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San Francisco, CA – $NEAR is launching Near.com, a new crypto wallet and consumer app that aims to make blockchain technology feel as simple as using a traditional finance app, while positioning itself at the intersection of crypto and artificial intelligence (AI). Polosukhin previously co-authored the paper that introduced the transformer model, the architecture underpinning modern AI systems like ChatGPT and many other large language models, and has increasingly focused on how blockchain infrastructure can support the next wave of AI-driven applications. “We are entering the world where AI is becoming our interface to compute,” Polosukhin said during the presentation.…

The DeFi market just witnessed a powerful shift. The Mantle TVL surge pushed total value locked beyond $450 million within a week of its Aave integration. This sharp rise grabbed attention across the Layer 2 ecosystem. Investors quickly responded as fresh liquidity flooded into the network. DeFi users constantly chase yield, stability, and trusted protocols. Mantle delivered all three by partnering with Aave, one of the most respected lending platforms. The Mantle TVL surge reflects strong confidence from both retail and institutional participants. Capital rarely moves this fast without conviction. The numbers tell a compelling story. Within days of the…

The Ethereum price correction gives a bearish breakdown below the support of inverted pendant pattern to bolster a prolonged downtrend. Ethereum accumulator addresses show a rare decline in their realized price trend. The downsloping slope of exponential moving averages (20, 50, 100, and 200) indication the path to least resistance is down, $ETH, the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization showed low volatility trading on Thursday, with its price wavering around $1,934. The daily chart displayed a neutral candle formation as Ethereum price reacted to the broader market uncertainty as Bitcoin drifted lower to $66,000. However, the top altcoin faces…

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission is considering a rule that would cap corporate cryptocurrency investments at 5% of a company’s equity capital, according to local media reports, as the country moves toward easing its long-standing restrictions on institutional crypto trading. Seoul Economic Daily reported that the FSC has drafted trading guidelines for listed companies and professional investors, with a final version expected as early as January or February. Actual corporate trading could begin later this year, the report said. Under the proposal, eligible firms would be allowed to allocate up to 5% of equity capital per year to digital assets,…

Regulators in Europe have escalated their focus on online prediction platforms, with a new polymarket ban in the Netherlands highlighting the sector’s mounting legal risks. Dutch regulator orders Polymarket to exit the market Prediction markets face mounting global regulatory pressure Business expansion continues despite legal headwinds Are prediction markets gambling or financial instruments? Dutch regulatory culture and its implications for crypto-linked markets Informational value versus gambling classification Dutch regulator orders Polymarket to exit the market The Netherlands Gambling Authority (Ksa) has issued a penalty order against Adventure One QSS Inc., operator of the Polymarket platform, for providing what it calls…

Cryptocurrency payments firm MoonPay has introduced a non-custodial financial layer that gives AI agents access to wallets, funds, and the ability to transact autonomously, the company said on Tuesday. MoonPay Agents, as the new service is called, requires a user to verify and fund their agent’s wallet through MoonPay, and thereafter the agent can take over, trading, swapping, and moving money on its own. While AI agents are primed and ready to trade, allocate capital and execute strategies, they are constrained inasmuch as they can’t participate in the economy without access to money, Moonpay said in an emailed press release.…

Bitcoin miner Bitdeer has overtaken MARA in terms of self-mining hash rate among publicly traded companies, establishing itself as an industry leader within the past month, according to JPMorgan analysts. At 63.2 exahashes per second (EH/s), Bitdeer is now allocating more computational resources to Bitcoin’s network for itself than MARA, analysts led by Reginald Smith wrote. MARA last reported a self-mining hash rate of 60.4 EH/s. The shakeup follows what analysts described as an “impressive” month for Bitdeer, in which the Singapore-based firm added 8 EH/s. In a production update earlier this month, Bitdeer said the growth was spurred by…

Blockchain intelligence platform TRM Labs has joined forces with banking infrastructure firm Finray Technologies to create a unified system that monitors both crypto and fiat transactions. Finray’s compliance and decision engine, XZiel, has been integrated with TRM’s blockchain intelligence tools to enable real-time alert triaging, automated escalation, case management, and risk assessment across crypto and fiat transactions, the companies announced on Tuesday. With stablecoin settlements and fiat payment flows becoming increasingly interconnected and with new regulations such as Europe’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA), institutions operating in both markets now require unified oversight, according to Finray Technologies and TRM Labs. The…

The DeFi sector is making notable growth in line with the latest weekly data. In this respect, the Dolomite, DODO, and Stellar have gained the top position among the DeFi projects in terms of TVL growth over the week. As per the data from DefiLlama, the other notable DeFi projects in the top-10 list take into account Reservoir, Wildcat Protocol, Flying Tulip, Helix, ICHI, Gala, and Polymarket. Hence, these figures denote the established and emerging projects’ competition for significant liquidity inflows. TOP PROJECTS BY WEEKLY #TVL GROWTH$DOLO $DODO $XLM $DAM #Wildcat $FT #Helix $ICHI $GALA #Polymarket $MITO $FLIP $AERO $DRIFT…

Ethereum’s recent protocol upgrades suggest more than incremental improvements as high-performance competitors chip away at its dominance. Vitalik Buterin detailed the plan to build what he called a “cypherpunk principled non-ugly Ethereum” — not as a replacement chain, but as a tightly integrated evolution of the existing system. The proposal follows $ETH developers formally scheduling Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) for the forthcoming Hegota hard fork (currently targeted for late 2026). And with account abstraction updates and long-term architectural changes, that transition signals a broader recalibration of Ethereum’s roadmap at a time when rivals are catching up. The development comes…