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Global market maker Citadel Securities has invested $400 million in crypto exchange Crypto.com, giving the platform a $20 billion valuation, according to a Thursday announcement.  Crypto.com, which has a number of digital asset products, said the cash would help the Singapore-based company expand its services to assets such as blockchain-based securities and derivatives.  The cash will help bridge the gap “between digital asset and traditional markets to create a more efficient 24/7 financial ecosystem,” a Thursday announcement read.  “The size of the opportunity in front of us is staggering, as crypto increasingly becomes the rails for finance,” Crypto.com CEO Kris…

Voice automation has reached an inflection point. Not long ago, deploying an AI voice agent meant accepting robotic conversations, awkward pauses, and rigid decision trees that frustrated customers as much as traditional interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Today, advances in speech recognition, large language models (LLMs), and real-time voice synthesis have fundamentally changed what’s possible. If you’re evaluating AI voice agent software features, the conversation has also changed. The question is no longer whether AI can answer your calls. It’s whether it can deliver the speed, accuracy, and natural conversation your customers now expect. The opportunity is significant. McKinsey estimates…

Key Takeaways Two years ago, Darrick Ramsey and Alexis Jordan were given a challenge: Turn $1 into $100 in a week using all of the resources at their disposal. Jordan surpassed the goal by providing cleaning work for local small businesses and creating an in-demand snack. Ramsey offered pressure washing and car detailing services and ended up making $2,065 in a week. When Darrick Ramsey first held the single dollar bill he’d been given, anxiety hit him hard. “I was very nervous, like I was anxious,” he recalls in an interview with Entrepreneur.  Alexis Jordan had a similar reaction: “For…

President Donald Trump said in January he had no plans to pardon Bankman-Fried. He has cleared Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, along with other white-collar offenders.Bankman-Fried ran two companies at once. FTX was a crypto exchange, which holds customer money the way a broker does and is not supposed to touch it. Alameda Research was a trading firm he also owned. He moved billions of dollars in FTX customer deposits to Alameda, which spent the money on trades, venture investments, political donations, and Bahamian real estate, while FTX’s software exempted Alameda from the rules that…

The market has had plenty to digest this week, so not every headline deserves the same treatment. This one does, because kraken pro api program expansion targets developers implementing third-party algorithmic client desks. That gives it a clearer place in the NewsBTC/Bitcoinist daily coverage map. For more details, visit the official Kraken platform. TL;DR Kraken Pro Launches API Partner Program Supporting Specialized Integrations is the main story for Kraken today.Kraken Pro API program expansion targets developers implementing third-party algorithmic client desks.The cleaner read is to focus on what Kraken actually shows, not to overstate what the update proves. Why The…

PRYPCO Mint, the Dubai-based tokenised real estate platform, has expanded into gold investment with the launch of its new offering on 19 June 2026. Powered by PAX Gold (PAXG), the feature allows users to buy and sell gold-backed digital tokens from as little as AED100, with no transaction fees and 24/7 liquidity. The company says every token is fully backed by physical gold held in reserve. Amira Sajwani, founder and CEO of PRYPCO The feature is integrated into PRYPCO Mint’s existing app, which operates under a licence from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). That regulatory framework is central to…

Key TakeawaysCiti slashed Bitcoin’s 12-month target to $82,000 as $4.5B ETF outflows hit in June.Strategy sold 32 BTC for $2.5M, first sale since Dec 2022, while holding 843,706 BTC.Leveraged futures OI dropped $9.7B to $21.6B, with the Fed’s July 28-29 meeting pivotal. June didn’t just punish Bitcoin’s price, it yanked cash out of the very vehicles that were supposed to make owning it feel routine. US spot Bitcoin ETFs bled $4.5 billion in net outflows in June 2026, as Bitcoin slid 20.48% for its worst month since June 2022. On 7/1/2026, Bitcoin hit a 21-month low of $58,190 and Citigroup…

Kalshi says it is being put in an “impossible position” after the US commodities regulator on Tuesday said it was blocking the prediction market platform from canceling trades in Michigan, contradicting a recent state court order.On June 29, Kalshi was ordered by Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina to cease offering sports betting contracts to Michigan users while a lawsuit over whether Kalshi violated the state’s sports betting laws plays out. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered Kalshi on Tuesday not to comply with the state order and continue operating.“We are disappointed by this decision and believe it is…

There are many aspects of starting a business.  People will be quick to tell you about the importance of marketing, different sales techniques, and everything you need to know about getting a product to market. But in truth, without the necessary discipline, all the information becomes much less important. However, discipline is not something you are born with. It takes constant work and dedication, but the results are significantly more success and better obstacle management. Here, we will look at six ways you can improve your self-discipline and give you all the skills you need to become a productive entrepreneur.…

Bitcoin approached $65,000 on July 14 as a sharper-than-expected slowdown in US inflation weakened the case for another near-term Federal Reserve interest rate increase.Data from CryptoSlate showed that BTC rose as high as $64,832 once the report landed, gaining about 4% from its intraday low and coming within $200 of a threshold it has struggled to hold over the past month.This price performance followed the consumer price index falling 0.4% in June, its largest monthly decline since April 2020, the Labor Department said. Prices were 3.5% higher than a year earlier, down from 4.2% in May and below economists’ forecast…