Bitcoin's Chart Drew a Cartoon Face Before Dropping to $77,577
Bitcoin's 24% August rally is now drawing a cartoon character on the charts, and the joke might be on anyone who bought the top.
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Pons Meme Launchpad Outearns Its Own Blockchain by $2 Million
A token launchpad just became more valuable than the blockchain it lives on. Pons, a token launchpad on Robinhood Chain, generated $5.95M in daily fees, exceeding the chain's own $3.75M daily record and outpacing Ethereum, Solana, and Base combined.
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Bitcoin's Best Month in 20 Months Ends With a Bond Market Beatdown
Bitcoin just posted its best month in 20 months, then ran face-first into the one force that doesn't care about your momentum.
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SEC Chair: Senate Passes Crypto Bill That Reverses Three-Year Crackdown
The U.S. is making a serious bid to reclaim the crypto companies it spent three years chasing offshore. SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the Senate will pass the CLARITY Act on September 15, marking the first comprehensive federal crypto framework after years of regulation-by-enforcement
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BlackRock Clients Just Bought $115M in Bitcoin in One Day
The world's largest asset manager just gave Bitcoin the only endorsement that matters: their clients' money, while their analysts quietly rewrote the math on why a 60/40 portfolio needs to become 58/38/4.
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Google and Meta Drop Competing AI Models Within Hours—Developers Forced to Pick Sides
The big labs are now shipping models on the same day, forcing developers to choose between ecosystems before the benchmarks are even cold.
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XRP Surges as Fed Blinks: Hike Odds Crater to 62%
The Fed's wavering on rate hikes is giving crypto its first real breathing room in months, and the market's response shows which assets still have actual buyers underneath the noise.
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SHEIN Stock Drops 70% Then Hits Crypto Markets Before Wall Street
A company worth 70% less than it was two years ago just became tradable on a decentralized exchange before most retail investors could touch the actual stock.
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Sentora Vaults Hit $1B as DeFi Quietly Eats Traditional Finance
The first billion is validation. The second billion is when the banks start sweating. Sentora's vaults on Morpho crossed $1B in total deposits, marking a milestone for DeFi infrastructure built on real-world asset yields
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Binance Rockets Unknown Token Into Top 120 Without Official Listing
Binance just turned a launchpad token into a top-120 crypto asset in 24 hours, and the exchange didn't even list it on the main platform. Pons (PONS) hit an all-time high of $0.52 after Binance Alpha added it for trading on September 2, jumping 21.87% in a day
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Trump White House Tells Court OpenAI Doesn't Need to Pay for Training Data
The White House just picked a side in the fight that will determine whether AI companies owe billions or owe nothing.
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Arbitrum's $360K Monthly Licensing Deal Nobody Expected
Licensing blockchain infrastructure just became a $360,000-per-month business for Arbitrum, and nobody saw it coming.
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Kraken Pushes IPO to 2027 After Nine-Month Wall Street Stall
The crypto exchange that confidentially filed for its IPO nine months ago just told Wall Street to check back in another nine months, minimum. Payward, Kraken's parent company, is delaying its U.S. IPO to at least Q2 2027, despite confidentially filing last November
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Circle's President Told Congress Stablecoins Are the Only Way to Save the Dollar
Washington wants to defend the dollar with the same tech it spent years trying to regulate into submission. Circle President Heath Tarbert testified before Congress advocating stablecoin regulation as a tool to maintain US dollar dominance in digital finance
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AfterQuery Hit $3.2B in 18 Months Selling AI Training Data
The pickaxe sellers are now worth more than most of the gold miners. AfterQuery hit a $3.2B valuation in less than five months, making it Y Combinator's fastest path to unicorn status ever
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CrowdStrike Gets OpenAI's Most Advanced Security Model Six Months After Global Outage
The company that broke half the world's computers with a bad update just got keys to OpenAI's most advanced cybersecurity model. CrowdStrike joined OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, gaining access to GPT-5.4-Cyber alongside a new Nvidia partnership for frontier AI models
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Twenty-One Banks Built the Stablecoin They Said Would Never Work
The institutions that spent a decade calling crypto a scam just committed to shipping their own dollar token in 18 months.
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World Just Made Privacy Tech Work on Your iPhone
The hardest problem in crypto just got a lot easier to solve on the device in your pocket. World open-sourced ProveKit, a zero-knowledge toolkit that's been running in World ID since April, now available for any developer to use
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Crypto VCs Just Admitted They Confused Groupthink for Due Diligence
The smartest money in crypto just realized they're all buying the same thing, and now they're calling it strategy. Crypto VCs shifted 57% of Q2 capital to later-stage deals, calling it disciplined investing after the 2022 crash
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Adam Back Bets €7.6M That Corporations Will Hoard Bitcoin
The inventor of proof-of-work is doubling down on corporate Bitcoin hoarding, and he's using a French company most people have never heard of to do it. Adam Back invested €7.6M ($8.8M) into Capital B, a French bitcoin treasury firm, through a private placement to fund more BTC purchases
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