Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says artificial intelligence will strengthen crypto’s role rather than replace it. He expects autonomous agents to rely on stablecoins and blockchain networks for payments, trading and financial services.

Franklin Templeton has joined Blackrock, Fidelity, and Goldman Sachs in supporting the CLARITY Act, strengthening Wall Street’s push for federal crypto rules as senators review updated legislation before a potential floor vote.

A bipartisan Pennsylvania bill would impose insider-trading rules and consumer protections on prediction markets while blocking gambling companies from supplying their liquidity. The restriction could disrupt market-making strategies pursued by Draftkings, Flutter and other sportsbook groups expanding into federally regulated event contracts.

Bitcoin’s mandatory signaling window for the proposed BIP-110 soft fork opens in less than two weeks, and the story has changed more than the headline number suggests. Miner support remains modest at roughly 2.64%, but several weeks ago, signaling struggled to stay above 1%. Since then, it has climbed gradually as the deadline has come into view. The increase shows the proposal has gained some traction, yet not enough to indicate that the largest mining pools are preparing to switch.

Lido has activated the largest upgrade to its Core Protocol since Lido V2, and it starts by moving more than 8 million ETH onto Ethereum’s newer validator design, the company explained on Monday, in a note shared with Bitcoin.com News.

Bitcoin experienced sharp volatility on Monday, repeatedly failing to break past $65,500 resistance despite cooling Middle East tensions, leaving its price flat and wiping out $75 million in leveraged trades.

Crypto.com Custody will provide institutional-grade custody and liquidity services for XYO and XL1, the company announced Monday, marking XL1’s first listing on a major exchange since its token sale.

FIFA said its integrity task force found no suspicious betting or evidence of match manipulation across the 2026 World Cup. A monitoring network that sits on that same task force disclosed a day later that it issued seven integrity notices, placed 15 matches under enhanced scrutiny and monitored prediction markets continuously for the first time.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies added 9,946 ETH and retired 6.1 million shares last week, tightening its grip on ethereum’s supply while signaling that management sees value in both the asset and its own stock.

The move encompasses the acquisition of nearly 1,000 patents issued worldwide across 680 patent families, putting Circle as one of the largest holders of blockchain patents in the U.S. and internationally. The company qualified IP as critical for expanding onchain infrastructure adoption.

Stand With Crypto will score senators’ CLARITY Act votes on public lawmaker scorecards, giving 3 million U.S. advocates a permanent record of who backed the crypto market structure bill ahead of the November midterm elections.

Ether jumped 4.5% to reach $1,980, closing in on the $2,000 mark and lifting its market cap to $237 billion.

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CME Group launched single-stock futures on more than 50 of the largest U.S. companies, giving traders a new leveraged way to bet on names like Apple, Amazon and Nvidia without ever owning the shares.

U.S. spot crypto ETFs finished a volatile week with positive flows into bitcoin, ether, XRP and solana products. Ether led with $104 million in net inflows, while HYPE funds suffered a second consecutive week of withdrawals.