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Bitcoin rallied above $66,000 following a positive close from US stock markets, putting Monday’s AI and tech-stock driven sell-off to rest. Will $60,000 remain the BTC bottom? Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-captures-65k-after-us-stocks-rebound-from-ai-sell-off-will-it-hold?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Coinbase, World Liberty Financial and Laser Digital are also in line for a banking charter in the US, after Crypto.com received conditional approval for a charter on Monday. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/payoneer-latest-crypto-fintech-file-occ-bank-charter?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Bitcoin Depot is moving to require ID for all transactions as regulators have cracked down on crypto ATM operators over scams and money laundering concerns. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-depot-mandatory-id-verification-crypto-atms?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Bloomberg reports that Stripe is in early acquisition talks with PayPal as the payments giant has battled competition, leadership turmoil and an 85% stock drop from its peak. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/stripe-considers-acquiring-paypal-bloomberg?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The Blockchain Association released its tax policy positions, saying “low-dollar” crypto transfers should be exempted, but mining and staking should be taxed. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-association-crypto-tax-plan-congress?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Anthropic alleges Chinese AI companies DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax made 24,000 accounts and 16 million Claude exchanges to scrape its AI bot for training.  Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/anthropic-faces-industrial-scale-distillation-attacks?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Bitwise’s acquisition of Chorus One expands the company’s staking capabilities to more than 30 blockchains, including Solana, Hyperliquid, Monad, Avalanche and Sui. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitwise-acquires-crypto-staking-provider-chorus-one?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Ether faces a bearish trend as onchain fees and network deposits hit multiyear lows. Until derivatives metrics stabilize, ETH price remains at risk. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/eth-bounces-off-1-8k-as-multiple-ether-price-metrics-point-to-prolonged-weakness?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The EU authority tracking compliance under the MiCA framework issued a warning to those marketing crypto derivatives as “perpetual futures or perpetual contracts.” Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-derivatives-eu-regulations-esma?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

The exchange now allows US customers to trade thousands of stocks and ETFs commission-free alongside crypto, with 24/5 access and instant funding. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-opens-stock-and-etf-trading-to-all-us-users-in-multi-asset-push?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound