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The convergence of AI and Blockchain has progressed past being a subject of speculation and toward an actual phase of structural integration. Nebulai has taken a significant step to confront the centralized monopolies of today’s technological landscape by officially forming a strategic alliance with Pundi AI. The objective of their alliance is to build a “complete decentralized AI stack” using blockchain to democratize the two most critical assets in today’s digital age: data and compute power. AI models are becoming more complex and expensive (high-end GPUs) to create. There are very few proprietary datasets, which makes it difficult to find…

Dollar-pegged tokens edged higher over the past week, pulling in roughly $703 million in fresh capital. Even with that bump, the sector remains down 0.61% month over month, a $1.9 billion dip that keeps the broader tally in check. Among the top ten stablecoin competitors over the last seven days, Blackrock’s BUIDL led the charge, leaping 36.03% higher. Stablecoin Market Caps Shift as February Closes Out While the stablecoin economy added to its totals this week, it remains lower over the past 30 days. Over that stretch, adjusted transaction volume tracked by Artemis Terminal reached roughly $7.5 trillion. That figure…

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has introduced proposed legislation that would ban prediction market contracts tied to terrorism, war, assassination, and death, directly challenging market regulator CFTC’s shift toward looser regulation of event trading. The bill, dubbed the DEATH BETS Act, would strip the agency of discretion over whether to permit such contracts and write explicit prohibitions into law, putting Schiff on a collision course with CFTC Chair Mike Selig’s deregulatory agenda. Schiff, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee that oversees the CFTC, is positioned to press the issue legislatively as the agency’s new rule making takes shape. Under the…

Crypto firms have spent years trying to gain direct access to the plumbing of the U.S. financial system. Kraken has now become the first to get it. The decision could reshape how digital-asset firms move dollars and interact with the traditional financial system, reducing dependence on partner banks. What a Fed Master Account Actually is A master account is essentially the gateway to the Federal Reserve’s payment infrastructure. Banks and certain regulated financial institutions use these accounts to hold reserves at the central bank and to settle payments through systems such as Fedwire. Instead of routing transactions through intermediary banks,…

POAP, the blockchain-based platform that turned event attendance into digital collectibles, is entering maintenance mode — ending active development on its current platform after nearly seven years as a fixture of the Web3 community. In a post on X, POAP co-founder and general manager Isabel Gonzalez announced that starting March 16, 2026, new issuers will no longer be able to create POAPs through the platform’s issuer interfaces. Existing issuers, integrations, and collector-facing tools will continue to function, but the platform itself will no longer receive active development. “Some operations may also run more slowly as we reduce the resources allocated…

A crypto user has lost millions during a crypto swap on the decentralized finance protocol Aave, with a Maximal Extractable Value, or MEV, bot also front-running the transaction to make almost $10 million. A recently funded wallet from Binance containing $50.4 million USDt (USDT) executed a swap via decentralized exchange aggregator CoW Protocol and the SushiSwap DEX on Thursday, aiming to convert the full amount into the Aave ($AAVE) token. However, the wallet only received 327 $AAVE tokens valued at approximately $36,000, according to Etherscan. The result was an almost total loss as the user paid around $154,000 per $AAVE,…

The rial, Iran’s official currency, has failed in 2026. Hyperinflation chews through savings every single day. Sanctions stack on top of bad decisions and endless geopolitical pressure. Every day, folks wake up to less money. Families scramble to buy basics while everything they saved disappears. This feels too familiar. Lebanon went through the exact same crisis starting in late 2019. The same kind of banking freeze, the same worthless currency slide, the same desperate search for anything that holds value. Bitcoin turned out to be that financial safe haven then. Signs point to it doing the same in Iran now.…

Three policy developments from South Korea in a single week have fed a growing sense among industry participants that regulators are pulling back — even as the country’s landmark Digital Asset Basic Act inches toward passage. None of the three moves is, on its own, a prohibition. But taken together, they are being read by parts of the market as a pattern. Prosecutors Liquidate Recovered Bitcoin Rather Than Hold It The Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office announced on March 10 that it had sold 320.88 Bitcoin — worth approximately 31.59 billion Korean won ($21.6 million) — recovered after a phishing incident,…

Mastercard’s crypto partner push is really a plan to keep stablecoins inside its network Mastercard is trying to make sure the stablecoin era still needs its card services. On Wednesday, the company launched a program with more than 85 crypto-native firms, payments providers, banks, compliance vendors, custody companies, exchanges, and infrastructure groups. On its face, that reads like another ecosystem announcement. However, let’s look at what the list implies. Mastercard is assembling the counterparties it needs so that if stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and other digital-dollar instruments become meaningful payment rails, those flows can still pass through Mastercard’s acceptance, trust, and…

EUR-pegged stablecoins occupy an insignificant portion of the DeFi market even as Europe draws closer to a unified crypto rulebook. According to Barter Swap, a DeFi protocol, euro stablecoins account for 0.35% of total stablecoin supply, with a share of trading volume below 0.1%. The gap shows that euro-based assets remain limited in day-to-day DeFi activity. The market is narrow as Circle’s $EURC leads with about $445 million in market cap, followed by $EURCV, $AEUR, $EURI, and EURe. These tokens have built a foothold in the market, but supply figures do not show how often they are actually used. Related:…