TL;DR The vehicle-export payment partnership was announced October 29. Eligible buyers can use USDT or USDC among supported methods. Triple-A handles conversion and settlement into US dollars. Japanese vehicle exporter SAT Japan has added a stablecoin payment route through Triple-A, targeting the cross-border transfers involved in buying a car from overseas. The October 29 announcement …
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TL;DR The partnership was announced on October 29. Airtm Connect links wallets with participating BVNK retailers. The consumer test is a dependable end-to-end payment experience. Airtm and BVNK have announced an integration intended to let users spend wallet funds with participating retailers, extending digital-dollar services beyond receiving and holding money. The October 29 joint announcement …
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TL;DR Taurus announced live smart-contract asset support on October 29. The extension covers its custody and tokenization platforms. Institutional adoption depends on controls around the full asset lifecycle. Taurus has expanded its Stellar integration to support smart-contract-based assets, giving institutional clients a broader set of custody and issuance functions. The company said on October 29 …
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TL;DR WalletConnect announced expanded Stellar support on October 29. LOBSTR is described as the first live wallet for Stellar payments. The PTIX merchant rollout is expected in Q2 2027. WalletConnect is expanding payment access on Stellar while preparing a separate merchant rollout in Bermuda. Its October 29 announcement says WalletConnect Pay supports the network, with …
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South Korean crypto exchanges are already required to hold at least 80% of customer crypto in cold wallets, but the regulator is urging more.
Pyongyang has pushed back against the FBI’s attribution of the Binance attack, with Kim Yo Jong calling the US allegations politically motivated. Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, denied North Korea’s involvement in the $6.3 billion Binance hack and appeared to suggest, without evidence, that the US could have …
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Bitcoin’s price dipped over the past week, but the BTC treasury firm Strategy (MSTR) still opted to buy $66 million worth of the top crypto asset. Strategy says it accumulated 811 Bitcoin at an average purchase price of $80,846 per BTC, stretching its total holdings to 849,327 BTC. The firm didn’t add or sell any …
A European entity may have lost $106 million from exchange accounts, while a wallet associated with a Solana arbitrage bot may have lost another $786,000. An unidentified entity in the European Union may have lost more than $106 million from accounts at multiple cryptocurrency exchanges on Sunday, according to blockchain investigator ZachXBT. In a Monday …
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Bitcoin fell around 1.7% on Monday as stocks pared early gains fueled by hopes of a diplomatic resolution to the US-Iran war. Bitcoin (BTC) returned below $77,000 after Monday’s Wall Street open as crypto shrugged off hopes of a US-Iran peace deal. Key points: Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD extending daily losses to 1.7% after …
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Slowing trading activity and fallout from the Binance hack are clouding Coinbase’s revenue prospects, prompting Morgan Stanley to lower its rating on the stock. Investment bank Morgan Stanley turned bearish on Coinbase (COIN) on Monday, cutting its price target by more than half as it warned that the cryptocurrency exchange’s profits could recover more slowly …
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The former mobile games company is building out its fund management business in Abu Dhabi as it targets institutional demand for stablecoins and tokenized assets. Animoca Brands said Monday it had secured approval to manage investment funds for non-retail clients in Abu Dhabi, expanding the asset management business of a company that began in mobile …
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Brazil’s exchange Mercado Bitcoin paused deposits and withdrawals after a security breach, saying customer funds and data were safe. Mercado Bitcoin, one of Brazil’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, confirmed a security incident on Monday that blockchain analysts estimated drained more than $49 million from its wallets. Despite the company’s announcement that it had suspended deposits and …
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Strategy spent $208.2 million buying back STRC preferred shares and $65.5 million on Bitcoin, while allocating $98.5 million to its USD Cash balance. Michael Saylor’s Strategy spent more than three times as much buying back its STRC preferred shares as it did acquiring Bitcoin last week. Strategy repurchased $208.2 million in STRC and spent about …
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Who better to judge a dispute between AI agents than a jury of different AI models? That’s the idea behind GenLayer, which is already issuing thousands of judgements each day. The world is headed towards a future in which AI agents will trade stocks and crypto, shop for your family, and much more. But what happens …
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