Aurora Labs has launched native cross-chain funding for Solflare wallets through Aurora Intents, allowing users to move assets from Bitcoin, Ethereum and other leading blockchains directly into Solana without interacting with traditional bridge interfaces. Aurora Intents is powered by $NEAR Intents, which settles more than $23 billion in total transaction volume and processes over $2.3
Schwab Asset Management put “natural language processing” front and center in the name of its $232 million crypto-equity ETF, four years after the fund began using the technique to pick stocks. STCE is an equity ETF, not a spot crypto fund. It owns shares in companies connected to the crypto ecosystem rather than cryptocurrency or
Strategy Inc. CEO Phong Le has announced a radical simplification of the mNAV formula, which governs the company’s issuance of new shares. The financial reform comes at a critical moment: according to the latest TradingView charts, Strategy’s key instruments and Bitcoin itself have suffered steep declines since the beginning of the year. Why change the
Bitcoin developer and JAN3 CEO Samson Mow has urged the Bitcoin community not to rush into adopting post-quantum (PQ) cryptography. He has warned that an overly hasty transition could expose the network to more immediate risks than the quantum threat it is actually meant to address. His comments come after Anthropic published research showing that
The financial industry is moving toward a world where markets never close, payments settle in real time and investors expect access to their money around the clock, according to Morgan Stanley executives, who say tokenization is accelerating a shift away from traditional banking hours. Speaking during a panel discussion on digital assets, Betsy Graseck, Morgan
Bitcoin fell over the past 24 hours as traders positioned for a Federal Reserve decision that could break a market pattern dating back more than three decades. Data from CryptoSlate showed the largest cryptocurrency falling as much as 3% to $62,913, its lowest level in nearly two weeks, before recovering to $63,795 as of press
Bitcoin price today remained resilient above the $64,000 support zone as investors adopted a cautious stance ahead of the Federal Reserve’s July policy meeting. While $BTC has traded within a narrow range over the past two weeks, that consolidation could soon end as markets prepare for one of the most influential macro events of the
South Korean chip giant SK Hynix’s stock price crashed nearly 10% on July 29 despite the chipmaker reporting its strongest quarterly operating profit ever. The company’s profit jumped more than 557% year over year, but missed high market expectations. SK hynix Profit Hits Record, But Misses Estimates According to SK hynix’s second quarter earnings report,
Stablecoin infrastructure firm Brale is rolling out an interoperability protocol designed to end what it says is a bottleneck in the industry’s growth: moving a rapidly expanding number of custom stablecoins across blockchains. Dubbed ION Protocol, it allows participating stablecoins to move between blockchains by burning tokens on one network and minting an equivalent amount
Coinbase (COIN) reports second-quarter results Thursday after the close, but analysts covering the company largely agree that the headline numbers may matter less than management’s outlook for the second half of the year and the evolving regulatory landscape. The consensus view is that Q2 was another difficult quarter for crypto trading. Spot trading volumes fell