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Bitcoin Miners' Q3 Shows Hashprice Competing With AI Leases for Every Megawatt
Three of nine majors now earn most of their revenue outside mining, and the rest sold about 31,000 BTC. At current hashprice a megawatt earns roughly half as much mining as it does leased to AI, by Blockhead's estimate
Licensed to Shill: There Is No Tokenized Finance Without Tokenized Liquidity | Emma Pecenicic, Fidelity International
Tokenized dollar liquidity funds have grown roughly tenfold in two years, but Fidelity's digital assets lead says secondary markets, collateral rules and human fallbacks are now the harder problems.
Licensed to Shill: Tokenised Stocks, Stonks and the Case for Self-Custody
Both guests read the stock-paired meme craze as a sign the sector has momentum, though their more durable case rests on what holders can do with a share once it sits in a wallet.
Licensed to Shill: Taiwan's Banks & AI Hardware Makers Could Fuel Asia's Largest Stablecoin Corridor | Justin Wang, Capital Layer
Wang says manufacturers selling AI devices into Latin America are paying up to 11% in local transfer fees, the gap Capital Layer is betting stablecoins can close.
Licensed to Shill: Ethereum's Staking Yield Cut Won't Fix What's Actually Broken
The panel, featuring Blockhead's Tim Han, discusses why cutting ETH's risk-free rate from roughly 3% to 1.2% cannot fix a token that still has nowhere useful to go.
Bitcoin Miners' Q3 Shows Hashprice Competing With AI Leases for Every Megawatt
Three of nine majors now earn most of their revenue outside mining, and the rest sold about 31,000 BTC. At current hashprice a megawatt earns roughly half as much mining as it does leased to AI, by Blockhead's estimate
Strategy's Bitcoin Underwater the Day Before MSCI Names Who Is Out
It bought 1,036 BTC at $79,012 last week, spent more than twice as much buying back its STRC preferred, and now waits for Wednesday's index list
Bitcoin Enters CPI Week Bruised, With Rates, AI Stocks and Washington All Pulling the Same Way
October CPI, AI earnings and Washington's reset will test a Bitcoin market coming off five losing weeks and its worst ETF outflows since June.
Crypto’s Week Ahead: A Hacked Exchange, a Hiking Fed and a Midterm Vote
With no Fed meeting this week, jobs data, Big Tech earnings, the Binance reopening and the US midterms will decide whether fragile ETF demand holds up.
Binance Hackers Are Laundering the Loot With Techniques We Modeled Months Ago
Chainalysis calls the Binance laundering patterns new, but they match the evasion strategies in a paper we co-wrote, and they show why tracing and blacklisting keep losing the race.
The Midterms Just Ended Web3’s Easy Ride in Washington
Democrats now control both chambers of Congress, and the committee chairs and oversight hearings that follow are likely to land hard on an industry tied closely to the Trump family.
Can Prediction Markets Survive Without Retail Traders?
Professional traders now dominate Polymarket volume, and in a zero-sum market that leaves less and less on the table for the retail bettors who made prediction markets popular.
AI Agents Could Close the Wealth Gap in Emerging Markets – Or Widen It
Crypto promised to democratise finance in Southeast Asia. The results were mixed. AI agents could be a second chance, but only if the infrastructure is built for everyone, not just those who can already afford a seat at the table, argues Morph CEO Colin Goltra.
Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Among Banks Putting $270 Million Behind Project Faro
Bloomberg says the commitments cover five years of operating costs for a US-incorporated issuer aiming to launch in the first half of 2027. The 21-institution group has not disclosed a figure itself
CFTC Warns Kalshi of Imminent Charges Over How It Filed Dozens of New Contracts
Kalshi calls it a procedural error affecting a handful of contracts. The warning comes days after the agency told prediction markets to stop blocking states, and as Kalshi backs the CFTC in a separate court fight
Treasury Cuts MEXC Off From US Banks Over Alleged $16 Billion in Illicit Flows
FinCEN's order rests on a Russia-focused statute, does not freeze assets or sanction the exchange, and takes effect 30 days after Federal Register publication
Thai SEC Files Complaint Against Bitget as Its Licence Deal Hangs in the Balance
The regulator that must approve Bitget's purchase of the Z.com EX operator accuses its operating company of running an unlicensed exchange business and soliciting Thai users from 2022 to 2025. A Bitget spokesperson says it is reviewing the announcement
Bitcoin Miners' Q3 Shows Hashprice Competing With AI Leases for Every Megawatt
Three of nine majors now earn most of their revenue outside mining, and the rest sold about 31,000 BTC. At current hashprice a megawatt earns roughly half as much mining as it does leased to AI, by Blockhead's estimate
Bitcoin Enters CPI Week Bruised, With Rates, AI Stocks and Washington All Pulling the Same Way
October CPI, AI earnings and Washington's reset will test a Bitcoin market coming off five losing weeks and its worst ETF outflows since June.
OpenAI Found a Loophole – Web3 Built an Industry Around Them
OpenAI may have solved Navier-Stokes as written, but exploiting a flaw is not the same as gaining insight. Web3 makes the same mistake when it passes off regulatory workarounds as innovation.
Ripple Adds 'Always-On' Returns as Its Trust Bank Wins Final OCC Approval
Ripple Treasury adds returns on RLUSD balances and agents that can run workflows autonomously, as the OCC clears Ripple National Trust Bank.
Asian businesses are warming to stablecoins, but only 18% are using or implementing them
Regulatory compliance and local-currency conversion, not the token itself, will decide adoption, a survey of 150 firms in five markets finds.
Thailand's Tourist DigiPay Sandbox Gets a Live Stablecoin App
WORPT converts visitors' USDT and USDC into baht at the point of payment, so merchants never receive crypto, a design that works around Thailand's payment ban rather than lifting it
Malaysia, Thailand Central Banks Join MAS-Led Initiative on Cross-Border Digital Money Settlement
Ripple, Visa, Mastercard and the World Bank Group have also signed on as Singapore's tokenised deposit and stablecoin settlement programme takes on a regional, cross-border remit.
Visa Moves Stablecoin Prefunding for Visa Direct Into Production, With Inyo Global as First Partner
The launch lets businesses top up cross-border payout accounts in USDC around the clock, though Visa has disclosed no volumes, chains or corridors for the service.
AI Agents Have Made 138 Million Payments Over x402, Most of Them Under 10 Cents
Chainalysis data shows U.S. wallets account for almost all agent spending on AI model inference, while Chinese-linked wallets dominate payments for security and code analysis services.
DAS2026 Speakers Trade Tokenisation's Promise for Its Plumbing
Speakers at the Digital Assets Association's Singapore summit spent less time on tokenisation's promise and more on capital treatment, interoperability and the human errors behind most exploits.
MAS Finalises AI Risk Rules for Financial Institutions, With Agentic AI Guidance to Follow in 2027
The guidelines hold firms accountable for third-party AI models they use and take effect in October 2027, and MAS says autonomous agents will need further guidance of their own.
0G Commits S$20 Million to Singapore, Makes City-State Its Global Headquarters
The decentralised AI infrastructure company is spreading the five-year pledge across operations, university research and a badminton AI project, while its token trades more than 95% below its all-time high.
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OpenAI Found a Loophole – Web3 Built an Industry Around Them
OpenAI may have solved Navier-Stokes as written, but exploiting a flaw is not the same as gaining insight. Web3 makes the same mistake when it passes off regulatory workarounds as innovation.
Crypto's Congress Problem is a Wiring Problem: Regulators Are Rewiring Anyway
The CLARITY Act’s collapse leaves US crypto regulation dependent on agency discretion, weakening long-term certainty for investors. Meanwhile, tokenized securities and collateral may offer a stronger case for institutional adoption than volatile ETF flows.
US Exchanges Are Still Sending Funds to Sanctioned Iranian Exchanges
Public blockchain data suggests Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood and Binance.US have been sending funds directly to Iranian exchanges months after OFAC sanctions took effect. If crypto’s transparency was supposed to make compliance cheaper and easier, why are these firms doing a worse job than banks?
Thoughts on the Ledger Supply-Chain Attack
Ledger’s supply-chain attack exposes the uncomfortable trade-offs behind hardware wallets: the devices promising security can create new vulnerabilities through complexity, opaque manufacturing and misplaced trust.
Reap's Daren Guo Says Payward Deal Sped Up an Existing Roadmap, With Agentic Payments Next
Three months after Kraken's parent closed its acquisition of the Hong Kong stablecoin card issuer, Reap is building out Mexico as a second hub and pitching AI agents as its next growth channel.
Binance Will Judge Its Marketing on User Retention, Interim CMO Eowyn Chen Says
Chen outlines how Binance will explain tokenized stocks, crypto-backed loans and AI agents to users, and why she treats trust as the objective.