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Raven Raises Funding Round at $90 Million Valuation, Backed by Coinbase Ventures
Coinbase Ventures and CMCC Global closed a strategic round with Raven, a crypto trading firm, at a $90 million valuation. The size of the raise was undisclosed. Raven provides market making liquidity for prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket as the sector draws heavy capital.
BlackRock Says AI Agents Will Drive the Next Stablecoin Boom
BlackRock's new paper, The Machine-Native Economy, argues autonomous AI agents will become a major source of stablecoin demand, settling machine to machine payments for data, APIs, and compute. It also floats tokenized compute as a new asset class, while conceding the market is early.
Bitget Loses $351.6 Million in Hack, CEO Points to North Korea
Crypto exchange Bitget lost roughly $351.6 million after attackers spoofed transfers from its hot and warm wallets. CEO Gracy Chen ties the breach to a North Korea linked group, suspends withdrawals, and says the User Protection Fund covers the loss.
Vaia Expands into the US Market, Bringing Its AI Intelligence Platform to American Financial Institutions
Bengaluru-born AI company is building a deeper US presence as financial institutions accelerate adoption of agentic AI across investment, wealth and enterprise workflows
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Can You Trust AI With Your Crypto? Francesco Andreoli Thinks You Can, With Limits
MetaMask opened Agent Wallet to all users on August 6, 2026, giving AI agents a scoped wallet across 22 EVM chains and Hyperliquid. Francesco Andreoli, Head of Developer Relations at Consensys, walks through the policy engine, the $10,000 Transaction Protection, and where users get it wrong.
Interview with Charlie Hu, Co-Founder of COCO AI: AI Agents, Enterprise Adoption, and Future of Work
COCO AI co-founder Charlie Hu runs a 15-person team alongside about 60 AI agents, serving 500-plus businesses in e-commerce, gaming, and digital marketing. He breaks down the shift from Copilot to Autopilot, why physical AI is the next frontier, and how to stay valuable.
Interview with Adam Budínský: Trezor’s Head of Hardware on the Safe 7, Open Security, and Self-Custody
The Trezor Safe 7 just won a 2026 Red Dot Award for Product Design. Head of Hardware Adam Budínský talks to CIM about the device's open, auditable, secure element, the push to end blind signing on Ethereum, the touchscreen threat model, and why self-custody adoption still lags in India.
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BitMine Stakes $13.8 Billion in ETH as Its Treasury Tops 6 Million Tokens
BitMine's ether treasury has crossed 6 million tokens, about 4.9% of all ETH, and it has staked 5.07 million of them, worth roughly $13.8 billion. With treasury stocks no longer trading at a premium, the real story is why staking yield has become the center of the strategy.
What Is the CLARITY Act? Inside the Crypto Bill the US Senate Refused to Advance
The US Senate blocked the CLARITY Act in a 49-50 procedural vote on September 15, 2026. This explainer covers what the crypto market structure bill would do, who introduced it, how it passed the House, and why ethics, banks, and Democrats stalled it in the Senate.
MENA Crypto Volume Hits $350 Billion as Gulf Adoption Accelerates
MENA crypto volume climbed to an estimated $350 billion by 2025-2026 from about $100 billion in 2022, according to the Bitcoin Policy Institute. Turkey leads by transaction value, the UAE by institutional flows, and Saudi Arabia by growth, as conflict and regulation reshape demand.
Bitcoin Tops $80,000 as Price Forecasts Split Between $45K and $150K
Bitcoin crossed $80,000 on August 24 for the first time since May 15, backed by $1.92 billion in weekly ETF inflows and over $4 billion in liquidated shorts. One trader maps a path back to $45,000, while Bernstein holds $150,000 and Citi's base case sits at $82,000.