Tag: Breaking

MicroStrategy has retired $1.5 billion in aggregate principal of its 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029, executing the buyback at an 8% discount to par.The company utilized $1.38 billion from its dedicated USD cash reserve for the transactions, drawing the balance down to $871 million without liquidating any bitcoin.Parallel equity and preferred stock offerings generated enough capital to acquire an additional 24,869 BTC, pushing the total...

Robinhood introduced beta access to “Agentic Trading” and “Agentic Credit Cards,” enabling customers to connect third-party artificial intelligence agents directly to financial accounts.The technical architecture is built on the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) developed by Anthropic, bypassing standard app-scraping or unofficial API workarounds.The rollout includes strict security guardrails, restricted fund...

An unknown entity permanently destroyed 107 BTC, worth approximately $8.2 million, by routing the funds to a historic unspendable burn address.The funds originated from five separate wallets that had been entirely dormant since April 2014, when bitcoin was trading around $442.On-chain analysts have floating theories ranging from accidental exchange cold-storage errors to deliberate tax loss harvesting or a broken dead man’s switch.A...

Pope Leo XIV issued “Magnifica Humanitas,” a landmark papal encyclical calling for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed” and strictly regulated to prevent technology from dominating human dignity. Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah spoke alongside the Pope at the Vatican, acknowledging that frontier AI labs face deep commercial and geopolitical pressures that conflict with public safety. The encyclical...

Hyperliquid expanded its HIP-4 framework by launching a U.S. Consumer Price Index prediction market, allowing users to trade on-chain contracts tied to the May 2026 inflation print. The protocol’s 24 native validators function as the oracle, eliminating reliance on external data networks like UMA by directly ingesting news feeds and voting on-chain to settle events. HIP-4 contracts feature zero leverage or liquidation risk, operating as fully...