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Ripple Pushes XRP Into AI Payments With New Starter Kit Update
Ripple has updated its XRP Ledger AI Starter Kit to now support the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), an open payment standard built with Stripe and Tempo, plus the Open Wallet...
Argentina Joins OECD CARF: What Will Change for Crypto Users by 2029?
Argentina has committed to following the OECD’s (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) and to start automatically sharing crypto-asset information with other countries by September 2029....
Bitcoin Miners Pivot to AI Data Centers: Is AI Worth More Than BTC?
Bitcoin mining is competing more and more with AI for large amounts of reliable electricity. CoinShares’ Q2 2026 Bitcoin Mining report shows that this rivalry is now changing how public...
How US Authorities Tracked $1.5 Billion in Iranian Oil Crypto Flows
US prosecutors want to seize about $61 million in crypto they say is linked to a much bigger network that moved more than $1.5 billion from illegal Iranian oil sales. ...
Orlen’s $400M Oil Deal Collapse Highlights Stablecoin Risks in Trade
A failed Venezuelan oil deal involving Poland’s state-owned energy giant Orlen is putting a spotlight on a tricky stablecoin problem – just because blockchain allows for fast transfer of funds...
Avalanche Blockchain Enters UAE’s National Digital Identity System
Avalanche is moving beyond crypto and into government tech. The UAE’s Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA), along with Deca4, have started integrating Avalanche into the digital vault system...
Canada’s OSFI Confirms Tokenized Deposits Equal Traditional Bank Funds
Canada’s banking regulator has sent one of the strongest signals yet that blockchain-based bank money can fit into the current banking system. The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions...
Gulf–Iran Hormuz Talks Could Cool Oil and Shift Fed Outlook
On September 14, Gulf foreign ministers are set to meet Iran’s foreign minister in Oman, as part of an effort to secure support for a temporary deal that would let...
Ethereum Liquidity Sweep Sets Up Potentially Volatile Thursday-Friday
Ethereum’s price action this week has created a potentially important setup for Thursday and Friday. ETH keeps moving through short-term liquidity areas without picking a clear direction, so the two...
David Schwartz Shares XRPL Update After Recent Network Incidents
David Schwartz, former CTO of Ripple and the primary architect of the XRP Ledger, shared the latest XRPL update, showing what the blockchain’s infrastructure has been up to since the...
US Says It Destroyed 10 Iranian Tankers: What It Means for Oil Prices
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it hit two US Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz. However, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) calls that claim false, saying no American warship was...
“I Am the House Now”: Is Bessent Setting a Trap for Traders Betting Against the Yen?
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has delivered an unusually direct warning to currency traders betting against the Japanese yen, saying: “I am the house now.” At Southern Methodist University on...
Australia Revokes 45 Crypto Registrations: What Happens to Your Funds?
The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) said on September 7 that it had taken 45 remittance and crypto service providers off its registers over the past year. The...
What the Crypto CLARITY Act Means for Traders If It Passes the Senate
The U.S. Senate is set to take a key procedural step on the CLARITY Act on September 15, a vote that could shape how digital assets are regulated in the...
Galaxy Research Says Coldcard Wave 3 Attacker Moved 45% of Stolen Bitcoin
Galaxy Research says the hacker behind the third wave of the Coldcard exploit has moved 97.09 BTC, worth about $7.8 million at Monday’s prices. It represents roughly 45% of the...
Trezor Confirms 67,000 More US Users Impacted in ShipMonk Leak
On September 4, Trezor said that the ShipMonk data breach affected about 67,000 more US customers than first thought, making it bigger than originally reported. The newly identified records cover...
South Korea Plans Three-Phase Tokenized Asset Rollout Starting 2027
South Korea is getting ready to take tokenization beyond niche fractional investments and bring it into the mainstream of capital markets. The country’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) and Financial Supervisory...
Fed’s Waller Casts Doubt on September Hike: What It Means for Bitcoin
Fed Governor Christopher Waller is pushing back on the idea that a September rate hike is a done deal. Waller said he’s okay with keeping rates unchanged if August inflation...
Australia Warns Crypto Firms to Get Licensed Before the Deadline
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned crypto businesses currently relying on temporary regulatory relief that they must meet the licensing transition rules by September 30, 2026. From...
Thailand to Enforce Crypto Travel Rule in 2027 With Stricter Transfer Checks
Thailand will be tightening its rules on crypto transfers starting from February 27, 2027. After that date, crypto operators in Thailand will have to verify who’s on the receiving end...
London Stock Exchange to Tokenize 100 UK Stocks Through Payward
The London Stock Exchange is making one of its biggest steps into blockchain-based finance yet. London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has teamed up with Kraken’s parent company, Payward, to create...
Japan Plans Stablecoin Tax Exemption: What Users Should Know
Japan’s FSA (Financial Services Agency) has proposed a tax filing exemption for trust-type stablecoins as part of its 2027 tax reform plan. If it gets the green light, the change...
Goldman Sachs Becomes #1 Institutional Holder of Spot XRP ETFs
Goldman Sachs has become the largest reported institutional holder of US spot XRP ETFs, with roughly $87.4 million in exposure. The reported increase of approximately $83 million this quarter is...
Ripple’s RLUSD vs XRP: Why AI Agents Are Adopting Stablecoins
Rising XRP prices in August coincided with a shift among AI-run wallets on the XRP Ledger, which increasingly used Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin for payments. According to data from the XRPL...
Zcash Private Payments Are Getting 14x Faster: What Will Users Notice?
Zcash got a huge speed upgrade for private transactions. The Zakura Common team claims proof generation is more than 14 times faster on mobile devices and 5 times on desktop,...
