A decentralized exchange just grabbed 7% of the entire perpetual futures market in the middle of Coinbase and Binance's turf war. Hyperliquid captured a record 7% share of aggregate perpetual futures open interest, marking a notable shift in derivatives trading toward decentralized platforms
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The smart money isn't waiting for clarity anymore—they're paying for the exit. A whale wallet (0xB4d3) dumped 20,000 ETH worth $41.1M, part of broader institutional selling pressure hitting crypto markets
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While legacy finance celebrates new peaks, the crypto rails are showing compression energy that traders can't ignore. Bitcoin slipped below $77K as the Dow Jones hit all-time highs, revealing weak US demand through Coinbase trading data
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When a $1.2 billion crypto merger collapses, the lawyers get richer than anyone who held through the bear market. Galaxy Digital and BitGo are in court over a $100 million termination fee from their failed 2021 merger, now stretching into year four of litigation
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Wall Street's most controversial sector bets just got 24/7 settlement and no accredited investor gatekeeping. Coinbase launched perpetual futures contracts tracking MarketVector's AI, defense, and China equity indexes, each based on the 10 largest companies in their respective sectors
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Crypto's killer app might not be decentralization after all, it's turning Wall Street products into 24/7 tradeable instruments that settle in milliseconds. Coinbase launches US-regulated equity index futures on June 8, offering perpetual-style contracts on AI, China, and defense sector indices
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The company building the infrastructure for Mars colonization just disclosed it's been quietly building a treasury designed to outlive Earth-based currencies.
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The infrastructure that makes TradFi hum is missing in crypto, and the guy who built Cosmos is tired of waiting for someone else to fix it.
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The state wants $1.8 million, but the real cost is what happens when physical crypto infrastructure becomes a legal liability faster than anyone can figure out compliance.
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The company that gets us to Mars has been quietly stacking sats, and now every public market investor will own a piece of the world's seventh-largest bitcoin holder.
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Money talks, but in this election cycle, it might be shouting into a tailwind. Fairshake PAC and affiliates spent $20M on media and ads backing six candidates across Georgia, Alabama, and Kentucky primaries. Five Republicans and one Democrat won or advanced to runoffs.
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Coinbase just turned stablecoins into white-label infrastructure, and the first customer isn't a bank or fintech giant but a messaging app founder with a history of regulatory trouble.
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Coinbase and Tether aren't fighting over fees — they're fighting over who controls the rails of decentralized finance. Coinbase just enabled native USDC deposits and withdrawals on Hyperliquid, the decentralized perpetuals exchange that now holds $5.4B in USDC supply
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The crypto ATM business just lost its biggest player to a problem no software upgrade can fix: compliance costs that scale faster than revenue.
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The people building the AI future are having an identity crisis about whether they matter in it. Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das says no one in Silicon Valley is happy — not the newly rich AI founders, not the $500k engineers, not the middle managers watching their jobs vanish.
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A bill that was supposed to fix crypto's regulatory mess just exposed a deeper fracture in Washington. The CLARITY Act advanced through Senate markup on May 14, but barely: only two Democratic senators supported it, and zero Democratic amendments were adopted despite claims of bipartisanship
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The decentralized exchange that tried to break free from Circle's stablecoin just handed the keys back to Circle's biggest distributor. Coinbase will manage USDC liquidity on Hyperliquid as the official treasury deployer, while Native Markets sunsets USDH and sells the brand assets to Coinbase.
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The Winklevoss twins just bet $100 million in Bitcoin that their company can outrun a $122 million loss, and the market liked it enough to send shares up 25%.
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The AI layoff wave isn't about machines stealing jobs—it's about executives discovering they can cut headcount and call it innovation.
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Palmer Luckey's bet that Silicon Valley could build better war machines than Lockheed just became the most valuable defense startup in history. Anduril raised $5 billion at a $61 billion valuation, doubling its worth in under a year, led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz
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