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Binance finance chief Kaiser Ng to leave after five years, Yi He says
Binance's chief financial officer, Kaiser Ng, is leaving the exchange after more than five years, co-CEO Yi He said. Justin Yek, formerly of Airwallex, will replace him.
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BitMine buys 17,362 ETH, reaching 4.9% of Ethereum supply
Tom Lee's BitMine Immersion Technologies added about $47m of Ethereum last week, taking its treasury to 6,001,302 ETH and closing in on its 5% supply target.
Ripple's RLUSD closes to within $248m of PayPal's PYUSD
RLUSD hit a record $2.49bn after adding $82.1m in a day, while PYUSD has shrunk 22% this year, narrowing the gap between the two stablecoins to about $248m.
Apollo's Torsten Slok warns AI agents could drain cheap bank deposits
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok says AI assistants that sweep household cash into higher-yield accounts could slowly drain the cheap deposits banks rely on to fund loans.
Crypto market falls 1.5% as Bitcoin drops to $83,586
The total crypto market lost 1.5% in 24 hours to $2.87tn, with Bitcoin down 1.5% at $83,586 while the Nasdaq rose 0.5%, pointing to a crypto-specific driver.
Chainlink launches CCIP 2.0 with custom bridge security checks
Chainlink has released CCIP 2.0, letting firms add their own verifiers to cross-chain transfers. The upgrade comes five months after a $292m hack at a rival bridge that relied on a single verifier.
Shiba Inu exchange inflows hit 1.1 billion as price retests 200-day average
On-chain data shows average exchange inflows of about 1.10 billion SHIB in a day, arriving as the token slips back to its 200-day moving average after a rejection near $0.0000062.
