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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

Kraken’s new contracts, built on the xStocks framework, offer up to 20x leverage on tokenized benchmarks tied to US equities and gold. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/kraken-launches-regulated-tokenized-equity-perpetual-futures-for-global-traders?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

MoonPay debuts infrastructure enabling AI agents to transact with stablecoins onchain as both crypto and non-crypto companies race to build the “agent economy.” Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/moonpay-launches-agents-giving-ai-systems-wallets-and-onchain-cash-flow?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Bitcoin remains pinned below $65,000 as random bouts of intense selling pressure persist, but one onchain indicator has stabilized, providing insight into when spot market demand may return. Read More at https://cointelegraph.com/news/key-bitcoin-onchain-signal-may-mark-btc-s-next-demand-revival?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound