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Financial technology firm Stripe says blockchains may need to process up to 1 billion transactions per second to support the future of artificial intelligence agents. In an annual letter posted to X on Tuesday, Stripe CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison and co-founder John Collison gave a rundown of the firm’s performance over 2025, while also making some predictions for the near future. One of the key talking points was the adoption of AI agents and what widespread use could look like in the future. The duo argued that blockchain transaction activity will soon skyrocket as AI agents gradually become the primary conductors…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned a Russian exploit brokerage network accused of purchasing stolen U.S. government cyber tools with crypto and reselling them to unauthorized buyers, marking the first use of new authorities under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act. In an announcement Tuesday, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Russian national, Sergey Sergeyevich Zelenyuk, and his company, Operation Zero, along with several associates and affiliated firms.  The action blocks any property or interests in property of the designated parties that fall under U.S. jurisdiction and bars U.S. persons from transacting with them. Treasury alleges…

Tony Kim Feb 24, 2026 20:48 Anthropic releases third version of Responsible Scaling Policy, separating company commitments from industry-wide recommendations after 2.5 years of testing. Anthropic has released the third iteration of its Responsible Scaling Policy, marking a significant restructuring of how the AI company approaches catastrophic risk mitigation after two and a half years of real-world implementation.The update, published February 24, 2026, introduces three major changes: a clear separation between what Anthropic can achieve alone versus what requires industry-wide action, a new Frontier Safety Roadmap with public accountability metrics, and mandatory external review of Risk Reports under certain conditions.What…

Debate is raging in the crypto community as Justin Bons, founder and CIO of Cyber Capital, argues that Ripple’s XRP Ledger (XRPL) is “centralized.”Meanwhile, Ripple’s CTO Emeritus, David Schwartz, has firmly defended its architecture. This raises crucial questions about what makes a blockchain genuinely decentralized. Justin Bons Labels XRP Ledger “Centralized” In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Bons criticized what he calls “centralized blockchains.” He argued that several networks rely on permissioned validator structures, pointing to XRP Ledger’s Unique Node List (UNL) as an example. “Ripple: Has a “Unique Node List”, which makes the validators effectively permissioned. Any divergence from this…

Market participants are weighing what a modest investment in XRP could become as regulatory and banking narratives strengthen. XRP is trading at $1.40 today.Visit Website

By staking treasury ETH, the Ethereum Foundation now directly participates in consensus while generating native, ether-denominated yield. The Ethereum Foundation announced that it has begun staking a portion of its treasury funds, following the Treasury Policy it released last year. The latest move represents a formal step into direct participation in Ethereum’s proof-of-stake consensus. Treasury Staking As part of this initiative, the Foundation deposited 2,016 ETH on Tuesday and stated that it plans to stake approximately 70,000 ETH in total, with all staking rewards directed back to the Foundation’s treasury. The staking setup relies entirely on open-source infrastructure, and the…

Top crypto firms have received conditional approval to act like national trust banks.The banking lobby has expressed concerns over the process.Other crypto firms have applied and are awaiting approval.Crypto.com this week became the latest crypto company to receive conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust banking charter. The approval comes after the US’ largest banking lobby this month urged the OCC to slow its review of crypto companies’ charter applications. “ABA encourages OCC to ensure that a national bank charter does not become a vehicle leveraged by entities to avoid, or attempting…

XRP is on track to close its fifth consecutive month in negative territory, a rare stretch of sustained losses that has not been seen since late 2016. Despite holding at around $1.30, the token has declined nearly 30% in February alone, according to CoinGecko data, extending a broader five-month decline of roughly 50%. XRP Flashes Pre-Bull Run Pattern The last time XRP recorded five straight red monthly candles was between October 2016 and February 2017. During that period, the price slipped from $0.00885 to $0.00557, a decline of 37%, before finding a bottom near $0.0055 in March 2017. By May 2017,…

PANews reported on February 24th that, according to SoSoValue data, yesterday (February 23rd US Eastern Time; February 24th Beijing Time), Bitcoin spot ETFs saw a total net outflow of $204 million. VanEck HODL saw the largest net inflow at $6.3535 million, while BlackRock IBIT experienced the largest net outflow at $116 million. Currently, the total AUM of ETFs is approximately $80.738 billion, with a cumulative net inflow of $53.809 billion, resulting in a net asset value ratio of approximately 6.26%.

XRP, Solana, and Chainlink recorded small inflows, but these were insufficient to offset broader, persistent altcoin outflows. Investor appetite for digital asset funds remains muted after $288 million in weekly outflows. This is the fifth week in a row of redemptions, which propelled aggregate withdrawals to $4 billion, still trailing the $6 billion logged last year. Market participation has thinned significantly, as ETP trading slid to $17 billion, the weakest level since July 2025, amidst signs of disengagement among institutions and retail allocators alike globally this quarter. Short Bets Quietly Surge According to the latest edition of CoinShares’ Digital Asset…