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Crypto executives say new blockchain payment infrastructure could make Swift obsolete. Bankers say its 11,500-institution network gives it the power to absorb the technology instead.

AI agents are coming. They will need to pay each other. Crypto executives agree on the problem but disagree sharply on the solution, and one thinks the answer has not been invented yet.

Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders will vote Sept. 30 on Evernorth Holdings' Nasdaq merger, which would give the XRP treasury firm authorization for up to 10 billion shares as it targets growth in XRP per share. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the proposed charter would authorize 7.4 billion Class A shares, 100 million Class B shares, 2.4 billion Class C shares, and 100 million preferred shares. The transaction itself covers up to about 34.5 million Class A shares and 11.5 million warrants, leaving Evernorth with substantial unused capacity after the combination closes. That capacity sits at the center of a broader strategy Evernorth says it

Bitcoin gained 21.5% from the Aug. 17 close through Aug. 21, yet six of seven large US-listed miners finished the same trading stretch much lower. MARA Holdings rose 16.1% and came closest to BTC, while Cipher Digital fell 14.8%, TeraWulf lost 11.2%, Hut 8 dropped 8.1%, and IREN declined 6.8%. The stocks still sold as Bitcoin proxies had separated during one of Bitcoin's strongest weeks of the year. QQQ fell 2.3% over those sessions as long-term yields stayed volatile, placing the miners inside a weaker technology-equity market. Their corporate structure helps explain this, as several former mining specialists now derive revenue, financing, or forward valuation from long-duration data-center

When you strip out what was never mobile, correct for who's holding what and why, add back what works off-contract, the utilization of tokenized assets looks close to 20%, argues Katana’s Matthew Fisher.

Today in crypto, a Trump-promoted brand touts GOLD before the token collapses, Solana validators approve faster SOL disinflation and California advances a memecoin bill.

Bitcoin trades near $78,000 heading into the weekend, sitting almost between $77,000 support and $80,000 resistance after a sharp rejection from above $81,000 hit on Aug. 28. A confirmed break below $77,000 opens the mid-$75,000s, while a reclaim of $80,000 puts the roughly $81,300 high from Aug. 28 and the $82,000 to $83,000 zone back in range. Bitcoin reversed its Aug. 28 intraday high once Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole remarks lifted September rate-hike odds to around 55% from roughly 40% before the speech. Warsh said the Fed still had work to do if inflation failed to return toward its target. That repricing put Bitcoin back below $80,000 by the close, turning a level buyers had briefly rec

Stablecoin issuer Circle signed a deal with Chelsea FC after the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority sent warning letters about “questionable sponsorship deals“ involving football clubs.

A Trump-promoted coin brand touted GOLD before its market value collapsed as Lookonchain flagged highly concentrated holdings and wallet sales.

Polygon Labs said any Polygon PoS node that stayed on pre-hardfork Bor or Heimdall binaries past two August activation heights has already fallen out of canonical consensus. In practice, the stale node must upgrade and catch up before it can follow the network’s accepted history again. The company’s Aug. 27 security review described a client-compatibility consequence. Polygon said it had not observed mainnet disruption from Austin and framed the disclosed changes as proactive fixes. Bor is Polygon PoS’s execution client, while Heimdall handles consensus and checkpointing. Bor versions earlier than v2.10.0 are incompatible after Austin activated at mainnet block 91,949,700, a cutoff that appl

The BIS chief favored tokenized bank deposits over stablecoins for everyday payments as new research compared issuer rules across five major markets.

US spot Ethereum ETFs appeared to begin trading with $10.36 billion already inside them, an opening balance large enough to resemble an institutional buying wave before the first full session ended. However, almost all of that amount came from ETH that Grayscale's older trusts already held, so the launch moved an existing pool into exchange-traded products, while a much smaller share came from the other issuers' seed positions. The same accounting issue appears in Solana funds, but on a smaller scale, with Farside Investors listing $449.3 million on the products' seed row and assigning $102.7 million to the conversion of Grayscale's earlier Solana trust. Counting all of that money as “ETF de

Six decade-old wallets moved $40 million this month, but Galaxy's data shows dormant coin activity at its lowest since 2022 and 2026 on pace for under half of last year's total.

The proposal to double Solana’s annual disinflation rate has been marked Accepted after closing with 176.29 million SOL For, 66.19 million SOL Against and 20.63 million SOL Abstain, according to Validator Info. The result gives Solana validators and stakers a directional mandate to accelerate the network’s path toward lower issuance. However, it does not immediately change SOL’s monetary schedule. The next phase still depends on implementation through SIMD-0550, client coordination, feature gating and eventual activation. That distinction now defines the story. Solana’s first major governance cycle has moved past the question of whether SGP-0002 crossed the line and into a more important que

An Anthropic model cut the work needed to break a leading post-quantum signature candidate by a factor of 67 million last month, while Bitcoin and Ethereum published their own migration plans this week.

Bitcoin treasury company Capital B plans to raise €21 million and use the proceeds, along with operating funds, to buy another 270 Bitcoin. The immediate deal would leave the company’s stated measure of Bitcoin backing per diluted share almost unchanged, while four warrants attached to each new share create a larger layer of contingent dilution. The company announced a private placement of 36,219,070 shares with attached warrants at €0.58 per unit. That would produce €21.01 million in gross proceeds and an estimated €19.9 million after fees. Closing was expected on Aug. 31 at the earliest, meaning neither the shares nor the planned Bitcoin purchase was complete when the deal was announced. C