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“This is not just a POC,” Ariyasinghe said. “Everyone’s coming in with their eyes wide open. Appetite is very much about building real infrastructure … The target is live transactions within a legal, regulatory compliance framework within the next 12 months.”A $150 billion trade corridorThe initiative is focusing on the trade corridor between Europe and South Korea, an economic artery that processes over $150 billion in goods and services annually, making it one of the world’s 15 largest trade routes. It also taps into regional trends: Industry data shows that 60% of all global stablecoin payments are happening in Asia.”I…

Elizabeth Warren has spent much of the past decade warning Americans about the risks posed by privately issued and decentralized digital assets.Over the years, the Massachusetts Democrat has built a reputation as one of crypto industry’s most recognizable critics by persistently linking the emerging industry to money laundering, speculative excess, consumer losses, and sanctions evasion.Throughout her crusade against Bitcoin, she frequently offered a distinct alternative in a central bank digital currency, or CBDC.In a 2021 Senate appearance, she stated:Digital currency from central banks has great promise. Legitimate digital public money could help drive out bogus digital private money. It could…

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission.Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent. You design the system that does it instead. A loop here can be thought of as a recursive goal where you define a purpose and the AI iterates until complete. I believe this may be the future of how we work with coding agents. However, it’s still early; I’m skeptical, and you absolutely have to be careful about token costs (usage patterns can vary wildly if you are token rich or…

A missed phone call costs more than a missed opportunity.Let’s say a customer calls you in a time of need, reaches voicemail, but doesn’t leave a message. Instead, they call the next number on their contact list. You don’t just lose the opportunity to solve that problem, but also the chance to sell to the same customer. Next time, you might not be the first they call when there is a presumption that their call will go unanswered. Quo Sona was built to catch such calls before they go elsewhere. While Quo Sona is a starting point for some, buyers…

TL;DR Kraken Co-CEO Arjun Sethi opened Money20/20 Europe 2026 with a keynote titled “Money Open” on the Orbital Stage. A Kraken fireside with Citi explored embedded financial services for digital commerce, putting Payward Services front and center. Krak took over The Block with a multi-session Coffee House, while xStocks hosted a markets-themed happy hour. Payward Services brought partners, customers, and the Kraken VIP community together across dinners and happy hours all week. This year’s conversations centered on agentic commerce, stablecoins, embedded finance, and the regulation working to keep pace. Kraken showed up across all of it: on the main stages,…

TL;DR Pump.fun launched GO in early June as a bounty marketplace backed by escrowed crypto rewards. The feature has drawn criticism over dangerous, degrading and poorly moderated user-created tasks. The backlash highlights how crypto incentives can create regulatory and safety risks when platforms reward viral behavior. A Viral Crypto Feature Becomes A Moderation Test Pump.fun’s GO feature is facing growing backlash after turning crypto rewards into a marketplace for user-created bounties. The Solana-based memecoin platform launched GO in early June, allowing users to escrow SOL or tokens and pay participants who submit proof that they completed specific tasks. In theory,…

Salome Mikadze-Struk is no stranger to adversity. The daughter of refugees, she built a software-development business as an undergraduate at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and kept it running despite the outbreak of war in her native Ukraine. Now, she’s drawing on her experiences to mentor tech-startup founders and speak publicly about the importance of resilience in entrepreneurship.Mikadze-Struk was studying at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C., when COVID-19 struck. Classes went online, and she moved back to Ukraine. In the midst of that disruption she saw an opportunity to develop her business idea, called Movadex, by tapping Ukraine’s pool…

A demo request lands at 9pm. By 9:01, the lead is enriched, scored, and routed to the right AE. By 9:02, a personalized first-touch email is in the prospect’s inbox. By 8am the next morning, the AE walks into a booked meeting and starts prepping for the call.

Bank of England policymaker Megan Greene predicts tokenised deposits will overtake stablecoins within five years. Yet the more important question is what kind of digital money ecosystem emerges. In the end, they may serve different purposes. Tokenised deposits upgrade the existing banking system. Stablecoins have expanded access to stable currency savings, self-custody and public blockchain infrastructure for users beyond the reliable reach of traditional banking — helping create a pathway to broader digital asset adoption, particularly of Bitcoin. In late May 2026, Bank of England policymaker Megan Greene invoked the analogy of a race between “the tortoise, the hare and…

Even though one of the biggest brands in the industry is facing difficult issues about how it presents itself, prediction markets are making record profits. Prediction market open interest reached a record $1.48 billion in the week ending June 15, a second consecutive all-time high, according to a16z Crypto. Unlike trading volume, which only monitors daily buying and selling, open interest counts the value of active bets that are still in play. It displays the amount of money that traders are still risking. Open interest has increased sixfold in the last year, indicating that participants are seeing prediction markets as…