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XRP just pulled $119.6 million into crypto funds while Bitcoin sat on the sidelines and the US watched from the bench. Global crypto ETPs drew $224 million in net inflows last week, with XRP products accounting for $119.6 million, more than half the total.
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The world's largest derivatives exchange just bet on two alt-L1s most retail hasn't heard of. CME Group is adding Avalanche and Sui futures contracts to its crypto derivatives suite, pending regulatory approval
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North Korean operatives have been writing the code for your favorite DeFi protocols since 2019, and last week's $280 million Drift hack might be just the warmup act.
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Polymarket is ripping out its plumbing and installing native infrastructure, which tells you everything about where prediction markets are headed. Polymarket is overhauling its exchange stack and replacing USDC.e with a USDC-backed native token in the coming weeks
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A Bitcoin whale who spent $50 million building a position three months ago just moved $20 million of it to Binance, staring down a $15 million loss. A whale transferred 300 BTC worth over $20 million to Binance on Tuesday, part of a larger position accumulated earlier this year
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Institutions just put $471 million into Bitcoin ETFs in a single day, the strongest inflow in six weeks, and not one fund saw money walk out the door. US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $471.32 million in net inflows on April 6, their strongest day since February 25 and the 6th-largest inflow of 2026
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Bitcoin's quantum threat isn't a code problem, it's a people problem. Grayscale's head of research says Bitcoin's quantum challenges are "more social than technical", with the real risk being whether the community can agree on fixes.
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The battle for cheap electricity just got a new heavyweight, and bitcoin miners are about to find out what it feels like to be outbid at scale. Anthropic signed a multi-gigawatt compute deal with Google and Broadcom for next-gen TPU capacity starting in 2027
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DeFi's largest protocol just lost its risk manager because no one could agree who should control $24 billion in lending infrastructure. Chaos Labs terminated its three-year engagement with Aave, citing "unsustainable economics" and disagreements over the V4 upgrade's risk management scope
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Institutions just put half a billion dollars into Bitcoin ETFs in a single day, the largest move in over a month, and BlackRock is leading the charge. Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $471-500M in inflows, marking the largest single-day institutional investment in over a month
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Polygon is shipping faster finality and transparent gas pricing this week, betting that infrastructure upgrades matter more than token hype in 2026. Polygon's Giugliano hardfork activates April 8 at block 85,268,500, targeting faster transaction finality and improved fee transparency
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Solana just built infrastructure for the thing everyone pretends they have: actual security before the hack, not just a postmortem. Solana Foundation launched STRIDE, a security program built with Asymmetric Research, alongside SIRN, a real-time incident response network
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Bitcoin is whipsawing between $68,000 and $70,000, caught between whale selling pressure and a market that can't decide if it's hedging against geopolitics or betting on $100K by summer.
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The SEC just sent its crypto safe harbor proposal to the White House, and if it lands, launching a token project won't require hiring a securities lawyer first.
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Bitcoin options traders are loading up on downside protection while whales quietly accumulate, a split that signals either the best buying opportunity in months or a cliff edge nobody wants to admit they see.
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South Korea just mandated real-time audits for every crypto exchange after one fat-finger mistake exposed that nobody actually knew where the money was.
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Anthropic just locked in hundreds of billions in chip capacity with Google and Broadcom while hitting $30 billion in annualized revenue, and the real story is what it signals about who controls the infrastructure layer of Web4.
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OpenAI is buying credibility it can't earn, and the numbers explain why. OpenAI's revenue growth is slowing, complicating its IPO story while Anthropic may overtake them in revenue The company acquired media properties to control the narrative, which only highlights they've lost control of it
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A single public company now controls nearly 4% of all staked Ethereum, and Wall Street just gave it a bigger stage. Bitmine acquired over 71,000 ETH and secured an NYSE uplisting, with stock jumping 7% on the news
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Marc Andreessen says AI job loss fears are "all fake" while US long-term unemployment climbs and tech firms explicitly cite AI in layoff announcements. Andreessen predicts a "massive jobs boom" from AI, calling displacement concerns fabricated
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