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While bitcoin pulled nearly a billion dollars last week, every other crypto ETF just learned what it feels like to be the second choice at the dance. Bitcoin ETFs captured $986.9 million in inflows during the week ending September 4, up 6.7% week-over-week, while altcoin funds cratered
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Jack Dorsey just asked the government for permission to become a bank—the Bitcoin kind. Block is seeking OCC approval to establish a national trust bank through its Builders Bank subsidiary for Bitcoin and stablecoin custody services
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When you can't buy the company, buy the company that claims it can get you into the company. DeepSeek's new funding round has triggered a secondary market where intermediaries are offering access through special purpose vehicles with escalating fees and five-year lock-ups
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Self-custody was supposed to protect you from the bank, not invite armed strangers into your living room. Malone Lam, 22, pleaded guilty to leading an international social engineering conspiracy that stole $245 million in cryptocurrency from holders
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The safety-first AI lab just chose secrecy over scrutiny, and Britain's government is reading the tea leaves on what comes next.
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While everyone watches Bitcoin for direction, the real money is quietly rotating into legacy layer-1s that were left for dead.
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The first AI to crack a million-dollar math problem might also be the first AI to get sued for plagiarism. OpenAI claims its AI agents solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems worth $1 million each
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When physical commodities rally harder than crypto, it's not market noise — it's the infrastructure of the AI economy announcing its price. Bitcoin dropped below $78,500 while copper hit record highs and oil surged, a divergence that reveals which assets the market thinks power the next decade
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When the world's most-watched AI lab announces a math breakthrough and gets accused of plagiarism in the same breath, the real discovery is how messy the agent economy's knowledge layer has become.
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DeFi just hung an "accredited investors only" sign on its front door. Compound launched a whitelisted institutional lending market offering USDC loans against ETH, wstETH, WBTC, and cbBTC at up to 87% LTV ratios
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Cathie Wood just asked permission to make venture capital shares trade like tokens — and if the SEC says yes, the line between traditional finance and crypto gets a lot fuzzier.
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India just skipped the PowerPoint phase and put $59 million of real debt on a blockchain, with two of its biggest banks as buyers. REC Limited, a state-owned power sector lender, issued a ₹5 billion ($59 million) tokenized bond under India's securities regulator sandbox program
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The stablecoin with the best rails wins, and Circle just bought 100 countries worth of them. Circle is acquiring Singapore-based Tazapay for $400 million, a cross-border payments firm processing $25 billion in annualized volume across 100-plus markets
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Meta just turned 3 billion daily users into a captive market for AI agents that watch everything you say and suggest what you should do next.
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The same nuclear reactors that powered aircraft carriers are now headed for AI data centers, and a SPAC deal is the financial vehicle making it happen.
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Robinhood just made a bet that Americans want to trade on game outcomes more than they want to trade crypto, and they're buying infrastructure from a crypto exchange to do it.
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The card network that moves $14 trillion a year just decided your stablecoin balance can borrow against itself, on-chain, to settle in real time.
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A blockchain doesn't get voted out of existence for no reason, and Harmony's rush to AI video tells you everything about which bets are still paying off in 2026.
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Visa just turned stablecoin settlement data into collateral, and the real story isn't the 15x growth — it's who gets to borrow against it. Visa's stablecoin settlement volume hit a $20 billion annualized run rate, up 15x year over year with payment volume up nearly 200%
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Ethereum just gave itself three years to solve a problem that doesn't exist yet, and every other chain is now on the clock too. The Ethereum Foundation set December 2029 as a hard deadline for quantum resistance, treating it as a fixed constraint rather than a research aspiration
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