New Hampshire moved this week to foster the state’s first effort toward establishing a $100 million bitcoin BTC$88,975.17 bond, which would be directed by a state entity but backed by a private-sector firm, according to those involved with the effort. The New Hampshire Business Finance Authority authorized “$100,000,000 bonds for a project to acquire and…
These are interesting times for AI and trust. A growing number of investment firms are using AI agents to review research notes and company filings. Humans are asked to surrender increasingly invasive biometric data, like face scans, voice samples, and behavioral patterns, just to prove they’re not bots. Once in the wild, this data can…
The Senate Banking Committee voted along party lines to send FDIC Acting Chair Travis Hill’s nomination to the wider Senate for a final vote on taking the permanent job. Source link
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Crypto exchange Kraken has raised $800 million in fresh funding, including $200 from investment from Citadel Securities, to accelerate its efforts to bring traditional financial markets onto blockchain infrastructure, the company said Tuesday. The round was split across two tranches, with the main one led by institutional investors including Jane Street, DRW Venture Capital, HSG,…
Good Morning, Asia. Here’s what’s making news in the markets: Welcome to Asia Morning Briefing, a daily summary of top stories during U.S. hours and an overview of market moves and analysis. For a detailed overview of U.S. markets, see CoinDesk’s Crypto Daybook Americas. Bitcoin’s slide under $90,000 looked like the start of a broad…
Chainlink’s LINK token surged 4.17% on Tuesday, climbing to just shy of $14 and breaking through multiple resistance levels as institutional demand for oracle infrastructure assets picked up. The move marked a rare show of strength after recent headwinds, with LINK outperforming the advances of bitcoin BTC$93,021.86 and broader market benchmark CoinDesk 5 Index. Trading…
Canada’s government managed to pass its federal budget in parliament that would — among many other things — institute a stablecoin policy. Parliament narrowly passed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget on Monday evening. Deep in the lengthy document is a section that would govern the issuance of stablecoins, overseen by the Bank of Canada….
Cloudflare experienced a major outage that cascaded into widespread service disruptions across thousands of websites and applications on Tuesday. Several large centralized crypto services rely on Cloudflare to help with heavy traffic. BitMEX faced an outage while there was also significant downtime for Telegram-linked blockchain Toncoin. But the outage spread beyond crypto, with platforms like…
Bitcoin’s hashprice has fallen to its lowest level in five years, according to Luxor, now sitting at $38.2 PH/s. Hashprice, a term introduced by Luxor, measures the expected daily value of one terahash per second of computing power. The metric reflects how much revenue a miner can expect from a specific amount of hashrate. It…
