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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson believes cryptocurrency and blockchain technology could eventually absorb much of the artificial intelligence industry, arguing that decentralized networks can solve several challenges facing AI developers.

Argentina is set to bring its crypto market under a global tax-reporting system by 2029. The country has joined the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), allowing tax authorities to automatically share crypto transaction data across borders. The move comes as Argentina has also eased crypto rules after reversing a strict 2022 ban, allowing digital asset…

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) rallied to a two-week high on Friday, along with other cryptocurrencies.

This week was supposed to be the one that ended the rally. The Senate killed the crypto industry’s biggest legislative push in years on Tuesday. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2023 on Wednesday. Two catalysts, 24 hours apart, both pointing down.

The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned BitBank, naming the Iranian exchange it says carried the Bitcoin that shipping companies paid for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

Former Hut 8 (NASDAQ: $HUT) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jaime Leverton has been appointed to lead cryptocurrency miner Fortitude.

Germany is seeing faster crypto adoption than the UK, with CoinShares researcher Luke Nolan pointing to stronger institutional involvement and younger investors treating digital assets as a more accessible place to deploy inherited wealth. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Nolan said German demand is being driven by a mix of family offices, wealth managers and individual advisors—while…

The document was published on 17 September and will come into force six months later, i.e. on 17 March 2027. It sets out a list of types of crypto-assets and related services, the conditions for operating in the crypto-asset market (including minimum capital requirements); forms of guarantees and measures to prevent abuse, etc.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on the Iranian crypto exchange BitBank. The agency claims the platform was used to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Binance’s attempt to acquire a pan-European crypto license from Greece came under scrutiny when the Wall Street Journal reported that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde had urged Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis not to approve Binance’s MiCA application.