White House accuses Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic tech for K3
A White House official accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic’s Fable AI model to develop Kimi K3, which launched last week.
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Kakao taps Circle to explore won stablecoin payment infrastructure
Kakao Group and Circle signed an MOU to explore won stablecoin payments, remittances, merchant settlement and tokenized financial services.
XRP Price : Analyst Says XRP’s Chart Is Sending Two Conflicting Signals
Something important may have changed for XRP, but the chart is sending two conflicting signals. According to one crypto analyst, XRP has fallen below its 20-day, 50-day, 100-day and 200-day exponential moving averages, …
XRP whales accumulate as small holders capitulate
Payments-focused cryptocurrency XRP’s price has risen over 8% in five weeks and during this time, there has been a notable divergence in accumulation trends of large holders or whales and small holders.
Swiss bank BancaStato launches regulated crypto trading with Sygnum
Swiss cantonal bank BancaStato integrated Sygnum’s crypto trading and custody services into its Avaloq-powered digital banking apps for Bitcoin and other assets.
AFX protocol reportedly loses $24M in bridge exploit
Offchain Labs said the incident involved a third-party protocol and did not affect Arbitrum’s native bridge infrastructure.
Ripple Backs Clarity Act as Bill Heads to Senate Vote
A big crypto bill just cleared another step. It’s called the Clarity Act, and it’s now ready for a vote in front of the whole Senate. The Clarity Act is 616 pages long. It sets rules for digital assets like Bitcoin and …
Senator Lummis: Ethics, other provisions in crypto Clarity Act to be further discussed
The U.S. Senate's Digital Asset Market Clarity Act draft is still open to changes on a number of big-ticket items that include its government-ethics section, Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of the lead negotiators on the bi…
Crypto Hacks Surged to $763M in Q2 2026 as Operational Failures Spike
Crypto attacks in Q2 accounted for over $763M in losses, with operational vulnerabilities being the single most common attack vector.
Kraken Parent Company Makes Moves to Offer xStocks From Global Markets
Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, teamed up with global fintech GTN on Wednesday to push xStocks outside the U.S. market for the first time.
Tesla holds bitcoin treasury steady, reports $112M impairment loss
The electric vehicle maker reported an after-tax impairment loss of $112 million on its digital asset holdings, according to its latest earnings release. Tesla has neither bought nor sold any bitcoin since 2022.
Crypto PAC pours $1M into Michigan Democratic primary race
Donavan McKinney, running against Michigan incumbent Shri Thanedar, said that “the crypto lobby is paying my opponent back for helping Trump“ with the PAC-funded ads.
Coinbase Wants to Be Canada's One-Stop Shop for Stocks, Crypto and Prediction Markets
Coinbase has a new pitch for Canada: stop thinking of the company as just a crypto exchange, and start seeing it as the only financial app the country needs.
S&P launches blockchain fundamentals index for digital assets
The benchmark tracks blockchain networks using protocol revenue, offering an alternative to traditional market capitalization-weighted crypto indexes.
US officials barred until 2029 from issuing or sponsoring tokens under CLARITY’s proposed ethics rules
Senate Republicans have released the proposed text for the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act, including language on ethics that would bar all US federal officials — including President Donald Trump — from issui…
XRP Price Prediction For July 23
XRP is holding near the $1.13 on Friday, a level that has served as critical support for several weeks and remains the most important price point on the chart heading into the weekend.
Anthropic joins UK FCA’s AI regulatory sandbox as second cohort launches
Anthropic will provide Claude AI models to companies participating in the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s next Supercharged Sandbox cohort, as the regulator pushes to test AI applications in financial services.
ARB Price Eyes Recovery as Robinhood Chain Revenue and RWA Push Boost Arbitrum Ecosystem
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Key Democratic lawmakers say crypto Clarity Act 'falls short' on ethics, other issues
The newest draft of the crypto market structure bill "falls short" of where it needs to be on ethics and other provisions, a group of U.S. Senate Democrats said Wednesday.
Franklin Templeton Says Agentic AI Is Crypto's 'Killer Use Case'
Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at Franklin Templeton, has a message for anyone who thinks buying Nvidia stock covers their AI exposure: It doesn't.
Alibaba's New Qwen Image 3 AI Wants to Be Useful, Not Just Pretty
Alibaba's Qwen team launched Qwen Image 3.0 on Tuesday, and the pitch has nothing to do with how beautiful the output looks. It's about whether the output can actually be used at work.
Politicians And Crypto Leaders Clash Over Newly Released CLARITY Act Text
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XRP Ledger’s Largest Asset Sits Frozen by Design, Analyst Finds
A new analysis is challenging the widely repeated claim that half of the tokenized asset market has stalled. The argument centers on a single token most XRP watchers have never mentioned.
Bitcoin price avoids major Iran jitters as S&P 500 ‘short squeeze’ on horizon
Bitcoin and US stocks stayed strong in the face of US-Iran escalation as analysis predicted BTC price action outperforming equities later.