, a system designed to give investors onchain exposure to private company shares that
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
Story Highlights Two key opinion leaders have predicted that AI agents’ crypto transactions will quickly dwarf those of human beings. The key driver behind this is the ease of opening a crypto wallet as compared to a bank account. The integration of AI with blockchain has attracted several regulatory and security concerns. CEO and co-founder
Venus Protocol has officially announced the listing of XAUm, its first gold-backed Real-World Asset (RWA), marking a major milestone for lending markets on the $BNB Chain. This project, initiated with Matrixdock and anchored by Chainlink price oracles, enables users to pledge physical gold as collateral for the first time ever, without synthetic workarounds. The wall
For decades, venture capital has operated as one of finance’s most exclusive asset classes. Participation typically requires large minimum investments, extensive paperwork, and years long lockups that prevent investors from accessing their capital. According to Carl Vogel, general partner at 6th Man Ventures, blockchain is on course to change that. Democratizing access to gatekept strategies
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