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Basware, the invoice lifecycle management firm, has acquired payment fraud prevention platform Trustpair in a deal where financial terms were not disclosed. The move signals growing urgency among enterprise finance players to close gaps in payment security as wire fraud and vendor impersonation attacks continue to accelerate across corporate treasury operations.
Shifting to crypto infrastructure, Coinbase says its internally built AI testing system, called Autopilot, has compressed a ninety-case support testing cycle from one to two weeks down to just thirty to forty-five minutes. That's a dramatic compression of engineering overhead, and it puts a concrete number behind CEO Brian Armstrong's stated ambition to build a fully AI-native organization.
And in the digital asset treasury space, DeFi Development Corporation says preliminary third-quarter estimates show its net asset value per share more than doubled, as its Solana holdings grew to two point five six million SOL. The figures underscore how aggressively some smaller public companies are using crypto treasury strategies to drive balance sheet appreciation, mirroring the playbook pioneered by MicroStrategy with Bitcoin.
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