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Ongoing efforts sharply focused on advancing more comprehensive cryptocurrency / blockchain market structure legislation in the US Senate have encountered significant new resistance over ethics rules that are intended to limit financial conflicts involving senior government officials and digital assets.
Bitcoin
Zimbabwean regulator approved seven fintech solutions to test their products under its supervised regulatory sandbox framework. The selected cohort includes blockchain platforms, synthetic trading, crowdfunding, and tokenization services.
Crypto Economy
Payward agrees to acquire Magic Labs' embedded wallet business through an asset sale deal. Magic Labs has accumulated over 60 million created wallets and support for 200,000 developers since its founding in 2018. The selling firm restructures under the Newton Labs brand to focus on the development of the Newton Protocol authorization layer.
Bitcoin
Payward has agreed to acquire Magic Labs' wallet-as-a-service business, adding embedded, non-custodial wallets to the infrastructure platform behind Kraken. The deal brings technology used to create more than 60 million wallets into Payward's expanding enterprise product suite.
Bitcoin
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says artificial intelligence will strengthen crypto's role rather than replace it. He expects autonomous agents to rely on stablecoins and blockchain networks for payments, trading and financial services.
The Currency Analytics
Brian Armstrong is clear. The CEO of Coinbase doesn't want the crypto sector to abandon blockchain in favor of chasing AI. He stated on X, without hesitation: the two technologies are not in competition; they complement each other. And Coinbase, he says, will continue to push this vision, even if others take the opposite path.