Bitcoin miners plunge up to 13% in Wall Street’s worst selloff since July
US stocks suffered their sharpest selloff since July on Wednesday as hotter-than-expected inflation data weighed on technology and AI infrastructure...
Cryptocurrency
VanEck seeks to withdraw application for Lido staked Ether ETF
VanEck initially filed an S-1 registration statement for the exchange-traded fund in October last year. Asset manager VanEck said it...
Polygon gains US payments licenses after closing Coinme deal
Polygon Labs has completed its acquisition of Coinme, giving its stablecoin payments platform a regulated way to convert dollars into...
Godfather of AI and 400 Scientists Want AI Models Cut Off From the Internet
In brief 420 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, signed an open letter published Tuesday urging AI labs to...
Developer Who Cloned Photoshop With AI Just Did the Same to Microsoft Office
In brief Developer Brandon Thomas released WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft, free open-source clones of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint written...
Organizations join forces to fight Illinois crypto tax, after 6-month pause
The Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) and Blockchain Association (BA) said they would join the Digital Chamber and others to...
AI Agents Made 138 Million Crypto Payments in a Year. Most Were Tiny
In brief Autonomous AI agents have made over 138 million crypto payments through Coinbase’s x402 protocol on Base, per Chainalysis,...
Russia’s Biggest Bank Sberbank Wins Approval to Trade Bitcoin
In brief The Bank of Russia added Sberbank to its register of crypto exchange operators on October 12, six days...
Solana Sets a Date for Its Next Major Upgrade
In brief Alpenglow activates on Solana mainnet in epoch 1064, which starts on Wednesday, October 21, at approximately 15:00 UTC,...
EU authority classifies Circle’s USDC as ‘significant’ under MiCA
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has classified Circle’s USDC stablecoin as a significant e-money token under the region’s Markets in...