SEC Chair Says Wall Street's Century-Old Moat Goes Programmable Within Weeks
The regulatory moat Wall Street spent a century building is about to become programmable infrastructure.
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Jane Street Accused of Insider Trading Before Terra's $40B Collapse
The collapse already got litigated. Now the trading firm wants to make sure it doesn't get litigated twice. Jane Street filed to dismiss Terraform Labs' insider trading lawsuit, arguing the reasons for Terra's collapse have already been settled in court
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Succinct's $80M-Backed App Turns Your iPhone Into a Deepfake Detector
The arms race between AI-generated fakes and provable reality just moved from the cloud to your pocket. Succinct, a cryptography company backed by Paradigm, launched Zcam, an iPhone app that cryptographically signs photos and videos at the moment of capture to verify authenticity
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Wisconsin Declares War on Prediction Markets, Sues Five Crypto Giants for Illegal Gambling
The federal government says prediction markets are legitimate financial instruments. Wisconsin says they're illegal gambling. Five companies are now caught in the crossfire.
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Bitcoin Traders Liquidated at $77K Then FOMO Back at $78K
Bitcoin's single-day swing from $77.4K to $78K+ is a perfect X-ray of why crypto markets are still broken: traders got liquidated, sentiment flipped from bearish to FOMO, and nobody learned anything about actual value.
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SpaceX Wants $2 Trillion for AI Infrastructure Nobody Else Can Build
The richest man in the world is about to find out if Wall Street will pay $2 trillion for rockets, satellites, and a promise to own the AI cloud layer nobody else can reach.
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Aave Rallies DeFi Giants After $292M KelpDAO Collapse
When a bridge collapses, you either rebuild it together or watch the whole neighborhood burn down. KelpDAO's bridge exploit cost $292 million, triggering a $15.8 billion DeFi capital flight as total value locked collapsed from $99.5 billion to $83.7 billion in six days.
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Bitcoin ETFs Absorb $2B as Retail Dumps Their Bags
The institutions are buying while the tourists are checking out, and that divergence is exactly what smart money looks for. Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled $2 billion in net inflows over an 8-day positive streak, the longest run since October
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US Restrains $700M Linked to Government-Protected Crypto Scam Centers
The US just connected $700 million in restrained assets to Southeast Asian crypto scam operations run from inside government protection. The US Treasury sanctioned a Cambodian senator allegedly running crypto scam centers that defraud victims globally through pig butchering schemes
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BlackRock Clients Bought $167M Bitcoin While Retail Panicked
The smart money isn't waiting for clarity—it's buying the chaos. BlackRock's IBIT Bitcoin ETF pulled in $246.8M in a single day, part of $1.8B accumulated over 12 days while geopolitical tensions spiked
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Wisconsin Sues Kalshi and Polymarket Hours After They Launched Perpetual Futures
The prediction market platforms racing to launch perpetual futures just got sued for sports betting by Wisconsin, proving that moving fast and breaking things works until a state AG decides you broke the wrong thing.
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Metaplanet Convinced Investors to Hand Over $50M Interest-Free for Bitcoin
A Japanese company just convinced bond buyers to lend them $50 million at zero percent interest so they can gamble on orange coin, and the lenders said yes. Metaplanet issued $50M in zero-interest bonds to buy more Bitcoin, adding to the 40,177 BTC they already hold as of Q1 2026.
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US Seizes $700M Crypto From Sitting Senator Running Casino Scam Empire
The US just weaponized the Treasury, DOJ, and State Department in unison to take down a sitting foreign senator running crypto scam factories from inside casinos.
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Kelp DAO loses $306M as hackers drain rsETH across three blockchains
When a cross-chain bridge breaks, it doesn't just drain one protocol—it triggers a cascade that forces an entire layer-2 network to freeze assets and questions whether decentralized finance can handle its own infrastructure.
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Morgan Stanley Bets Billions on Stablecoin Issuers Before Banks Catch Up
Wall Street's moving faster on stablecoin infrastructure than the banks want regulators to. Morgan Stanley launched a fund designed to help stablecoin issuers meet GENIUS Act compliance requirements, aiming to reduce depegging risks
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Microsoft's $18B Australia Bet While AI Firms Devour Half the S&P 500
While Microsoft writes an $18 billion check for Australian AI infrastructure, the real story is happening in market cap tables where AI firms now control nearly half the S&P 500.
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Pantera Tells Bitcoin Treasury Firm to Dump Its Entire $50M Stash
When your biggest investor tells you to sell the only thing you're supposed to hold, the business model isn't broken—it was fiction from the start. Pantera Capital is backing a shareholder push to force Satsuma to liquidate its $50 million bitcoin treasury, according to Bloomberg reporting
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Pantera Begs Portfolio Company to Dump Bitcoin After 99% Crash
When your biggest investor begs you to sell the bitcoin they once championed you buy, the strategy sheet is officially on fire.
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KelpDAO Thief Moves $175M Cross-Chain After Ethereum Freezeout
When one blockchain tried to stop the thief, the thief just picked a different highway. The KelpDAO attacker moved 75,700 ETH (roughly $175 million) through THORChain, converting stolen funds from ETH to BTC after Arbitrum's Security Council froze 30,766 ETH on their network
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Strategy Drops $2.5B on Bitcoin as Ceasefire Sparks $40M Liquidation Wave
The market is treating Middle East diplomacy like a volatility lever, and the swings just printed $40 million in liquidated shorts in 48 hours.
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