Tether's $183B Stablecoin Empire Just Launched Its Own Bank
The company that prints $183 billion in dollar-pegged tokens just decided to start lending it out the old-fashioned way.
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California's New AI Laws Were Written by the Companies They Regulate
The AI labs that fought California's SB 1047 just helped pass its successor — and this time they wrote the fine print.
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Bitcoin ETFs Lose $166M After $643M Inflow as Institutions Bail
The whiplash from a $643 million single-day inflow to $166 million in back-to-back outflows tells you everything about where institutional conviction actually stands right now.
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Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $120M While Every Altcoin Fund Turns Green
While Bitcoin bleeds, altcoin ETFs are printing green—a divergence that says more about investor confidence than any chart pattern ever could. Bitcoin ETFs shed $120 million on Wednesday, more than doubling Tuesday's losses and marking the second consecutive day of outflows
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TRM Labs Hits $2B Tracking Crypto Crime With AI Agents
Following the money just got worth $2 billion, and the agents doing the tracking aren't human anymore. TRM Labs doubled its valuation to $2B in a Series C expansion, driven by AI-powered blockchain investigation tools that track sophisticated crypto crime
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OpenAI Puts Government's AI Safety Watchdog on Its Own Board
The man who helped the US government figure out if AI models are safe just got a seat at the table where the world's most valuable AI company makes decisions about safety.
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MetaMask's Parent Company Just Ripped Itself in Half
When the company that built Ethereum's scaffolding decides to tear itself in half, someone's getting ready to sell something.
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Strategy Dumps Bitcoin Strategy for $176M Mystery Buy
The company Michael Saylor built to buy Bitcoin just spent $176M on something else entirely. Strategy Inc. has pivoted from its Bitcoin-focused strategy to invest $176M in STRC, marking a significant departure from the playbook that defined the company
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Dollar Crushes Euro 300-to-1 in Crypto's Brutal Currency War
The dollar doesn't just dominate crypto—it's 100 times more dominant onchain than it is in the real world.
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Ledger's New Security Chief Faces $1.4 Billion Crisis AI Already Solved
AI isn't just making crypto attacks more frequent—it's making the old playbook for stopping them obsolete. Ledger is merging its internal tech and security functions under one executive as crypto hacks hit $1.4 billion in 2026, with AI-powered attacks driving the surge
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Trump governs with AI fantasy memes and 60 million people believe them
The president of the United States is now governing via AI-generated fantasy, and the question isn't whether it's working—it's what happens when reality stops mattering to persuasion.
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Canary Capital Quietly Launches America's First Yield-Generating Crypto ETF
The ETF wrapper just learned to yield farm, and the fee structure suggests someone thinks you'll pay extra for the privilege. Canary Capital's TRXS launched on Cboe as the first US spot ETF tied to Tron with built-in staking, opening with $50.25 million in assets
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FBI Cracks First Bitcoin RICO Case After $245M Theft Spree
The first Bitcoin RICO case just closed with a guilty plea, and the playbook prosecutors used here will haunt every crypto scheme from here forward.
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Dell's $4B Bond Sale Explodes to $5B on AI Frenzy
Dell's original $4 billion debt refinancing just ballooned to $5 billion because investors can't get enough AI infrastructure exposure.
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Microsoft Bans Student Data Training After Federal Heat
The AI gold rush just hit its first real guardrails in the classroom — and Microsoft blinked first. Microsoft signed enforceable AI privacy principles with the American Federation of Teachers, including a no-training pledge on student data and limits on data collection
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Tether's New $400M Fund Turns USDT Into Private Loans Across 60 Countries
The company that prints dollar-pegged tokens is now lending those dollars to borrowers in 60 countries, and Wall Street is invited to watch.
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Circle Pays $400M to Crack Stablecoin's Manila Problem
Circle just paid $400 million to solve the problem every stablecoin issuer pretends doesn't exist: the last hundred feet between crypto rails and a shopkeeper's bank account in Manila.
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Gamer Friends Stole $245 Million in Crypto Via Home Invasions
The largest crypto heists don't come through code exploits anymore, they come through your front door. Malone Lam, 22, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy for leading a group that stole over $245 million in cryptocurrency through social engineering and physical home invasions
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Renzo Abandons Its Core Business for Crypto's Hottest Trade
Restaking was supposed to be Renzo's moat, but now they're betting that automated funding rate arbitrage will print more yield than staking rewards ever could.
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Strive Spends $109M on Bitcoin, Turns Preferred Stock Into $1B
Strive just proved you can win the Bitcoin treasury game by holding less Bitcoin than your competitors. Strive purchased $109M in Bitcoin and is pushing its preferred stock offering toward $1B, deploying structured finance to scale faster than direct asset accumulation alone.
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