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Ethereum developers released Prysm version 7.2.1 just before the Glamsterdam upgrade’s Sepolia rehearsal, ensuring validators automatically test a 200 million gas limit. The trial is designed to assess whether Ethereum can handle blocks more than three times larger than the previous 60 million-gas setting.
A Florida woman was arrested after Anthropic’s Claude safety systems flagged alleged threats against the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. A human review team reported the messages to police, highlighting how AI providers’ policies can allow user conversations to be disclosed in serious-risk cases.
A Zcash-focused advocacy group has registered to lobby in Washington, naming the CLARITY Act and two digital-asset tax proposals among its priorities. PGPZ received a $750,000 grant for its first year and has appointed Divij Pandya as its sole lobbyist.
President Donald Trump has created a federal “Super Intelligence Force” to coordinate AI policy, placing former SEC Chair Jay Clayton among its leaders. Clayton is widely reported as the administration’s AI czar after overseeing a major crypto enforcement campaign and the Ripple lawsuit.
President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to appoint intelligence chief Jay Clayton as AI czar while keeping him in his current role. The move would expand the administration’s AI oversight effort and follow commitments by technology companies to self-police their models.
President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to appoint intelligence chief Jay Clayton as AI czar while keeping him in his current role. The plan would combine AI development oversight with voluntary industry safeguards, though the White House has not confirmed the appointment.
Hester Peirce’s final day at the SEC has renewed debate over crypto regulation, privacy and data collection. A Blockchain Association policy associate says her proposed approach—clearer rules and privacy-enhancing technology—remains unfinished work for policymakers and the digital-asset industry.
Spanish police arrested a 16-year-old Romanian national suspected of running the KillSec ransomware group. The Operation KillSwitch crackdown also involved arrests in Britain and Romania, seizure of 110 terabytes of stolen data and efforts to trace cryptocurrency proceeds.
PayPay has added Binance Pay through HIVEX, allowing eligible, identity-verified overseas visitors to spend crypto at participating Japanese offline stores. Customers pay from Binance balances while merchants receive yen, but availability is limited and refunds may vary with exchange rates and spreads.
Base’s Cobalt mainnet upgrade adds separate administrative seizure controls for B20 tokens. Issuers can configure which balances are eligible for reassignment, while seizures preserve supply and remain distinct from the existing blocked-account burn function.
The Bitcoin Policy Institute is questioning MSCI’s proposed “non-operating company” rules, which could exclude Strategy and Metaplanet from its indexes. The institute says metadata suggests the broader review may retain elements of an earlier crypto treasury proposal and wants clearer classification criteria.
Stand With Crypto has endorsed candidates in several 2026 US Senate and House races, including Jon Husted and Sherrod Brown’s Ohio contest. The Coinbase-launched group is focusing on lawmakers’ records on the CLARITY Act as control of Congress could shape future crypto legislation.
Donald Trump and executives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and xAI signed a voluntary White House accord placing responsibility for frontier AI safety largely on developers through controls, audits and board oversight.
The post Michael Saylor’s Crypto Market Prediction For Next 24 Months appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said the next 24 months could be important for the digital asset...
Coinbase and Citi have specified two institutional stablecoin payment services: stablecoin acceptance through Spring by Citi and automatic conversion of incoming fiat through Coinbase Virtual Accounts. The companies have not disclosed customers, transaction volumes, pricing, eligible currencies or supported stablecoins.
Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok warned that AI agents could automatically move household cash from low-interest checking accounts to higher-yield alternatives, draining the inexpensive deposits banks use to fund loans and creating a slow-motion bank-run risk.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2409, barring state public officials and employees from issuing meme coins and restricting platforms from listing certain politically connected tokens from 2027. The measure arrives as Congress debates ethics rules for politicians’ crypto ventures.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said tokenization is moving faster than Washington’s regulatory process, arguing that regulatory clarity is an economic issue as well as a legal and political one, CoinDesk reported.
