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More than a dozen digital asset treasury companies have moved into artificial intelligence and data centres as falling crypto prices weaken demand for the DAT model. Bloomberg reported that the shifts have not stopped steep share declines. K Wave Media has fallen about 71% since its May pivot. Lixte Biotechnology and Alpha Compute have each dropped roughly 33% since announcing their own changes. The figures measure performance after the pivots and do not prove causation. The implosion of the once-hot market for cryptocurrency treasury stocks is prompting a number of firms to pivot to AI in an attempt to win…

$XRP Ledger app activity has picked up, with tagged transactions jumping 28.6% as more applications become active on the network. Developer-related activity on the $XRP Ledger is showing renewed momentum, with new data pointing to a noticeable rise over the past week. According to an X post from XRPL dUNL validator Vet, source-tagged transactions have increased sharply as more applications and services come live on the ecosystem. $XRP Ledger Records Stronger App Activity According to the data, source-tagged transactions reached 676,800 per week, representing a 28.6% increase compared to the first week of the reporting period. An accompanying chart shows…

Not Swaps, and Not Preempted Even If They Were U.S. District Judge Vernon D. Oliver’s ruling rests on a threshold point rather than preemption: for the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction to attach, a contract must be a swap traded on a designated contract market. Oliver held it is the judiciary’s role, not the agency’s, to decide what counts as a swap, rejecting Kalshi’s argument that any such challenge must be brought against the CFTC itself. On the statute, Oliver read “the occurrence, nonoccurrence, or the extent of the occurrence of an event” to concern whether an event happens and to what…

TradFi trading kept up the pace in August, with a new focus on memory stocks and semiconductor companies. On-chain trading keeps shifting toward equities and metals, as pure crypto trades remain slow. Contracts for tradfi assets like equities and metals are still attracting more active traders. Multiple platforms try to expand the representation of equities, metals, commodities, and securities, as token and pure crypto trades lose their appeal. Crypto exchanges and decentralized platforms are now starting to reshape the way equities are traded, reaching a new audience of decentralized traders. As Cryptopolitan reported earlier, HIP-3 is already reflecting the shift,…

Fidelity Digital Assets has identified six significant risks that could challenge the prevailing investment thesis that the proliferation of AI agents will inevitably drive growth for public blockchains. The analysis, reported by BeInCrypto, offers a counterpoint to the optimism surrounding AI-blockchain integration, urging investors to consider potential pitfalls. Closed systems may outcompete public blockchains One of the primary risks highlighted is that AI agents may not actually rely on public blockchains. Instead, closed systems developed by major technology and financial firms could capture the demand by offering superior performance, lower costs, better user experience, and clearer regulatory compliance. This could…

A Week of Very Bad News for Bitcoin By any normal standard, bitcoin should be falling. The Coldcard hardware wallet theft has topped $116 million, with waves of drains continuing since the exploit surfaced on July 30. Michael Saylor’s Strategy disclosed it sold 1,638 $BTC for about $104.7 million (its third sale of the year) while wallets linked to the company moved another 1,030 $BTC on Wednesday, stoking fears of a fourth. In Washington, the Clarity Act’s cloture vote is set to fail after Senate Democrats balked over ethics talks, and Polymarket odds on the bill becoming law in 2026…

Crypto presales have become far more competitive in 2026. Investors are no longer buying projects based only on marketing campaigns. Product development, security audits, token utility, staking, and ecosystem growth now play a much bigger role when evaluating new opportunities. July has produced several standout projects across AI, gaming, infrastructure, and memecoins. Here are ten crypto presales attracting attention and why each has entered discussions around the best crypto presale opportunities of the year. MemeToro ($MT) MemeToro combines AI automation with a growing Web3 ecosystem on $BNB Chain. Instead of functioning as a standalone meme token, the platform centers on…

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) sits at the center of that machine. Created under legislation passed in 2007 and operational since Jan. 1, 2009, the independent regulator combined Switzerland’s banking, insurance, and anti-money-laundering (AML) supervisors under a single authority. Its reach now extends across banks, securities firms, insurers, asset managers, financial-market infrastructure, and an increasingly sophisticated universe of digital-asset businesses. Switzerland Turns Regulation Into an Economic Asset The model carries weight because finance remains one of Switzerland’s economic engines. Financial-sector gross value added reached CHF 74 billion in 2024, equal to about 9% of gross domestic product. The…

HashKey Exchange has completed a live transaction using Hong Kong’s first regulated Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin, HKDAP, with YF Life, testing a payment route that the companies say could cut premium settlement from two to three business days to near real time. HashKey Holdings said in a press release sent to crypto.news that its licensed trading platform used real funds to complete HKDAP subscription and redemption processes with YF Life Insurance International Limited, as the insurer prepares to explore stablecoin-based premium payments for customers. The transaction puts HKDAP into an insurance-related use case only days after the stablecoin entered its…

Sui, the Layer-1 blockchain known for its high throughput, has introduced a new atomic transaction technology specifically designed for AI agents. The company demonstrated its programmable transaction block (PTB) technology at its Basecamp event, according to Crypto Briefing. This development aims to streamline complex operations for AI-driven applications, potentially reducing costs and improving efficiency. What is PTB and how does it work? At the heart of this announcement is the programmable transaction block, a feature that allows up to 1,024 Move function calls to be executed in a single transaction. Unlike traditional blockchain transactions that handle one operation at a…