In brief Anthropic launched 10 AI agent templates for financial tasks like pitchbooks, KYC screening, and month-end close. The release adds deeper Microsoft Office integration, as well as new data connectors to financial industry software. The launch coincides with growing concerns over AI-driven cybersecurity risks and automation-fueled layoffs. Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled a suite of…
Some of the world’s largest remittance providers are accelerating their digital asset strategies as they look for faster settlement alternatives to traditional banking rails. Western Union’s new stablecoin USDPT is the latest example of the growing overlap between traditional payments firms and crypto infrastructure. The money transfer company launched its Solana-based stablecoin on Monday in…
In brief Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $9.8 billion lease for 352 MW of AI data center capacity at its Beacon Point campus in Texas. The deal is the second hyperscale AI campus lease under Hut 8’s “power-first” development model. The campus, originally planned for Bitcoin mining, is built to Nvidia’s DSX architecture. Bitcoin mining…
OpenTrade, an institutional-grade platform for onchain and real-world asset (RWA)-backed lending and stablecoin yield products, has raised fresh capital to expand its yield infrastructure. The platform secured $17 million in its latest strategic funding round led by Mercury Fund and Notion Capital, OpenTrade said in a Wednesday announcement seen by Cointelegraph. The new funding will…
In brief Apple has agreed to a $250 million settlement over allegedly misleading claims regarding AI services on iPhone devices. U.S. buyers of qualifying iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 models will be eligible for a payout ranging from $25 to $95. About 36 million phones are covered by the lawsuit, as they were sold in…
Bitcoin (BTC) is approaching its “most critical” resistance hurdle of the bear market, new BTC price analysis says. Key points: Bitcoin has arguably its most important resistance battle at $84,000. A failure to reclaim a 200-day trend line opens up the road down to $50,000 lows, warns analysis. The bull market support band needs to…
Linea Consortium has joined Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) as a premier member and contributed the open-source zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup stack powering Linea as a new code project called Lineth. The contribution places Linea’s core layer-2 technology under LFDT’s open-source governance framework, rather than the control of any single company, Linea Consortium said in a…
Blockchain analytics platform Bubblemaps said 90 newly funded wallets bought 90% of Mystery (MYSTERY) memecoin supply at launch, raising concerns about coordinated sniping. The wallets were all funded by wallet “0x544E,” which previously withdrew and distributed 20 Ether from crypto exchange Binance. After buying up 90% of the supply at launch, the wallet cluster sold…
CME Group plans to launch Bitcoin Volatility futures on June 1, pending regulatory review, giving investors a compliant way to trade expected Bitcoin volatility rather than price direction, according to a company release published Tuesday. The Chicago-based derivatives marketplace said the contracts will settle to the CME CF Bitcoin Volatility Index, a 30-day measure of…
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