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Robinhood slides 4% despite earnings beat as crypto revenue cools
Robinhood (HOOD) topped Wall Street's second-quarter expectations, but shares fell about 4% in after-hours trading, adding to their 3.1% decline during Wednesday's session.
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MoonPay's PayBox Puts a Crypto Wallet Inside Claude and ChatGPT—And Lets It Pay for Things
MoonPay launched PayBox today—a payment vault that plugs into Claude and ChatGPT and lets AI agents, software programs that complete tasks autonomously on your behalf, to actually spend money for you.
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Tether USAT Launches on Celo Going Beyond Ethereum for First Time
Tether launches GENIUS Act-compliant USAT on Celo, marking its first expansion beyond Ethereum.
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Ethereum Price Stalls as Fed Rate Decision Looms
The whole crypto market is in a holding pattern, eagerly awaiting the Federal Reserve’s next move.
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Binance.US to attempt prediction markets entry as CFTC-licensed entity, says CEO
The CEO of the US crypto exchange said that the company would apply for a license with the CFTC in August allowing it to offer prediction markets.
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Robinhood Posts Best Quarter Ever as Prediction Market and Robinhood Chain Take Off
Robinhood reported second-quarter earnings Wednesday and posted record quarterly revenue of $1.31 billion in Q2, up 32% year-over-year, beating Wall Street's estimate of $1.26 billion. The company is expanding into pred…
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Tennessee county passes another ban on crypto operations
A group of 12 county commissioners voted unanimously to ban mining facilities and data centers in unincorporated areas as it deals with a lawsuit by a digital asset company.
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FOMC News: Fed Holds Rates at 3.50%-3.75% as Three Officials Back Hike
Fed holds rates at 3.50%-3.75% as three officials push for a 25-basis-point hike.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum Wobble as Fed Holds Rates Steady
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at 3.5%–3.75% on Wednesday, meeting near-universal market expectations and leaving crypto markets to digest a muted response—even as equities sold off on a combination of h…
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SEC Ready to Provide Crypto Rules if Clarity Act Flounders: Chair Atkins
The SEC will write crypto market rules itself if Congress fails to pass the Clarity Act, chairman Paul Atkins said. The agency is "ready, willing, and able to come out with rules" covering the same ground, he told CNBC …
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Bitcoin price wedged into ‘most divided’ FOMC as Iran war spikes oil prices 8%
Bitcoin traders weathered an oil-price surge and ongoing Asia chip-stock sell-off into the Federal Reserve interest-rate decision.
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As crypto perpetual futures boom, Ethereum’s role is shifting
For years, Ethereum has been synonymous with decentralized finance. It pioneered onchain financial tools like lending protocols and tokenized assets, which today underpin much of the crypto economy. But one of crypto's …
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Binance launches regulated gold, silver options through ADGM exchange
New commodity options let traders gain exposure to gold and silver prices through Binance’s Abu Dhabi-regulated exchange.
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Will Q3 Finally Change NEAR Price Trend?
NEAR price still remains below $2 despite major protocol developments during Q2.
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The inside story of how a hike in Hong Kong changed crypto trading forever
It was sometime in 2015, on a hiking trail in Hong Kong, that the perpetual swap — also called a perpetual future or a “perp” for short — was born. Ben Delo, the mathematician and co-founder of BitMEX, was walking with …
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What is Zcash (ZEC)? The Privacy Coin Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs
For many years, Bitcoin was used to buy drugs online because it was believed to be anonymous. Turns out, it’s surprisingly easy to track Bitcoin transactions. Zcash, on the other hand, is a cryptocurrency that promised …
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Ethereum Foundation names pcaversaccio to board amid leadership changes
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has appointed longtime ecosystem contributor pcaversaccio (known as "pc") to its board, expanding the group's leadership as it continues to refine the governance of the organization behind t…
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HYPE Price Slides as Whale Selling Grows, But Grayscale Sees Long-Term Value
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Fed holds rates steady, extending pause as markets await Kevin Warsh's policy roadmap
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark fed funds rate range unchanged at 3.50%-3.75% on Wednesday, extending its pause for a sixth consecutive meeting as policymakers continue to grapple with stubborn inflation.
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AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots
Like a scene out of the classic dystopian novel “Fahrenheit 451,” some AI companies aren't just reading books—they're destroying them.
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Top 20 Women Shaping Crypto and Blockchain in 2026
Cryptoâs most influential women are no longer limited to investors, executives or policy advocates. Many of the industryâs most important companies, protocols, funds and infrastructure businesses were built or co-fo…
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OpenAI's Rogue AI Hacked Four More Platforms Besides Hugging Face
One week after OpenAI confirmed its AI models hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a security benchmark, the company quietly updated its incident post with something it hadn't said before: Hugging Face wasn't the only platfo…
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Cost to insure AI debt reaches record high amid Asian semiconductor tumble
Korean equities saw the second day of a historic sell-off on Wednesday with market-wide circuit breakers again halting trading. Combined with Tuesday’s drop, the KOSPI has now shed nearly 17%, wiping out $620 billion in…
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Bitcoin Price Prediction Today: All Eyes on FOMC as BTC Holds Key Support
Bitcoin price trades above the key $64,000 support ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest-rate decision.