Coinbase Hands x402 to Linux Foundation as Tech and Finance Giants Back AI Payment Future. Internet payments have long lacked a native, open standard. Coinbase’s x402 protocol now aims to fill that gap with broader industry backing. A shift to neutral governance marks a key step toward wider adoption. Major tech and finance players are
Trustless agents on Ethereum are autonomous software entities that can identify themselves, advertise their capabilities, and interact with users or other agents without requiring pre-existing trust, relying instead on on-chain registries for identity, reputation, and optional external verification to establish reliability and accountability. This framework aims to support an open, interoperable marketplace of agents built
UK-based Monument Bank tokenized £250 million in real customer deposits on Cardano’s Midnight protocol in early 2026 – the first time a regulated bank has moved live customer funds onto a privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure. That’s not a pilot announcement or a whitepaper commitment. That’s £250 million of actual deposits, shielded via zero-knowledge proofs, running on
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Department of Justice filed lawsuit against Illinois, Arizona, Connecticut and various state officials on Thursday over the state’s efforts to shutter prediction market providers. Illinois, alongside numerous other states, sent cease-and-desist letters to some prediction market providers, arguing that the companies were offering sports gambling products that should
Offering anonymous eSIM data plans in over 200 countries, disposable and rental phone numbers for SMS verification, WireGuard VPN access and anonymous AI chat tools, LNVPN has outgrown its original brand. The company has grown into a full-spectrum privacy infrastructure service. The company started in 2022 as LNVPN. It began as a proof-of-concept Lightning Network
APIA, Samoa, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Phemex, a user-first crypto exchange, announced the release of its April 2026 Proof of Reserves (PoR), reinforcing its commitment to transparency, asset backing, and user fund security. The latest report confirms that all user balances are fully backed, with a total reserve ratio of 131% across major assets.
Bithumb delays IPO plans until after 2028, focusing on compliance, stronger controls, and growth strategy amid regulatory challenges. Bithumb has delayed its initial public offering again, now aiming for a listing after 2028. The company affirmed that it would concentrate on preparation work up to 2027. Besides, this is a postponement following the continuous regulatory
Bitcoin was down by as much as 21.46 percent from its October all-time high last week, briefly dipping below the psychological $100,000 mark to a low of $99,045. Such a fall likely signifies the establishment of a new consolidation base rather than the onset of a cascading sell-off. Historical market and on-chain data suggest that
Ripple on Thursday introduced native digital asset capabilities inside its enterprise treasury management system, letting corporate finance teams hold, view and manage XRP and RLUSD alongside traditional fiat balances for the first time within a single platform. The two features, called Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury, are built on GTreasury, which Ripple acquired in
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has formally begun implementing the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, releasing its first notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) and opening a 60-day public comment period. The 87-page proposal outlines how the Treasury will determine whether state-level stablecoin regulatory regimes are “substantially similar” to the
