Stripe and Swift race to control the next generation of global payments infrastructure
Crypto and blockchain experts say this week's moves show the two established finance companies are increasingly competing for control of the infrastructure…
Cardano hands core development to outside teams in decentralization push
Input Output will transfer control of the Haskell node, Plutus, Hydra and other components as founder Charles Hoskinson says the network must change and start…
Inside Robinhood’s high-stakes bet to onboard 10 million casual users onto decentralized finance
The company says its advantage lies in bringing retail customers onchain, but early activity remains dominated by memecoins, while its original tokenization…
Japan's SBI Group is building Asia's first cross-border digital asset empire
The securities giant announced today the consolidation of Singaporebased Coinhako as part of a rapid regional expansion that includes a tokenization…
Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark
Moonshot's Kimi K3 took the top spot in frontend coding away from Claude and OpenAI, and it's free. Semiconductor stocks fell, and crypto fell with them.…
AI frenzy losing steam leaves bitcoin less volatile than South Korean stocks
Your dayahead look for July 17, 2026 Source：CoinDesk
Live markets: Bitcoin slips to $63,000 as the chip rout goes global
A deepening global selloff in chipmakers dragged risk assets lower, pulling bitcoin back from the $65,000 it reached on this week's soft inflation print.…
Risk-off wave drags bitcoin below $63,000 as AI selloff spreads from stocks to crypto
Crypto fell as AI stock fatigue and U.S.Iran tensions weighed on sentiment, though a technical measure hints at oversold conditions heading into the weekend.…
Bitcoin’s anti-spam fight gets a 'DOG Mode' reply
While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote…
Bitcoin under $64,000 after new U.S. strike on Iran. Trump's China comment adds to uncertainty
Geopolitical tensions and renewed fears of U.S.China frictions are weighing on risk assets, including bitcoin. Source：CoinDesk
$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF
T. Rowe Price launched what it says is the industry's first actively managed multitoken spot crypto ETF, offering diversified exposure to digital assets.…
Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion
The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives. Source：CoinDesk