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New estimates suggest tens of billions of dollars in stablecoin activity persist inside China despite a years-long prohibition on crypto trading. China banned cryptocurrency trading and mining years ago, framing the move as a defense of financial stability and capital controls.

CryptoBriefing and Nairametrics both report DeepSeek nearing roughly $12 billion in funding ahead of a 2027 IPO, but they give materially different sizes and framing for the in-progress round. CryptoBriefing and Nairametrics both report DeepSeek nearing roughly $12 billion in funding ahead of a 2027 IPO, but they give materially different sizes and framing…

The crypto custody bank adds USD and SWIFT access for institutional clients as part of a broader international expansion Anchorage Digital has broadened its institutional offering through a tie-up with Standard Chartered, according to reports from Finextra Blockchain and Crypto Economy.

A year after setting an all-time high, bitcoin's drawdown looks modest by the asset's historical standards. Bitcoin is trading about 32% below the all-time high of $126,000 it reached a year ago, according to CoinDesk and CryptoBriefing. That implies a current price near $85,700, based on the reported percentage decline from the record.

Cryptonews.com and The Tokenist both cover Strategy's Bitcoin purchase and Peter Schiff's warning, but give different percentage changes and price figures for the same Bitcoin rebound. Cryptonews.com and The Tokenist both cover Strategy's Bitcoin purchase and Peter Schiff's warning, but give different percentage changes and price figures for the same Bitcoin rebound.

The company says it has also built a detection tool to verify when text was produced by its models. OpenAI has begun inserting invisible watermarks into text produced by ChatGPT and its coding assistant Codex for users in Europe. The watermarks are embedded directly into the generated output but are not visible to the reader.

The milestone test aims to treat Ethereum's base layer and its rollups as one connected economic system. Ethereum's scaling roadmap has long relied on layer-2 rollups to process transactions cheaply while settling final state back to the base layer.

Ripple names Turkey a priority digital assets hub, pointing to Garanti BBVA custody work and its RLUSD stablecoin rails Ripple has singled out Turkey as a priority market for its digital assets business, according to reporting from Bitcoin.com News and CoinGape.

The new OKX Money app lets users convert roughly 50 currencies into stablecoins and earn yield on their holdings. OKX has rolled out a new consumer application called OKX Money, aimed squarely at users in emerging economies. The app lets customers convert roughly 50 national currencies into stablecoins, according to reporting from BlockchainReporter.

Developers raised the Sepolia testnet gas limit to 200 million and pushed an urgent fix before a planned jump in network capacity. Ethereum developers pushed an emergency update to the Prysm consensus client on the Sepolia testnet this week.

The new wallet positions stablecoins as the default asset rather than an afterthought in crypto storage. Changer+ has introduced a self-custodial wallet built with stablecoins as its primary focus. The company says the product is meant to make stablecoins easier to use for everyday transactions and storage.

The U.S. Treasury's financial crimes unit has formally scrapped a 2020 plan requiring reports on crypto sent to private wallets and mixers. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN, has withdrawn a 2020 proposal that would have required financial institutions to report certain cryptocurrency transactions involving private wallets.

The crypto firm's filing comes just days after a legal challenge targeted the regulator's approach to digital asset bank charters. Rain has submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a US trust bank charter.

On-chain investigator says the network helped move funds tied to the Bybit hack and other Lazarus-linked thefts. On-chain investigator ZachXBT has published findings alleging that a Chinese crime network laundered over $1 billion for Lazarus Group. The North Korea-linked hacking organization has been tied to some of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in recent years.

Analysts say a large direct payment to Americans could send fresh capital rushing into digital asset markets. President Donald Trump's pledge to send a $5,000 payout to Americans has become a talking point among crypto market watchers.

The new framework aims to bring delivery-versus-payment settlement logic to Solana's blockchain for institutional trades. Solana has launched an open-source settlement framework built around delivery-versus-payment, or DvP, logic for institutional trades.

TronWeekly's opening line says NU7 brings 'longer block times,' while CoinTurk News EN, TheNewsCrypto and CryptoNewsZ all report the opposite — a cut from 75 to 25 seconds. TronWeekly's opening line says NU7 brings 'longer block times,' while CoinTurk News EN, TheNewsCrypto and CryptoNewsZ all report the opposite — a cut from 75 to 25…

City regulators are drafting legislation set for 2026 that would extend licensing requirements beyond existing exchange rules. Hong Kong authorities are drafting legislation that would introduce licensing requirements across four categories of crypto-related services. The bill is reportedly planned for 2026, according to crypto.news and UNLOCK Blockchain.