Interest rates in U.S., U.K., Japan and Coinbase, Strategy earnings: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 27. Source：CoinDesk
Coinbase CEO touts agentic finance as Base tops 100M AI payments
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says AI agents will expand crypto adoption, pointing to Base, USDC and x402 as key pieces of agentic finance. Source：Cointelegraph
Garden Finance disables app as Blockaid reports $450,000 exploit
Garden Finance said no user funds or smart contracts were affected after an attacker compromised an independent solver’s offchain database and inserted…
Poolin was bitcoin's biggest mining pool and now it's filing for bankruptcy
The Singaporebased company once controlled nearly a fifth of Bitcoin's global hashrate. Now it owes $173 million and is selling off what's left. Source：CoinDesk
Coinbase lets businesses accept USDC payments from AI agents
The exchange also introduced AI trading tools and a developer kit as part of a broader push to build financial infrastructure for autonomous AI agents.…
Coinbase's corporate customers can now accept payments from AI agents
Rolling out this week, Coinbase Business users will be able to accept payments from AI agents, done via the x402 protocol, developed and incubated by the…
The SEC settles with Coinbase over its missing Gary Gensler texts
A new court status report reveals the agency will pay a flat fee to resolve a twoyear fight over what former Chair Gary Gensler knew about Ethereum.…
BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy in group pledging $15 million to prepare Bitcoin for quantum threats
Members will direct funding independently, with the consortium taking no role in Bitcoin governance or protocol decisions. Source：CoinDesk
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital joins tokenization push as Coinbase takes stake in onchain fund
The sovereign wealthbacked asset manager tapped KAIO to bring one of its private market funds onchain across Base, Solana and Sui networks. Source：CoinDesk
Coinbase to expand Singapore office headcount by 25%: report
Coinbase plans to expand its Singapore office from 150 to about 200 employees by the end of 2026 as it grows its presence in the Lion City. Source：Cointelegraph
Arbitrum-based AFX Trade drained of $24 million after bridge keys compromised
Security firms said the attacker used enough hotvalidator signatures to approve a 24.15 million USDC withdrawal, while Arbitrum said its native bridge was not…
SEC settles Coinbase suit over ‘text messages that disappeared’
The settlement follows a watchdog report last year that blamed “avoidable errors” for the loss of nearly a year’s worth of Gary Gensler’s text messages.…