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As AI-generated voices, faces, and personalities become more convincing, identity itself is starting to fracture online. The internet is entering a period where seeing someone’s face or hearing their voice may no longer mean very much. That’s the backdrop against which World Foundation is trying to build. “I do developer relations, among wearing lots of other hats, at World Foundation,” Ian explained during an interview with Blockster’s host Eric Spivak at Consensus 2026 in Miami Beach. “Essentially, I help communicate how World works, what it does, why we built it to a wide range of people — and help build…

WazirX says its new INR-based futures trading platform could help rebuild user trust and support the company’s recovery after the 2024 cyberattack linked to North Korean hackers. The exchange believes low-fee futures trading designed for Indian users can generate steady revenue and make trading easier for retail users who previously depended on $USDT-based systems. In comments shared with Coin Edition, WazirX said futures trading is a key part of its relaunch and restructuring plans after the hack. The company added that its goal is not only to grow the platform but also to regain user confidence through transparency, education, and…

Crypto entrepreneur Nic Carter has urged Bitcoin developers to catch up on quantum resistance or risk losing out to Ethereum, which already has a post-quantum roadmap. Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is the math that keeps Bitcoin ($BTC) secure. Users pick a secret number (private key) and, using a special curved line and simple multiplication rules on that line, can quickly create a public address that everyone can see. There are fears that quantum computers will have the ability to break this cryptography. The Bitcoin community is split on how to deal with it, with some advocating for upgrading cryptography while…

United States Representative Tim Moore has seen his bet on Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) surge by more than 300% in less than a year, significantly outperforming the broader market in the process. Particulars of the trade indicate that Moore, a Republican representing North Carolina, purchased between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of Intel common stock on August 8, 2025. The transaction was reported on September 3, nearly four weeks later. At the time of the purchase, Intel shares were trading in the low-$20 range. As of press time, Intel’s stock had climbed 326% to $81 from Moore’s purchase price. Over the same…

Canada’s largest bank just put $XRP on its official books. Royal Bank of Canada has disclosed a position in the Bitwise $XRP ETF through a 13F filing with the SEC. The holding is approximately 2,000 shares valued at roughly $30,000. It is modest relative to RBC’s $570 billion portfolio. 🚨 JUST IN: Royal Bank of Canada now has indirect ripple:native exposure through the Bitwise $XRP ETF. 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/63PNQCj9hj — RippleXity (@RippleXity) May 16, 2026 But the size is not the story. The story is that a top-five Canadian bank is now officially on record holding an $XRP ETF through a…

The crypto industry’s primary goal in Washington has taken a major step forward, with the passage of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act through a Senate committee process that’s been held up for four months. The Thursday vote of the Senate Banking Committee to advance the Clarity Act was, at the last moment, secured in a 15-9 bipartisan vote after a maneuver to admit further amendments Chairman Tim Scott had earlier rejected and winning some last-minute Democratic support as a result. “This process has been one of the most informative and challenging processes I’ve been through as a United States…

Binance TR, the cryptocurrency exchange, has released the second installment of its highly rewarding Community Content Creators event, which it launched for the first time this month. As you know, Binance TR’s Community Content Creation Event, starting in May and over the next three months, offers 200 users who create the best content on specific topics the chance to win a digital gift voucher worth 1,000 TL. As part of this event, Binance TR has released the second Binance TR Community Content Creator content guide, which content creators will use as a benchmark to create the most original content. Related…

Traders watching bitcoin’s $BTC$69,649.34 nearly 50-day choppy price action through a bearish lens may be getting it wrong. Since hitting lows close to $60,000 on Feb. 6, bitcoin has traded largely between $65,000 and $75,000, a period defined less by direction and more by exhaustion. This phase reflects a dynamic where investors are tested not only by sharp drawdowns, but by time, as prolonged sideways action grinds both bulls and bears through repeated false breakouts. Not a bear flag Some on social media are calling this a bear flag—a technical pattern representing a minor bounce within a broader downtrend. Bear…

Some $4 billion in assets has moved or is being moved to Chainlink’s CCIP bridge, a way to transfer tokens and data between blockchains, as the systems’ security faces heightened scrutiny after $292 million was drained from Kelp’s LayerZero-powered equivalent. Decentralized finance protocol Lombard is the latest firm to join the shift. The protocol is deprecating LayerZero and migrating more than $1 billion in bitcoin -backed assets to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, it said. Lombard issues two bitcoin-backed tokens, LBTC and BTC.b. The firm said the migration followed an internal security review after the April exploit. The move follows similar…

David Marcus, the former CEO of PayPal and the executive who led Meta’s shelved Libra digital currency project, is making a new push to rebuild banking on stablecoin rails. He now runs Lightspark, which has unveiled an API-based product that gives platforms and AI agents access to dollar accounts, payments and cards on top of Bitcoin and stablecoin infrastructure. The latest offering launch pushes Banking-as-a-Service into the stablecoin era, giving platforms and AI agents access to dollar accounts, payments and cards over Bitcoin-based rails instead of traditional bank stacks. The move marks a new phase in Marcus’s long-running effort to…