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Mastercard is proposing a 50% cash settlement plus services to Brazilian merchant acquirers hit by the collapse of Will Bank, a FinTech linked to failed Banco Master.…
Trezor and SafePal users face elevated phishing threats after separate data leaks exposed 54,000 wallet holders, while U.S. crypto legislation CLARITY stalls at 10% passage odds.…
Bank Leumi partners with Galaxy Digital to offer Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana trading, becoming the first Israeli bank to plan direct digital asset services.…
With 20.07 million BTC already in circulation, Bitcoin's remaining supply of roughly 929,465 coins will take more than 100 years to fully issue.…
Publicly traded Bitcoin mining firms are cutting dedicated computational capacity faster than the broader network, redirecting power and data-center resources toward AI and high-performance computing.…
A prominent market thesis argues Bitcoin will never again fall below $60,000, pointing to a structural pattern of higher lows and four-year run-ups.…
Anthropic's Q2 2026 revenue soared more than 14 times its year-ago level, signaling a dramatic commercial acceleration as the AI startup courts new investors.…
A Goldman Sachs analysis reveals only 2% of S&P 500 companies quantified AI's earnings impact in Q2 2026, exposing a widening gap between AI investment and returns.…
Eighteen years after Bitcoin promised to abolish financial intermediaries, crypto firms in 2026 have quietly morphed into the institutions they once vowed to destroy.…
Two US senators have endorsed the Credit Card Competition Act, a legislative push to disrupt the entrenched duopoly of Visa and Mastercard and cut merchant costs.…
The OCC issued a preliminary conditional national banking charter to World Liberty Financial, a Trump-affiliated crypto firm led by the president's older sons, on August 14, 2026.…
The OCC granted World Liberty Financial a preliminary conditional national banking charter, marking a landmark moment for crypto-affiliated entities entering regulated banking.…