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Geely Sweden CEO Per Ansgar joins Concordium Foundation board. Concordium expands focus on verified AI agents and digital payments. Geely and Concordium deepen partnership on autonomous transactions. Concordium Foundation has appointed Per Ansgar, chief executive officer of Geely Sweden Holdings AB, to its board, strengthening the blockchain platform’s relationship with the Geely group as it develops infrastructure for verified digital interactions and autonomous AI agents. The appointment adds more than 26 years of automotive and financial experience to Concordium’s board. Ansgar has held senior roles at Volvo Cars, Polestar and companies within the wider Geely group. His appointment also extends…

Bitcoin holders who need cash do not necessarily have to sell their BTC. They can borrow against it instead, keeping exposure to Bitcoin while using its value as collateral for a loan.The complication is that the loan they want may exist on another network. Many blockchain lending applications run on Ethereum, which keeps its own record of who owns what. A Bitcoin owner’s BTC is recorded on Bitcoin’s network, and an Ethereum application cannot simply reach over and take it as collateral.One solution is to entrust the Bitcoin to a custodian, a business that holds it for safekeeping, and receive…

Mining services firm Luxor estimates that about 235 exahashes per second (EH/s) of capacity in specialized Bitcoin mining machines is sitting idle.Its Sept. 8 report puts that equipment in several categories: machines that are uneconomic, deliberately curtailed, in transit, or under maintenance. Their different reasons for switching off make a rebound in hashrate an ambiguous signal of recovery from financial distress.August’s Bitcoin rally improved the revenue available from mining, while Texas’s summer window for avoiding peak-related transmission charges runs through September.Either route can eventually add competition for the miners that stayed online. The revenue recovery that encourages a restart may…

Bitcoin held near $78,500 on Sept. 8 as the Japanese yen touched its strongest level since February, leaving BTC inside its recent trading range while investors cut bets against Japan’s currency.The yen reached 152.89 per dollar during Asian trading before retreating to 154.14, easing part of the currency pressure ahead of the Bank of Japan’s Sept. 17-18 meeting. A stronger yen can squeeze investors who borrowed it to buy foreign assets, potentially prompting sales across their portfolios.The question is whether Bitcoin’s buyers can keep absorbing supply if Japanese funding becomes more expensive and investors reduce risk across their portfolios.ETF inflows…

Silvergate’s former chief executive, Alan Lane, says the crypto-focused bank survived withdrawals of roughly 70% of its demand deposits before political pressure drove it to choose liquidation.His account raises a question for the crypto companies obtaining federal bank charters: how much protection does becoming a bank actually provide?In his Sept. 8 account, Lane blamed the former President Joe Biden administration for making continued operations untenable.More than three years after the bank announced its voluntary wind-down, crypto companies are obtaining federal trust-bank charters that put their custody businesses directly under the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.Federal trust charters give…

Key takeaways Chainlink has gained 51% over seven days amid improving regulatory sentiment and project-specific developments. Chainlink’s total value secured rose from $43 billion in June to nearly $57 billion by the end of August—an increase of approximately 33%. A partnership with Bottomline could connect payment infrastructure serving more than 600 banks to multiple blockchains. Chainlink has gained approximately 51% over the past seven days, outperforming much of the cryptocurrency market following new regulatory proposals from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The rally has also been supported by improving Chainlink network fundamentals and several significant adoption announcements. Chainlink’s total…

Investors holding Bitcoin alongside US stocks cannot tell whether their portfolio has become safer simply from a negative correlation between the assets’ price paths. A historical comparison through September 4 shows why: Bitcoin and the S&P 500 can move further apart over a year while still posting losses on many of the same trading dates.Crypto asset manager Bitwise’s September 7 Market Compass described its 260-day correlation as the lowest since 2015. Its chart measures the logarithms of price levels. In CryptoSlate’s calculation using FRED data, that measure was about −0.62. Correlation between percentage returns over 260 common trading observations was…

Key takeaways Pi Network is trading above $0.098 after rebounding from the 50-day EMA near $0.094. PI has gained more than 3% this week after advancing 5.2% during the previous week. The Pi Core Team is prioritizing developer tools and documentation to encourage more applications within the ecosystem. Pi Network extended its recovery on Wednesday, trading above $0.098 after finding support near its 50-day exponential moving average earlier this week. PI has gained more than 3% since the start of the week, building on a 5.2% advance during the previous seven-day period. The rebound coincides with a renewed push from…

Visa is combining VisaNet settlement records with blockchain transaction data to help lenders assess credit risk for payment businesses. Its onchain analytics platform estimates more than US$694 billion in stablecoin loans have moved through onchain lending protocols over the past six years. An early test with Credit Coop has financed more than US$2.5 billion in settlement volume since 2023 with zero defaults. Visa’s stablecoin-linked card programmes now number over 160, with payment volume up almost 200% year-on-year. Visa is connecting its payment settlement data with onchain lending infrastructure in a move that could give stablecoin-linked card programs and fintechs greater…

The Bitcoin Lightning software’s maintainers say four image tags delivered unpatched binaries while reporting version v26.06.7 at startup, leaving affected users with another task: check the image digest and download a corrected image if it differs.Some Core Lightning operators who attempted the v26.06.7 upgrade through Docker may still be missing its security fixes.The updated release notice identifies the affected tags as v26.06.7, latest, v26.06.7-vls and latest-vls. They served images without the release’s fixes between Aug. 28 at 16:04 UTC and Sept. 1. The notice gives no precise end time.An automated build process published the images from a placeholder tag. Maintainers…