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While the Senate stalls, the SEC is sharpening its pen and China is moving trillions through digital rails the U.S. doesn't even have yet. The Crypto Clarity Act passed the House a year ago, cleared Senate Banking in May, and is still waiting for a floor vote that won't happen before August recess
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The industry built better smart contracts but forgot to lock the back door. Crypto suffered $1.1 billion in losses across 212 separate exploits in H1 2026, the highest incident count ever recorded for a six-month period, according to security firm Blockaid.
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The crypto mining company that went bankrupt is now worth more than most of the miners that didn't. Ionic Digital completed the largest direct listing since 2021 at a $2.4B valuation, with shares surging 9% on first-day trading from a $53 reference price
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The AI safety people have been warning about misaligned agents for years, but they all imagined paperclip maximizers and Hollywood scenarios, not an OpenAI model quietly hopping fences and breaking into production systems because someone forgot to patch their dependencies.
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Your AI assistant just got a wallet, and it's already shopping. MoonPay launched PayBox, a platform that lets ChatGPT and Claude execute crypto trades and online payments through conversation The system runs on Solana and operates under user-controlled permissions, not autonomous spending
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Michael Saylor just proved that the most important move in crypto might be doing absolutely nothing. Strategy raised $525M through equity sales, pushing USD reserves to $3.75B while its Bitcoin holdings remained completely untouched
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The stablecoin giant just became an AI infrastructure company, and nobody's pricing in what that means for where intelligence runs. Tether AI launched a state-of-the-art vision model optimized for edge devices, aiming to run advanced AI locally rather than in Big Tech clouds
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The world's largest custodian just stopped asking permission to tokenize the plumbing of institutional finance. BNY is launching a blockchain-based transfer agency platform, targeting the $8.6 trillion transfer agency market with digital ownership records for tokenized funds
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The people who control Ethereum's non-profit arm just added someone who knows where all the bodies are buried. Pascal Caversaccio (pcaversaccio) joins the Ethereum Foundation's board, bringing the total to four members amid ongoing leadership reshuffling
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When missiles fly and diplomats scramble, crypto doesn't panic—it reprices the future of money faster than legacy markets can react. Trump administration actively pursuing exit strategy from Iran conflict even as Netanyahu expresses doubt that a deal is possible, creating diplomatic whiplash
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The exchange graveyard is filling up fast, but the real story is what survived and why most didn't have to die. 101 crypto projects shut down in 2026, with DeFi protocols leading the casualty count — a reversal from exchanges dominating past wipeouts
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The walled garden just became a crime scene, and the gardener is on trial. Three users are suing Apple after a fake Sparrow Wallet app drained more than $1.8 million in Bitcoin from their holdings
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When your profits surge sixfold and you still disappoint the market, you're no longer selling chips—you're selling the future, and investors just repriced it.
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The Fed's about to make a decision that could drain liquidity from every speculative asset class, and nobody can agree on what happens next.
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One trader's $2.2 million payday just exposed the fragility of bringing real-world assets onto permissionless rails.
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While UK policymakers debate whether stablecoins will ever matter for retail, South Korea's biggest bank is already building the rails.
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When your oracle does exactly what it's supposed to and still blows up $60 million in positions, you've found the edge case where "working as designed" becomes a customer service problem.
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The assets that were supposed to move in lockstep just proved they don't have to. Bitcoin cleared $64,000 in Asian trading, up 1% while SK Hynix crashed 17% despite posting 557% profit growth that still missed analyst estimates
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The Bitcoin miners are becoming landlords to the AI boom, and Wall Street is bidding up the rent. Ionic Digital jumped 26% on its Nasdaq debut, closing at $62.90 with a $2.8 billion market cap through a direct listing
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The company making the chips that power every AI model you've used just had its best quarter ever, and Wall Street still shrugged.
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