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David Bailey's public bitcoin treasury strategy just ate a 40% loss to keep the lights on. Nakamoto Holdings sold 284 BTC for $20 million at ~$70,422 per coin, 40% below their average acquisition cost, according to their annual filing
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A crypto market-maker just hit unicorn status with banking money leading the round. Keyrock, a Brussels-based crypto market maker, raised a Series C at a $1.1 billion valuation led by SC Ventures, Standard Chartered's innovation arm
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The cryptography protecting your crypto wallet just got easier to break, and Google quietly moved up the timeline. Google updated its quantum computing estimates for breaking elliptic curve cryptography, the math securing most blockchain wallets and transactions.
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KuCoin just learned that $297 million doesn't buy you a way back into the U.S. market. The CFTC permanently barred KuCoin operator Peken Global Limited from serving U.S. customers unless it registers as a foreign board of trade
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Bitcoin's order book is showing a rare setup that could push price from $66,000 to $71,000, but only if you know what a bid-ask imbalance actually means. A notable bid-ask imbalance near $66,000 suggests more buy orders than sell orders stacking up at current levels
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When a Bitcoin treasury company dumps $20 million in BTC at a 40% loss, that's not just bad timing—it's a stress test for the whole "Bitcoin as corporate treasury" thesis.
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Five years after a DeFi exploit, the feds finally got their man, and they clawed back $31 million in the process.
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A British chip startup you've never heard of is raising $200 million to take on Nvidia, and the odds say they'll fail, but the attempt tells you everything about where AI infrastructure is headed.
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While everyone tokenizes art and treasury bonds, [Metals.io just put uranium on the blockchain](https://thedefiant.io/news/blockchains/metals-io-brings-tokenized-gold-uranium-and-rare-earth-metals-to-tezos).
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Oil just hit $105 a barrel, and if history is any guide, Bitcoin holders should be watching their exits. WTI crude crossed $105 on Monday, a three-year high that historically correlates with Bitcoin bear market acceleration
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The U.S. just cracked open the door to let $7 trillion in 401(k) money touch crypto. The Labor Department proposed a rule following Trump's executive order directing regulators to expand digital asset access in retirement accounts
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The U.S. government just drew a line around Bitcoin mining and said "this side is ours." Sens. Lummis and Cassidy introduced the Mined in America Act, creating federal certification for U.S. Bitcoin miners and codifying Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve executive order into law.
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Two GOP senators just dropped a bill that treats bitcoin mining like steel mills and strategic oil reserves. Republican Senators Cynthia Lummis and Bill Cassidy introduced the "Mined in America Act" to expand domestic crypto mining infrastructure and formalize bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset.
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Consensus 2026 just marked the moment crypto stopped being an industry and became infrastructure. Consensus 2026 in Miami drew massive institutional presence after a decade of building, with deep focus on agentic commerce
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Aave just rebuilt the largest decentralized lending protocol from the ground up, and the real target isn't more crypto traders, it's institutional credit markets. Aave V4 launched on Ethereum mainnet after two years of development and a governance vote that cleared the rollout
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Ethereum investment funds just hemorrhaged $222 million in one week, and the Clarity Act you thought would help crypto might be the reason why. Ethereum funds shed $222 million in outflows, part of $414 million total crypto fund outflows for the week
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Crypto's political playbook just got a direct line to Congress. Anchorage Digital and Chainlink Labs launched the Blockchain Leadership Fund, a hybrid PAC timed for November's midterm elections Unlike super PACs, this structure can contribute directly to candidates, not just run independent ads
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Jack Dorsey just made bitcoin payments the default for millions of U.S. businesses, and most of them don't even know it yet. Square flipped bitcoin acceptance from opt-in to opt-out for eligible sellers across its network
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Ex-Blackstone team just raised $25M to drag private credit markets onchain, and they're not talking about overcollateralized DeFi games. Valinor closed a $25M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz to tokenize private credit markets, staffed by former Blackstone operators
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Aave just rebuilt DeFi's biggest lending protocol from the ground up, and the real story isn't the tech architecture, it's that institutions can now borrow against tokenized real-world assets without leaving the blockchain.
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