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When AI Agents Become DeFi’s Main Users

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If autonomous agents become the dominant users of DeFi, blockchains start to do a different job. They operate as coordination and settlement systems for software rather than spaces driven by human timing, sentiment, and speculation. Federico Variola, CEO of Phemex, says this could improve how on-chain activity develops. He says: “Recently, blockchain ecosystems have struggled because … Read more

Tether Executive Steps Into Mysterious $100 Million Crypto PAC Before US Midterms

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The Fellowship political action committee (PAC) announced Wednesday the appointment of Jesse Spiro, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Tether US, as its new Chairman.  The news arrives after months of speculation about the PAC’s activity, following its September pledge of $100 million to pro-crypto candidates, though those funds have yet to be deployed. A … Read more

OpenAI’s $122 Billion Mega-Round Dwarfs Nearly Every S&P 500 Giant, But With Zero Profit

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OpenAI closed its latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation, making it the largest private raise in technology history. The round was anchored by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, with continued participation from Microsoft. An additional $3 billion came from individual investors through bank channels for the first … Read more

Claude Code’s 512,000-Line Leak Rattles Anthropic’s $350 Billion IPO Ambitions

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Anthropic accidentally published 512,000 lines of Claude Code’s proprietary source code through a debug file bundled into a routine npm update on March 31. The leak exposed the full architecture of the company’s flagship AI coding tool, which generates an estimated $2.5 billion in annualized recurring revenue. Second Lapse in Five Days Raises IPO Questions … Read more

Quantum Computers Could Crack Bitcoin Far Sooner Than Expected, Caltech Finds

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A team from Caltech and startup Oratomic has shown that a quantum computer capable of running Shor’s algorithm — the protocol that breaks modern encryption — could work with just 10,000 qubits. Previous estimates put that number at one million or higher. The finding, published March 31, dramatically compresses the timeline for when quantum machines … Read more

This New ISO Standard Is Quietly Rewiring Global Finance

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Most people have never heard of ISO 20022. It is a global standard for how financial institutions send payment information to each other. First introduced in 2004, it aims to replace older messaging formats that banks have used for decades. Older systems relied heavily on free-text fields. That meant payment details often had to be … Read more

Geopolitical Chaos Is Breaking Asia’s Currencies — And Central Banks Can’t Stop It.

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The geopolitical tensions are pressuring economies worldwide. The Philippine peso sank to 60.8 per dollar on Monday.  The currency extended a March slide that has erased over 5% of its value. Bloomberg reported that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said its currency market intervention remains limited “to tempering large swings that could affect inflation … Read more

WeChange on Why Crypto On-Ramps Still Lose Users at the First Transfer

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Crypto onboarding has improved, but for many users, the first purchase still feels more complicated than it should. KYC friction, hidden fees, custodial handoffs, and settlement delays continue to turn what should be a simple transaction into a drop-off point. WeChange is trying to simplify that process by building a noncustodial on-ramp around local bank … Read more