Bitcoin just proved it's not a risk-off asset, and half a billion dollars in short positions learned that the hard way. Bitcoin surged to $71,000, triggering $550 million in short liquidations despite Middle East tensions escalating
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A $4 trillion fund services giant just decided Bitcoin mining cash flows belong on a blockchain. Apex Group, managing $4 trillion in assets, is tokenizing the Omnes Mining Note (OMN) on Coinbase's Base platform, marking traditional finance's deepest move into crypto infrastructure tokenization yet.
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Hyperliquid's tokenized commodities market just hit $1.74 billion in open interest, up 25% in a week, and crude oil is trading alongside silver on-chain.
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Balancer Labs is shuttering the company after a $110M hack turned the corporate wrapper into a lawsuit magnet, but the protocol itself will live on under pure DAO control.
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TRON just put a billion dollars on the table for AI infrastructure while everyone else is still writing Medium posts about what agents might do someday.
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Two US senators just asked Commerce to cut off Nvidia's AI chip pipeline to China, and the request tells you more about Washington's losing game than Beijing's buying patterns.
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The U.S. just kneecapped stablecoin yields before they could scale, and now we get to watch the real fight over what "money" means in the digital age. The Crypto Clarity Act's latest text prohibits rewards on stablecoin balances, marking a restrictive approach to digital dollar regulation
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ParaFi just closed $125 million for a new venture fund while crypto's supposed to be in a bear market. ParaFi Capital raised $125 million for a new venture fund, adding to $325 million raised for digital asset strategies since early 2025
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SoftBank just bet $30 billion on OpenAI, and the only thing more interesting than the size of the check is how they're paying for it. SoftBank is deploying $30 billion into OpenAI, pushing the limits of its own balance sheet and testing investor patience with Masayoshi Son's AI conviction.
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Strategy just filed to raise $44.1 billion more for Bitcoin buys, doubling down on the most aggressive corporate treasury bet in history while the market bleeds. Strategy is filing to raise $44.1 billion through perpetual preferred stock to accelerate Bitcoin purchases
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Larry Fink just said the quiet part loud: tokenization will make buying stocks as frictionless as Venmo. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told Congress that tokenization will eventually make investing from your phone as simple as making payments
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Polymarket just updated its rulebook to ban insider trading and market manipulation, days after signing with Major League Baseball, which means someone finally asked the obvious question about sports prediction markets.
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Stripe just made it possible for AI agents to pay each other without asking permission first. Stripe launched Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), a system built for AI agents to execute micropayments autonomously, and Forrester is calling it a potential inflection point.
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Bitcoin's price is now a geopolitical weather vane, and the forecast depends on whether Trump and Iran can actually talk. Bitcoin held above $70,000 after bouncing on Trump's announcement of a five-day pause in tensions with Iran
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MoonPay just built the plumbing that lets AI agents hold their own money. MoonPay launched the Open Wallet Standard, a protocol designed to give AI agents non-custodial wallets that work across multiple blockchains
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The prediction market founders who proved forecasting could scale are now backing the next wave with $35 million in structured capital. 5c(c) Capital launches with $35M target, backed by Polymarket and Kalshi CEOs, focused exclusively on prediction market infrastructure and applications
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MoonPay just opened the playbook for giving AI agents their own wallets, and it's not about payments, it's about agents becoming economic actors. MoonPay released an open-source wallet standard designed specifically for AI agents to hold funds and execute transactions across multiple blockchains
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Congress is about to draw a line between prediction markets that inform and gambling that entertains, and Polymarket just ended up on the wrong side.
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Tom Lee's Bitmine just bought $138 million in ETH while sitting on unrealized losses, the third week in a row they've increased buying as the market bleeds. Bitmine, the Ethereum treasury company run by Thomas Lee, bought $138 million in ETH despite mounting unrealized losses on its balance sheet
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Bitcoin miners just got a billion-dollar vote of confidence from Wall Street, and it's not about bitcoin. JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley expanded Core Scientific's credit line to $1 billion, doubling down on the miner's pivot to AI infrastructure
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