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Britain’s crypto firms have five months to apply for a licence their old registration will not cover
The FCA has opened its doors, and every firm already on its register has to start again from scratch.
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Lloyds settled $750,000 with Visa in USDC, weekends included, in under an hour
The pilot shows a stablecoin can move bank money while banks are shut, but $750,000 over a week is a rounding error for either…
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Tesla lined up $30 billion in credit for Cybercab and Optimus, and the filing mentions neither
Tesla has about $40 billion in cash and says it will not touch the new money this year, which leaves the question of what…
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OpenAI wants $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation, instead of going public this year
Its price has nearly doubled in six months, and the reason it gives for not listing is that the technology is too risky.
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Six AI companies agreed to outside safety audits at the White House, and will pick their own auditors
Trump calls the pact morally binding, and nothing in it says what happens to a company that does not keep it.
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Aztec has brought back the Ethereum privacy wallet it shut down in 2023
Aztec is betting that ordinary users want financial privacy more than regulators fear it.
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A Brazilian depository overseeing $4 trillion has started copying fund records onto the XRP Ledger
The blockchain is now keeping the books, just not the ones that count.
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Congress wants to know who on Hyperliquid, Crypto.com and PredictIt traded on news before it broke
The House Oversight chair is building a case for barring officials from prediction markets, and a decentralised exchange is his hardest witness.
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Kalshi is ending the programme that paid traders for volume, a year early and in a record month
Kalshi says there is no wash trading on its platform, and it is switching off the incentive that would reward it anyway.
