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Two cloud giants just shipped real products that let autonomous software pay for services using crypto. What this week's launches from AWS, Google Cloud, and Coinbase mean for the next phase of stablecoin adoption.

CoinEx's Jeff Ko joins the Licensed to Shill panel to discuss the current state of crypto, institutional adoption, cybersecurity, and infrastructural challenges.

The Finance Ministry has given its clearest public confirmation yet that the framework will proceed — ending a political back-and-forth that has pushed the start date back twice since 2020.

The acquisition adds card issuance and cross-border stablecoin payments infrastructure to Payward's B2B platform, and values the parent company at $20 billion.

The platform has tripled trading volume in six months and now controls 90% of U.S. prediction market activity — but regulatory headwinds are mounting as fast as the capital.

Bitcoin’s push above $80K runs into a harder wall: a Federal Reserve unwilling to ease, rising energy-driven inflation, and geopolitical strain that could keep liquidity tight and risk appetite fragile.

The third edition of Asia's largest AI conference arrives at a moment when export controls, sovereign AI strategies, and fragmented compute access are making neutral-ground convening harder to find and more valuable.

IREN, CoreWeave, TeraWulf, Hut 8 and others surged on Wednesday as AMD's data centre beat validated the AI infrastructure thesis. Several haven't reported yet. The market isn't waiting.