RUSSIA – 2025/01/29: In this photo illustration, the new Bitcoin token is photographed on US $100 bills featuring Benjamin Franklin. US President Donald Trump on Thursday, January 23, ordered the creation of a cryptocurrency task force tasked with developing proposals for new regulations for digital assets and exploring the possibility of creating a national cryptocurrency…
Bitcoin hits an All Time High (ATH) (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP) (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images I remember the first time Bitcoin crossed five digits. The moment felt like a cultural jolt, a signal that technology could redefine money. I watched the headlines roll across screens in…
Will Google’s AI Agents Soon Pay With Stablecoins and Crypto? (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Getty Images Google has unveiled its Agent Payments Protocol, bringing AI and stablecoin payments together in a move that could reshape how autonomous agents handle money. According to recent surveys from PagerDuty, 51 percent of companies have already deployed…
Redotpay offers prepaid cards for payments in cryptocurrencies. Redotpay Redotpay, a Hong Kong-based crypto payment startup, has hit unicorn status after completing a $47 million funding round from investors including Coinbase Ventures, the venture capital arm of U.S. billionaire Brian Armstrong’s crypto exchange giant Coinbase Global. Other investors who joined the round include Vertex Ventures,…
Adrian Cheng, founder and chairman of Almad Group. Almad Group Adrian Cheng, the third-generation scion of Hong Kong’s billionaire Cheng family, has launched a new firm that focuses on digital assets and “transformative industries” such as entertainment, a year after he stepped away from the clan’s property flagship. Hong Kong-based Almad Group will explore investments…
From Anchorage Digital to BitGo and Morgan Stanley, a growing cast of financial firms are reaping big fees riding the tidal wave of corporate bitcoin buying. A record number of public companies are shoveling crypto onto their balance sheets—ostensibly to diversify their holdings, hedge against inflation and attract new investors. The unstated reason, of course,…
Russell Vought, the acting head of the CFPB, has shifted course on the open banking rule. Instead of killing it, he wants to rewrite it. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images A federal judge on Tuesday granted a last minute motion by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to stay the court battle over the legality of the…