Ripple has expanded Ripple Payments into a fully integrated end-to-end platform. The platform now lets customers collect, hold, convert, and pay out in both fiat and stablecoins within a single unified system, eliminating the need to coordinate across multiple vendors. The expansion draws on Ripple’s recent acquisitions of Palisade

OKX has introduced a native AI layer on OnchainOS, its developer-focused onchain platform, to enable AI agents to act autonomously on blockchain networks. The layer links traditional decentralized tooling with machine-native automation for trading, wallet management, payments and market data access. OnchainOS is an onchain toolkit and execution environment built

Bitcoin is holding its ground while much else is mixed: BTC is up roughly 3.5% over the past seven days, while gold sits nearly flat on the week at -0.05%. That divergence is unfolding even as the US Dollar Index and Brent crude climb, conditions that typically weigh

Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan said he drastically cut his estimate of when on-chain finance would take off after investors piled into crypto platforms such as Hyperliquid during the US‑Israel attack on Iran. Hougan said that for most of Sunday onchain finance was the center of the financial