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The AI-native cohort of the expanding gig economy could increasingly use stablecoins to avoid slow and expensive traditional payment rails, Australian crypto exchange Swyftx said.
Cointelegraph
Gold, oil, stocks and bonds all moved sharply on the fourth round of U.S. strikes on Iran, but bitcoin is little-changed.
CoinDesk
Thailand has been plagued by Chinese-affiliated scam centers, with illicit gains flowing through a “gray money” economy.
Cointelegraph
Analysts are not yet ready to call it a recovery in institutional demand for Bitcoin.
Cointelegraph
Even Ethereum's critics believe Robinhood Chain is bullish for ETH. Nigel Farage and Donald Trump become embroiled in crypto related scandals, and more.
Cointelegraph
Several sources told CoinDesk that a new draft of the Clarity Act may drop this week, but challenges remain.
CoinDesk
Standard Chartered sees communication challenges facing the biggest digital asset treasury company as "muddying the waters" for Bitcoin in the near term.
Cointelegraph
The market shrank by $7.7 billion in June alone, the largest dollar amount since May 2022's Terra-Luna crash, but stablecoins will likely resume their long-term growth, one analyst said.
CoinDesk
Pakistan’s virtual-assets regulator called for continued dialogue on the treatment of digital assets after meeting an Islamic scholar who backed a ruling against purchases made with crypto.
Cointelegraph
The group's Dir. of Global Macro Jurien Timmer calls it an accumulation zone but notes the lack of a catalyst to bounce yet.
CoinDesk
Cambridge estimated that Ethereum consumes 7.87 GWh annually and has the second-lowest market-value-adjusted energy intensity among the PoS networks studied.
Cointelegraph
The U.S. hit Iran for the third time this week and Tehran has reportedly closed the Strait of Hormuz again.
CoinDesk
Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse says he and co-founder Chris Larsen considered winding the company down and handing its XRP to shareholders before deciding to fight the 2020 lawsuit.
CoinDesk
The BIP 110 proposal would cap arbitrary data on Bitcoin for a year, but Saylor, Adam Back and others say turning a spam dispute into a consensus fight could create a bigger risk than the spam itself.
CoinDesk
The ongoing debate comes despite a broad downturn in Ordinals transaction activity over the last two years.
Cointelegraph
The sales come months after a major Empery shareholder demanded the firm ditch its Bitcoin treasury strategy and force the resignation of its CEO and board.
Cointelegraph
Bonzo Lend lost approximately $9.05 million after an attacker exploited a verification flaw in a third-party Supra oracle contract on the Hedera network.
CoinDesk
Funding constraints and investor caution, not regulation, are delaying crypto IPOs, according to Cohen & Company Capital Markets' Christian Lopez.
CoinDesk