Travis Wright breaks down Ripple's massive regulatory gamble with a billion-dollar compliance bet, Perplexity's bold move giving every employee always-on AI agents, and the looming quantum threat as adversaries stockpile crypto transactions for future decryption. The st
The hackers aren't coming for your keys anymore, they're coming for the people who write the code that protects your keys. TrapDoor malware spread malicious packages across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io targeting crypto developers building on Aptos, Sui, and Solana.
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The world's oldest institution just became Big Tech's newest regulatory battleground. Pope Leo XIV will release the Catholic Church's official position on AI Monday in his first encyclical, stating AI should be "disarmed" to prevent it from "dominating humanity"
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The man selling the shovels just called out the CEOs blaming the gold rush for their empty mines.
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The world's loudest Bitcoin evangelist just spent $1.5 billion on something that isn't Bitcoin, and he wants you to know it's the most bullish thing he's done all year.
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A country of 3.7 million just made its national currency programmable before most nations figured out what "stablecoin" means. Tether is launching GEL₮, a stablecoin pegged to the Georgian Lari, with explicit backing from the Government of Georgia
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Business Insider just published a glossary for people who still think "agentic" is a typo, which tells you everything about where we are in the adoption curve.
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Someone who mined bitcoin when it was a curiosity just woke up and chose liquidity. A Satoshi-era whale moved 2,650 BTC (over $200 million) to FalconX and Cumberland across multiple transactions on Sunday
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Bitcoin's biggest corporate buyer hits pause after amassing 65 billion dollars while SoftBank catches a major rally on OpenAI exit rumors. Plus Scotland labels power-hungry AI datacenters as green infrastructure despite doubling their grid demands. Tech money is moving
The company that turned corporate treasury strategy into a Bitcoin accumulation machine just hit pause—and that silence might be louder than any buy announcement.
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When a conglomerate's stock price becomes a bet on AI liquidity events, you're watching capital markets try to price the unpriceable. SoftBank shares hit record highs driven by speculation around potential OpenAI and SB Energy IPOs
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The institutional Bitcoin narrative is cracking right when it's supposed to be winning. US Bitcoin ETFs recorded a six-day outflow streak totaling $1.55 billion, shrinking 2026's net inflows to just $536 million
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When you need to multiply your infrastructure budget by seven just to keep the lights on, you're not scaling—you're chasing a runaway train. Sakura Internet may increase capital spending nearly 7x its original plan to meet AI demand in Japan
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Armstrong just handed regulators and builders a roadmap with a timer on it. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong published an eight-point agenda calling for updates to the global financial system, including tokenized assets, stablecoins, AI integration, and sound money policies
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The SEC just proved that Wall Street's fear of programmable ownership is stronger than its appetite for innovation. The SEC postponed a proposed "innovation exemption" that would have allowed trading of tokenized stocks after receiving pushback from traditional financial institutions.
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Treasury bonds just became the killer app for blockchain — and the suits never saw it coming. Tokenized real-world assets hit $34 billion in total value, a 10x surge driven almost entirely by U.S. Treasurys moving on-chain
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Someone just published the instruction manual for turning every coding AI into a security analyst—and it's Apache-licensed.
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Travis Wright examines how AI datacenters are doubling Scotland's power grid demand despite green claims, ByteDance's breakthrough brain filesystem for AI agents, and six billion dollars in Bitcoin options expiring this week. Plus Solana's resilience through AI agents and memecoins versus Ethereum's
A product manager turned four hours with Claude into a functioning postcard app—no code, no engineering team, no waiting for sprint planning. Priscilla Tina, a 28-year-old PM in San Francisco, built a postcard-sending app in four hours using Claude Code with zero traditional development work
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Scotland wrote its "green datacenter" playbook in 2022—before anyone knew AI would eat the grid for breakfast. Scotland's national policy defines "green datacentres" using 2022 standards—pre-ChatGPT, pre-AI boom
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Deribit just became bigger than BlackRock's bitcoin ETF, and it happened because traders are making a $6 billion bet on where bitcoin lands in eight days. $6.25 billion in bitcoin options expire May 29, with heavy clustering at the $82,000 strike price creating a potential volatility flashpoint
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