StarkWare CEO: Crypto Micropayments Could Save Online Content From AI Disruption

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is indicting three Russian nationals and two companies for their roles in a cybercrime operation that drained tens of millions of dollars from victims. The DOJ says it charged Alexander Alexandrovich Volosovik, Kirill Andreevich Zatolokin, Yulia Vladimirovna Pankova, Medialand LLC and ML.Cloud LLC with conspiracy to commit and aid…

XRP Ledger activity falls to yearly lows as traders await catalysts from RLUSD, tokenization, and growing network demand. XRP Ledger activity has dropped near yearly lows while XRP remains below the $1.10 level. Recent data shows weaker wallet use and slower growth across the network. According to Santiment, active wallets fell to 25,350 during the…

This week, macro events drove the crypto market. Renewed geopolitical tensions in the Middle East triggered a brief risk-off move, sending Bitcoin [BTC] and altcoins lower before BTC recovered and held above the $63,000 support level, highlighting its resilience. Against this backdrop, protocol-based altcoins dominated the winners’ list with strong double-digit rallies, while most of…

Circle’s stock price has become a pressure gauge for the company’s claim that regulated stablecoins can build durable moats. A 76% drop from $260 to $62 doesn’t usually align with the narrative of a dominant infrastructure play, and Circle President Heath Tarbert had to address that directly during a July 14 interview with FOX Business,…

It shows that major participants are not just “long-only” or “short-only” speculators; they are increasingly treating volatility as a separate asset class and using complex options Greeks, specifically vega (sensitivity to volatility) and gamma (sensitivity to price acceleration), to extract profit from market turbulence. Inside the $28 million straddle Notional value represents the total market…