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AI agentic payments enter mainstream as Visa, Mastercard, Ripple back x402 standard
Forty companies now govern x402, the protocol Coinbase built and handed away. It settled about $24 million across 75 million payments last month.
Bitcoin nears $65,000 as cooling U.S. inflation guts the Fed rate-hike trade
The June CPI print pulled hike odds from 43% to 13%, with analysts now watching the September FOMC meeting for further cues on positioning.
Bitcoin's BIP-110 sparked a fight over who gets to decide the future of Bitcoin
BIP-110 sought to limit non-financial data on Bitcoin's blockchain but instead reignited debates over censorship and decentralization.
XRP and ether bulls are getting louder as prices fall, signaling more trouble ahead
Social media chatter turned most bullish on XRP in five weeks even as the token fell, a setup that has historically favored sellers.
Live updates: Bitcoin rises past $64,000 after soft inflation data, Warsh testimony
Trump reinstated the Hormuz blockade, sending oil higher, reversing the peace trade that helped bitcoin recover in early July.
U.S. government moves $288 million in seized bitcoin, ether to Coinbase Prime
Coins from the Farace and BTC-e seizures moved through fresh wallets before landing on the exchange, despite president Donald Trump's previous no-sell reserve order.
Solo bitcoin miner makes $200,000 using $150 equipment
Solo Bitcoin mining has surged, with 24 blocks found in the past 12 months, a 41% increase year over year.
Robinhood built a blockchain for tokenized stocks. Memecoins took over
Robinhood Chain has pulled in $135 million of value and 800,000 addresses since July 1. Almost none of it is doing what the chain was built for.
UK Treasury report on tokenization cites Ripple as convergence model
A Treasury-backed report targets putting repo, gilts and funds onchain within two years, and warms to permissionless networks that firms like Ripple have been building on.
Live markets: Bitcoin, stocks, bonds sharply lower as Fed's Waller signals near-term rate hike
The liquidations were minor, running at about a sixth of what the market saw at its worst over the past 30 days, per CoinGlass.
