The US government just moved $177K in seized Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime, a rounding error against their $22 billion crypto war chest that signals how nations are quietly building digital treasuries.
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Iran won the meme war against the Pentagon by doing something radical: showing what was actually happening. While the White House posted AI slop and Call of Duty memes, Iran's state media flooded social feeds with raw footage of airstrikes, casualties, and destruction
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Iran just turned the world's most strategic oil chokepoint into a live test of whether crypto can replace the dollar in sanctions-heavy, geopolitical commerce. Iran is demanding cryptocurrency payments from tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, which handles roughly 20% of global oil flows
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Bitwise just filed the paperwork that usually comes right before an ETF launches, and this one's for Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetuals exchange most people still haven't heard of.
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OpenAI just published a guide on using AI responsibly, which means they're preparing for a world where everyone has agents and nobody knows the rules yet. OpenAI launched an Academy guide on responsible AI use, covering safety, accuracy, and transparency best practices for ChatGPT and similar tools
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Japan just threw another $4 billion at its wildest industrial bet: building an AI chip foundry from scratch to compete with TSMC.
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Bitcoin hit $73,000 on ceasefire news, then fell back below $71,000 before most traders could cash out. Bitcoin briefly touched $72,700-$73,000 on a US-Iran ceasefire deal, then retreated as fresh Middle East violence killed the rally within hours
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David Bailey's bitcoin treasury play is down 99% and begging Nasdaq not to pull the plug. Nakamoto (DATco) is considering a reverse stock split to meet Nasdaq's minimum price requirements after the stock cratered from its May 2025 peak
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Blackstone is about to turn data centers into a retail investment product, and the timing tells you everything about who's winning the AI infrastructure race.
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The people who actually run money in America just told Congress to stop stalling on crypto rules.
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The former chief business officer of Google X says three predictions he made in 2020 about AI have already come true, and the world isn't ready for what comes next.
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Gen Z is cooling on AI while still being forced to use it—a preview of every worker's future relationship with automation. A new Gallup survey of 1,600 Americans aged 14-29 shows enthusiasm for AI has cratered: only 18% feel hopeful about it, 22% feel excited, down sharply from last year.
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Hong Kong just handed traditional banking its Web3 license to print money. Hong Kong's central bank approved its first two stablecoin issuers: HSBC's Hong Kong banking arm and Anchorpoint Financial, a joint venture between Standard Chartered, Animoca Brands, and Hong Kong Telecommunications.
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The Trump family's crypto project just borrowed $75 million against its own token, drained a lending pool dry, and left depositors unable to withdraw while insisting everything is going exactly as planned.
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Trump's crypto company just borrowed $75 million using its own token as collateral on a platform run by its own advisor, then drained the lending pool so completely that other depositors can't get their money out.
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Japan just put crypto under the same rules as stocks and bonds, and the permissionless-forever crowd is about to learn what "financial product" really means. Japan is reclassifying cryptocurrencies as financial products, banning insider trading and requiring annual disclosures from issuers
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Japan just decided crypto isn't a weird internet toy anymore, it's a regulated financial instrument, and that changes everything for builders who want institutional capital.
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The "digital gold" narrative is getting an academic stress test. MarketVector and Coinbase launched an index tracking Bitcoin and tokenized gold, a direct play on the "store of value" debate that's gotten messier as BTC correlates more with tech stocks.
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When a new AI model can find vulnerabilities that have been sitting in bank code for decades, the Treasury Secretary doesn't send an email.
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An Ethereum developer who thinks most crypto politicians are grifters just threw his hat in the ring for Congress. Joe "CupOJoseph" Schiarizzi, an Ethereum developer, is running as a Democrat in Virginia's new 7th district
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