Strategic partnerships, integrations, and M&A — exchange and protocol deals, and enterprise blockchain agreements.
The 529 MW anchor, plus 1.9 GW of AMD expansion rights through 2028, repositions Core Scientific as a 2.5 GW AI colocation platform and writes down the rest of its bitcoin mining thesis.
The world's largest crypto exchange tells investigators to use slow treaty channels for most cases, while still answering direct calls on child exploitation, terrorism, and imminent threats to life.
The layer lets providers back multiple DEX positions from a single wallet balance, and 1inch frames it as a fix for the ~$1.6B in concentrated liquidity that sat idle in early 2026.
The shared-liquidity design plus a $1.37M incentive program lands at a moment when 1inch's own research says $542M sat outside active ranges on concentrated-liquidity DEXs each week.
The move targets the mature-node segment where ASML still ships freely, signaling Beijing's priority is industrial self-sufficiency at 28nm and above, not a leap to EUV parity.
The complaint frames server freezes and internal trades as deliberate user-fund grabs timed to the orderly wind-down, putting BitMEX's exit liability under judicial review.
The launch pairs CEX-like speed with non-custodial trading and onchain settlement, and now powers Ondo Perps, layering derivatives onto the firm's RWA stack.
The IP spans foundational blockchain technology, banking, and supply chain verification, and directly underpins USDC, the Circle Payments Network, and the Arc blockchain.
Grayscale's sit-down with Ripple SVP Jack McDonald frames a decade-long arc from a single-purpose payments company to a full-stack institutional finance platform.
The exchange made customers whole by October 2021, but the regulator's criminal referral over disclosure failures now lands as the precedent Thai-licensed venues will be measured against.
The patent haul gives Circle, already the second-largest stablecoin issuer, a defensive IP moat that rivals will struggle to replicate quickly.
The founding argument is a Hugging Face breach in which closed AI tools reportedly blocked the forensic response; the alliance open-sources the stack defenders say they need to actually inspect…
BitMart hasn't declared a liquidity shortfall, but Nansen-tracked ETH and stablecoin balances were drained before the closure notice and 58 wallets pulled just $805K in the first 24 hours, which is…
The undisclosed-price deal vaults Circle past Bank of America and Advanced New Technologies as the largest US blockchain patent holder, with USDC, Arc, and AI-agent tooling as named deployment…
The deal folds 60M+ created wallets and a deep embedded-wallet developer stack into Kraken, while Magic's core team spins out as Newton Labs to ship its onchain authorization layer.
The consortium signals that frontier-model providers, chip vendors, and cloud platforms now treat open-source AI security as a shared engineering problem worth coordinating on, not competing over.
Coinbase's CEO is reframing the contest: AI agents, not humans, are crypto's next billion users, and Base, USDC, and x402 are how Coinbase plans to be their default rail.
The list now sits at 309 licensed providers, signalling that Tier-1 US custodians and established crypto payment rails are treating MiCA compliance as a competitive moat rather than a checkbox.
South Korea's largest bank plugging into JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain rails is a signal that institutional-grade cross-border infrastructure is moving from pilot to live product.
The dollar figure dwarfs any single AI infrastructure commitment on record, and a Nvidia guarantee would put the chipmaker's balance sheet behind OpenAI's compute build-out.
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