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NanoVita’s strategic alliance with TermiX marks an important step towards bringing the theoretical convergence of AI and blockchain technologies into an actual working system. The partnership indicates a transition into maturity of the Agentic Web, where TermiX will serve as a single clearinghouse and settlement facility for the entire ecosystem. This partnership helps eliminate one of the largest bottlenecks in the development of decentralized AI. It provides the means for autonomous agents to engage in transactions, verification, and settlement of their obligations within a high-speed and composable environment. Infrastructure for an Autonomous Economy TermiX‘s operational framework is the core of…

Ryde Group, a Singapore-based ride-sharing and carpool platform, similar to Uber or Lyft, said Wednesday that it has adopted a crypto treasury strategy for its corporate reserve. The company said it will invest a portion of its corporate reserves into Bitcoin ($BTC), Ether (ETH), and Sol (SOL), with specific allocations and time of purchase to be determined by a governance team at Ryde, according to its announcement. Ryde cited the “evolving macroeconomic environment” as the reason for adopting a crypto treasury, and said that the option to invest portions of its treasury in digital assets gives the company more flexibility…

In brief Spain’s LaLiga has become the first European soccer league to partner with prediction market platform Polymarket. The deal includes broadcast visibility, digital programming, and exclusive fan experiences in North American markets. The move marks an expansion in Polymarket’s sports partnership strategy following recent deals with major U.S. leagues. Spain’s LaLiga has become the first European soccer league to partner with Polymarket in the U.S. and Canada, in a multi-year deal that gives the platform exclusive prediction market rights across the United States and Canada. The agreement grants Polymarket broadcast visibility during LaLiga matches, digital programming opportunities, and exclusive…

Q402, Quack AI’s blockchain payment and settlement entity, has partnered with Stable, a blockchain for stablecoin payments. The partnership aims to unveil a gasless payment platform, removing one of the largest bottlenecks when it comes to scaling AI agents on-chain. As Quack AI disclosed in its official social media announcement, while AI agents are witnessing wider traction, the issue of gas balance management across diverse wallets has turned into a crucial operational issue. Hence, Q402 addresses it with the consolidation of gas management into an inclusive pool, streamlining agent execution. Introducing Q402 × @Stable — A Partnership Built for the…

Changpeng Zhao (CZ) released his autobiography, and one thing stood out to parts of the crypto community; it wasn’t very “crypto.” It had no $NFT tie-in, no token-gated access, and no on-chain experiment, but just Amazon. This decision caught the attention of Colin Wu, and he questioned why one of crypto’s biggest figures would choose such a traditional route. He argued that the book could have supported crypto payments or included a soulbound $NFT for buyers at the very least. Wu feels there could be something that would align more closely with Web3 principles. CZ defends Amazon launch Wu, in…

Fed unveils a 90-day comment plan to ease Basel III and G-SIB capital rules, modestly cutting requirements for large banks and more for regional lenders. Summary Fed launches a 90-day comment period on proposals that slightly lower capital requirements for large banks and more materially for smaller regionals. Bowman’s “four pillars” overhaul spans stress tests, eSLR, Basel III and G-SIB surcharges, aiming to free credit and shareholder payouts without scrapping post-2008 safeguards. Industry groups cheer the recalibration as growth-friendly, while critics warn easing buffers amid oil shocks and higher-for-longer rates risks weakening prudential defenses. The Federal Reserve voted Thursday morning…

Gold (XAU) and silver (XAG) futures have climbed into the top five by trading volume on Binance Futures. Binance Metal Rush Doesn’t Leave Crypto Behind Just weeks after Binance rolled out gold and silver perpetual futures settled in $USDT, the cumulative volume across the metals contracts already reached the tens of billions of dollars, a CryptoQuant report from yesterday claims. However, CryptoQuant’s analyst Marteen assures that Binance is still overwhelmingly crypto‑native. Bitcoin leads the futures volume around the low‑$20‑billion range with Ethereum following behind at $18.1B and Solana at a distant third at $3.0B. But the metals’ rise into the…

Wall Street financial services firm Cantor is among investment banks that are pitching cryptocurrency trading platform FalconX for its potential IPO, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The company has held preliminarytalks with possible advisors, but FalconX has not yet formally appointed bankers for its initial public offering, the people said, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the matter is private. FalconX declined to comment. Cantor did not respond to a request for comment by publication time. Investment banks often pitch companies for an IPO by presenting themselves as the best partner to take the business…

The recent attacks on the Pix system by the U.S. government evolved into a situation that might tilt the balance toward any of the candidates before the upcoming election, with President Lula leading in prediction markets by a slim margin. Pix Gets Into Political Commentary In Brazil As Elections Loom Pix, one of the largest instant payment networks in the world, has become a meaningful issue in Brazil as the upcoming presidential elections loom. The system, which has over 175 million users, is now in the political spotlight, as a recent report from the United States Trade Representative Office (USTR)…

Bane Labs has released NeoFS Fund Proxy contracts that enable users and applications on the EVM sidechain Neo X to fund NeoFS storage containers without interacting with Neo N3. AxLabs, one of the three teams that make up Bane Labs, also updated its 3vm developer tool to include a live wallet-connected interface for depositing $GAS to NeoFS from Neo X. NeoFS is Neo’s distributed, decentralized object storage network, where users pay for storage by depositing $GAS to the NeoFS smart contract. Until now, funding a NeoFS container required transacting directly with Neo N3. The Fund Proxy removes that requirement for…