Metaplanet, Asia’s largest publicly listed bitcoin holder, isn’t just buying bitcoin BTC$69,483.55 anymore but wants to build the ecosystem around it. The Tokyo-listed company, which holds 35,102 BTC, announced Thursday the creation of Metaplanet Ventures K.K., a wholly-owned subsidiary that will invest in companies building… Read More
The U.S. markets regulators are melding their operations in the places where the duties of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) overlap, and building a crypto oversight framework is listed among the core aims of a written agreement… Read More
Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone, who previously said bitcoin could drop to $10,000, is reiterating his call that bitcoin could still fall below that level, an outlook several market analysts said would require an extreme macroeconomic shock. In an interview with EllioTrades, McGlone… Read More
Since the emergence of ChatGPT and chatbots, the artificial intelligence (AI) hype has evolved into “agentic payments,” billed as the next wave of internet commerce in which humans won’t be transacting. It will be AI agents paying each other: The idea is simple: build automated… Read More
About $27 million was liquidated on the decentralized lending platform Aave over the last 24 hours, in what some market participants say may have been caused by a temporary pricing issue involving the token wstETH. Blockchain data flagged by risk-management firm Chaos Labs shows a… Read More
For much of crypto’s history, the primary use case has been simple: buying tokens and trading them. Now, some investors and builders believe the industry may be moving toward a different model altogether: earning crypto instead of buying it. One version of that idea is… Read More
