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Saylor just turned Bitcoin accumulation into a subscription service, and he wants retail shareholders to decide if they're buying in weekly or cashing out twice a month.
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The first Forsage founder to stand trial isn't arguing the platform was legal—she's arguing she wasn't in charge. Olena Oblamska, alleged co-founder of Forsage, was extradited from Thailand and pleaded not guilty to charges related to a $340 million crypto Ponzi scheme
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China's immediate walkback from "historic" to "preliminary" turned a $250B victory lap into a masterclass in political theater versus actual commerce. Trump visited Beijing May 14-15 with 17 CEOs in tow, roughly 40% with crypto ties, to negotiate what headlines called historic trade deals
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Solana just absorbed half a billion dollars of synthetic stablecoin supply in less than a week, and nobody's talking about what happens when the leverage unwinds.
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A bill that was supposed to fix crypto's regulatory mess just exposed a deeper fracture in Washington. The CLARITY Act advanced through Senate markup on May 14, but barely: only two Democratic senators supported it, and zero Democratic amendments were adopted despite claims of bipartisanship
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The alleged darknet marketplace operator didn't cash out to fiat like an amateur—he minted his proceeds into physical metal and shipped it overseas. US prosecutors charged Owe Andresen, alleged Dream Market administrator, with laundering approximately $2 million in cryptocurrency into gold bars
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Someone just bet $50 million that Ethereum crashes while JPMorgan files for an ETH treasury fund—this is what capitulation looks like when institutions and speculators can't agree on the same asset.
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Wall Street's digital rails are already being laid, and they run through one network more than any other. Ethereum now hosts 72.6% of all tokenized ETFs, establishing clear dominance as traditional finance moves on-chain
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Bitcoin is becoming the thing it was never designed to be, and this time the institutions are writing the checks. VerifiedX launched vBTC through its Prism privacy layer, a Bitcoin sidechain enabling programmable, privacy-preserving transactions without synthetic wrappers
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While the US fights over ETFs, Japan's biggest brokerages are quietly building the infrastructure to hand crypto access to millions of retail investors who've never touched an exchange.
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The man who turned "never sell Bitcoin" into corporate religion just admitted the doctrine might be killing the god. Michael Saylor told investors that Strategy's "never sell" Bitcoin stance could eventually force accounting writedowns that damage the asset's credibility
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The euro zone's institutional dam just cracked a little wider. Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest bank, grew its crypto holdings from $100 million to $235 million in Q1 2026, more than doubling exposure in three months
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When your whole business model is sanctions evasion, what's your pitch once the sanctions lift?
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The decentralized exchange that tried to break free from Circle's stablecoin just handed the keys back to Circle's biggest distributor. Coinbase will manage USDC liquidity on Hyperliquid as the official treasury deployer, while Native Markets sunsets USDH and sells the brand assets to Coinbase.
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The crypto market just discovered it has a calendar — and a corporate treasury buying pattern more predictable than your mortgage payment. Strategy's STRC stock conversions are creating mid-month Bitcoin buying cycles that have fueled rallies since March, according to K33 Research
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The contracts were dead, but someone forgot to bury them. Huma Finance lost $101,400 USDC when an attacker exploited deprecated V1 contracts on Polygon that the protocol had stopped using months ago
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The regulatory capture everyone feared isn't coming through the revolving door — it walked in through the front with a wallet full of Bitcoin.
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A bill that almost died on the table just passed committee, and the only reason it survived is because the Senate Banking Committee chairman blinked first on DeFi.
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Six weeks of institutional conviction just reversed in five trading days, and the money didn't go to cash. Spot Bitcoin ETFs hemorrhaged $1 billion over one week, ending a six-week streak that had brought in $3.4 billion
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The market is testing whether Bitcoin holders still believe in digital scarcity when Treasury yields offer actual returns. Bitcoin dropped below $78K for the first time since early May, triggered by a US bond market sell-off that sparked a 3% BTC rout alongside stocks
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