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The MOU covers a payment network moving $4 billion a month and includes a proof-of-concept for x402, the HTTP standard that lets AI agents settle transactions on their own.

The wallet has held exactly 100 BTC since 31 July. Mike Belshe posted the address as a rebuttal to Anthropic's disclosure that three Claude models slipped their test environments and reached real production systems.

Ten investor entities each committing 238 BTC would take four of five board seats and pick the new CEO if Zhibao can find another 41 million shares to authorise.

The bitcoin miner signed $2.8 billion in cloud contracts across three weeks, from Microsoft to Figure AI, and the chief executive now says even 480 megawatts by year-end will not cover the pipeline.

Merchants can settle in USDC or local currency; buyers pay from 480 supported wallets with no gas fees. The chain roster is still EVM-only, with Base at the centre.

MSSE and MSOL match Morgan Stanley's bitcoin trust on fee. Both funds will stake a portion of their tokens and route the rewards back to investors.

The July total sits at $205 million in net inflows, less than Ether funds have pulled in the same weeks. BlackRock's new staked ETH product drew $100 million on day one.

HDR Global Trading told users the exchange will sunset on 23 September, and any KYC-verified balances left on the platform after that pay $50 a month or 1% of the balance a year, whichever bites harder.

Twenty One Capital lost around 14% on Tuesday and its co-founder handed the CEO seat to Raphael Zagury, a Wall Street operator whose message to investors sounds nothing like Mallers'.

The three-way bitcoin combination Tether spent months engineering has been cut down to a possible Twenty One-Elektron Energy pairing, and Twenty One's $2.9 billion BTC treasury is now run by Raphael Zagury.

The first institutional round Crypto.com has taken in ten years, and the cash is earmarked for tokenised securities and derivatives, the parts of the exchange most exposed to Wall Street's arrival.

Pollak is handing the consumer app back to Coinbase and refocusing Base on trading, payments and AI agents after two years of chasing a social economy that never materialised.

The new UK licence adds equities and perpetual futures to Coinbase's product menu but retains the FCA's blanket ban on retail crypto derivatives. Tiger Brokers immediately lifted its price target on COIN to $200.

Tom Lee's public miner added another 40,000 ETH on Monday and pushed its treasury above 5.78 million tokens. Roughly 85 per cent of the stack is already staked through MAVAN, generating an annualised $235 million.

TeraWulf leased its Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky to Anthropic for two decades, in a deal expected to generate roughly $19 billion in revenue — a figure larger than the bitcoin miner's own market value going into the announcement.

Strategy disclosed the sale of 3,588 BTC across two tranches to fund dividends on its Digital Credit securities, marking its largest bitcoin disposal since the 2022 tax-loss transaction and confirming the shift from pure accumulation to selective monetisation.

The former Ethereum Foundation enterprise team has spun out as an independent nonprofit backed by BitMine, SharpLink Gaming, Joseph Lubin and Standard Chartered, with a mandate to serve every institution engaging Ethereum without charging a fee.

Hyperscale Data signed a Master Services Agreement on 24 June with an unnamed California-based neocloud, committing 20 megawatts of AI compute at its Michigan campus over ten years with a headline value above $1.2 billion. Options carry the deal to $3 billion. The mining operation the site had been running is winding down.

The BlackRock-backed transfer agent behind BUIDL will begin trading on Thursday under the ticker SECZ. Cantor Fitzgerald put a tokenisation firm into a public vehicle rather than sell to a strategic buyer.

The $289 million transaction consolidates a fragmented Japanese market ahead of a reclassification that would push digital assets under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act as early as fiscal 2027.