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The “morally binding” voluntary safety accord that President Donald Trump White House revealed after a meeting with the leaders and stakeholders of the US AI industry companies on Tuesday has caused a rift in Congress over whether to go along with them or not.  The criticism from Capitol Hill draws on the frustration that past...

Mutsamudu, Comoros, September 30, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, led the exchanges studied in order book liquidity at the market price for both SOL and DOGE in CoinGecko Research’s 2026 Crypto Liquidity on CEXes Report. The report measured order book depth for the top five non-stablecoin assets, BTC, ETH, XRP,...

Crypto economic activity expanded in September, making Q3 one of the most successful quarters for on-chain apps. In 2026, app revenues reached a new peak, driven by launchpads and decentralized trading.

The latest data from Token Terminal reveals that tokenized stocks deposited into DeFi protocols have reached $262.4 million. At the start of the year, the same number was at $14.66 million. This equates to a year to date growth of around 1,690%, or close to 18x, with the growth accelerating over the last month.  The...

On September 29, Robinhood announced that it intends to allow clients to participate in trading in a selection of US stocks and ETFs around the clock during weekends, bringing equity trading to the level of continuous operation that has been characteristic of cryptocurrency markets for years. This decision, as per Reuters, enhances Robinhood’s current 24-hour...

A US appeals court upheld Thomson Reuters’ copyright victory against ROSS Intelligence, rejecting the legal-research company’s fair-use defense over its use of Westlaw material to train an AI search engine, Reuters reported on September 29. The outcome of the case could have implications that extend beyond the realm of legal research. In the event that...

Kakao Pay Securities and Dinari are exploring the possibility of using tokenization for global distribution of shares listed on the Korea Exchange. A partnership has been formed between the two companies to develop a framework for sourcing Korean equities, complete a proof of concept, and determine all legal, technical, and operational steps necessary for overseas...

On September 29, OpenAI unveiled Dots, always-on AI agents that can work toward a user’s goals across the network of connected applications without any daily oversight. This step will elevate its competition with Meta from chatbots to business software. The competition is gradually turning into a question of who has dominion over the domain in...

A cryptocurrency founder made a trip to space in August 2025. Justin Sun, founder of the Tron blockchain, flew aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-34 mission on August 3, 2025 – the company’s 14th human spaceflight – four years after winning the auction to pay for his ride on the maiden voyage of the rocket...

AI agents developed by Chinese firms, such as Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot, have shown dishonest, rule-violating, and boundary-pushing conduct during controlled assessments, as per a report by Reuters on September 29. On the other hand, researchers couldn’t find any indication of the Chinese agents acting autonomously to breach the rest of the internet. That difference...

In September 2025, Elon Musk made a post on X that was pessimistic about Anthropic’s future and its chances of success. However, a year later he seems to have walked back on his dismissal of the AI company, as he says that he is clearly wrong. This is coming as it became known that Anthropic...

Cboe Global Markets and the S&P Dow Jones Indices have agreed to a 25-year renewal of their exclusive licensing agreement, ensuring that Cboe retains exclusive rights to S&P 500 Index (SPX) options through 2051 and potentially paving the way for tokenized options in the future. While no product has been talked about by the companies,...

Polymarket has confirmed the appointment of Lisa Mantil as head of institutional growth. Mantil was a partner at Goldman Sachs and was there for nearly 3 decades.  The move is seen as a wager on Wall Street money, and it happens as regulators, state AGs, and lawmakers in DC place more attention on prediction markets....

Bitwise has started trading the Bitwise NEAR ETF on NYSE Arca under the ticker NRR.  This makes it the first US spot exchange-traded product tied to NEAR. It also gives American investors a regulated way to hold the token and collect its staking yield without running a validator themselves. A staking ETF that keeps the...

OpenAI’s annual recurring revenue is about to reach $70 billion, due to business customers signing on at roughly twice the rate they did in July.  OpenAI is working to close the revenue gap between its business and Anthropic’s while both labs aim to launch IPOs. Is OpenAI performing better than Anthropic?  OpenAI’s annualized revenue run...

Anthropic has told prospective investors that advanced AI could bring “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” a disclosure buried within an unpublished IPO prospectus, coming as the Claude AI creator chases a valuation above $2 trillion, according to Reuters. Reuters reported that around 80 of the prospectus’s 261 pages are devoted to various risk factors,...

Google has asked Europe’s General Court to throw out two Digital Markets Act orders that would potentially force the tech giant to feed search data to its rival engines and let competing AI assistants run on Android systems with the same reach as its own Gemini.  The appeals are focused on instructions issued by the...

The company behind the largest corporate BNB treasury, CEA Industries Inc. (Nasdaq: BNC), has announced that moving forward, it will now go by a new name: BNB Standard Corporation. The change is in name only; the firm will retain its BNC ticker. The firm settled on the new name after a BNB community advisory poll...

The new remittance and identity app, Sivar, built by Modveon for El Salvador, runs on Coinbase’s payments infrastructure, according to a Tuesday announcement by the US-based exchange. The app built by the firm based in Palo Alto will allow eligible senders to transfer funds from the U.S. to verified recipients in El Salvador for a...

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has given the green light to its fourth stablecoin pilot to allow cross-border trade to be settled with stablecoins, adding trade finance to the list of areas that the regulators have cleared through the programs.  The latest pilot brings back some participants in earlier projects, including the country’s three megabanks....