Saudi Arabia Halts Crude Oil Supply to Europe Next Month
European refiners now face a near-term supply gap, putting oil prices and inflation expectations in focus.
Saudi Arabia Halts Crude Oil Supply to Europe Next Month
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Partnerships
Strategic partnerships, integrations, and M&A — exchange and protocol deals, and enterprise blockchain agreements.
WatcherGuru
Trezor Breach Exposes 347K Contacts to Phishing
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Trezor Breach Exposes 347K Contacts to Phishing
The hardware remained intact, but recovery-phrase reuse and trusted email infrastructure gave attackers paths around the device.
CryptoSlate
S&P Global Agrees to Acquire OpenZeppelin
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S&P Global Agrees to Acquire OpenZeppelin
The deal would bring smart-contract security into S&P Global Ratings while preserving OpenZeppelin's leadership, public code and core client work.
Coinbase, Stablecore Bring Crypto to 3,000 US Banks
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Coinbase, Stablecore Bring Crypto to 3,000 US Banks
The tie-up targets wider distribution for custody, trading and stablecoin payments by embedding digital-asset services in existing banking and compliance systems.
WuBlockchain
NYSE Plans 24/7 Onchain Trading Through New ATS
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NYSE Plans 24/7 Onchain Trading Through New ATS
The initiative would connect a major traditional exchange operator to always-on blockchain markets, with Avalanche identified as a platform that meets many requirements.
Claude Helped Breach an OpenAI Account, WSJ Reports
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Claude Helped Breach an OpenAI Account, WSJ Reports
The episode underscores the dual-use risk of frontier AI: capabilities built for software work can also help researchers probe corporate defenses.
CoinTelegraph
Binance EU License Push Blocked by Lagarde
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Binance EU License Push Blocked by Lagarde
The intervention highlights a clash between faster crypto licensing, tighter EU oversight and Europe's push to reduce reliance on dollar stablecoins.
Binance EU License Bid Blocked by Lagarde: WSJ
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Binance EU License Bid Blocked by Lagarde: WSJ
The reported intervention raises the stakes for Binance's European expansion, where authorization would shape its ability to serve customers across the bloc.
OpenZeppelin Joins S&P Global’s 24/7 Finance Push
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OpenZeppelin Joins S&P Global’s 24/7 Finance Push
The deal brings smart-contract security into S&P’s institutional risk stack as tokenized funds, stablecoins and blockchain markets move beyond traditional trading hours.
Iran Wants a Deal, Trump Says, but Is Not Ready
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Iran Wants a Deal, Trump Says, but Is Not Ready
The comments leave diplomacy as the central variable for geopolitical risk, while offering no timeline or terms for an agreement.
US to Delay New Tariffs Until After Trump-Xi Summit
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US to Delay New Tariffs Until After Trump-Xi Summit
The timing could ease near-term trade fears and give risk assets a temporary reprieve before negotiations between Washington and Beijing take center stage.
SpaceX Targets Failed Startups’ Data for AI Training
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SpaceX Targets Failed Startups’ Data for AI Training
The plan highlights training data as a strategic AI asset, with failed companies offering datasets that may retain value after their businesses collapse.
S&P Global Agrees to Acquire OpenZeppelin
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S&P Global Agrees to Acquire OpenZeppelin
The deal would connect institutional risk assessment with smart-contract security as banks, funds, stablecoins and DeFi protocols move further onchain.
TheBlock
S&P Global Buys OpenZeppelin to Dominate Onchain Security
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S&P Global Buys OpenZeppelin to Dominate Onchain Security
SPGI is not a name TradFi allocators would expect to buy a crypto-native security firm. With 900+ audits and the dominant smart contract library under SPGI, onchain risk assessment gains a…
S&P Global acquires OpenZeppelin to rate onchain code risk
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S&P Global acquires OpenZeppelin to rate onchain code risk
Credit ratings stop at the issuer. Buying the security firm behind $37T in token transfers gives S&P a way to price the next risk layer banks will face as tokenized money hits their books.
CoinDesk
Nadex Wins SEC Nod to Trade US Security Futures
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Nadex Wins SEC Nod to Trade US Security Futures
Two US exchanges and a major retail broker are now racing to bring crypto-style perpetual futures onto fully regulated rails, a structural bridge the rest of the derivatives industry will measure…
XRP Ledger plugs into Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol
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XRP Ledger plugs into Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol
XRPL's addition to Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol puts XRP at the settlement layer of agent-to-agent commerce, where deterministic finality and native payment channels matter more than…
Crypto News
OpenZeppelin Acquired by S&P Global in Smart-Contract Deal
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OpenZeppelin Acquired by S&P Global in Smart-Contract Deal
The proposed move puts smart-contract risk management closer to the market infrastructure institutional investors already rely on.
Crypto Derivatives Report: Bybit & Glassnode Joint Release
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Crypto Derivatives Report: Bybit & Glassnode Joint Release
The value sits in the venue-resolved read: how options took share of the book, where liquidity concentrated, and what the curve is pricing now. That is the structural layer behind every tape move.
Glassnode
XRP and RLUSD Hit Stripe AI Agent Payments in Ripple Update
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XRP and RLUSD Hit Stripe AI Agent Payments in Ripple Update
Version 1.1 of the XRPL AI Starter Kit plugs into Stripe and Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol, giving AI agents a way to pay for services in XRP and opening a route into apps built on a rival…