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Ledger wants AI agents to manage crypto without holding your keys

AI agents can read wallet balances and analyze portfolios but requires every sensitive action to be approved on a Ledger hardware device before it can be executed.

Charles Guillemet. Ledger CTO. (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

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Inside the high-stakes race to build an open financial system specifically for AI bots

The newly-convened x402 Foundation is a neutral space where competitors and payment methods can work together to create an open standard for AI agentic commerce.

CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation Denelle Dixon. (Getty Images)

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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.

Agentic commerce (Xavi Torrent/Getty Images)

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Wikipedia blackout could hurt how AI engines like ChatGPT understand crypto

Wikipedia observes guidelines on crypto coverage that date back many years and may now be outdated, according to the report.

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Hut 8 price target hiked to $165 at Benchmark as AI pivot reshapes valuation

Mark Palmer said Hut 8's Beacon Point project transforms the company into an AI infrastructure platform with a long growth runway.

Data center (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)

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Paradigm shifts vs bubbles: AI chips and bitcoin show powerful trends can still produce severe corrections

Structural change can create lasting opportunities, but explosive rallies in semiconductors, metals and bitcoin show how quickly strong narratives can become speculative excess.

Bubbles in Laundromat

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Crypto IPO market stalls as capital rotates to AI and macro uncertainty weighs

Funding constraints and investor caution, not regulation, are delaying crypto IPOs, according to Cohen & Company Capital Markets' Christian Lopez.

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Singapore's Temasek investment fund says crypto is off the table, will focus on AI

The $400 billion wealth fund plans to expand AI holdings to 15% of its portfolio by 2031 from the current 6%.

Temasake Holdings at Atrium Orchard Headquarters in Singapore (Terence Ong/Wikimedia Commons)

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Two blockbuster public debut of AI stocks could pull away more capital from crypto

A wave of blockbuster AI listings is drawing billions of dollars from global investors, reinforcing a rotation away from crypto.

CoinDesk

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Coinbase AI draws backlash after erroneously publishing World Cup result before kickoff

CEO Brian Armstrong investigated, and the firm said it made updates to prevent future AI-generated inaccuracies.

Erling Haaland celebrates after scoring Norway's first goal against Brazil.