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Bitcoin Depot is moving to require ID for all transactions as regulators have cracked down on crypto ATM operators over scams and money laundering concerns.

Bloomberg reports that Stripe is in early acquisition talks with PayPal as the payments giant has battled competition, leadership turmoil and an 85% stock drop from its peak.

The Blockchain Association urged Congress to exempt low-dollar crypto transactions and tax mining and staking rewards upon sale.

Anthropic alleges Chinese AI companies DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax made 24,000 accounts and 16 million Claude exchanges to scrape its AI bot for training. 

Bitwise’s acquisition of Chorus One expands the company’s staking capabilities to more than 30 blockchains, including Solana, Hyperliquid, Monad, Avalanche and Sui.

Ether faces a bearish trend as onchain fees and network deposits hit multiyear lows. Until derivatives metrics stabilize, ETH price remains at risk.

The EU authority tracking compliance under the MiCA framework issued a warning to those marketing crypto derivatives as “perpetual futures or perpetual contracts.”

The exchange now allows US customers to trade thousands of stocks and ETFs commission-free alongside crypto, with 24/5 access and instant funding.

Kraken’s new contracts, built on the xStocks framework, offer up to 20x leverage on tokenized benchmarks tied to US equities and gold.

MoonPay debuts infrastructure enabling AI agents to transact with stablecoins onchain as both crypto and non-crypto companies race to build the “agent economy.”

Bitcoin remains pinned below $65,000 as random bouts of intense selling pressure persist, but one onchain indicator has stabilized, providing insight into when spot market demand may return.

Users placed more than $7 million betting on the outcome of the crypto sleuth's investigation, expected to be announced on Thursday.

Ether whale order sizes are shrinking, while a $2 billion short cluster near $2,000 frame a tightening liquidity scenario for ETH after a sixth week of red price action.

A 9.8% shareholder has doubled down on calls for Empery Digital to sell its BTC holdings, return capital to investors and remove its CEO and board.

The approval allows WisdomTree’s tokenized Treasury money market fund to trade and settle around the clock within the US regulatory framework.

Two major news outlets published similar reports on Monday claiming that Binance had fired or suspended employees involved in an investigation into crypto going to Iranian entities.

Tokenized securities, 24/7 trading and onchain settlement could allow the NYSE’s blockchain plans to reshape post-trade processes in financial markets.

The deal channels crypto liquidity into US home loans, testing whether blockchain-based capital can fund traditional mortgage markets at scale.

Ether’s drop to $1,800 reflects weak technicals and onchain signals that point to continued downside risk as Ethereum ETF outflows persist.

BTC price targets stayed bearish with a zone of interest below $50,000 as macro assets saw increasing downside pressure at the Wall Street open.