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Mastercard Closes $1.8B BVNK Deal in Stablecoin Payments Bet
Mastercard has completed its acquisition of stablecoin payments company BVNK, adding onchain settlement and wallet infrastructure to its global network. The deal positions the card giant to connect fiat currencies, stablecoins and tokenizedbitcoin.comUS and UK Reveal Digital Asset Plan to Modernize Finance
American and British regulators are expanding cooperation on crypto, tokenization, payments, artificial intelligence, and financial resilience. The initiative connects new regulatory frameworks with plans to reduce cross-border friction andbitcoin.comStrategy Sets Bold Goal to Become the World’s Largest Public Company
Strategy reiterated its ambition to become the world’s largest company by market capitalization, outlining a capital strategy built on bitcoin, digital credit, and equity. The approach is designed to expand its balance sheet and creatbitcoin.comSenate Will Vote on CLARITY Act Before August Recess, Lummis Says
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis says the Senate will vote on the CLARITY Act before lawmakers begin their August recess. The bill would divide federal crypto oversight while addressing ethics, enforcement, consumer protection, and market certaibitcoin.comMoca Network CEO Explains Why AI Agents Will Need Provable Identity
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents will increasingly need verifiable proof of who they represent, what they may access and how far their authority extends as they begin spending money, sharing data and completing transactions for users, acbitcoin.comMeta Debuts AI Coding Agent Muse: Here’s How It Compares to Claude Code and Codex
Meta is the latest tech giant to ship a coding agent, racing to compete with leading AI behemoths Anthropic and OpenAI. "We're excited to release Muse Code (beta), a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, our newest model," the coDecryptAbu Dhabi’s Crypto Blueprint Draws Miners, Funds and Global Giants
Abu Dhabi has built one of the world’s clearest paths for crypto and blockchain companies to set up shop, and sovereign money is following close behind. Key TakeawaysCitadel Mining holds about 6,996 BTC built through Abu Dhabi miningbitcoin.comCloudflare OS: Here’s What’s Inside the Open-Source AI Agent Platform
Cloudflare built the first version of Cloudflare OS for itself. In May, the company gave every one of its thousands of employees access, CEO Matthew Prince wrote, and people outside engineering started using it to draft documents, build sliDecryptPerplexity Wins Appeal Against Amazon in AI Agent Shopping Lawsuit
A federal appeals court has overturned an order blocking Perplexity's AI shopping tools on Amazon, handing the startup an early victory in a closely watched case over how autonomous AI agents can interact with online platforms. The Ninth CiDecryptBitcoin Options Flash $80K Max Pain as Wall Street Loads Up
Bitcoin traders have quietly stacked more than $41 billion into futures contracts, while the options market is flashing price targets thousands of dollars above where bitcoin actually trades. At $64,711 on Aug. 5, spot bitcoin looks almostbitcoin.comVisa Widens Stablecoin Payouts via Zerohash Rails
Visa is expanding its stablecoin payment offerings through an arrangement with crypto infrastructure provider Zerohash, allowing eligible Visa Direct clients to prefund accounts and send payouts using stablecoins. In an announcement on WednDecryptCircle Posts $701 Million Q2 Revenue as USDC Activity Accelerates
Circle reported stronger second-quarter earnings as USDC circulation and transaction activity expanded. The stablecoin issuer also set a September launch date for Arc, its institutional blockchain network. Key TakeawaysCircle posted $48M inbitcoin.comOpenAI and Anthropic's Rogue Models Hacked Real Companies. The Law Has No Answer
OpenAI set a precedent on July 21. The company said a combination of its models, both run with reduced safety refusals, broke out of an isolated environment during a cyber-capability benchmark and reached open-source repository Hugging FaceDecryptMAGNE.AI Secures $2.64M Strategic Funding for Edge AI, Agentic Payments and On-Chain Infrastructure
Road Town, British Virgin Islands, August 5th, 2026, Chainwire. MAGNE.AI, an AI-native hardware and on-chain intelligence infrastructure company, today announced the completion of an additional US$2.64 million strategic financing round, witbitcoin.comFeds Say an NFT Founder Raised $10 Million Only to Blow It All on Gambling, Trading, and a DJ Hobby
Federal prosecutors have charged the founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far with securities fraud and wire fraud, alleging he raised more than $10 million from investors to build a Web3 platform before spending much of the money on online gDecryptCoinidol.com: Bitcoin Remains above Its $60,000 Bottom
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has failed to rise above the $67,000 barrier, resulting in a drop below the $62,000 support.CoinIdolBitcoin Tests Market’s Patience as Zcash Gives Holders Hope: Analysis
It was a quiet crypto trading session in a quiet summer, but the charts are painting different pictures for Bitcoin, the market leader, and Zcash, one of the hottest altcoins of the last year. Bitcoin spent the week dealing with fears of quDecryptBitcoin Holds $64K as Polymarket Cuts CLARITY Odds to 15%
Bitcoin held firmly above $64,000 despite intraday swings between $63,900 and $64,706. The modest price gains triggered heavy losses for short sellers, driving $148 million in short liquidations out of $216 million across the total crypto mbitcoin.comBitwise CIO: Crypto Can Survive CLARITY Act Failure, Not the Wait
Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan says crypto can absorb a Clarity Act defeat this week, but warned recently that the industry can’t thrive in a state of limbo. Key TakeawaysBitwise’s Matt Hougan sees Clarity Act odds nearbitcoin.comChangeNOW Brings Martin Masser Into Its Crypto Super App
Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, August 5th, 2026, Chainwire The former TON executive joins as Director of Strategic Partnerships to form the connections behind ChangeNOW’s next phase. Former TON executive Martin Masser joins CDecrypt
