Anthropic’s tokenized pre‑IPO shares now imply a $1.2T valuation—above OpenAI—showing how on‑chain markets are front‑running late‑stage AI pricing before any IPO. In February 2026, Anthropic closed a Series G round at a $380 billion post-money valuation, led by GIC and Coatue, already putting it in the ultra-elite tier of private tech firms. Since then, secondary
Alchemy Chain mainnet is live. Alchemy Pay just launched a payments-first Layer 1 designed specifically for real-world stablecoin transactions. It’s positioned as the first globally compliant stablecoin payment network, with a dual regulatory framework covering the EU and Hong Kong. The next phase begins.#AlchemyChain mainnet is live, a payments-first L1 designed for real-world stablecoin transactions,
Lord Ranger is a Member of the UK House of Lords and serves as Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Digital Markets and Digital Money. Opinions below are his own. At a pivotal moment for the future of money, last week an evidence session with the Bank of England offered something we do
Zama says its full protocol stack is live and integrable, bringing confidentiality to public chains through tooling that now spans developers and end users. The beta SDK provides TypeScript and React packages, ERC-20-style abstractions, adapters, hooks and AI-native documentation to reduce integration complexity. Delegated decryption, token wrappers, portfolio tools, staking and multi-chain bridging extend the
Fund managers are warming back up to digital assets, with Bitcoin continuing to dominate allocation preferences even as broader crypto sentiment improves, according to a new survey by CoinShares. The April survey gathered responses from 26 institutional investors overseeing a combined $1.3 trillion in assets under management. Allocations to digital assets remain relatively modest, at
In brief AI tools like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview are dramatically lowering the bar for cyberattacks, enabling even unskilled actors to exploit vulnerabilities across major systems. A single breach could cascade across interconnected financial institutions, elevating cyber risk to a macro-financial threat. The IMF urges policymakers to treat cybersecurity as a core financial stability issue,
Public blockchains make transactions transparent enough to trace, audit and police, but that visibility can come at the expense of user privacy. Traditional compliance systems often address accountability by identifying people, but that can undermine one of crypto’s original promises: the ability to transact without exposing personal identity by default. According to panelists at CoinDesk’s
Ankr, a well-known Web3 infrastructure firm, has partnered with Kite, a cutting-edge L1 blockchain for independent AI agents. The partnership attempts to introduce devoted RPC services to facilitate Kite Chain. As Ankr revealed in its official press release, the joint move is set to deliver low-latency and scalable infrastructure to develop AI-led payment systems and
Block (NYSE: SQ) gave Wall Street a messy first-quarter report. The payments company beat adjusted profit expectations and lifted its 2026 gross profit forecast, but it also reported a $308.7 million net loss for common stockholders. The Jack Dorsey-led company now expects $12.33 billion in full-year gross profit for 2026. Its old forecast was $12.20
Coinbase (COIN) shares fell about 4% in after-hours trading Thursday after the crypto platform reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter results as falling crypto prices weighed on trading activity, one of the company’s main sources of revenue. The company posted a loss of $1.49 per share, compared with analyst expectations for a 27-cent profit. Revenue came in at