Michael Saylor just unlocked another $44 billion for Bitcoin purchases, and the playbook that turned MicroStrategy into a crypto treasury is now being copied by companies that actually make money.
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A $4 trillion fund services giant just decided Bitcoin mining cash flows belong on a blockchain. Apex Group, managing $4 trillion in assets, is tokenizing the Omnes Mining Note (OMN) on Coinbase's Base platform, marking traditional finance's deepest move into crypto infrastructure tokenization yet.
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The U.S. just kneecapped stablecoin yields before they could scale, and now we get to watch the real fight over what "money" means in the digital age. The Crypto Clarity Act's latest text prohibits rewards on stablecoin balances, marking a restrictive approach to digital dollar regulation
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Sweden's H100 just signed a letter of intent to triple its bitcoin holdings and become Europe's second-largest corporate BTC treasury through pure bitcoin-for-bitcoin M&A. H100 signed LOIs to acquire Moonshot and Never Say Die, two bitcoin treasury companies, in deals structured entirely in BTC
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Someone who got ETH when it was basically free just sold $31 million worth, and the timing tells you everything about where we are in the cycle. An Ethereum OG wallet that's been dormant for a decade moved 15,002 ETH ($31M) to Coinbase, keeping another 14,814 ETH
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European banks just declared war on stablecoins, and they're using your deposit account as the weapon. UK Finance published a report arguing tokenized deposits should be the primary onchain cash mechanism, positioning them as superior to stablecoins for institutional settlement
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Coinbase just turned stocks into crypto products for everyone except Americans. Coinbase launched stock perpetual futures for non-U.S. customers, starting with major tech stocks and ETFs Contracts trade 24/7, settle in USDC, and offer up to 10x leverage on single stocks, 20x on ETFs
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Nasdaq's crypto operation just told us exactly how human traders become human checkpoints. Nasdaq is deploying AI agents across crypto trading surveillance, compliance, and execution, shifting humans from decision-makers to final approval gatekeepers.
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Gemini just cut 30% of its workforce in three months and blamed it on AI productivity gains, but the real story is a half-billion-dollar loss nobody saw coming. Gemini has cut 30% of staff since January, citing AI tools for increased productivity
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Coinbase just put a bitcoin yield fund onchain, and the fact that it's running on Base matters less than who's pushing the tokenization button. Coinbase's Bitcoin Yield Fund now has a tokenized share class on Base, enabled by Apex, a $3.5 trillion fund services giant.
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A SPAC just filed to go public holding half a billion XRP tokens, and the SEC hasn't said a word. Evernorth filed an S-4 registration for a $1 billion SPAC merger, planning to launch with at least 473 million XRP on its balance sheet, including contributions from Ripple.
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Trump's SEC just burned the old crypto playbook and nobody's talking about what happens next. The SEC has dropped or settled nearly every major crypto enforcement action initiated under the previous administration, including cases against Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and Consensys
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Coinbase is racing to own the rails that AI agents use to pay each other, and the prize is bigger than most people realize. Coinbase and Zerohash are competing to issue a stablecoin for Cloudflare, targeting launch in 2026 as infrastructure for AI agent payments
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The Ethereum Foundation just published a mandate document, and the community is fighting over whether it's a roadmap or a straitjacket. The Ethereum Foundation released a new mandate document outlining priorities and governance approach, sparking internal debate
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Institutions aren't asking if crypto is real anymore—they're asking how much to allocate. 74% of institutional investors expect crypto prices to rise over the next 12 months, according to a Coinbase-EY survey tracking allocation plans for 2026
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A Hong Kong crypto card company nobody's heard of is quietly worth a billion dollars and heading for a US IPO. The Signal RedotPay hit unicorn status in 2025 and now wants $150 million more before going public in the US. The company makes crypto payment cards, the kind that let you spend digital assets at normal retailers. That's table stakes fintech at this point.
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GSR just spent $57 million to stop being just a market maker and become the full-stack token launch partner crypto projects have been assembling piecemeal for years. The Signal GSR, one of crypto's oldest market makers, acquired two firms, Autonomous and Architech, to bundle token launch services with their existing trading infrastructure. The price tag, $57 million, tells you this isn't a defensive move. This
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World just shipped the missing piece for AI agents that need to prove they're human-backed without doxxing their operators. The Signal World launched AgentKit, a developer toolkit that lets AI agents carry cryptographic proof of human backing through integration with Coinbase's x402 protocol. This matters because we're hitting a wall in the agent economy: platforms need to know a real person authorized an
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Sam Altman's World just made it possible for your AI agent to prove it has a human boss. The Signal World (formerly Worldcoin) released AgentKit, a developer toolkit that lets AI agents carry proof of human verification while they work autonomously online. The integration with Coinbase means these agents can handle crypto transactions, interact with DeFi protocols, and access financial services while cryptographically proving a real person
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World just made it possible for humans to deputize AI agents with their verified identity, and it's happening on Coinbase's rails. The Signal World, Sam Altman's iris-scanning identity project, launched AgentKit, a toolkit that lets World-verified humans delegate their World ID to AI agents. The first integration runs on Coinbase's x402 protocol, the payment standard designed specifically for agent-to-agent transactions. This
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