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Cryptocurrency can accelerate artificial intelligence adoption by helping AI startups onboard users, according to Polygon's co-founder Sandeep Nailwal.
“You can use crypto incentives and disincentives to onboard users to onboard

In the annals of financial history, few institutions have faced the tempests of competition with the steadfast resolve of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). Born in 2013 as a private placement, GBTC pioneered regulated Bitcoin investment, granting investors access to Bitcoin’s (BTC) meteoric rise

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The US labor market is “still holding up” as nonfarm payrolls data comes in higher than expected.
Bitcoin and stocks head higher as US President Donald Trump repeats calls for the Fed to lower interest rates.
BTC price action may spark a “liquidity grab” above $97,000, a trader

Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron called for a fundamental shift in how decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols manage liquidity, labeling the sector’s ongoing liquidity crisis as “self-inflicted.”
In an exclusive interview, Boiron outlined Polygon’s vision for sustainable DeFi, emphasizing

The planning commission of Vilonia, Arkansas, has unanimously rejected a proposal to establish a cryptocurrency mining facility within the city limits following strong opposition from local residents.
According to local reports, the decision came after weeks of community pushback, where citizens

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Bitcoin trades within a narrowing range between $91,000 and $94,500 over the last three days.
A rare divergence between rising open interest and negative funding rates could set up a short squeeze.
BTC price must establish $95,000 as new support to continue the uptrend.
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Bitcoin Standard author Saifedean Ammous says that even if one entity owned a huge amount of Bitcoin, it wouldn’t hurt the protocol
Ammous reiterated major companies like BlackRock and Strategy don’t own the Bitcoin they hold since it belongs to the investors
Ammous said if these c

Ethereum core developers are considering a four times increase in the layer 1 gas limit as one of the key features for the next hard fork after Pectra, known as Fusaka.
The devs are proposing to test a raise in Ethereum’s gas limit to 150 million by the Fusaka hard fork, according to Ethereum

Billion-dollar asset manager ARK Invest has raised its “bull case” Bitcoin price target from $1.5 million to $2.4 million by the end of 2030, driven largely by institutional investors and Bitcoin’s increasing acceptance as “digital gold.”
ARK’s “bear” and “base” case scenarios for the price of Bitc

The capital city of Slovenia — Ljubljana — has been named the world’s most crypto-friendly city by migration advisory firm Multipolitan.
The city outranked runners-up Hong Kong and Switzerland’s economic powerhouse Züric, which scored the same in the Crypto-Friendly Cities Index, found in