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Stablecoins aren't just for payments anymore. They're becoming balance sheet weapons that turn treasury drag into yield. Paxos Labs raised $12M to help companies issue their own stablecoins and capture yield previously lost to banks and payment processors
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The crypto VC party isn't over, but the bar to get in just got a lot higher. Venture funding in crypto has slowed, and the easy money era is dead. Top VCs say the standards for what gets funded have fundamentally shifted.
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Singapore's Cobo just shipped the wallet infrastructure that lets AI agents handle your crypto without also handling your private keys. Cobo launched Cobo Agentic Wallet, purpose-built for AI agents to execute onchain transactions with built-in safety rails
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Moody's just told banks they can stop worrying about stablecoins eating their lunch, which means stablecoins are probably closer to eating their lunch than anyone thinks.
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Tether just launched a self-custody wallet that supports USDT, Bitcoin, and tokenized gold, betting that ordinary people will finally want to hold their own keys.
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The infrastructure layer just got compromised, and half of Web3's frontend is sweating. Vercel confirmed a security breach with an attacker demanding $2 million ransom Crypto and Web3 projects deploying frontends on Vercel face exposure risk for secrets stored as environment variables
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Solana is adding 1.5 million daily users every month while its price drops to $83, and a $352 million buyback from its biggest meme coin platform just flopped harder than a bad ICO pitch.
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The infrastructure layer underneath crypto just failed again, and this time it took down a 28-year-old company's perfect record. EasyDNS, a domain registrar with 28 years of clean operations, got socially engineered, allowing attackers to hijack eth.limo, a popular gateway for Ethereum Name Service
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The Kelp hack just turned theoretical DeFi risk into a $6 billion bank run, and nobody knows how deep the bad debt goes. Attackers exploited Kelp's rsETH token, using the drained collateral to borrow wrapped ether from Aave before the protocol could react
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A $300 million hack just proved that DeFi's promise of composability is also its Achilles' heel. Kelp DAO got exploited for roughly $292-300 million, draining funds that cascaded across multiple protocols in the DeFi ecosystem
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RaveDAO's RAVE token just lost 96% of its value in 48 hours while two of crypto's biggest exchanges opened investigations, and if you think this is just another rug pull story, you're missing the real lesson about what happens when tokenized ownership meets zero due diligence.
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Google's throwing chips at Nvidia's throne while two well-funded challengers prove the king still isn't worried. Google is developing custom AI chips to challenge Nvidia's stranglehold on AI hardware, joining a growing list of companies trying to break the GPU monopoly
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DeFi just had its Bear Stearns moment, and the contagion math is worse than the headline. KelpDAO suffered a $290M exploit that created $236M in bad debt on Aave, triggering an 18% drop in $AAVE and wiping $6B from the protocol's total value locked
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France has recorded 41 crypto kidnappings in the first four months of 2026, and the industry's response tells you everything about digital ownership's next hard problem.
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A $200 million pile of crypto sits in one person's wallet, and his co-founder just went public saying that's insane. Neo co-founder Da Hongfei wants to end single-key control of the project's treasury, proposing independent governance and multi-sig protection for what amounts to $461M total
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Michael Saylor's leveraged bitcoin bet just crawled out of an $11 billion hole. Strategy's bitcoin holdings flipped back to profit after BTC surged above $76,000, erasing unrealized losses that peaked at $11B in early February
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Bitcoin just vaporized $593 million in short positions because a shipping lane opened, then closed, then maybe opened again.
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Centralized crypto exchange volumes just hit their lowest mark since late 2023, and the data suggests this isn't a dip, it's a drift. Spot trading volume on centralized exchanges dropped 39% in Q1 2026, with March posting just $800 billion, the weakest month since November 2023.
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A $280 million bridge exploit just turned DeFi's composability into a contagion problem, and AAVE is holding the bag. KelpDAO lost $280M through a LayerZero bridge vulnerability, exposing critical infrastructure risk in cross-chain protocols
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Solana futures traders just bet 20% more money that SOL is going up, but nobody can explain why it should. Solana futures open interest jumped 20% this week, signaling increased speculative positioning as SOL rallies with the broader crypto market
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