As AI agents evolve from answering questions to spending real money, investors and tech giants are scrambling to control the financial networks powering machine-driven commerce.
Citi has had a change of heart in terms of price prediction for BTC and Strategy following the broader market’s recovery that began in mid-August. The banking giant now sees BTC exploding past $113,000 over the next year and has almost doubled its price target for the largest corporate holder of the leading cryptocurrency. BTC…
Elon Musk’s Grok AI predicts the next three months will be unusually consequential, projecting Bitcoin could hit an impressive 2x return by January 1, 2027. Today (October 3), BTC USD is trading for around $84,500, and Grok AI claims that in the event of a full-blown bull market, it could surge to $180,000 in the…
Six US banks have failed in 2026 so far, which is one more than in 2023 and enough to make another banking-crisis headline practically write itself. But before we start reliving Silicon Valley Bank, it’s worth looking at what those six banks actually held: about $1.43 billion in combined assets, compared with roughly $552.54 billion…
Progress will effectively reset when the new Congress is sworn in, because key senators who quarterbacked the bill will not be on the ballot again, writes the Cato Institute’s Ryan Chan-Wei.
Tokenization is not just about putting individual stocks and funds onchain. The next step could be entire investment portfolios that can be traded, rebalanced and eventually managed in real-time.
Driven by the positive macro developments on the US economic scene during the business week, bitcoin experienced an impressive rally on Friday to over $87,000 for the first time in about ten days. However, its run was stopped just as fast, and the asset plummeted by several grand within hours. It slumped below $84,000 on…
Leveraged funds’ reported Bitcoin futures shorts fell by about 5,300 BTC-equivalent in the week to Sept. 29, narrowing their net short even as their aggregate long exposure shrank. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s latest futures-only figures, released in the Oct. 2 reporting cycle, cover CME standard and micro Bitcoin futures plus Coinbase Derivatives’ nano Bitcoin…
Although the US labor market showed clear signs of a cooldown on Friday, which, overall, should be bullish for risk-on assets, BTC’s price surge was halted in its tracks, and the asset plummeted hard in the following hours before finally calming at $84,500. The larger-cap altcoin field is deep in the red today, with ETH…
Arbitrum’s Security Council temporarily blocked new Stylus contract activations on Arbitrum One and Nova in an October 2 emergency action, restricting programs and app updates that require fresh activation. Already-active Stylus applications can keep running, while ordinary Solidity contract deployment and execution remain unaffected, according to the Council’s action report. Arbitrum attributed the precaution to…