The crypto market outlook remains gloomy as spot Bitcoin ETFs continue to bleed against a challenging macroeconomic and geopolitical backdrop. Bitcoin ETFs have shed $2.1 billion in June so far, paci

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Nepal banned crypto, but crypto did not leave Nepal. In a report released Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) flagged growing crypto adoption in Nepal despite a legal ban and urged authori

South Korean police have booked Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won on suspicion of bribery for allegedly hiring the relative of a local lawmaker. According to reports in local media, the alleged scheme centers

Google dropped DiffusionGemma today, an open model AI that generates text the way image generators create pictures: start with noise, refine until it makes sense. It hits 1,000 tokens per second on an

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Wednesday that governments can no longer treat AI regulation as a problem to study and that the United States needs binding safety requirements for the most powerful AI

Five deprecated liquidity pools from Solana-based decentralized exchange Raydium were exploited on Wednesday, leading to more than $1.34 million in stolen funds.  The exploit impacted the firm’s lega

Tether, the company behind the world\\\'s largest stablecoin, USDT, announced Wednesday it had led a financing round of up to $1.4 billion into NEURA Robotics, a German humanoid robotics firm. It’s bille

Anthropic dropped its most powerful public model on Tuesday, and by Wednesday, a significant chunk of the AI community wished it hadn’t. The consensus around Claude Fable 5—the first publicly accessi

People using AI to evaluate the accuracy of news stories may become less effective at spotting misinformation on their own, according to new research from MIT\\\'s Media Lab. According to MIT researcher

Botanix asked users to withdraw funds on Wednesday, disclosing plans to wind down its Bitcoin-based layer-2 network less than a year after it debuted. The project, which combined elements of Ethereum

As Bitcoin fell below $60,000 last week for the first time since 2024, it may have moved closer to finding a bear market bottom—but there is not enough demand to sustain price growth, according to a n

Instant crypto swaps have become one of the most popular ways to exchange digital assets, allowing users to convert one crypto into another in minutes, often directly from a self-custody wallet withou

Mastercard on Wednesday announced the launch of Agent Pay for Machines, a payments platform designed to let AI agents transact autonomously using cards, bank accounts, and stablecoins. According to M

The CFTC unveiled a new set of proposed rules Wednesday that would govern the emerging prediction market sector—including provisions that would outlaw numerous types of controversial markets that have