The companies will explore using USDC for JCB’s cross-border treasury operations and merchant payments in Japan as regulated stablecoin adoption gains momentum. Japan’s largest domestic payment network, JCB, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Circle to explore using USDC for cross-border payments and merchant transactions. Under the memorandum, the companies will initially explore using...Continue Reading

The Bitcoin miner’s Georgia agreement with an undisclosed investment-grade technology company expands its footprint in AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. Shares of CleanSpark surged as much as 22% on Tuesday after the Bitcoin miner announced a 20-year data center lease in Georgia, reflecting its ongoing expansion into digital infrastructure beyond cryptocurrency mining. CleanSpark said it...Continue Reading

BTC price action returned to $64,000 on low US CPI inflation but traders stayed wary of rejection at key resistance. Bitcoin (BTC) spiked past $64,000 into Tuesday’s Wall Street open as US inflation saw a surprise sudden downturn. Key points: Read moreContinue Reading

Institutions can now stake Tron’s native token directly from Anchorage’s custody platform as the company expands support for one of the largest USDT settlement networks. Digital asset custodian Anchorage Digital has added native TRX staking for institutional clients, expanding its support for the Tron blockchain as demand for regulated access to staking services grows. The...Continue Reading

Humanity Protocol’s founder said they will refocus on operational security, as malicious actors are switching from smart contract vulnerabilities to exploiting human behavior. Humanity Protocol will refocus its cybersecurity efforts on operational security following a June $36 million exploit that was traced back to a compromised employee laptop, according to the founder of the decentralized...Continue Reading

MicroStrategy blew up during the dot-com era, before Michael Saylor transformed it into the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder. Did he learn his lesson? In March 2000, Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor watched more than $6 billion disappear from his fortune in a single day. MicroStrategy’s shares had plummeted more than 60%, thrusting the thirty-five...Continue Reading

OpenAI’s ChatGPT now displays Kalshi’s World Cup prediction market odds in search results, marking the AI firm’s first reported deal with a prediction market platform. Sam Altman’s OpenAI is bringing prediction market data to ChatGPT, giving World Cup fans a new way to track match predictions. OpenAI has started displaying Kalshi’s prediction market odds for...Continue Reading

ABA and state banking associations published a joint letter calling for more detail on the CLARITY Act’s stablecoin yield provisions, ahead of the bill’s House hearing on July 17. A wide swath of the US banking industry is urging Senate leaders to amend the stablecoin yield provisions of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY)...Continue Reading

Superteam UK lead Stephen “Cap” Newnham is taking on Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election with pledges on pension reform and onchain transparency. Stephen “Cap” Newnham, who leads the Solana community group Superteam UK, said he will run as an independent candidate in the Aug. 13 parliamentary by-election in Clacton against Reform UK leader Nigel...Continue Reading

The European Central Bank will beta test a digital euro with 36 providers, including Revolut, after the project drew more than 50 applications. The European Central Bank is moving the digital euro from planning into testing, with dozens of payment companies joining the next stage of the project. The ECB selected 36 payment service providers...Continue Reading