Riot Platforms just sold $290 million worth of bitcoin in Q1. It's not alone—miners everywhere are cashing out BTC for AI infrastructure bets.
X Money isn't launching like other payment apps. Elon Musk just used William Shatner and a $1,000 charity auction to distribute beta invites—a move that reveals something unexpected about how X plans to compete with Venmo and PayPal.
Two thousand payments leaders gathered in Vegas this week to confront an uncomfortable truth: fraud has become faster, smarter, and harder to catch. The strategies that once worked are already obsolete.
Ten years ago, the Federal Reserve made a bet that American banking could move faster. Today, that vision is reshaping how trillions move through the system—and the best part? It's just getting started.
Drift, Solana's biggest perpetual futures exchange, is frozen indefinitely after a $280 million theft—and the method matters more than the money. This wasn't a smart contract bug. It was something far more unsettling.
Cross River just banked $50 million—and it's not going toward what made them famous. The embedded finance darling is doubling down on AI and crypto, signaling a dramatic recalibration of where the real money is flowing.
A $9.7 million theft just froze one of DeFi's most liquid platforms. But the real story isn't the hack—it's the design decision that made recovery nearly impossible.
Riot Platforms just unloaded nearly 3,800 Bitcoin for $289.5 million—and they're far from alone. A seismic shift is underway in crypto mining: the industry is betting its future on artificial intelligence, not digital gold.
Someone stole $285 million from Drift Protocol on Solana. The real problem? DeFi projects have been obsessing over code security while completely botching the people part.
Riot Platforms just offloaded nearly 3,800 Bitcoin. And they're not alone. Here's why the crypto mining sector is imploding—and whether it actually matters.
Stablecoins crossed $315 billion in Q1, but don't celebrate yet. The growth masks a troubling shift: bots are taking over, retail traders are fleeing, and the entire ecosystem might be running on fumes.
A single research citation from Google sent Algorand soaring 40% in a week. But beneath the quantum-computing narrative lies a more complex story about hype cycles, legitimate risk, and whether this rally has legs.
SoFi just collapsed the wall between traditional banking and crypto—and it's not a gimmick. This is how the financial system actually changes.
Coinbase's x402 protocol just achieved something crypto rarely does: getting Google, Stripe, and Amazon to agree on a standard. This isn't hype—it's the infrastructure layer that AI agents need to actually transact in the real world.
In February 2024, stablecoins did something nobody expected: they processed more transaction volume than the entire US banking system's foundational infrastructure. This isn't hype—it's a structural realignment.
The crypto market structure bill—Congress's most serious attempt at comprehensive digital asset regulation—is stalled over arcane language about how much interest stablecoins can pay. It's a mess that reveals something deeper about why crypto regulation keeps failing.
Coinbase just cleared a regulatory hurdle that brings it closer to operating as a federally supervised crypto custodian. But don't mistake preliminary approval for the finish line—or assume custody is the golden ticket Wall Street's been waiting for.
The AI governance market is about to explode—and one startup is betting it can turn compliance from theater into engineering. CEO Peter Tsankov explains why.
Bitcoin's going nowhere fast—and that's exactly what bearish traders are betting on. While altcoins spike on low liquidity, the real story is buried in derivatives data that screams caution.