As Coinbase Pro adds USDT, Tether execs balk at continued scrutiny
Tether’s battle with New York may be resolved for now, but legal obligations have company on the defensive. Is Tether’s USDT regulated or just registered?
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Bitfinex, Tether banned in New York. No end yet to Ripple XRP’s SEC lawsuit woes. CBDC bridge for Asia and Middle East.
Other top blockchain and crypto news: Bill Gates on bitcoin. Nvidia protects gamers from crypto miners with separate CMP and GeForce RTX graphics cards.
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Tether prosecution delayed again. Bitcoin’s false ‘double-spend’ rumors. Brave sends 24 million users to Web 3.0 via IPFS.
Other top blockchain and cryptocurrency news: BIS touts digital currencies. China’s blockchain network to add CBDCs as payment option.
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Ep. 27 | YFI soars past bitcoin. ConsenSys acquires JPMorgan’s Quorum blockchain. OMG Network integrates Tether transfers.
Other top news: $50 billion in cryptocurrency leaves China. Severe flooding in Sichuan destroys bitcoin mining farms. DeFi in India.
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Shopify’s 13x AI-Referral Surge Hides the Real Agentic Commerce Story
Shopify’s Q1 2026 data shows AI-referred orders grew 13x, but the gap between referral influence and agent-executed transactions reveals the real agentic commerce bottleneck.
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Monday.com Just Changed How Enterprise SaaS Gets Priced. The Per-Seat Model Is Not Coming Back.
Monday.com cut 620-630 employees and shifted from per-seat pricing to a hybrid model with AI credits. The first major enterprise SaaS to make this structural shift.
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DeepSeek Disrupts AI Pricing with $0.28 Agentic Output Floor
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 establishes $0.28 output pricing as a structural ceiling for enterprise agentic automation, challenging OpenAI Luna and Western labs 48 hours after aggressive price cuts.
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Circle’s NYDFS Trust Charter Completes a Regulatory Depth Moat No Other Stablecoin Issuer Can Match
The stablecoin wars are currently bifurcating into two distinct strategic architectures: the scale-at-all-costs model and the regulatory depth moat. While the Open USD consortium—a coalition of 140-plus members including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, and BNY—bets on massive distribution and a revenue-sharing model to capture market share, Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL) is doubling down…
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Coinbase’s Q2 Miss Hides the First Public Proof of Where Agent Payments Settle
Coinbase’s Q2 2026 earnings report arrived with the predictable thud of a missed consensus estimate. The headline numbers are stark: total revenue landed at $1.2 billion, missing the $1.3 billion analyst target, while the company posted an EPS of -$1.36 against an expected -$0.17. Predictably, the market reacted with a 6% drop in after-hours trading.…