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Philippines races toward cashless future as digital payments hit 64.7%

Philippines races toward cashless future as digital payments hit 64.7% Read the full story at Nikkei Asia →
Institutional

Bitcoin.com integrates UAE-registered US dollar stablecoin into self-custodial wallet

The integration expands access to USDU, the UAE’s first central bank-registered US dollar stablecoin, as it builds distribution beyond institutional channels. Read Full Story at…
Payments

Crypto Stocks Rip Higher as Strategy Jumps 12%, Coinbase Climbs 9%

Strategy, Coinbase, Circle, and BitMine are riding Bitcoin’s short squeeze toward $70K—and two of them may be squeezing equity bears of their own. Read Full…
Payments

How Maple Finance Became the #2 Crypto Lender Behind Tether — Sid Powell Explains

Sid Powell, CEO and co-founder of Maple Finance, joins Chris Storaker on the Converge Podcast Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io →
Institutional

Treasury’s New Stablecoin Rule Could Force US Exchanges to Delist Tether

Reading Treasury’s newly proposed GENIUS Act rules on Bits + Bips, Austin Campbell said Coinbase’s US platform “might have to delist Tether,” pointing to Europe’s…
Infrastructure

Wyoming joins $15 billion LayerZero exodus with state stablecoin move

This is the first time a U.S. government entity has publicly replaced its blockchain infrastructure specifically on security grounds. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
AI

Trump Family Crypto Firm Tied to Chinese AI Models US Government Called a Security Risk

WorldClaw accepts World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin while offering AI models from Chinese companies facing U.S. national security restrictions. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
Payments

Circle still tells users to buy Noble USDC on Coinbase after cutoff date passes

Coinbase warned later Noble deposits may not be recoverable, while its notice left the cutoff’s clock time unspecified. The post Circle still tells users to…
AI

Why the Trump-backed crypto venture is distancing itself from Hong Kong AI aggregator WorldClaw

WLFI says the AI platform is independent and uses USD1 as a payment rail, but would not say whether it has equity, financing, revenue-sharing or…
AI

Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Works With Hong Kong Venture Selling AI Models From Restricted Chinese Firms

Nearly half the AI models on WorldClaw come from Chinese firms the administration has flagged, and the venture takes the Trump family’s stablecoin as payment.…