Visa doubles down on stablecoins and AI agents
Today's Forum announcements: tokenized deposits, 160+ card programs, and new AI tools @Visa used its Payments Forum in San Francisco on June 10 to announce a raft of new capabilities across A
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Lummis wants America buying Bitcoin "loudly, by law"
A Call to Buy Openly Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) has a straightforward message: while other nations are quietly accumulating $BTC, the United States should be doing it openly, on the
XRP Supply On Binance Hits Four Month Low
Binance XRP Reserves Drop to Multi-Month Low CryptoQuant contributor Arabchain reported that Binance's $XRP reserves fell to roughly 2.69 billion tokens, marking the lowest level in four mont
Y Combinator Pushes for CLARITY Act to Define Crypto Asset Rules
BitcoinWorld Y Combinator Pushes for CLARITY Act to Define Crypto Asset Rules Y Combinator, the influential Silicon Valley startup accelerator behind companies like Coinbase and Stripe, is ur
Japan Passes Landmark Bill Classifying Cryptocurrencies as Financial Products, Slashes Tax to 20%
BitcoinWorld Japan Passes Landmark Bill Classifying Cryptocurrencies as Financial Products, Slashes Tax to 20% Japan’s House of Representatives has passed a landmark bill reclassifying crypto
Over $13 million vanishes in crypto heist fueled by social engineering! What happened to the stolen funds?
According to U.S. prosecutors, a young Canadian orchestrated a massive cryptocurrency theft worth more than $13 million, funding a lavish lifestyle in Miami and Los Angeles complete with luxu
Crypto Regulation Advances With New US Tax Bills
Crypto Regulation enters a new phase as lawmakers introduce six tax-focused digital asset bills in Congress. White House officials discuss the CLARITY Act with law enforcement before an upcom
Who is Cynthia Lummis? America's Pro-Crypto Senator
Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) is the Republican senator from Wyoming and the most consistent pro-crypto voice in the U.S. Congress, a lawmaker who bought her first Bitcoin in 2013 and now chair
Zcash vs Monero: Two Privacy Coin Architectures Compared
Zcash (ZEC) and Monero (XMR) are the two most technically distinct privacy coins in crypto, and they solve the same problem in fundamentally different ways. Zcash gives users a choice between
Dogecoin as a Payment Method: Where DOGE Is Accepted Today?
Dogecoin is accepted as a real payment method at over 2,200 merchants globally as of mid-2026, covering electronics retailers, movie chains, sports franchises, and online services. Dogecoin f
MoneyGram's Stellar-based Stablecoin: What is MGUSD?
$MGUSD is MoneyGram's own U.S. dollar stablecoin, launched on June 2 and issued natively on the Stellar blockchain, the public network behind the $XLM token. It is pegged 1:1 to the dollar an
Anchorage Digital and Real Finance Partner to Build Regulated Backbone for Tokenized Capital Markets
Anchorage Digital and Real Finance have formed a strategic partnership aimed at solving a persistent problem in tokenized finance: the institutional infrastructure fragmentation. The two firm