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European financial firms and technology groups are urging lawmakers to speed up changes to rules governing distributed ledger technology, warning the region risks falling behind the U.S. in digital finance.In a joint letter, 39 signatories including Boerse Stuttgart Group, Nasdaq and fintech associations across several European Union (EU) countries asked the European Commission and Parliament to separate the digital ledger technology (DLT) pilot regime from a broader legislative package under review.They argue that handling the rules on their own would allow quicker updates, Bloomberg reports. The DLT pilot, in place since 2023, lets firms test how tokenized versions of assets…
XRP’s decentralized finance ecosystem is growing fast. Its FXRP supply is closing in on 160 million tokens, a milestone that signals rising adoption just months after launch — and the numbers are fueling a broader argument about where XRP stands in the future of decentralized finance. Related Reading XRPL Validator Makes The Case For Stability A validator on the XRP Ledger known as Vet made waves on X this week, arguing that XRP is built to drive the next phase of DeFi in a way that other protocols are not. His argument doesn’t rest on raw performance data. Instead, it…
Deezer announced on Monday that AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new music uploaded to its platform. The company said it’s receiving almost 75,000 AI-generated tracks per day and more than two million per month. The consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, at 1-3% of total streams, and 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and demonetized by the company. The latest figure from Deezer highlights a continuous surge in AI-generated music uploads to the platform. Deezer reported receiving around 60,000 AI tracks per day in January, up from 50,000 in November, 30,000…
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We’re thrilled to announce that APXUSD is available for trading on Kraken! Funding and trading APXUSD trading is live as of April 20, 2026. To add an asset to your Kraken account, navigate to Funding, select the asset you’re after, and hit ‘Deposit’. Make sure to deposit your tokens into networks supported by Kraken. Deposits made using other networks will be lost. Trade APXUSD on Kraken Here’s some more information about this asset: apxUSD (APXUSD) apxUSD (APXUSD) is a synthetic dollar issued by Apyx, an over-collateralized stablecoin backed by a diversified basket of variable-rate preferred shares issued by Digital Asset…
Strategy added 34,164 BTC to its treasury, its biggest purchase to date, and the biggest since November 2024. This time, Strategy extended its new fundraising cycle, achieving high demand for its STRC preferred stock. Strategy achieved its goal of purchasing more BTC at scale through a new fundraising cycle. The company now holds 815,061 BTC with an average price of $75,527 BTC. New BTC purchases accelerated as Strategy’s treasury broke even on average. Strategy has acquired 34,164 BTC for ~$2.54 billion at ~$74,395 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 9.5% YTD 2026. As of 4/19/2026, we hodl 815,061…
Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models (Qianer Liu/The Information)
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NICE CXone and Genesys Cloud CX are two big names in the contact center software industry. But with both offering several similar features, how do you decide which platform is the right fit for your business? Choosing the wrong solution can be costly, both in terms of budget and lost productivity. The ideal choice depends on your needs. Do you require deep, complex integrations? Are you prioritizing a fully cloud-based architecture? In this article, we’ll compare NICE vs Genesys Cloud head-to-head, examining their features, pricing, and overall capabilities. We’ll also introduce a top alternative to see how it stacks up…
AI trading agents now execute a growing share of crypto order flow with little or no human input — but the safeguards around them have not kept pace. The result is a new kind of market risk that shows up both in individual account security and in the collective behaviour of autonomous systems at scale. The use of AI in crypto trading has reached a tipping point over the past year. Early bots followed simple, fixed rules for buying and selling. Today’s agents ingest news feeds, social sentiment and on-chain data in real time, then turn those signals into actual…
SEC removes huge pattern day trader barrier to allow retail investors to day trade Bitcoin with just $2k margin
Make CryptoSlate preferred on The SEC has approved a rule change that eliminates one of Wall Street’s most recognizable barriers for small traders: the old $25,000 minimum tied to pattern day-trading restrictions.Regulators signed off on FINRA’s proposal to scrap a framework that long made it harder for smaller investors to make rapid-fire stock trades, replacing it with a system aimed at measuring intraday risk.The change might not be a rewrite of crypto regulation per se, but it carries certain implications for Bitcoin because the same retail crowd that speculates in stocks and options often moves through crypto too. Related ReadingWhy…
