A crypto market-maker just hit unicorn status with banking money leading the round. Keyrock, a Brussels-based crypto market maker, raised a Series C at a $1.1 billion valuation led by SC Ventures, Standard Chartered's innovation arm
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The cryptography protecting your crypto wallet just got easier to break, and Google quietly moved up the timeline. Google updated its quantum computing estimates for breaking elliptic curve cryptography, the math securing most blockchain wallets and transactions.
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KuCoin just learned that $297 million doesn't buy you a way back into the U.S. market. The CFTC permanently barred KuCoin operator Peken Global Limited from serving U.S. customers unless it registers as a foreign board of trade
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Bitcoin's order book is showing a rare setup that could push price from $66,000 to $71,000, but only if you know what a bid-ask imbalance actually means. A notable bid-ask imbalance near $66,000 suggests more buy orders than sell orders stacking up at current levels
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Five years after a DeFi exploit, the feds finally got their man, and they clawed back $31 million in the process.
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While everyone tokenizes art and treasury bonds, [Metals.io just put uranium on the blockchain](https://thedefiant.io/news/blockchains/metals-io-brings-tokenized-gold-uranium-and-rare-earth-metals-to-tezos).
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The U.S. just cracked open the door to let $7 trillion in 401(k) money touch crypto. The Labor Department proposed a rule following Trump's executive order directing regulators to expand digital asset access in retirement accounts
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The U.S. government just drew a line around Bitcoin mining and said "this side is ours." Sens. Lummis and Cassidy introduced the Mined in America Act, creating federal certification for U.S. Bitcoin miners and codifying Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve executive order into law.
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Americans are using AI more and trusting it less, a paradox that tells you everything about where we are in 2026. A new Quinnipiac poll shows AI adoption climbing in the U.S. while trust in the technology simultaneously drops, with most Americans voicing concerns about transparency and regulation
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Apple accidentally shipped its AI to China, then yanked it back within hours. Apple Intelligence briefly appeared for Chinese iPhone users in an iOS update this week, then vanished when Apple pulled the update
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Aave just rebuilt the largest decentralized lending protocol from the ground up, and the real target isn't more crypto traders, it's institutional credit markets. Aave V4 launched on Ethereum mainnet after two years of development and a governance vote that cleared the rollout
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Ethereum investment funds just hemorrhaged $222 million in one week, and the Clarity Act you thought would help crypto might be the reason why. Ethereum funds shed $222 million in outflows, part of $414 million total crypto fund outflows for the week
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AI is writing more code than humans now, and nobody's sure if any of it works. Qodo just raised $70M to build verification tools for AI-generated code as production systems fill with machine-written software
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Franklin Templeton just turned ETFs into 24/7 wallet assets, and if you think that's just a convenience upgrade, you're missing the architecture change. Franklin Templeton partnered with Ondo Finance to launch tokenized ETFs that trade 24/7 through crypto wallets, no brokerage account required
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Ex-Blackstone team just raised $25M to drag private credit markets onchain, and they're not talking about overcollateralized DeFi games. Valinor closed a $25M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz to tokenize private credit markets, staffed by former Blackstone operators
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Aave just rebuilt DeFi's biggest lending protocol from the ground up, and the real story isn't the tech architecture, it's that institutions can now borrow against tokenized real-world assets without leaving the blockchain.
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Big Tech is racing to put AI doctors in your pocket, but nobody's asking the uncomfortable question: do these things actually work? Microsoft launched Copilot Health and Amazon expanded Health AI beyond One Medical, flooding consumer markets with LLM-based medical advisors
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Tom Lee is buying ether while everyone else is sitting on their hands, and that divergence tells you something about conviction versus momentum. Bitmine purchased over 71,000 ETH in the past week, the largest single corporate ether buy in 2026
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Big Tech just showed up to the energy industry's biggest conference and started writing checks that make the oil barons look like they're playing with allowance money.
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Lido, the protocol that controls $24 billion in staked Ethereum, is spending $20 million of treasury funds to buy back its own governance token after a 95% collapse.
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