Autonomous AI agents can behave in highly unpredictable ways. Give an AI Agent a goal such as passing a test of its capabilities, and it might just decide the best way to score highly is to break containment and hack into a competing company in search of the answer sheet. That’s what happened when Open … Read more
Pakistan has launched its virtual asset regulatory regime in less than six months while using just 8% of the budget allocated to build it, according to Bilal Bin Saqib, the country’s Minister of State and Chairman of the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA). Speaking at Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong on August 28, Saqib … Read more
Visa and Dunamu, the parent company of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, have formed a strategic partnership to explore stablecoin payments, cross-border remittances and artificial intelligence-powered commerce. The companies will combine Dunamu’s digital asset technology with Visa’s global payments network to explore payment, remittance and settlement services in major markets, according to a Friday announcement … Read more
The cryptocurrency market is buzzing today, August 28, 2026, with a critical development emerging from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC has opened a significant proceeding that will shape the future of crypto funds, asking 27 probing questions about how exchange-traded funds (ETFs) holding unusual assets should be brought to market. This … Read more
Bitcoin again closed in on the $81,000 mark on Thursday before dropping again as its stellar week continued. The leading cryptocurrency was recently trading for $80,236 after notching as high as $80,793 earlier in the day in New York. Bitcoin is now up more than 2% over the past day after gaining 10% in a … Read more
Virtu Financial, M1X Global and Tradeweb completed an onchain repo transaction using a sovereign digital bond as collateral, with the full transaction settling on the Canton Network. The transaction used USDM1, a US dollar-denominated sovereign bond issued onchain by the Republic of the Marshall Islands and backed 1:1 by short-term US Treasurys. The bond pays … Read more
Japan Bitcoin Industry Co., Ltd. has debuted a self-custodial Bitcoin payments platform designed to help Japanese companies sell to international fans who are often shut out by traditional payment systems. Using this week’s Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong to introduce the product, JPI dropped Aurora — aiming to reach an audience that could not … Read more
Genius Group has announced a new plan to buy bitcoin — just months after selling its entire stash. The NYSE-listed AI-powered education company said in a Thursday statement that it was aiming to build parallel AI and bitcoin treasuries worth a combined $1.6 billion, with total company assets targeted at $2 billion by fiscal year … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded toward $81,000 around Thursday’s Wall Street open as Nvidia earnings boosted US stocks. Key points: Bitcoin reclaims $80,000 as $96.2 billion Nvidia earnings provide a boost to crypto and US equities. Expectations are running high ahead of Fed chair Kevin Warsh’s keynote speech at the Jackson Hole economic symposium on Friday. Bitcoin … Read more
Ripple Prime, Ripple’s multi-asset prime brokerage business, launched a Delta One service for institutional investors, expanding into US equity derivatives. The offering allows clients to execute total return swaps linked to US-listed equities, indexes and digital assets, Ripple said in a Thursday announcement. Total return swaps provide exposure to an asset’s returns without requiring ownership … Read more