Hong Kong has issued its first stablecoin licenses, approving Anchorpoint Financial and HSBC’s Hong Kong banking arm under the HKMA’s new regime.
CZ hopes in 5 years people stop talking about crypto and just use it
Some industry insiders speculate the crypto sector may be just one market cycle away from full-scale mainstream adoption.
Japan approves bill to classify crypto as financial instruments
The Japanese Cabinet reclassified crypto as a financial instrument and will enforce insider trading bans and annual disclosure mandates for issuers.
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF inflows $269M, marking a 5-week high
Fidelity and Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETFs also saw a combined $68.2 million in inflows, while four other Bitcoin ETFs also tallied inflows on Thursday.
Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado arguing its AI rules restrict speech
The AI company argued that such rules would force it to feed its AI chatbot Grok with data aligned with Colorado’s political views rather than striving to be “maximally truth seeking.”
x402 protocol adds usage-based pricing for AI compute requests
The upgrade from flat fees to variable pricing is designed to support the use of AI agents for LLM inference, compute and data queries.
Bitcoin can be made quantum-safe without a protocol upgrade: Researcher
However, it could cost users between $75 and $150 per transaction in GPU computing power, limiting its practical use.
OKX Ventures, HashKey back VPBank-linked CAEX for Vietnam crypto pilot push
OKX Ventures and HashKey are buying into VPBank-backed CAEX as Vietnam’s strict crypto pilot pushes offshore exchanges toward a high-bar, onshore licensing regime.
Bitmine uplists to the NYSE, share buyback increased to $4B
A listing on the NYSE requires a company to meet strict requirements covering financial health, share distribution and corporate governance.
CIA to integrate AI ‘co-workers’ to process intelligence, catch spies
The CIA has already tested AI across 300 projects to process large data sets, assist with language translation and publish reports.