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While crypto builders debate trustless money, the world's second-largest economy just bet another $25 billion on the oldest form of it. China added 650,000 ounces of gold in August, extending its buying streak to 22 consecutive months and pushing total reserves to $350 billion
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The attacker isn't panicking, they're methodical — draining the 11 largest vaults first and laundering just enough to avoid triggering the full alarm.
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The Fed's new chair just told markets to stop expecting breadcrumbs, and now his own team is arguing about it in public. Kevin Warsh used his debut Jackson Hole address to signal tighter monetary policy, focusing on headline PCE inflation stuck at 3.7% and reducing forward guidance
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The president's son just turned his most scandalous liability into a tokenized middle finger, and he's paying the people who lost money on Trump's coin to help him do it.
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The biggest barrier to Web3 adoption isn't tech complexity, it's the absurd requirement that you hold the native currency just to use the network. Ethereum locked in Frame Transactions for its 2027 Hegotá upgrade, letting users pay gas fees in any token, not just ETH.
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The market just told you what Bitcoin actually is, and it's not what the tech bros promised. Bitcoin's 90-day correlation with gold hit a nine-year high, while its correlation with the NASDAQ weakened following the US Treasury's QE Lite announcement
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The global payments network that powers trillions in bank transfers just proved it can work on Saturday night. DBS Bank and Citi completed a cross-border USD payment over the weekend using tokenized deposits on Swift's blockchain ledger, circumventing traditional banking hours
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The attacker just became the good guy, and that's the scariest part of this story. An attacker exploited Liquid Network for roughly 4,000 BTC (~$320M), then agreed to return most of it after Blockstream patched the bug
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Solana just became the preferred rail for moving serious institutional money, and the volume spike tells you everything about where tokenized assets are actually settling.
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European firms finally stopped asking "Should we?" and started asking "How much?" Capital B acquired 376 BTC for €25.3 million, bringing total holdings to 3,521 BTC in the company's largest bitcoin purchase since September 2025
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The technical co-founder just got demoted, and the shift is bigger than anyone's admitting. Altman argues generative AI has flipped startup dynamics: success now depends on user insight over technical implementation prowess
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While Wall Street debates tokenization timelines, a Korean conglomerate just built the rails and the government wrote the rulebook.
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When the threat model includes rogue AI agents, shutting down your blockchain starts to look less like surrender and more like survival. Harmony, a layer-1 blockchain launched in 2019, is voluntarily shutting down and migrating its ONE token to Ethereum as an ERC-20 asset
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A Layer 1 blockchain just voted to delete itself and pivot to AI video remixing on Ethereum. Harmony proposed shutting down its Layer 1 blockchain and migrating its ONE token to Ethereum, weeks after an exploit forced the network to discard 109,000 transactions
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The man who built Ethereum just told the AI doomsayers to relax about Bitcoin's security—and his reasoning matters more than the headline controversy.
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The company that spent years warning about killer AI just locked itself into a $100B+ cloud bill—and David Sacks thinks the real threat isn't rogue models, it's regulatory capture dressed up as safety.
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While retail investors scroll panic tweets, institutions just quietly stacked a billion dollars worth of bitcoin through ETFs in a single week. Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $987 million last week, part of $3.52 billion in net inflows for August, the strongest monthly performance since September 2025
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When hackers steal hundreds of millions and then politely announce their intentions on-chain, you're either watching the world's most civilized heist or its most theatrical bug bounty.
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The irony is thick: a company that lets you bet on everything from elections to hurricanes won't let you bet on whether it survives the Supreme Court.
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Jensen Huang just called AGI, and he's backing it with $20 billion in hardware that ships before the holidays. Nvidia is deploying Groq's AI inference racks as part of a $20B bet going live this year, accelerating AI infrastructure at unprecedented speed
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