The retail giant said a new Gemini integration reflects a broader shift from search-based shopping to AI systems that can act on a customer’s behalf.
Search engine giant Google has emerged as a silent architect behind Bitcoin miners' rapid pivot towards artificial intelligence (AI). Instead of acquiring mining firms, the Alphabet-owned company has provided at least $5 billion of disclosed credit support behind a handful of BTC miners' AI projects. While markets often frame these announcements as technology partnerships, the […]
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The company signed a 15-year lease with Fluidstack at its River Bend campus in Louisiana, with Google providing a financial backstop.
The bitcoin miner deepened its pivot into AI infrastructure with a $7 billion long term lease backed by Google.
The pilot's goal was to show how banks can use Google’s Universal Ledger to settle fiat payments in real time without new digital currencies.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Google said prediction markets data from leading platforms Polymarket and Kalshi will roll out over the coming weeks.
The bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure firm will co-develop a 168 MW data center in Texas, with long-term revenue locked in.
For decades, physicists have promised that quantum computing would one day outrun classical machines. That day may have arrived. On Oct. 22, Google’s Willow quantum processor completed a task that supercomputers would need 150 years to finish by compressing centuries of calculation into two hours. Industry experts say the result, verified by Nature, isn’t only […]
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Google said it achieved a "quantum advantage," with its Willow chip completing a calculation that would take classical supercomputers thousands of times longer.
Investors are increasingly pouring money into non-productive gold, raising alarm for the global economy while BTC lags behind.
Google already owns 14% of TeraWulf and is supporting other crypto firms like Cipher Mining in their AI expansions.
The upsized offering follows Cipher Mining's $3 billion, 10-year AI hosting agreement with Fluidstack backed by Google.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Cipher Mining signed a 10-year AI hosting agreement with Fluidstack, backed by a guarantee from Google, who will receive a 5.4% equity stake.
The Ethereum price is back in the spotlight as market analysts and ETH’s own founder, Vitalik Buterin, outline bold predictions for the asset. While experts forecast that Ethereum could surge to $33,000, Buterin draws parallels between the cryptocurrency’s future role in finance and Google’s dominance in search. As a result, the ETH founder has suggested that low-risk Decentralized Finance (DeFi) may become Ethereum’s breakthrough “Google Moment.” Ethereum Price Projected To Soar To $33,000 A recent chart analysis by prominent market expert Egrag Crypto paints an optimistic picture for Ethereum’s long-term price trajectory. Based on the analyst’s chart, ETH could potentially rise to $33,000 before the end of 2025. Related Reading: Bullish Continuation Setup Says Ethereum Price Is Headed For $6,500, Here’s When Egrag Crypto notes that ETH has a history of overshooting measured targets once it breaks out of major continuation patterns. This trend has been visible across previous market cycles, lending weight to his previous projection that the next ETH rally could be monumental. In Ethereum’s earlier cycles, key formations, such as the Bull Flag and the Rectangle Continuation Pattern, produced extraordinary gains that exceeded expectations. The Bull Flag pattern overshot its target by 145%, while the rectangle continuation exceeded projections by an even greater 181%. Now, ETH is forming what Egrag Crypto identifies as a Descending Broadening Wedge, a setup that typically signals bullish continuation once the breakout is confirmed. According to the expert, the measured move from this wedge suggests an initial price target of $12,300. However, when factoring in Ethereum’s historical tendency to overshoot by an average of 163%, he sees the cryptocurrency skyrocketing as high as $33,000. Low-Risk DeFi To Unlock ETH’s ‘Google Moment’ In a report published on September 21, Buterin describes what he sees as Ethereum’s upcoming Google moment. Just as Google secured long-term dominance by finding its core economic driver in search and ads, the crypto founder argues that Ethereum now has the opportunity to anchor its ecosystem with low-risk DeFi and unlock comparable growth. Related Reading: Ethereum Price Will Still Climb Above $5,000 As Long As It Holds This Level Buterin also emphasized the growing importance of sustainable applications within the Ethereum ecosystem. Historically, ETH has struggled to balance two distinct categories of applications—those that generated significant revenue like NFTs and meme coins, and those that aligned with Ethereum’s broader vision, such as decentralized identity and privacy protocols. Buterin notes that the underlying issue was that revenue-generating applications often lacked long-term sustainability, while mission-driven projects lacked economic weight. He believes that low-risk DeFi could be the solution that bridges this gap. By enabling global, permissionless access to stable wealth-building mechanisms such as interest-bearing assets, bonds, and currencies, the crypto founder highlighted that Ethereum could achieve economic sustainability. He also expressed hope that Ethereum could potentially surpass Google’s legacy. Buterin mentioned that Google was often criticized for straying from its core mission and becoming an antisocial, profit-maximizing corporation. However, ETH is fundamentally different, with decentralization embedded deeply at both technical and social levels. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com
A cursory glance at the Magnificent 7 stocks chart reveals a clear trajectory: up only. But when layered against all other stocks, an even more interesting pattern emerges. 493 stocks remain relatively flat while the Mag 7s take a steep upward grind, like climbing the Eiger. As Bitcoin advocate and founder of The Network State, […]
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SUI nears a crucial resistance level as intuitional momentum continues to grow and the network scores major partnerships. Some analysts suggest that the altcoin could see a breakout to new highs if the current levels hold. Related Reading: Bitcoin Set Up For ‘Promising’ Q4, Next Two Weeks Could Be Decisive SUI $4 Retest In Sight On Thursday, SUI surged 4.2% from its daily opening to reclaim the $3.90 area for the first time in a month. The cryptocurrency has been hovering within the $2.50.00-$4.00 price range after the May breakout, hitting a multi-month high of $4.44 in late July. Since then, the altcoin has failed to reclaim the range’s upper boundary, being rejected twice from this key zone in the past two months. Now, its recent rally has propelled its price back to the range highs, nearing the $4.00 resistance once again. Analyst Sjuul from AltCryptoGems asserted that SUI’s low-timeframe structure “is super bullish,” highlighting the recent higher highs (HH). Following its recent breakout from a two-month falling wedge pattern, Sjuul affirmed that the altcoin also confirmed the high-timeframe bullish structure. The market watcher previously suggested that the cryptocurrency could be repeating a similar price action to its early Q3 breakout. Per the post, in Q2, SUI printed a new HH, followed by a correction within a falling wedge formation. Then, the cryptocurrency bounced from the local support and demand area, forming a lower high before rallying to a new HH at the start of Q3. Now, he considers that the price seems “ready to move higher” and that the next leg up could target SUI’s all-time high (ATH) levels. Similarly, Rekt Capital signaled that a successful breakout from the $3.80 would set the stage to revisit the $5.35 ATH. Notably, the current levels coincide with the resistance level of the cryptocurrency’s multi-month downtrend channel. Nonetheless, market watcher CW highlighted that SUI’s current sell wall extends from $3.85 to $4.00, suggesting that the price must hold this crucial area, or it will risk another rejection. What’s Behind The Momentum? SUI’s rally appears to be fueled by institutional interest, Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs), and positive developments for the network. This week, the Sui Network became one of the launch partners for Google’s Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2). The tech giant’s new standard for AI-driven payments allows AI agents to execute transactions on behalf of users. Moreover, Tuttle Capital joined the Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) buzz and recently filed for a SUI Income Blast ETF to “seek current income” and “exposure to the share price of the daily performance of SUI.” It’s worth noting that at the start of the month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) delayed the final decision on the 21Shares SUI ETF to December 21, 2025. However, many expect that the investment product could be approved as early as October, alongside multiple other crypto-based ETFs that have been delayed for early Q4. Related Reading: BNB Chain Projects Lead Binance Wallet With 2,000x IDO Returns The current DAT strategy trend, which has seen corporations pour billions into cryptocurrencies as treasury reserve assets, has also contributed to SUI’s momentum. At the start of the month, Nasdaq-listed SUI Group Holdings announced it had total holdings of approximately 102 million tokens, worth around $403 million at current prices. The company also authorized a new $50 million stock repurchase program earlier this week. As of this writing, SUI is trading at $3.95, a 10% increase in the weekly timeframe. Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com
Google debuts an open agent-to-agent payments protocol with stablecoin support, developed with Coinbase and over 60 other firms.
The tech giant expands its open-source AI protocol into financial transactions, partnering with Coinbase, the Ethereum Foundation to integrate stablecoin rails.
Rich Widmann, head of Web3 at Google, outlined on Tuesday how his firm's upcoming layer-1 blockchain for finance differs from Stripe's Temp and Circle's Arc.
Google Cloud has taken its first major step into blockchain infrastructure development with the launch of the Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL), a Layer 1 network designed to support faster payments and settlement across borders. The initiative places Google directly in the path of global financial institutions seeking scalable ways to handle digital money and […]
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The news comes alongside Fluidstack exercising its option to expand at WULF's Lake Mariner data center campus.
TeraWulf, a prominent Bitcoin miner, has secured a strategic partnership with Google as part of its high-performance computing (HPC) co-location agreements with Fluidstack. According to an Aug. 14 statement, the search engine giant will backstop $1.8 billion of Fluidstack’s lease obligations, providing critical support for project-related debt financing. The arrangement grants Google a warrant to […]
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The agreements lock in approximately $3.7 billion in contracted revenue, with potential to rise to $8.7 billion if two five-year extension options are exercised.
Change first announced last month requires developers of software wallets register with local authorities or financial institutions.
Global interest in stablecoins has hit unprecedented levels, with Google searches for the term “stablecoins” reaching an all-time high in July 2025. Related Reading: Analyst Forecasts Major Surge For Ethereum Price, Eyeing $4,000 In Its Best July Yet This spike follows the recent passage of the Guiding and Empowering Nation’s Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act on July 18, signaling a pivotal shift in regulatory clarity and institutional confidence in the sector. Google Data: Parabolic Growth and Market Dominance Data from Coingecko shows that the stablecoin market cap now stands at $272 billion, representing roughly 7% of the total cryptocurrency market. U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins account for about 98% of this total, with Tether maintaining its dominance at 60%. In the meantime, as stablecoin activity increases, the Bitcoin price trends to the upside as seen on the chart below. Bitcoin price trends to the upside as stablecoin activity heats up. Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview Bitwise Asset Management reported record-breaking stablecoin transactions and issuance across 2025, prompting crypto analysts to call the market’s trajectory “parabolic.” Ethereum-based firm SharpLink summed up the sentiment in a viral post: “You can’t spell ‘stablecoins’ without ‘parabolic.'” GENIUS Act Sparks Institutional Adoption The GENIUS Act, hailed for providing much-needed regulatory structure, has ignited a wave of interest from both retail users and financial institutions. Companies like Interactive Brokers and Robinhood have launched or explored their own stablecoins, aiming to offer 24/7 funding, faster settlements, and increased user engagement. Nassar Al Achkar, Chief Strategy Officer at CoinW exchange, explained that stablecoins are emerging as a “hedge against crypto volatility” and a valuable tool for cross-border payments. “Institutions are entering the space not just for innovation, but for safer investor options,” he added. Stablecoins’ Speculation Set to Change to Foundation The surge in search interest, as measured by Google, and market activity shows a significant transformation in how stablecoins are perceived, from speculative digital assets to foundational elements in global finance. Related Reading: Bitcoin Demand Drops Among US Investors—Is a Price Correction Coming? While challenges remain, particularly around reserve backing and regulatory harmonization, the GENIUS Act appears to have laid the groundwork for a stablecoin-driven financial future. As adoption continues to rise, according to Google data, stablecoins are increasingly positioned beyond being crypto tools, becoming building blocks of the next generation financial infrastructure. Cover image from Unsplash, chart from Tradingview
Coinbase currently sits at rank 162, marking a dramatic recovery from its three-month low of 436 recorded less than a month ago.
OpenAI’s o3 model resisted shutdown in safety tests, raising concerns about AI alignment and control.
Google has added Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) technology to its Google Wallet platform to strengthen user privacy in digital identity systems. The company confirmed this feature is active and enables users to verify their age across apps, websites, and devices, without disclosing personal information. According to Google: “We will use ZKP where appropriate in other Google […]
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