Nadia Rahman is CoinScoop's Markets Editor. She covers Bitcoin, macro liquidity and the spot-ETF complex, and previously reported on rates and FX for a global newswire.
Former Fed Chair and Nobel laureate Ben Bernanke has joined Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, the AI safety body with power to appoint and remove board members.
HSBC has issued Hong Kong's first digitally native structured product — USD notes placed directly on-chain — using Marketnode as tokenization and digital paying agent.
Perplexity post-trained Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 to match Claude Opus 4.8 performance at one-third the cost — and it's already live in production.
Crypto market cap ticks back above $2.24T with a 1% gain, but Fear & Greed sits at 23 (Extreme Fear). Bitcoin leads at $63K with 56.2% dominance while ETH flatlines.
BitGo becomes the first major custodian to productize quantum-threat controls for institutional Bitcoin wallets, introducing a Quantum Risk Score and address remediation tools.
The Fed has named AI infrastructure spending as a persistent inflation driver. Nine of 18 members now project rate hikes by end-2026 — and crypto is feeling it.
INTERPOL's Operation First Light 2026 netted 5,811 arrests across 97 countries and seized $293M in illicit assets, including intercepted crypto transfers — up 47% on 2024.
Labour MPs have tabled amendments to permanently ban crypto political donations in the UK, escalating a campaign amid the Reform UK funding row over Nigel Farage's Tether-linked gift.
SWIFT has launched a live blockchain-based shared ledger with 17 banks across six continents piloting tokenized deposit cross-border payments in real time.
Senator Ron Wyden urges Senate leaders to preserve Section 604 of the CLARITY Act, warning that stripping the BRCA provision would expose non-custodial developers to federal liability.
