Over a quarter of Brits said they’d add crypto to their retirement portfolios, while 23% would even withdraw existing pension funds to invest in the space.
Brayden Lindrea
Brayden Lindrea is a journalist on Cointelegraph’s APAC news team, having joined the team in 2022. He covers everything from crypto market trends and regulatory shifts to cybercrime and innovation. He is particularly interested in covering Bitcoin adoption — from the community level right through to institutions and nation-states. He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Sydney. Brayden has no crypto holdings above Cointelegraph’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
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Fed governor tells bankers DeFi is ‘nothing to be afraid of’ Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller urged policymakers and bankers not to fear DeFi and stablecoins, as they will drive innovation in the US payments system.
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Former Twitter CEO Agrawal emerges with AI startup Parag Agrawal, the former Twitter CEO ousted by Elon Musk, has launched an AI startup aimed at driving the next wave of AI agent research.
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Cryptojacker gets 1 year prison after admitting to $3.5M fraud Charles O. Parks III, who admitted to misusing $3.5 million worth of resources from two cloud computing providers to mine crypto, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison.
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David Bailey’s Nakamoto closes KindlyMD merger for Bitcoin treasury Nakamoto, a Bitcoin entity established by Trump crypto adviser David Bailey, and KindlyMD have merged to establish a new Bitcoin treasury company.
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US Treasury’s Bessent backpedals: Bitcoin buying still possible US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent clarified that the department was exploring budget-neutral ways to buy Bitcoin, contradicting an earlier comment that tanked the market.
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AI agents will become Ethereum's ‘biggest power user,’ Coinbase devs say Ethereum’s future will be dominated by AI agents leveraging a once-dormant web standard to make real-world payments in crypto without human input, two Coinbase devs said.
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US bank groups ask to close GENIUS Act’s stablecoin yield ‘loophole’ US banking groups have urged Congress to close a so-called loophole letting stablecoin issuers offer yields through affiliate firms, fearing it undermines the banking system.
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HashFlare founders given time served for $577M crypto Ponzi HashFlare co-founders Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin were given time served for admitting their roles in a $577 million scheme; prosecutors say they’re weighing an appeal.
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Coinbase revives stablecoin bootstrap fund to boost USDC in DeFi Coinbase has revived its fund to boost USDC liquidity in DeFi, starting with supporting the stablecoin on Aave, Morpho, Kamino and Jupiter.
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Bitcoin surge to $122K was ‘just a matter of time,’ Analyst says Bitcoin surged above $122,000, within 1% of its all-time high, following last week’s pro-crypto White House executive order and three strong days of Bitcoin ETF inflows.
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Bitcoin is the ‘perfect asset’ for the next 1,000 years: Willy Woo Bitcoin is the “perfect asset” for the next 1,000 years, but it needs far bigger flows to compete with the US dollar and gold, a Bitcoin OG said.
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Two arrested after sex toys thrown at WNBA games in memecoin prank A memecoin group said it’s behind a recent trend of sex toys being thrown during WNBA games, which has seen two men arrested for allegedly taking part.
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