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Polygon said businesses can also move the world’s largest stablecoin USDT between TRON and EVM networks without connecting to a wallet provider, bridge or fiat-ramp operator.

Gate rebrands around Gate Money, which combines accounts, asset conversion, savings and card payments as the exchange broadens beyond its trading base.

AI has made it cheap to link wallet addresses to the people behind them, and the permanence of the blockchain means records don’t age out. Michael Zhao of Grayscale Research explains how Zcash’s shielded transactions address this problem, and why close to 29% of all ZEC ever mined now sits in the shielded pool.

The National Bank of Kazakhstan said it will study a local currency-linked stablecoin and tokenized real-world assets with Tether.

EU law enforcement agencies urged developers, exchanges, and users to initiate phased post-quantum migrations immediately to prevent future unauthorized fund transfers.

Tom Lee said Bitmine will be “done stacking” once it owns 5% of ETH, setting an end date to an accumulation streak that began in mid-2025 and made the company the world's largest Ethereum treasury.

The firm is putting its own capital into stablecoin and tokenized gold vaults as institutional finance moves further onchain.

Banks need their own permissioned ledger, wallet tools and smart-contract capabilities before they can use Swift’s tokenized-deposit network, Taurus’s Lamine Brahimi said.

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Ether underperformed, losing 6% after Tom Lee said Bitmine would soon stop purchasing additional ETH.

Yearly buyer cohorts and U.S. spot ETF investors offer a map of potential support and resistance as bitcoin retreats below $84,000.

Bitcoin fell below $84,000 as oil climbed on Iranian tanker attacks, while smaller tokens fell harder and liquidations rose to $547 million.

The stablecoin payments company’s proposed New York trust bank would custody digital assets and dollars, manage stablecoin reserves and issue and redeem dollar-backed tokens.

Robinhood has added bitcoin worth $25 million to its balance sheet, senior vice president and general manager of crypto and international, told the Starting Block Wednesday.

Bitcoin dipped to around $84,200 on Wednesday but stayed inside its recent range, keeping the broader bullish stair-step trajectory intact.

Wallets linked to the U.S. government moved millions in crypto on Tuesday, according to data tracked by Arkham.

The consumer-focused blockchain will close Dec. 15 after Igloo spent tens of millions supporting it, days after Blast said its own network was no longer worth operating.

The new standard is aimed at regulated stablecoins, funds and bonds whose issuers need identity checks, sanctions controls and other transfer rules built into the asset itself.

Bitcoin briefly broke under the level analysts flagged as the point where sellers take over. Oil and the dollar both climbed.

Pantera Capital and Bullish also participated in the ANVL purchase as Anvil rolls out software designed to make its collateral protocol easier for businesses to integrate.