Smarter Web Secures $30M Bitcoin Credit from Coinbase

United Kingdom-listed Bitcoin treasury firm The Smarter Web Company has secured a $30 million Bitcoin-backed credit facility from Coinbase Credit. The facility is secured against Bitcoin held in custody with Coinbase.  The company said Tuesday the facility is designed to help it deploy capital into Bitcoin (BTC) immediately after equity raises, reducing settlement timing risk…

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AI agents can’t run wild without on-chain identity

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. While you read this piece, countless AI agents are furiously negotiating contracts, initiating payments, managing treasury functions, and accessing sensitive data. Their remit is expanding from advisory tools to autonomous economic actors…

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Bitcoin Realized Losses Have Hit Bear Market Levels

Data from Glassnode shows loss-taking now outweighs profits, a shift rarely seen outside deep bear phases. Bitcoin’s on-chain data has flashed a signal that has historically come before prolonged bear market conditions, with the Realized Profit/Loss Ratio confirming a regime shift toward loss-dominant selling. The move suggests that liquidity is evaporating from the market,…

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Anthropic alleges industrial-scale Claude attacks by DeepSeek and other Chinese AI rivals

Anthropic said it has identified large-scale campaigns by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax to extract capabilities from its Claude models illicitly. The company said the three labs generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude through roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts, violating terms of service and regional access restrictions. Anthropic attributed the campaigns using IP correlations,…

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