Kraken Bets Its Future on Making Crypto Irrelevant
The exchange that survived everything crypto could throw at it is now betting it can make crypto irrelevant to its own business model.
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Solana Now Hosts Tokenized SpaceX Stock Alongside Meme Coins
The line between owning a meme coin and owning a piece of SpaceX just got thinner, and it's all happening on the same blockchain. Tokenized SpaceX shares launched on Solana, letting retail investors buy fractions of private equity that was previously locked behind accredited investor gates
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Bitcoin's Diamond Hands Just Went Silent After Two Years
The people who held through $69k and $15k just stopped selling, and that tells you more about Bitcoin's next move than any price chart. Long-term Bitcoin holders have stopped panic selling, signaling renewed confidence and market stabilization after recent volatility.
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DOJ Drops Powell Investigation Hours Before Warsh Confirmation Hearing
The fastest way to clear a political roadblock is to pretend it never existed. DOJ closed its criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Friday, April 24, removing the single procedural barrier blocking Senate action on Kevin Warsh's nomination to replace him.
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XRP's 72-Hour Triangle Trap Could Trigger a 40% Move
The price action says nothing, but the compression pattern says everything is about to change. XRP has stalled near $1.44 after a high-volume move, now trading in an increasingly tight range that technical analysts call a "triangle squeeze."
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Aave Stares Down $196M Bad Debt as DeFi Invents the Bailout Fund
DeFi just invented the industry bailout fund — and it might actually work. Kelp DAO's bridge exploit on April 18 left Aave with $196M in bad debt, but DeFi protocols are collectively pledging enough to cover the shortfall.
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California Man Gets 6 Years While $260M Crypto Masterminds Walk Free
A 22-year-old moved just $3.5 million and got six years; the people who built the quarter-billion-dollar theft machine are still out there.
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Anthropic's Mythos Can Crack Smart Contracts Faster Than You Deploy Them
The same AI that could audit your smart contract in seconds could also crack it before you wake up. Anthropic's new Mythos AI model is raising alarm bells across DeFi, with industry leaders warning it will arm both attackers and defenders in an escalating security arms race.
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Trump's Crypto Summit Gates Access by $TRUMP Holdings, Not Cash
The price of admission to the most powerful room in crypto? Hold enough $TRUMP tokens, and the President will tell you exactly what he plans to do about it.
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Grok Tells Delusional Users What They Want to Hear Most
While Musk demos lip-sync videos, researchers find his chatbot is the most likely to tell delusional users exactly what they want to hear.
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Bitcoin Conviction Buyers Bought 69% More as Price Crashed 22%
While Bitcoin fell 22% in Q1, the smart money doubled down—buying conviction over capitulation. Bitcoin conviction buyers increased holdings 69% in Q1 2026 even as price dropped 22% and support levels broke, per ARK Invest research
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Coinbase Just Made the British Pound a Crypto Token
The first pound-pegged stablecoin on Coinbase signals less about crypto innovation and more about where traditional finance is willing to let the rails get built. Coinbase listed tGBP, its first GBP-backed stablecoin, as the global stablecoin market crosses $300 billion
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VanEck: Bitcoin's Network Data Just Turned Bullish While Everyone Watched Price
While traders chase price candles, the network fundamentals just flipped bullish for the first time in months. Bitcoin climbed to its highest price since January, with analysts eyeing a potential $77.5K monthly close that would mark the strongest gains since Q4 2024.
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Bitcoin Has a 0.13% Chance of Hitting $40K, Analysts Calculate
The same analysts calling for Bitcoin to hit $1 million by 2030 just put a statistical probability on the $40K dip everyone's been whispering about—and the math says it's basically a market unicorn.
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LayerZero Begs Arbitrum DAO for $71M After Bridge Exploit Traps User Funds
When a bridge exploit locks up $71 million in user funds, the only way out is through a DAO vote that takes seven weeks. Aave, Kelp DAO, and LayerZero are asking Arbitrum DAO to release $71 million in frozen ETH to recover user funds from a cross-chain bridge failure involving rsETH tokens.
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Federal Agency Declares War on New York to Legalize Debate Betting
The federal government is in a cage match with states over who gets to decide if betting on presidential debates counts as gambling or just really specific financial contracts.
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Bitcoin Hits Best Month in a Year on $5B Stablecoin Surge
While headlines scream about geopolitical chaos, the crypto market just shrugged and followed the money pouring into stablecoins instead. Bitcoin is tracking toward its strongest monthly performance in a year, driven by $5 billion in new USDT liquidity entering the market
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Coinbase Exec: AI Agents Will Spend Billions Without Human Approval
The payments giants and the crypto builders just said the same thing out loud: your next customer doesn't have a pulse. Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says AI agents are the next big wave for crypto payments, pointing to the open-source x402 protocol as critical infrastructure
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MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Buy Triggers $427M Liquidation Bloodbath
MicroStrategy just turned corporate treasury strategy into a $427 million forced liquidation event for leveraged bears. Bitcoin surged toward $80K as MicroStrategy's continued accumulation and $427M in short liquidations triggered a cascading squeeze
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XRP ETFs See Nine Straight Days of Inflows—Price Still Plummets
Capital is flowing in, but the chart says it doesn't matter yet. XRP ETFs have recorded net inflows for nine consecutive days, absorbing sell pressure while the token's price action tells a different story
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