Japan's Two Biggest Banks Just Put Government Bonds on Blockchain
Japan's two biggest banks and its central clearinghouse just put real government bonds on blockchain rails, and they chose Canton over everything else.
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Justin Sun Sues Trump Crypto Project Over $30M Token Freeze
The Trump family's crypto project just got sued by one of its biggest investors for freezing $30 million in tokens and locking him out of governance.
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Volo Protocol Loses $3.5M in Exploit as Liquid Staking Remains DeFi's Weakest Link
A $3.5 million exploit just proved that liquid staking protocols are still the soft underbelly of crypto infrastructure. Volo Protocol, a Sui-based liquid staking platform, lost roughly $3.5 million from its WBTC, XAUm, and USDC vaults in an exploit
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Binance Bitcoin Inflows Hit 2023 Low as Bulls Eye $80K
Bitcoin holders aren't selling on Binance anymore, and that's the first real signal the market has flipped since 2023. Binance BTC inflows dropped to their lowest level since 2023, signaling reduced selling pressure as traders hold rather than deposit to exchange wallets
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Claude Mythos Finds 271 Firefox Bugs While Pentagon Sues Anthropic
Anthropic's Claude Mythos just found 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox while the Pentagon is suing them and the NSA is running their models on classified networks.
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Kelp hacker moves $292M after Arbitrum freezes 30,000 ETH—proving why censorship-resistant chains still matter
Arbitrum froze 30,000 ETH to stop a $292 million hack, and the exploiter's response just mapped out exactly why decentralized rails still win. Wallets tied to the Kelp DAO exploit started moving funds across chains after Arbitrum froze roughly 30,000 ETH from the $292 million hack
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SpaceX Pays $60B for Cursor Because xAI Is Losing the Agent War
Elon Musk just bought himself a $60 billion shortcut in the agent wars, and the price tag says everything about how far behind he thinks he is. SpaceX has struck a deal to acquire AI coding assistant Cursor for $60 billion, marking one of the largest AI acquisitions in history
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SEC Ends Crypto War as $16 Trillion Asset Market Opens
The SEC just ended its war on crypto, and the tokenization of real-world assets finally has a regulatory pathway that won't land you in court. SEC Chair Atkins is shifting to a crypto-friendly stance, ending the enforcement-first approach that's frozen institutional capital for years
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New York Calls Prediction Markets Gambling, Sues Coinbase and Gemini
New York just declared war on the prediction market economy, suing Coinbase and Gemini for running what it calls illegal gambling operations.
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Strategy Drops $1.1B on Bitcoin, Outbuying Every ETF Combined
Strategy Inc. just bought 77,000 Bitcoin for $1.1 billion, dwarfing every spot ETF combined this year and becoming the third-largest institutional BTC purchase on record. Strategy Inc. acquired 77,000 BTC for $1.1 billion, marking the third-largest institutional Bitcoin purchase in history
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Bitcoin Crashes Below $75K After Trump's Fed Pick Refuses Rate Cut Pressure
Bitcoin just learned that monetary policy independence still matters, even when your guy is in the White House. Bitcoin slid toward $75,000 as Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh told senators Trump didn't demand rate cuts, cooling bets on easy money
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DoorDash Makes Stablecoins Actually Useful Beyond Crypto Trading
DoorDash just made stablecoins useful for something other than trading jpegs. DoorDash partnered with Tempo blockchain to integrate stablecoin-powered payment infrastructure, alongside Stripe, Paradigm, Coastal Bank, and ARQ
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Coinbase Warns Crypto Has 10 Years Before Quantum Computers Break Everything
Coinbase just told the crypto industry it has a quantum computer problem, and the clock is already ticking. Coinbase's quantum advisory board published a 50-page paper concluding blockchains are safe today but vulnerable to future fault-tolerant quantum computers
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Blockchain.com Puts Perpetual Futures in Your DeFi Wallet
Self-custody wallets just got serious about derivatives, and the timing tells you everything about where regulation is heading. Blockchain.com integrated Hyperliquid to bring perpetual futures trading directly into its DeFi wallet, covering 190+ crypto markets with no custodial handoff.
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Strategy Now Holds More Bitcoin Than BlackRock's Entire ETF
Strategy now holds more Bitcoin than BlackRock's ETF and is on track to own more than Satoshi Nakamoto by September. Strategy reported 815,061 BTC holdings in April, gaining 47,079 BTC worth $3.6 billion and achieving a 6.2% BTC yield for the month, surpassing BlackRock's ETF holdings.
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Banks Just Lost Their Blockchain Excuse After $606M Exploit Month
Banks spent years building blockchain strategies, and one month of exploits might have just set them back to the whiteboard. April saw $606M in crypto exploits, with the Kelp DAO hack alone taking $293M
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Revolut Triples Valuation to $200B While Traditional Banks Watch From Sidelines
Revolut just tripled its valuation target in five months, and the gap between what crypto banks can do and what traditional banks are allowed to do has never been wider.
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Kalshi Takes On Binance With Perpetual Futures After Beating CFTC
Kalshi, the prediction market that beat the CFTC in court, is launching perpetual futures to compete directly with Binance and Hyperliquid. Kalshi plans to launch crypto perpetual futures on April 27, moving beyond election and event-based prediction markets into continuous crypto trading products
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Optimism Just Made Ethereum Private Enough for Wall Street
Optimism just made private transactions on Ethereum usable for businesses that can't afford to broadcast every trade to the world.
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BTCC Lets You Trade SpaceX Stock With 50x Leverage
Crypto exchanges just turned private equity into a tradable asset class with leverage, and SpaceX is the guinea pig. BTCC launched SPACEXUSDT perpetual futures with 50x leverage, while Bitget opened IPO Prime with Republic to offer Solana-based tokens tied to pre-IPO companies
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