Utah’s SB 73 is now enforceable, requiring adult websites to verify the age of users physically in the state even when they use VPNs to hide their location. The law also bans websites from helping users bypass age checks and allows fines of up to $2,500 per violation, while VPN providers say they will not change their services.

Over the next decade, it will be sufficient to simply maintain a portion of gold, BTC, and high-quality productive assets while controlling leverage and avoiding excessive exposure to long-term nominal debt.

Deutsche Bank said U.S. companies are expected to spend about $800 billion on AI capital expenditure this year, while AI venture capital fundraising has topped $400 billion, according to ETNet. The bank also said financing by hyperscale technology companies through the investment-grade credit market has surged to 10 times its usual level. The report said some analysts view the trend as a high-risk bet that could affect the dollar if AI spending fails to deliver economic returns or if the U.S. loses its lead in the technology race.

According to Jin10, China's A-share three major indexes opened higher, then moved lower through the session and turned negative in afternoon trading, with the Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.30% at the close, the Shenzhen Component Index falling 0.79%, and the ChiNext Index falling 0.78%. The livestock sector surged, with pork, chicken, fisheries, and feed concepts among the top gainers, while several stocks including Luoniushan, New Hope, and Zhongshui Fisheries hit the daily limit up. Grain concepts opened lower and then rose, with Yasheng Group and Dunhuang Seed both hitting the daily limit up, while the marine equipment sector strengthened, led by China State Shipbuilding, and China Shipbuilding rose more than 9%. The liquor sector also rebounded intraday, with yellow rice wine themes strengthening and Gu Yue Long Shan and Kuaijishan both hitting the daily limit up. Tourism and hotels, beverages and food, digital currency, retail, film and television, building materials and cement, and AI applications were also among the top gainers. Technology stocks broadly pulled back, with memory chips, MLCC, CPO, helium, lithography machines, PCB, liquid-cooled servers, and humanoid robots among the biggest decliners. Turnover on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges reached 2.03 trillion yuan, about 271.8 billion yuan more than the same period yesterday, while about 2,200 stocks rose and 2,800 fell.

In the future, blockchain itself may be treated less and less as an independent product, and users will not need to care which blockchain they are using. Ultimately, blockchain may just be a part of the backend.

AEON has launched Agentic Checkout, allowing AI agents to search, select, check out, and pay for products through natural-language conversations in Shopify's merchant ecosystem. According to ChainCatcher, the payment process is supported by AEON AI Card, a virtual card that can be configured with preset spending limits and authorization scopes so AI agents can complete payments without directly accessing a user's main wallet or primary card. AEON said Agentic Checkout currently covers more than 3 million active Shopify stores and over 1 billion products. The company also plans to connect the system with Claude's open-source e-commerce agent and expand it to shopping and payment scenarios on Amazon and Travala.

YZi Labs shared a full panel from The Convergence: Bhutan focused on AI agents as economic actors, with discussion centered on payment, trading, and coordination. YZi Labs posted on X. The post highlighted participants @pet3rpan_ and @1kxnetwork in connection with the panel.

A tiny Chinese mushroom seller suddenly became one of the most explosive stocks on Nasdaq after a crypto frenzy built around a token carrying its ticker spilled into the traditional market.

According to Jin10, Kazakhstan's central bank lowered its policy rate to 16.25% from 16.75% and said there is limited room for further rate cuts.

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The FBI has confirmed it is investigating an alleged breach of a widely used identity verification company based in Louisiana

Thailand is tightening its grip on crypto transfers, requiring digital asset operators to verify who controls self-custodial wallets as part of a new Travel Rule framework aimed at bringing the country's crypto market closer to global anti-money laundering standards.

Bitcoin breaking through $80,000 during a period of AI system downtime is quite symbolic.

Agent expert Wu Yuzhuo focused on how agent-based personalized medicine infrastructure can assist in the diagnosis of rare diseases by integrating genetic and symptom data, and explored in depth the functional boundaries of FDE and learning suggestions for the AI ​​era.