How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert local currencies to stablecoins and then to debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t... Ken Caldeira / @kencaldeira.com : Is there any purpose to cryptocurrency other than to facilitate criminal activity? — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t... Waldo Jaquith /...
A look at Manus, which its Chinese creators claim is the world's first fully autonomous AI agent, as some say it might be China's second DeepSeek moment
Manus is a general AI agent that bridges minds and actions: it doesn't just think, it delivers results. Luiza Jarovsky / Luiza's Newsletter : ✋ Manus AI: Why Everyone Should Worry ecns : ECNS Wire — ...
Israel-based payments startup ThetaRay, which uses AI to monitor financial transactions, raised $57M led by Portage Ventures, taking its total funding to $148M
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Brian Armstrong says Coinbase has heard “rumors” the SEC wants to “get rid of” crypto staking for retail investors, which “would be a terrible path for the US”
Now Comes The SEC Helen Partz / Cointelegraph : Community urges Coinbase to relist XRP as CEO fights for staking YouTube : Staking-as-a-Service | Office Hours with Gary Gensler Trustnodes : Coinbase t...
In an open letter, Cameron Winklevoss accuses Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert of engaging in “bad faith stall tactics” after Genesis halted withdrawals
Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group Vignesh Karunanidhi / Watcher Guru : Cameron Winklevoss Accuses Barry Silbert of “Bad Faith Stall Tactics” Walter O'Leary / LinkedIn : Walter O'Leary on Linke...
Yuga Labs raises ~$320M by selling 55K virtual land plots in its Otherside metaverse, causing Ethereum blockchain ripple effects and skyrocketing gas fees
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business … Ivan Mehta / TNW : How the BAYC metaverse mint raised Ethereum gas fees to thousands of dollars Emma Roth / The Verge : Bored Ape Yacht...
Research: an OpenSea bug is being exploited to purchase NFTs at below-market rates before flipping them, netting $1M+ across at least eight NFTs in 12 hours
a contract you agreed to without having a lawyer look it over first. Very smart https://twitter.com/... Tom Robinson / @tomrobin : A bug on NFT marketplace OpenSea is currently being exploited to purc...
Pagaya, whose AI-powered service makes financial transactions like lending more efficient for banks, is going public in a SPAC merger at a valuation of ~$9B
Pagaya would combine with the SPAC EJF Acquisition and uses artificial intelligence to improve lending and other financial processes Source: Business Wire .
A look at DC/EP, China's new sovereign digital currency, and the policy drivers behind it, its architecture, and its expected impact on global finance
ASPI : Tweets: @he_shumei , @gerryshih , @aitkenadvisors , @aspi_org , @marcruby , and @aspi_org Tweets: Samantha Hoffman / @he_shumei : Just released: A new @ASPI_ICPC report 'The flipside of China'...
President Trump told reporters on Friday that he will act soon to ban TikTok in the United States
and people are blaming Sarah Cooper, who may have hurt his feelings Joshua Keating / Slate : TikTok Could Have Been China's Nintendo Kaya Yurieff / CNN : ‘Everyone is going cray cray’: TikTok users fr...