The president who campaigned on weak-dollar populism just handed the keys to a strong-dollar hawk. Kevin Warsh takes the helm at the Federal Reserve amid Trump's apparent reversal on monetary policy preferences
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The agent economy is accidentally redrawing the map of where innovation gets built. African startups are pivoting to local capital sources as US AI infrastructure spending pulls venture dollars away from emerging markets
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Crypto just proved it can play kingmaker in both red and blue districts, and it only cost $9 million. Crypto-backed PACs spent $9 million supporting candidates across party lines in Texas primaries, with their picks winning in both Democratic and Republican races.
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While VCs chase AI agents that might work someday, Fold just locked $150 million in debt to scale a Bitcoin product people are using today.
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The normie uncle who thinks crypto is a scam just got USDC in his Cash App, whether he knows it or not. Block is rolling out USDC stablecoin payments to Cash App's nearly 60 million users, with 25% already having access and full deployment by week's end
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A real bank just handed 14.7 million people a stablecoin, no crypto exchange required. SoFi launched SoFiUSD, a bank-issued stablecoin, directly inside its consumer banking app to 14.7 million members on Ethereum and Solana
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While tech stocks rip on Middle East peace hopes, Bitcoin sits out the party—a divergence that reveals crypto's identity crisis between safe haven and risk asset.
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While Ethereum still gets the institutional money, Solana just proved it has the cultural engine to survive a market crash — and it runs on AI agents, degenerate memes, and tokenized real-world assets.
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The chatbot that writes your emails just became the onramp for your first Bitcoin purchase. MoonPay launched an app integration with ChatGPT that lets users buy cryptocurrency through conversational prompts with the AI chatbot
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Visa and Mastercard never built payment infrastructure for machines that need to send $0.0003 a thousand times per second.
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While Depop chased hype and Poshmark got acquired for parts, a Lithuanian resale app quietly built a €8 billion empire by doing something radical: charging buyers nothing.
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After weeks of military brinkmanship that rerouted 94 vessels and put Marines on Iranian tankers, the world's most critical oil chokepoint is about to reopen, and nobody's talking about how this will reshape sanctions evasion infrastructure.
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The first $50 million is always the hardest—after that, it's just infrastructure. OpenRouter has transitioned to x402 protocol for AI settlements, with the protocol already processing $50M in payments
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AI agents aren't just using crypto anymore — they're issuing it, and the infrastructure layer is racing to catch up. Fetch.ai launched a token launchpad on BNB Chain that lets AI agents autonomously create and manage their own tokens, no human intervention required.
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The Gulf states aren't waiting for Western stablecoin regulation to settle. They're building rails while others argue about routes.
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While everyone's still fighting the last war over Bitcoin ETFs, the real rotation is already happening under their noses. XRP-linked funds are pulling fresh capital while Bitcoin and Ether ETFs hemorrhage money, signaling a dramatic shift in trader positioning.
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The company that gets us to Mars has been quietly stacking sats, and now every public market investor will own a piece of the world's seventh-largest bitcoin holder.
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The next big battle in AI isn't compute or data — it's who gets to touch money on behalf of your agent. Catena Labs closed a $30 million Series A and filed for a national trust bank charter, building regulated financial rails specifically for AI agents.
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Europe just handed AI agents a corporate credit card, and it speaks Swedish. Germany's AllUnity is launching SEKAU, a Swedish krona stablecoin, targeting a June debut backed by DWS and Galaxy.
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While everyone debates whether stablecoins will replace banks, someone just raised $8 million to build the pipes that make that argument irrelevant. Checker raised $8 million from Galaxy Ventures, Framework, and others to build stablecoin infrastructure
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