Banks Hold a Lever Over Stablecoin Adoption, BIS Economists Say
A Bank for International Settlements working paper found that stablecoin growth slows when U.S. banks raise deposit rates, with Circle’s USDC most sen...
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China Built a Battery Out of Iron That Could Last 16 Years, and Iron Costs 80 Times Less Than Lithium
Researchers at the Institute of Metal Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a redesigned electrolyte for an alkaline all-iron ...
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BIS paper finds banks could slow stablecoin growth by raising rates
Rising bank rates could curb stablecoin growth, impacting monetary policy, regulation, and competition between banks and digital currencies. The post ...
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Wall Street Veterans Unveil DeFi Platform for 77 TradFi Markets
Decentralized perpetual futures exchange Deepsigma has launched a live paper-trading platform across 77 traditional financial markets, including U.S. ...
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Australia’s Crypto Platforms Have Until 27 November to Mark ASIC’s Homework
Digital asset platforms in Australia will need an Australian financial services (AFS) licence, customer disclosure documents and platform rules, and m...
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Hybrid reasoning agents cut AI compute costs by up to 73%, new paper says
Hybrid reasoning agents could revolutionize AI by significantly reducing operational costs, enhancing efficiency, and improving accessibility. The pos...
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XRP ETF Buyers Refuse to Quit Despite Sitting on a $230M Paper Loss
U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) pulled in a net $11.31 million last week, even as XRP lost about 8% over the same five trading days. A Gree...
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Papertrade Traders Lose $18.2 Million as Staking Rewards Reach $12.6 Million
Reported staking rewards equaled about 69% of net trading losses, but the payouts redistribute money to PAPER stakers rather than reimburse each losin...
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Papertrade Shows $10.3 Million in Staker Rewards Hours After Launch
The 1000x-leverage venue’s dashboard showed roughly $5 million in its house pool and no queued payout debt as trading losses funded PAPER rewards.
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Satoshi’s Abandoned Poker Experiment Returns With a Bitcoin Twist
Nearly 18 years after Satoshi Nakamoto left an unfinished poker interface buried inside Bitcoin’s original software, researcher Robin Linus has develo...
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DSA White Paper Named Among the 2026 DC Fintech Week Winning Papers
Washington, D.C., October 7, 2026 — The Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing clear and ethical public p...
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Binance Launches Retail AI Assistant, Repackages Existing Trading Tools
Binance has grouped its artificial intelligence products under a new Binance Intelligence brand, combining a newly launched retail market assistant wi...
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Securitize CEO pushes onchain shareholder records over paper proxies
Blockchain-based shareholder records could streamline corporate governance, enhancing transparency and efficiency in investor communications. The post...
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Strategy Reports Quarterly Profit on Bitcoin Rally
Bitcoin Magazine Strategy Reports Quarterly Profit on Bitcoin Rally The OG bitcoin treasury reported paper gains of $21 billion in Q3’2026. This pos...
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Nvidia paper finds AI models lose accuracy on long tasks, with steep drops at scale
AI models' declining accuracy on lengthy tasks highlights the need for improved task segmentation and structured data labeling in AI workflows. The po...
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Bitcoin think tank questions MSCI’s ‘invisible committee’ over Strategy, Metaplanet rule
A Bitcoin Policy Institute paper says MSCI’s proposed “non-operating company” rule could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from its indexes and may have ...
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MSCI Rule Puts Strategy at Risk, Says Bitcoin Policy Institute Paper
A private index committee that never touches investor cash can still trigger billions of dollars in stock trades. A new Bitcoin Policy Institute paper...
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LZ Research paper argues slashing may not protect proof-of-stake networks
The paper suggests proof-of-stake networks may need stronger deterrents, as slashing penalties could be circumvented by coordinated attacks. The post ...
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Ripple No Longer Member of BIS Cross-Border Payments Task Force
Ripple confirmed to Bitcoin.com News that it is no longer on a Bank for International Settlements (BIS) cross-border payments task force that it joine...
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Researchers Publish 'Zcash-Style' Design for Private Bitcoin Transfers
The Shielded Bitcoin spec hides senders, receivers and amounts, but leaves how BTC enters and exits the system to a later paper.
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Chainalysis Says Crypto Activity Barely Fell Despite $2.1T Market Rout
TL;DR Chainalysis says measured global crypto economic activity declined just 1.6% during the 12 months ended June 30, 2026. That happened while the w...
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Stanford paper reveals AI teams outperform debate-and-vote models
AI collaboration models like SAT could revolutionize problem-solving by enhancing reasoning and accuracy, surpassing traditional methods. The post Sta...
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AI Can Now Doxx Your Anonymous Accounts? Here's What’s Going On
A February research paper showing AI can unmask pseudonymous internet users is freaking everyone out again this week. Here's what the paper actually s...
Sep 24open_in_new
Bitcoin Losing AI Payments Battle per Blackrock, but Not the War
A new report from Blackrock and new findings by the Bitcoin Policy Institute show that bitcoin is losing the agentic payment battle in the medium term...
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BitGo CEO Mike Belshe: Why Dollar Debasement Fuels the K-Shaped Economy
Bitcoin Magazine BitGo CEO Mike Belshe: Why Dollar Debasement Fuels the K-Shaped Economy BitGo CEO Mike Belshe breaks down why tokenization is about ...
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BlackRock research paper examines AI’s impact on digital assets
AI's integration into digital assets could redefine financial systems, boosting stablecoins and transforming Bitcoin mining into AI infrastructure. Th...
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Zcash Short Trader Faces $7.66M Paper Loss as ZEC Nears $1,500
The trader previously made nearly $1.9 million on a Bitcoin long and about $1.8 million on an Ethereum long before ZEC got them into trouble.
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Bitcoin treasuries buy just 5.9K BTC in three months as paper losses linger
Bitcoin corporate treasuries remained at an unrealized loss on their holdings as the price fell below $80,000 and fresh capital inflows dwindled.
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BIS paper finds major gap in Bitcoin onchain transfer estimates
A BIS study found widely used crypto metrics can obscure economic activity, with measurement challenges spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum and stablecoins.
Sep 15open_in_new
Bitpanda CEO to Depart as Crypto Broker Delays Frankfurt IPO
Bitpanda is preparing for another change at the top less than a year after Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad became its sole CEO. The move comes as the crypto...
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