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Pieverse, an agent-native financial infrastructure provider, has launched the Agentic Neobank, a platform designed to support AI-managed accounts with full auditability and defined user controls. The product allows users to deposit supported digital assets, delegate limited permissions to an autonomous agent, and receive compliance-ready records of all account activity. The platform consolidates Pieverse’s existing tools, including Timestamping, compliant invoices and receipts, x402 and x402b payment standards, and agent-native settlement rails, into a single account-style interface. Users fund an account, set intent and limits, and authorize a Pieverse “Purr-Fect Agent” to manage funds within those parameters. Assets deposited into the Agentic…

Goldman Sachs Research, a division of the leading investment bank that specializes in data-driven insights and analysis on economies and markets, has predicted three additional interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve. According to the Research firm, the Fed will implement one interest rate cut in December and two more in 2026. Related: Trump Pressures Fed Chair Powell Over Costly Renovation and Interest Rates According to David Mericle, chief US economist and member of the Goldman Sachs Research team, the latest forecast is consistent with the bank’s original forecast about the Fed’s actions, despite Jerome Powell’s latest press conference…

The GENIUS Act represents something harder and harder to find in Washington: genuine bipartisan consensus on complex financial policy. After months of negotiation and compromise, Congress delivered a stablecoin framework designed to protect consumers, support innovation, and reinforce the dollar’s global leadership. Now, just as regulators begin the hard work of implementation, some in the Big Bank lobby want to reopen settled issues, using the ongoing market structure legislation to inject amendments to the GENIUS Act. That approach risks undermining both efforts. Implementation of the GENIUS Act won’t be simple or quick. The Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of…

Key Highlights Coinbase announced that it will now allow SOL deposits and withdrawals via the Base network Recently, it announced the integration with Jupiter, which allows users to trade Solana-based tokens directly from their Coinbase app With numerous integrations and acquisitions, the crypto firm is planning to buildan Everything App On December 23, the ecosystem around Coinbase revealed a new connection between its own Base network and the Solana blockchain. JUST IN: Coinbase enables SOL deposits and withdrawals via the Base network. pic.twitter.com/0miO7vONwh — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) December 23, 2025 According to the latest announcement, the new development means that users…

Aave’s community members and participants have become sharply divided in recent weeks over control of the protocol’s brand and related assets, intensifying an ongoing dispute over the relationship between the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and Aave Labs, the centralized developer firm that builds much of Aave’s technology. The debate has drawn outsized attention because it cuts to a central question facing many of crypto’s largest protocols: the tension between decentralized governance and the centralized teams that often drive execution. As protocols scale and brands accrue value, questions around who ultimately controls those assets, token holders or builders, are becoming harder…

Most companies want their brand to be front and center when a consumer uses their product, but as an infrastructure provider that specializes in crypto payments, the opposite is rather true for Transak and its stablecoin ambitions. Transak co-founder and CEO Sami Start told Decrypt that the company is leaning into modular APIs as a white-labeled offering for established firms that want to augment their existing services with stablecoins.  As a result, the Tether-backed firm, which has raised $40 million in total funding, is betting that the next wave of stablecoin adoption will feel more invisible than how it looks…

A massive and stealthy transaction has just rippled through the Ethereum blockchain. Onchain analysts report that a wallet suspected to belong to the mining giant Bitmain received a staggering 30,075 ETH, worth approximately $88.31 million, from the institutional crypto exchange FalconX. This single move spotlights the continued, quiet accumulation of digital assets by major industry players. But what does this specific Bitmain wallet activity tell us about the broader market? Let’s dive into the details and decode the potential implications. What Exactly Happened with the Suspected Bitmain Wallet? According to data from Onchain-Lense, a previously unidentified wallet address executed a…

French crypto hardware wallet provider Ledger is considering a New York listing as surging cyberattacks drive record demand for its hardware devices, sending revenues soaring into the triple-digit millions in 2025. CEO Pascal Gauthier recently told the Financial Times that the company, founded in Paris in 2014, is seeing its best year yet as both individuals and companies rush to protect their digital assets from increasingly sophisticated hackers. “We’re being hacked more and more every day … hacking of your bank accounts, of your crypto, and it’s not going to get better next year and the year after that,” he said.…

Ireland fined Coinbase Europe €21.5m after data issues left €173b in transactions unmonitored, with failures undisclosed during its VASP registration and now forcing an exit to Luxembourg. Summary The Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Europe €21.5m after data configuration failures in an outsourced TMS left about 30m transactions, worth roughly €173b, unmonitored between 2021 and 2022.​ Coinbase Europe did not detect or disclose the issues during its 2022 VASP application, with management only fully briefed in 2023, leading the regulator to brand its oversight of Coinbase Inc. as ineffective.​ The VASP registration will lapse at end‑2025 as Coinbase Europe…

Cipher Mining has acquired a 200-megawatt power site in Ohio called “Ulysses,” marking its first expansion outside of Texas and entry into the PJM wholesale electricity market, the largest power market in the United States. According to Tuesday’s announcement, the 195-acre site has secured power capacity from AEP Ohio, with all required utility agreements in place, and is expected to be energized in the fourth quarter of 2027. Cipher said the facility is suitable for high-performance computing and data center use in addition to Bitcoin (BTC) mining. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The move aims to meet…