Everything else across crypto, blockchain, and digital assets. 351 stories curated by CryptoCatalyst.
Fanatics has bought a regulated exchange to build its own prediction market platform. This move comes as event-based trading grows in popularity across sports, finance, and crypto. The deal gives Fanatics control over its trading infrastructure, allowing it to offer more customized and compliant prediction markets.
The enterprise AI market is dividing into two paths: closed-source models for performance and open-weight models for control. SERV is positioning itself to serve both. This split reflects broader industry trends as companies balance convenience with customization.
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North Korea reportedly arrested former state hackers accused of stealing from two state banks and laundering the money through cryptocurrency. This marks a rare crackdown on cybercrime within the isolated nation.
South Korea’s largest lender will use JPMorgan’s blockchain platform to support US dollar cross-border payments for import and export businesses across 10 countries.
BitMart is closing its operations, giving users a month to settle trades and six months to withdraw funds. The BMX token has crashed 58% in value following the announcement.
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North Korean authorities have arrested a group of hackers accused of stealing from the country's Central Bank and laundering the stolen funds through cryptocurrency. The group allegedly breached the bank's systems, converted the crypto to cash via Chinese brokers, and used small transfers to evade detection.
Coinbase is rolling out a new system to let businesses accept payments from AI bots. The company says this is its 'most high-conviction bet' for the future of crypto payments. The feature will use Coinbase Payments and the x402 standard, which allows AI agents to make transactions on behalf of users.
Robinhood is in talks to let users trade yes-or-no contracts through Crypto.com's derivatives business, though no deal has been reached yet. The move comes as Robinhood competes with Kalshi in the prediction market space.
The Internet Freedom Foundation argues India's order to remove Jack Dorsey's BitChat repositories from GitHub oversteps legal authority and threatens free speech. The group claims the move violates constitutional rights and sets a dangerous precedent.
Robinhood Chain's real-world assets have jumped fivefold, with a dozen tokenized stocks each clearing $500,000 in daily trading volume. The chain has tripled in size since mid-July, though memecoins and stablecoins still dominate overall activity.
Crypto could help everyday businesses hedge against weather disasters by tokenizing weather derivatives, making them accessible to Main Street. This could be crypto's most important real-world use case yet, argues CoinDesk's Omkar Godbole.
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LMAX, a major institutional crypto trading platform, is considering a sale or going public. The company is working with Morgan Stanley and KBW to explore these options. This move could reshape the institutional crypto trading landscape.
For the first time, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) became the largest trading category on the Hyperliquid decentralized exchange, making up over half of its weekly trading volume. This shift highlights growing interest in crypto-backed real-world investments.
Venice's $VVV token has seen significant re-rating due to strong growth in its AI products. Analyst Austin Barack projects a fair value of $38.15, highlighting the token's compelling potential despite being misunderstood.
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Coinbase Business users can now accept payments from AI agents using the x402 protocol, which was developed and incubated by the exchange. This move aims to bridge the gap in the AI agent economy for businesses and developers.
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital is bringing a private market fund onchain, partnering with Coinbase and KAIO. The fund will be available across Base, Solana, and Sui networks, marking a significant step in tokenizing traditional assets.
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BitGo and OTC Markets are teaming up to let over 150 broker-dealers trade and settle digital asset securities using BitGo's custody services. This alliance aims to make tokenized securities more accessible to traditional financial firms.
Franklin Templeton's digital assets lead said that the autonomous AI agent economy will increase demand for blockchain protocols hosting machine-to-machine micropayments.
Multicoin Capital unstaked 1.96 million $HYPE tokens worth $120 million, just a month after publishing a report calling for a $319 price target. The tokens had only been staked for about two months before being pulled out across three wallets.