Cryptocurrency

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig says it is “no longer science fiction” to imagine one’s refrigerator autonomously purchasing groceries with money earned from staking Ether — or even launching its own memecoin, raising questions about how regulators...

Bitcoin could face further headwinds after the US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady while signaling continued concern about inflation, according to market analysts. The Fed voted 10-2 Wednesday to maintain its benchmark interest rate at 3.75% to 4%, with...

Key TakeawaysFlávio Bolsonaro left Brazil after ignoring an order to surrender his passports in a betting laundering probe.Brazil’s betting regulator says his ally Willer Tomaz deposited over $48.2 million on betting sites in 2025. The Passport Order Was...

In about three weeks, Netflix is set to release one of the first dramatizations of the saga of cryptocurrency exchange FTX since its CEO, Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, was found guilty and sentenced to prison.According to a Wednesday Vanity Fair...

The largest card networks now sit in the top governance tier of x402, the standard that AI agents use to pay for things online. Albert Castellana of GenLayer Labs explains why that standard has no way to dispute a...

The Depository Trust Company (DTC), a subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has launched tokenization services enabling eligible users to mint tokenized representations of securities held at DTC.DTCC Tokenization Service (DTS) will convert between traditional and...

Key TakeawaysA retired Woking decorator’s forgotten Pokémon collection sold for £1.56 million (about $2.1 million) at Ewbank’s on Oct. 21, far above its £250,000 to £270,000 estimate.A local newspaper story about an earlier Ewbank’s Pokémon sale prompted him to...

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says uncertainty over the longevity of US tokenization rules could prevent investors from committing substantial assets to tokenized markets, despite the securities regulator opening a temporary path for onchain stock trading this year. Speaking during Robinhood’s...