Armstrong: AI Makes Crypto More Important, Not Less
The Coinbase CEO's framing positions crypto as a payments and identity rail for autonomous agents, not a competitor to the AI buildout.
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The Coinbase CEO's framing positions crypto as a payments and identity rail for autonomous agents, not a competitor to the AI buildout.
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.
South Korea's largest trading company is putting real, production-grade invoices onchain, a step beyond pilots into the working-capital plumbing that moves trillions a year in global trade.
The Singapore payments firm says customer funds are safe even as the onchain investigator tracking the bleed reports the figure has climbed $2.5M in days, with incoming deposits still being drained…
The product lands at a moment retail single-name leverage is migrating off broker margin and onto centrally cleared venues, with implications for both equity vol and crypto perp-style flows.
Four straight Monday filings with no new bitcoin on the balance sheet, and the largest BTC sale in company history, frame Saylor's hint that the chart's color palette is about to expand.
A 74% drawdown in centralized-exchange spot turnover since the August peak is not a typical mid-cycle cooldown; it points to structural thinned liquidity that magnifies every directional move.
Hong Kong's 1.99% product exposes the real structural split in staked crypto ETFs: who captures native rewards, and whether the wrapper risks pushing Solana toward validator concentration.
This is the first major Asian bank to onboard Kinexys for production cross-border USD settlement, and it quietly extends JPMorgan's institutional rail deep into Korea's $700B-a-year trade corridor.
Galaxy is putting $346M into a Texas site that will host CoreWeave compute, while peer miner CleanSpark locked in a 175 MW lease worth $6.6B without yet securing the $2.1B needed to build it.
Section 20216 of the latest Senate draft would shield any self-custodied asset from being declared abandoned solely for inactivity, directly blunting a New York lawsuit targeting 39,069 addresses…
OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing back hardest, while Meta and others keep shipping and integrating, exposing a fault line over how openly Western labs should compete with Qwen and DeepSeek.
The sales landed after two collateral calls in 2026 and with some loans able to liquidate inside 12 hours, a reminder that treasury-BTC balance sheets carry leverage few investors price in.
The shutdown clock is real, not speculative: users have hours, not weeks, to migrate balances, open orders, and positions before the venue's order books go dark.
The exchange is suspending deposits and new orders immediately, ending trading Aug. 26, and ceasing full operations Jan. 31, 2027, while BMX collapsed nearly 60% on the news.
The holdings span at least 30 companies but no single public ledger exists to track them, raising fresh questions about how Washington manages its growing equity book.
A Paraná pilot turned encrypted cow collars into $20K of working collateral on B3, but the live test runs in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya and Pakistan where farmers already own the wealth banks refuse to…
Fidelity, BlackRock, Schwab and Goldman now back a bill they once avoided, but the obstacle isn't crypto skeptics, it's Trump's own grifts, and failure pushes US market-structure rules into the 2030s.
The broker that cleared the crypto industry's tokenized-equity layer now faces a direct competitor from the depository itself, one that issues tokens with full shareholder rights from inside the…
Zach Pandl pushes back on the four-year cycle thesis, arguing the floor is in if the Fed holds steady on rates, with the next real test arriving in late summer.