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For Khan, decentralized AI is more than hype and more than abstract and more than a fashionable trend — it’s critical and it’s the future. And it can make our daily lives easier. ”I think in five years, we will have autonomous on-chain AI agents doing crypto transactions, and managing a large part of our lives,” predicts Khan. “In 5 to 10 years, managing our financial life, our emails, and the administrative hassle of things like paying bills. That can be done on-chain and natively.”Arif Khan, CEO of Alethea AI, is a speaker at this year’s Consensus festival in Austin,…

The company said that the potential action from the agency may include “a civil injunctive action, public administrative proceeding, and/or a cease-and-desist proceeding and may seek remedies that include an injunction, a cease-and-desist order, disgorgement, pre-judgment interest, civil money penalties, and censure, revocation and limitations on activities.” Read the full article here

Bitcoin trades around $64,000 early Monday as the crypto market erased last week’s losses. BTC surged to $65,400 during Asia trading hours Monday, its highest price in almost two weeks, and now is up almost 15% from last week’s corrective bottom. Bitcoin’s swift recovery to a bullish weekly close “sets up the possibility the next higher low is already in place ahead of the next major upside extension to a fresh record high,” LMAX Group market strategist Joel Kruger said in a Monday report Alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) followed suit, with SOL, AVAX and NEAR advancing 4%-5% over the past 24…

“Contrary to ASIC’s submissions, the Qoin Blockchain, a means of acquiring Qoin and a means whereby business operators who hold Qoin Wallets can register as Qoin Merchants are not components of, and are not themselves, the mechanism which allows the user to make the non-cash payment,” the order said. Read the full article here

May 5: Jesse Pollak, who oversees the crypto exchange Coinbase’s layer-2 network, Base, unveiled a new incentives campaign, “Onchain Summer II,” with more than 600 ETH ($2 million) of prices, grants and gas credits offered by the project and its ecosystem partners. “Onchain Summer will kick off with a month-long online hackathon hosted by Base and partners,” according to the post. “Base is collaborating with teams across the ecosystem, including Coinbase, to enable tools for Onchain Summer builders,” including easier wallet onboarding with Coinbase’s new smart wallet recently launched on Base Sepolia testnet and “seamless user experiences” with account abstraction.…

While the Friday inflow ends the streak of net GBTC withdrawals, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) is challenging the fund for the title of biggest bitcoin ETF. GBTC now has $18.1 billion in assets, versus IBIT’s $16.9 billion. IBIT, now in second place, started at zero in January, while GBTC had more than $26 billion. Read the full article here

In a statement, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said, “Today’s result shows how the Justice Department, working with international partners, reaches across the globe to combat cryptocrime. This guilty plea reflects the Department’s ongoing commitment to use all tools to fight money laundering, police crypto markets, and recover restitution for victims.” Read the full article here

Daniel Schatt, a Cred co-founder and former CEO, Joseph Podulka, former CFO, and James Alexander, the former chief capital officer, were indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California. Schatt and Podulka were arrested and made their initial appearances in a San Francisco court earlier in the day, according to a press release published Friday. Read the full article here

Ivan Soto-Wright: Yeah, well, I think from our side, it’s just constant. We have this word inside of MoonPay called Kaizen, which is continuous improvement. It’s these 1 % incremental improvements that you make every single day. You do that over a year, and that’s a 3 ,000 % improvement. So we’re constantly learning from our users. The reality is it just takes time. You have to adapt that product. You have to get that feedback. You need to listen to your customers. And obviously, trying to solve some of the biggest pain points for them. Like, it’s not acceptable…

Arthur Hayes, former CEO of crypto exchange BitMEX, said in his latest essay early Friday that bitcoin has likely bottomed at this week’s lows of $56,000, but warned investors to expect a gradual climb instead of a swift recovery to the March highs as markets will cool for the next few months. “Did bitcoin hit a local low […] earlier this week,” asked Hayes. “Yes,” he concluded. “I expect prices to bottom, chop, and begin a slow grind higher.” Read the full article here