Payments
Reform UK’s Farage Claims 'No Obligation' to Declare Tether Billionaire's $6.7M Gift
Farage insisted that the gift from Christopher Harborne was for his personal security and had been reviewed “from every legal angle.” Read Full Story at…
Markets
Zcash Rallies 30% on Multicoin Investment News
The crypto VC’s co-founder said the firm has been buying ZEC since February, and has “built a significant position.” Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io →
Institutional
Morgan Stanley takes on crypto trading rivals with E*Trade pilot
The Wall Street bank is charging 50 basis points per crypto trade, below basic retail pricing at Coinbase, Robinhood and Charles Schwab. Read Full Story…
Payments
Banking lobby attempts to kill Clarity Act’s stablecoin progress as markup is scheduled for next week
US banks are mounting an aggressive lobbying effort to stall the CLARITY Act, even as key US lawmakers signal a fast-tracked timeline to put the…
Institutional
Stablecoin industry opposes Bank of England’s unhosted wallet ban
The crypto industry in the UK has come out against the Bank of England’s proposed policy that would ban custodial wallets for stablecoins. Read Full…
AI
Anthropic Deploys AI Agents to Tackle Wall Street's Most Tedious Work
Anthropic released 10 ready-to-run templates targeting some of finance’s most time-consuming tasks—from building pitchbooks to closing the books at month-end. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co…
AI
Hut 8 Shares Hit All-Time High Price as Bitcoin Miner Signs $9.8 Billion AI Data Center Lease
Hut 8’s second hyperscale AI campus lease deal covers the first phase of a sprawling Nueces County complex that was originally meant to fuel Bitcoin…
Institutional
Morgan Stanley Launches Crypto Trading for Retail Clients: Report
The $2 trillion financial services firm has rolled out cryptocurrency trading capabilities on its E*Trade retail brokerage platform. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io →