The man who built Coinbase's hottest L2 just admitted he bet the farm on the wrong crops. Base creator Jesse Pollak handed the Base app back to Coinbase and admitted his onchain social strategy—built around Farcaster, Zora, and creator coins—failed to gain traction in Q1 2026
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While everyone watched PayPal become a household name, the Collison brothers built the $159 billion company that actually powers the internet economy. Stripe processes $1.9 trillion in annual payment volume and runs 30+ products, yet remains largely unknown outside developer circles
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Apple just got permission to sell AI in the world's largest smartphone market, but only if Chinese companies run the models. China's Cyberspace Administration approved Apple Intelligence for iPhones on Wednesday, ending a two-year wait since the feature launched in iOS 18 globally.
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Berkshire Hathaway meets Bitcoin maximalism, and it just closed a $40 million Series A. Orange Juice raised $40M to launch a permanent capital holding company that buys boring businesses and holds Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset
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Live commerce finally has an AI engine built for the speed of human attention spans. Whatnot acquired Shaped, an AI startup specializing in real-time recommendations and search, to power personalization across its livestream shopping platform
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Stablecoins just became the most visible front in 21st-century economic warfare, and the centralized choke point everyone worried about just got used exactly as designed. OFAC sanctioned crypto wallets tied to Iran's central bank and armed forces, freezing $131 million, mostly Tether's USDT on Tron
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DeFi's biggest lending protocol just picked thechain where Wall Street's tokenized assets already live. Aave V4 launched on Avalanche, marking the protocol's first expansion beyond Ethereum and positioning it to capture institutional demand for tokenized real-world asset lending.
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OpenAI just told you exactly which users matter most in the agent economy, and it's not the prompt engineers. OpenAI launched the Codex Micro, a $230 mini keyboard engineered by Work Louder for power users of its AI coding product
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The race to ship AI hardware just got weird—OpenAI's first device is a macro pad for programmers who need physical buttons to boss around their code agents.
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When your oracle lies, your entire vault becomes someone else's ATM. Ostium DEX halted trading after an oracle manipulation exploit drained between $18M and $23.7M in USDC from its OLP vault
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The cost of training your AI agent just became a tradable commodity, and Nvidia's pricing monopoly just got its first real accountability mechanism. Kalshi launched futures contracts that let anyone bet on the future price of AI computing power, turning GPU costs into a liquid prediction market
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The crypto wallet that brought DeFi to the masses just built a checking account that pays better than most banks, no Chase branch required. MetaMask launched Money Account, a self-custodial product offering up to 4% APY while users maintain full control of their keys
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The attacker didn't break into the oracle. They just grabbed the keys and walked through the front door. Hackers drained $18 million from Ostium, an Arbitrum-based perpetual exchange, by compromising an oracle signer key and submitting fake future-dated price data
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The same systems that scaled for three billion humans are choking on queries from a few thousand agents. Meta's agentic queries grew 30x in six months, breaking infrastructure assumptions built over two decades
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A nation that couldn't legally own Bitcoin in its treasury just rewrote the rulebook to make crypto as legitimate as gold bars and fighter jets.
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The plumbing behind $114 trillion in annual trades just stopped being theoretical about blockchain. The DTCC executed its first live production trades using tokenized securities, moving beyond pilot phase with over two dozen firms including BlackRock, Vanguard, and JPMorgan
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The two companies that fled each other over safety disagreements are now playing opposite hands in the state-by-state fight to define AI regulation. Anthropic is pushing states to pass increasingly tough AI safety laws, explicitly rejecting a uniform rulebook approach
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The same macro data that kept Bitcoin under $63,000 last week just sent it back above $65,000, proving yet again that crypto doesn't trade on fundamentals, it trades on Fed expectations.
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The infrastructure crypto was built to disintermediate just posted a $49 billion quarter, and it's not even their best year.
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While everyone obsesses over OpenAI's models, the company is about to do something far more dangerous: put an agent in your kitchen that watches, listens, and moves on its own.
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