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A purchase of 100 euros on Bitvavo costs 25 cents according to the fee table. Move the coins to your own wallet afterwards and with Bitcoin you pay another 1.31 euros. The second item is ther
On 15 October 2026 Mastercard launched the Global Money Platform together with the payments provider BVNK. Behind the name sits a single interface through which banks, fintechs and companies
On 14 October 2026 the Brooklyn District Attorney's office and the FBI shut down a fraud network: 241 websites went offline and 112 servers were seized. What makes this case unusual is the se
Meta on Thursday pushed out Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight model that it says is the most capable US model of its kind. The model runs on a pair of Apple M5 Ultra Mac S
Russia is reportedly planning to ban direct peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto trading, with the restriction set to take effect in July 2027. The proposal would make it illegal for individuals to buy
Cross River Bank and Ripple have announced a partnership to integrate RLUSD, Ripple’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, directly on the XRP Ledger, bringing a federally regulated U.S. bank into the X
Anthropic can no longer block the safety findings that METR publishes about it. The company said on Thursday that it had given six embedded researchers from the nonprofit almost the same acce
A federal judge has denied a joint request by Gemini and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to scrap a Biden-era $5 million matter. The court's denial leaves the $5 million resolution s
Mastercard has launched the Global Money Platform, a system that lets businesses hold fiat currency and stablecoins in the same account. It is the first major product to come out of Mastercar
USBC, Inc. signed a Second Addendum to its Master Loan Agreement with Payward Interactive, Kraken’s lending affiliate, raising its total credit commitment from $25 million to $40 million As o
Circle has become the first global stablecoin issuer to receive Electronic Money Institution (EMI) approval under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, with the licence granted
Tokyo, Japan, October 16th, 2026, Chainwire Both companies to explore pilot connecting yen-denominated stablecoin JPYSC with U.S. dollar stablecoin Open USD (OUSD), marking the first step tow
