Circle's $400M Tazapay deal buys emerging market links that take ‘years to build’
Stablecoins' “next battleground is in emerging markets,” one expert said, as Circle looks to expand USDC's reach where rival Tether has long been strong.
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Stablecoins' “next battleground is in emerging markets,” one expert said, as Circle looks to expand USDC's reach where rival Tether has long been strong.
Goldman Sachs late Friday became the last of the major banks to retract its forecast of no rate hike next week.
CoinDesk · Sep 13, 2026
The crypto industry eagerly awaits a September 15 vote, though it might not happen. Or maybe it will. Or it might get delayed or reappear in some other form.
CoinDesk · Sep 13, 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agrees with safety concerns regarding AI development, says no initial share sale this year.
Cointelegraph · Sep 13, 2026
Passports, selfies and financial transaction histories of some customers were revealed to a fraudster using a government agency domain.
Cointelegraph · Sep 13, 2026
"Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune.
CoinDesk · Sep 12, 2026
The company is closing its Copenhagen IT site while maintaining Bratislava and opening a new hub in Vietnam to reduce costs.
The combined haul equals the largest individual political donations in U.K. history, sharply scaling up crypto industry backing.
CoinDesk · Sep 12, 2026
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk have agreed on an unusual position: frontier AI development may need to slow as systems become capable of helping build their own successors.
CoinDesk · Sep 12, 2026
The fintech company fulfilled a fraudulent information request sent from a government agency's own email domain, exposing ID documents and full crypto transaction histories for a "limited" number of users.
The DPRK has turned to third-country IT workers to pass job interviews, after which, the positions are usually taken over by North Korean operatives.
Cointelegraph · Sep 12, 2026
A week after launch, complaints are rolling in from users that GPT-6 Astra has been nerfed. OpenAI's last model went through the same cycle in July.
Decrypt · Sep 12, 2026
Bitcoin Suisse says rising AI investment, government debt and weakening stock-bond diversification strengthen the case for adding bitcoin to traditional portfolios.
Payments and capital markets are driving growth for Ripple's $2.4 billion digital dollar as it looks to bring RLUSD to Europe under MiCA, the firm's Jack McDonald said.
Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave £36 million, and between them beat what every UK party raised last year.
Decrypt · Sep 12, 2026
Ben Delo, co-founder of BitMEX, donated almost $50 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
Cointelegraph · Sep 12, 2026
Anthropic is said to be seeking to raise as much as $100 billion in the offering, which could value the AI company at about $2 trillion.
Cointelegraph · Sep 12, 2026
The surveillance mod on GTA V brings the privacy fight to Los Santos, where players can demolish the cameras tracking them.
Decrypt · Sep 12, 2026