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Coinbase's x402 Payment Protocol Moves to Linux Foundation With Backing From Google, Stripe, and Visa

The open standard for embedding payments into HTTP interactions aims to become the settlement layer for AI agent commerce, with…
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LNVPN Rebrands to Nadanada.me as Privacy Infrastructure Expands with Anonymous eSIMs and Lightning Payments

Bitcoin Magazine LNVPN Rebrands to Nadanada.me as Privacy Infrastructure Expands with Anonymous eSIMs and Lightning Payments Nadanada.me, formerly LNVPN, now…
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Genius Group liquidates Bitcoin treasury to pay $8.5M of debt

The AI and crypto company has added to a pattern of Bitcoin treasuries offloading this year, with Michael Saylor’s Strategy…
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Google's Veo 3.1 Lite Cuts API Costs in Half as OpenAI's Sora Exits the Market

Google’s cheapest video model yet targets developers burned by high generation costs, arriving just days after OpenAI pulled the plug…
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The Protocol: Quantum computing could break Bitcoin sooner, says Google

Also: OpenAI raises $122 billion, crypto ecosystems diverging post-quantum strategies, and Base’s 2026 roadmap. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
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Google Quantum Paper Speeds Up Timeline for Threat to Crypto to 3 Years

Google’s Quantum AI team published a landmark whitepaper Tuesday that sharply compresses the estimated timeline for a quantum computer to…
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Bitfarms loss widens to $285M as Bitcoin fell, but shares jump anyway

Bitfarms said it was impacted by a decline in Bitcoin prices last year. The company is now five months into…
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California Tightens AI Contract Rules as Fight With Trump Admin Grows

Governor Gavin Newsom orders stronger safeguards for AI companies seeking California contracts, escalating tensions with the Trump administration over national…
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Base Doubles Down on Global Markets, Stablecoins, and AI Agents

Coinbase’s Layer 2 shifts focus to tokenizing every major asset class and scaling stablecoin payments. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io…
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Google Quantum AI Paper Rewrites Threat Timeline for Bitcoin, Ethereum Security

A whitepaper co-authored with the Ethereum Foundation and Stanford researchers slashes qubit estimates by 20x, warns that billions in crypto…