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MIAMI – Coinbax won a $20,000 grand prize at Consensus Miami’s PitchFest after launching a system designed to help banks and financial companies manage compliance for stablecoin payments. Founded by former Jack Henry executive Peter Glyman, the company is building programmable custody infrastructure to add control to wallet-to-wallet crypto transactions. The software is designed to…
Spot Bitcoin ETFs remove cryptocurrency’s long-standing barrier to entry by putting Bitcoin into brokerage and advisory accounts that are already used for stocks and bonds. Two and a half years later, panelists at CoinDesk’s Miami Consensus Conference agreed that this part has worked. However, they said custody concentration, limited advisor numbers and back-office pipeline issues…
Reid Hoffman told CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference on Wednesday that NFTs are about to be “reborn” as artificial intelligence agents force the Internet to solve new identity and trust issues. The Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder said agents transacting with other agents will require trustworthy digital identity systems, similar to the problem NFTs were originally…
The Bitcoin developer community should stop waiting for a quantum computing timeline to be confirmed and focus on putting post-quantum signature schemes into production, Project Eleven CEO Alex Pruden said Wednesday at the CoinDesk Miami Consensus Conference. Pruden said the asymmetry between acting now and waiting favors action. “We’ve added some new cryptography, we’ve built…
What was once considered a speculative fringe movement is quickly becoming part of the world’s financial pipeline, executives from Binance, Revolut and Circle (CRCL) said Wednesday at the Consensus Conference in Miami. “We’re in the age of Prohibition,” said Rachel Conlan, Binance’s chief marketing officer. “Now we’re in the infrastructure phase.” Cryptocurrencies are evolving from…
Wall Street Clearing House is working with blockchain developers to bring one of the most obscure but operationally complex functions of capital markets on-chain: corporate conduct. The market infrastructure giant is working with multiple layer 1 (L1) blockchain networks to improve the way dividend payments, tender offers and other post-trade events are handled in tokenized…
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Nasdaq President Tal Cohen said changes to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approach to cryptocurrency regulation give market operators more room to experiment with blockchain-based infrastructure and tokenized assets. Cohen told the Consensus conference in Miami on Wednesday that the industry now feels like it can “build” again after…
Billionaire real estate investor Grant Cardone said Wednesday that he added an additional $100 million to Bitcoin as part of a strategy to combine the asset with income-generating real estate, he said during a fireside chat at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami. “We simply added another $100 million in Bitcoin,” Cardone said, describing a…
Artificial intelligence agents will become more important than humans on the internet within the next decade, says Charles Hoskinson, a shift that has forced Google, Facebook and Amazon to react. Hoskinson also said during a keynote speech at Consensus 2026 in Miami on Wednesday that “by 2035, the majority of searches, commerce and activity on…
Cryptocurrency gains paused on Thursday, while stocks continued to move higher. Bitcoin Bitcoin$81,437.09 It was trading at $80,945 during the Asian session, down 0.7% in 24 hours, but still up 6.9% for the week. Ethereum (ETH) fell 2% to $2,326, dog$0.1115 was the main laggard, falling 4.4% to $0.1106 after last week’s gains brought its…