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Non-Custodial Crypto Exchanges: How Self-Custody Is Altering the Manner Customers Swap Digital Property
The way people trade and manage digital assets has evolved considerably since the early days of cryptocurrency. Centralized exchanges remain an important part of the market, but users also have more ways to exchange assets while maintaining control of their funds. This has increased interest in non-custodial crypto exchanges and swap services. For many users,…
AI Brokers, Good Contracts and Token Launches: How It All Works
The important change is not simply adding a chatbot to a crypto website, but dividing complex tasks between AI models and deterministic blockchain code. MemeToro is an open-source AI memecoin launch-agent project that monitors trend signals and prepares memecoin launches for smart-contract execution on BNB Chain. MemeToro uses AI to research and propose concepts, while…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Face Powerful Questions as NYC AI Listening to Raises Crimson...
The rare New York City Council Committee of the Whole hearing brought all 51 council members together to examine AI safety, corporate accountability, and proposed regulations. Representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta testified alongside former employees who raised concerns about how frontier AI systems are being developed and evaluated. Former AI Researchers Warn of…
CFTC Opens Rulemaking Push For Retail Leveraged Crypto Markets
TL;DR The CFTC has opened an advanced rulemaking process around retail commodity transactions involving crypto assets. The agency is asking for public input as it considers a more comprehensive federal framework for leveraged and margined retail crypto markets. This is an early-stage rulemaking step, not a final licensing regime that takes effect immediately. The Commodity…
FinCEN Withdraws Crypto Guidelines Concentrating on Mixers And Unhosted Wallets
TL;DR FinCEN has withdrawn two proposed digital-asset rules covering unhosted-wallet transactions and convertible virtual currency mixing. Both proposals had remained unfinished for years and would have added new recordkeeping or reporting obligations for financial institutions. The withdrawals do not remove the AML and KYC rules that already apply to regulated crypto businesses. Two long-running U.S.…