Institutions and Digital Asset Leaders Gather at Blockchain Futurist Conference To Explore the Future of Finance

Visa's strategic expansion into stablecoins and a significant buyback plan could reshape global commerce, impacting crypto dynamics and investor value. The post Visa Inc. reports $11.2B Q2 revenue, announces $20B buyback as stablecoin pilot hits $7B run rate appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

AI-focused Super Pacs are spending heavily in midterms, and nearly half has gone to a single Manhattan district race The artificial intelligence industry is spending heavily in the 2026 midterms, hoping to secure influence over the technology’s first generation of legislation – and New York City’s primary has emerged as the key battleground. AI-focused Super Pacs have raised roughly $100m this cycle, of which $44m has been spent so far, in dozens of congressional races across the country. Nearly half of all spending has converged on a single Manhattan race: Tuesday’s Democratic primary in the district of NY-12. Will Craft and Andrew Witherspoon contributed reporting Continue reading...

Silicon Valley and corporate America are increasingly turning to cheaper, open-source artificial intelligence models built in China.

It was the best of trends, it was the worst of trends. It was the epoch of artificial intelligence,  it was the epoch of artificial inflation.  I’m truly excited to be alive at a time when AI, formerly the stuff of science fiction, is now an everyday reality and promising so many benefits to humankind.  AI is accelerating drug discovery, slashing the cost of protein folding research, diagnosing cancers earlier than human radiologists can, automating the drudgery out of nearly every white-collar job, translating speech across hundreds of languages in real time, and giving the blind a way to see the world through a camera.  AI is giving us all this and so much more. But no amount of techno-optimism can hide the fact that AI is making just about everything more expensive.  While the AI trend is making a tiny number of rich people even richer, the public at large is paying the price through rapidly rising prices; it represents a transfer of wealth from the have-nots to the haves.  AI is a

Canada’s largest week-long gathering of conferences, networking events, and community experiences. Canada Crypto Week returns July 20–26, 2026, for its sixth year, bringing together dozens of events across Canada focused on cryptocurrency, digital assets, and artificial intelligence. The week connects entrepreneurs, builders, investors, and institutions through a diverse lineup of

Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of the Polygon Foundation, stressed that the network managed over $300 million in stablecoins from emerging markets in May. He also highlighted that the growth of non-dollar stablecoins has reached 16x over the last 6 years, and that this was “just getting started.” Polygon Registers Around $309 Million In Latam Stablecoin Volumes […]

The Iran conflict threatens Gulf remittances, pushing migrant workers to stablecoins, potentially reshaping global financial systems. The post Iran war puts $124B Gulf remittance lifeline at risk, pushing migrant workers toward stablecoins appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

JPMorgan, BlackRock, DTCC and SEC updates show tokenization growth in deposits, securities, reserves and stocks. Tokenized finance recorded another active week as banks, asset managers, and regulators advanced several market projects. The latest updates covered tokenized deposits, securities settlement, stablecoin reserves, tokenized stocks, and on-chain equity products. JPMorgan, BlackRock, State Street, DTCC, Ondo, and the […] The post JPMorgan, BlackRock, SEC: Why Tokenization Is Reaching a Tipping Point appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.