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The Cardano Foundation announced a partnership with Reef Data eG on July 28, backed by Hamburger Volksbank, ARIC, VALIO, and Disruptive Elements.Reef plans to pool members’ personal data, license it to businesses, and pay royalties back to contributors. Cardano’s Reeve system sits at the accounting layer, recording payment flows and royalty distributions, and the underlying data stays elsewhere.The European Commission Joint Research Centre identifies six models of data intermediary: personal-information management systems, data cooperatives, data trusts, data unions, data marketplaces and data-sharing pools.The EU Data Governance Act gives that market a regulatory backbone, requiring recognized providers to register with national…

Bitcoin miners are redirecting billions of dollars and scarce power capacity toward artificial intelligence as BTC’s downturn pushes mining profitability close to historic lows.Data from CryptoSlate shows Bitcoin trading around $64,000, nearly 50% below its October peak, while elevated network competition and weak transaction fees continue to squeeze miner revenue.Those pressures have made AI infrastructure increasingly attractive because data-center customers can pay substantially more for reliable electricity and long-term capacity, giving miners another way to monetize power assets that are becoming less profitable when devoted solely to Bitcoin.Some of the industry’s largest operators are already converting facilities, signing multi-year computing…

Schwab Asset Management put “natural language processing” front and center in the name of its $232 million crypto-equity ETF, four years after the fund began using the technique to pick stocks.STCE is an equity ETF, not a spot crypto fund. It owns shares in companies connected to the crypto ecosystem rather than cryptocurrency or other digital assets directly. The fund, formerly called the Schwab Crypto Thematic ETF, became the Schwab Crypto Thematic Natural Language Processing ETF on July 28. Its ticker remains STCE. Related ReadingCharles Schwab’s Bitcoin and Ethereum rollout shows crypto is moving deeper into mainstream brokerage accountsSchwab’s direct…

Senate negotiators on the CLARITY Act have run into a condition several Democrats are treating as essential: they want ethics language limiting how much senior officials, including the president and vice president, can profit from digital asset ventures.That condition traces back to a warning crypto figures made before the 2024 election, when they argued that tying the industry too closely to a political figure could turn market structure legislation into a partisan fight.The CLARITY Act, the market structure bill the industry has wanted for years, is now testing whether that warning held up.Republicans added ethics restrictions to the July 22…

Aqua lets liquidity providers keep assets in their own wallets while making them available across multiple DeFi trading opportunities. The protocol is designed to improve capital efficiency through atomic settlement rather than locking funds into dedicated liquidity pools. Launch incentives and security audits accompany the public rollout as 1inch expands the protocol across 13 blockchain networks. 1inch has introduced Aqua, a decentralised finance protocol that enables liquidity providers to use the same wallet-held assets across multiple markets instead of locking funds into separate liquidity pools. Following an initial developer-only release, Aqua is now available publicly on 13 EVM chains, including…

XRP trades near $1.06, down 2.9% over 24 hours and 8.6% over the past week, as CoinGlass shows $2.43 billion in XRP open interest, $2.47 billion in 24-hour futures volume, and just $361 million in spot volume.Futures turnover is running roughly 6.85 times spot turnover, and forced liquidations have already erased $9.51 million in XRP positions over the past day.XRP sits just above its intraday low near $1.05, only around 5% to 6% above the $1 level markets treat as a psychological floor. A derivatives-heavy market can move fast when forced position-cutting outruns what a thin spot market can absorb.The…

Nansen co-founder and chief executive Alex Svanevik said AI trading agents could outnumber human traders within two years, as the firm moves from onchain analytics into trade execution. Svanevik said Nansen has processed more than US$500 million in trading volume through its trading feature; the company has published no such milestone and the figure could not be verified. Nansen switched on AI-powered trading in January across Solana and Base, then added Hyperliquid perpetuals in June, routing execution through Jupiter, OKX and LI.FI. Nansen co-founder and chief executive Alex Svanevik said AI trading agents could outnumber human traders within two years,…

Bitcoin fell over the past 24 hours as traders positioned for a Federal Reserve decision that could break a market pattern dating back more than three decades.Data from CryptoSlate showed the largest cryptocurrency falling as much as 3% to $62,913, its lowest level in nearly two weeks, before recovering to $63,795 as of press time.The weakness comes ahead of the Fed’s July policy meeting, only the second under Chairman Kevin Warsh.The US central bank has kept its benchmark rate unchanged at 3.50% to 3.75% since December, while President Donald Trump has repeatedly pressed policymakers to lower borrowing costs.Still, investors largely…

Bitcoin dropped to a 24-hour low of US$62,785 before recovering to about US$63,836, leaving it 4.3% below Monday’s high and down 3.7% over the week. Samsung Electronics closed down 13.4% on Tuesday and SK Hynix down 14.7%, while the PHLX Semiconductor Index fell 4.5% to sit 22.5% below its one-month high. Market reports citing liquidation trackers put forced closures above US$500 million over 24 hours, with individual tallies running as high as US$682 million. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to a 24-hour low of US$62,785 (AU$90,410) as Asian semiconductor stocks slid for a second straight session, before buyers took it back to…

Brendan Gunn received a suspended custodial sentence after admitting he dealt with funds suspected to be the proceeds of crime linked to a cryptocurrency investment scam. The case centred on Mormarkets’ banking activity, with repeated fraud warnings preceding the movement of more than $181,000 through closed accounts. The prosecution forms part of broader regulatory efforts to pursue people accused of facilitating cross-border investment scams targeting Australians. A New South Wales court has sentenced Brendan Gunn, brother of Australian Olympian Rachael “Raygun” Gunn, after he admitted handling more than US$180,000 (AU$261,000) that was reasonably suspected to be the proceeds of crime…