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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 …

Bitcoin rose 0.7% since midnight UTC to around $77,200, and 68 of the CoinDesk 100 constituents gained, though the index remains 1.4% …

Payments and capital markets are driving growth for Ripple’s $2.4 billion digital dollar as it looks to bring RLUSD to Europe under …

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk have agreed on an unusual position: frontier AI development may need to slow …

The company is closing its Copenhagen IT site while maintaining Bratislava and opening a new hub in Vietnam to reduce costs. www.coindesk.com

“Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune. www.coindesk.com

The combined haul equals the largest individual political donations in U.K. history, sharply scaling up crypto industry backing. www.coindesk.com

Bitcoin Suisse says rising AI investment, government debt and weakening stock-bond diversification strengthen the case for adding bitcoin to traditional portfolios. www.coindesk.com

The yield-generating asset has a special place in the digital asset investor’s portfolio, argues GlobalStake’s Ryan Haczynski. www.coindesk.com

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