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World Liberty Financial Launches Toolkit to Let AI Agents Spend USD1
World Liberty Financial (WLFI) on Thursday released the AgentPay SDK, an open-source toolkit that enables AI agents to autonomously hold, send, and receive funds across Ethereum-compatible blockchains.Transactions are settled in USD1, WLFI's dollar-pegged stablecoin, which curren...
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Electric Capital Maps 501 Real-World Yield Sources, Finds 93% Untouched by DeFi
Electric Capital published a research report on Monday, cataloging 501 distinct sources of real-world yield and cross-re...
Coinbase Launches Stock Perpetual Futures for Non-U.S. Users
Coinbase on Friday rolled out perpetual futures contracts tied to U.S. equities, becoming one of the first major central...
World Gold Council Proposes Shared Infrastructure for Tokenized Gold Products
The World Gold Council, the gold industry's leading market-development body, announced Thursday it is building shared in...
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Privy Taps Deframe by Pods to Unlock DeFi Yield Strategies
Privy, the embedded wallet infrastructure provider acquired by Stripe last year, has integrated Deframe, a DeFi aggregation API built by the team behind Pods Finance, to enable dev...
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Solana Foundation President Says Web3 Gaming 'Is Not Coming Back'
Solana Foundation president Lily Liu said blockchain gaming is dead in an X post today, March 20. A later, self-proclaimed "shitpost" from the Foundation’s chief product officer po...
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SEC's Crypto Guidance Ends Years of Regulatory Ambiguity But Key Questions Remain
The SEC and CFTC's landmark crypto taxonomy has been widely hailed as a decisive break from years of regulatory limbo but legal experts say one of its most consequential provisions...
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Kalshi Raises $1B at $22B Valuation: Report
CFTC-regulated prediction market platform Kalshi is raising around $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation in a new funding round, according to multiple reports. The new round is led...
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Crypto Markets Extend Post-FOMC Selloff
Crypto markets deepened their losses on Thursday after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and raised its 2026 inflation forecast yesterday, compounding a selloff tri...
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Celo Proposes Shifting Opera to 'Long-Term Stakeholder' with 160M CELO Grant
Publicly traded web browser Opera (NASDAQ: OPRA) announced that it has committed to being a long-term holder of Ethereum Layer 2 Celo’s native token, CELO, according to press relea...
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