Bitcoin (BTC) is trading around $77,000, and the question hanging over it has shifted in the space of two weeks. The market has moved a September Federal Reserve rate hike from a tail risk to the base case, and two research desks have publicly placed this cycle’s low in the months just ahead. For anyone
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has committed S$220 million to FSTI 4.0, the next three-year version of its Financial Sector Technology and Innovation scheme. The money will support six tracks spanning technology projects, AI adoption, infrastructure, international centres, industry awards and internships. The headline is a programme envelope, not a direct payment to Singapore’s more
Polymarket has already built the surveillance machinery it needs to police dirty trading before Americans vote in the midterms, the prediction market operator’s newly hired intelligence chief told Reuters, casting the election season as the sternest test yet of the industry’s guardrails. Shana Bautista, a former Coinbase analyst and FBI investigator who joined the company
Claudeforce is not an AI feature bolted onto a CRM. That framing, which most of the coverage reached for in the first 24 hours, gets the direction of travel exactly backwards. The larger half of what Salesforce and Anthropic announced on 26 August 2026 moves Salesforce into Claude as a plugin, not Claude into Salesforce,
Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) fell for seven straight trading days into August 27, a 19.4% slide that erased roughly $10 billion of market value and cut its valuation to about $40 billion. What makes the move stand out is what the rest of the market did over the same stretch: almost nothing. The S&P 500
The UK government plans to give the Bank of England (BoE) a new secondary objective to support innovation in payment systems and emerging forms of digital money, including stablecoins. The proposed change would expand the central bank’s existing innovation responsibility for central counterparties and central securities depositories to systemic payment systems. Financial stability would remain
Thirty-nine state bankers associations announced on August 25 the formation of BankChain Alliance, an industry-owned blockchain network built to let banks of every size offer modern payment services while keeping local lending inside the communities they serve. The Alliance plans to build a common blockchain platform that participating institutions will own, design and govern together,
A federal jury convicted Las Vegas business owner Brent C. Kovar on Monday for defrauding at least 400 investors of $24 million through a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, exposing him to a statutory maximum of 280 years in prison. Kovar owned Profit Connect, a Las Vegas company that told investors it ran artificial intelligence software on
Gemini Space Station, Inc. and Apex Fintech Solutions Inc. have signed a letter of intent that would make Gemini’s subsidiary, Gemini Titan, the exclusive regulated venue for crypto prediction market contracts distributed through Apex’s Futures Commission Merchant to Apex’s brokerage customers, the companies announced on Monday. The arrangement would give Apex‘s brokerage clients regulated access
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published the crypto offering framework the industry has wanted for the better part of a decade, and the clock on it is now running. On August 18, the SEC proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, a bespoke regime that would let token issuers raise up to $75 million without