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$150M Ripple SEC Lawsuit Nearly Forced Company to Fold
Ripple nearly shut down after the SEC sued, weighing a wind-down before choosing a $150 million fight over XRP.

1,400 Advisors Jump to Wells Fargo FiNet's Safe Exit
Wells Fargo is letting advisors go independent inside FiNet, keeping assets and relationships that might otherwise defect to rivals.

PayPal Pulls Payment Sprawl Inside Adobe Commerce Admin
Adobe and PayPal are pitching payment cleanup, not another checkout button, with services built into Adobe Commerce and Magento admin.

Agentic AI Hits a Wall in B2B Payments After $37B Rush
Only 16% of enterprise AI deployments are agentic. B2B payments won't get there until legacy finance stacks let agents act.

Bitmine Grabs $74M in Ether as Clarity Act Bet Grows
Bitmine's $74M ETH buy lifts its stash to 5.74M ETH, making Tom Lee's Clarity Act optimism a $10B Ethereum wager.

Zero Miner Support Pushes Bitcoin BIP 110 to the Brink
Bitcoin BIP 110 has zero miner support before its fork deadline, making a spam fight a live chain-split risk.

Tether Stake Sale Could Crack Its $500B Valuation Test
A former Tether CIO’s planned stake sale could give investors the rare price check they’ve wanted on the private USDT giant.

Empery Digital Dumps Half Its Bitcoin for AI Data Centers
Empery Digital sold 1,400 BTC for $87.1M, ditching half its stack to chase AI data centers as the treasury trade cracks.

America’s Smallest Bank Fails, Sticking FDIC With $1.2M
America’s smallest standalone bank failed with $3.73M in assets, costing the FDIC fund an estimated $1.2M.

Custodia Drags Fed Master Account Fight to Supreme Court
Custodia wants the Supreme Court to curb the Fed’s power to deny master accounts, a fight that could reshape crypto banking access.

7-Minute Hyundai Stablecoin Transfer Puts Banks on Notice
Hyundai moved $20,000 via USDT in seven minutes, turning stablecoins into a live treasury tool for cross-border cash.

AI Agent Disputes Draw OKX, MetaMask to Internet Court
OKX, MetaMask and Matter Labs are backing Internet Court, a shared dispute layer for AI agents before autonomous payments scale.