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Mastercards big move. Mastercard is making a $1.8 billion bet on stablecoins, Phantom secures a "first-of-its-kind" green light from the CFTC, and Sam Altman’s World is teaming up with Coinbase to verify human identity behind AI transactions. CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie hosts “Co ...  Show more

PayPal is launching its PYUSD stablecoin across 70 new markets to lower cross-border transaction costs and power the future of agentic AI commerce. PayPal is taking its PYUSD stablecoin global. With a massive launch across 70 new markets, the payments giant is set to disrupt the ...  Show more

With bitcoin dropping below $23K this weekend and flattening on Sunday ahead of the next utterance from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, plus a look at the potential of public blockchains, CoinDesk’s “Markets Daily” is back with the latest news roundup. Today's Stories...R ...  Show more

The latest price moves and insights with Shift Markets CEO Ian McAfee and Roger Bayston, Executive Vice President and Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton. To get the show every day, follow the podcast here. Today's episode is sponsored by BitGo. Roger Bayston, Executive ...  Show more

Legal battles, circling regulators and a troubled bank. It's all happening in crypto this week. Court is in session as Grayscale challenges the SEC over the prospects for a Bitcoin ETF, while themselves facing a lawsuit filed by FTX’s Alameda Research.Voyager won a key court ruli ...  Show more

Grayscale Investments manages funds of digital assets – cryptocurrency – for investors. They just won a case against the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which could eventually let it, or another manager, offer an ETF that holds bitcoin. US Financial Editor Brooke Master ...