Lido Burns $20M to Rescue Its Token After 95% Collapse
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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Bitcoin Crashes 50% as Crypto Funds Abandon Ship for Stocks
Bitcoin is down 50% in six months, crypto fundraising has collapsed 69%, and the industry is quietly pivoting to stock trading. Bitcoin dropped from $126,080 in October to roughly $63,000 today, marking six months of uninterrupted decline with altcoins suffering worse losses.
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Half of Crypto Holders Don't Know They Owe Taxes
Half of crypto holders don't know their trades are taxable, and that's a $50 billion IRS problem waiting to happen. Only 49% of crypto investors correctly understand that selling crypto is a taxable event, according to Coinbase and CoinTracker's 2026 Crypto Tax Readiness Report
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Midas Puts $40M Into Tokenized Assets Everyone Else Just Talks About
Midas just put $40 million of real money where the tokenization hype has been for years. Midas raised $50 million Series A led by RRE and Creandum, alongside launching a $40 million liquidity facility for tokenized real-world assets
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Meta Loses $310 Billion in One Week as Investors Flee AI Risks
Meta just shed $310 billion in market cap in a week, and the panic isn't about missed earnings or ad revenue dips. Meta lost 11% of its value last week, erasing $310 billion in market cap despite starting 2026 as the hottest Big Tech stock
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Bitcoin's First Six-Month Losing Streak Since 2018 Just Began
Bitcoin is staring down six straight months of losses for the first time since 2018, and this time geopolitical chaos is holding the knife. Bitcoin is approaching its first six consecutive months of losses since the 2018 bear market, a streak not seen in over seven years.
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European Banks End 13-Quarter Win Streak Over Iran and AI Costs
European banks just ended a 13-quarter winning streak, and the reason isn't what you'd expect. European bank stocks are ending their longest winning streak on record, breaking a 13-quarter run despite strong fundamentals
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Midas Raises $50M to Fix Why Wall Street Won't Touch Tokenized Assets
Midas just raised $50M to fix the thing that keeps institutional money out of tokenized funds: you can't get your cash back fast enough. Midas secured $50M to build instant redemption infrastructure for tokenized asset funds
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SpaceX Wants $75B at Once and Wall Street Has No Playbook
SpaceX is about to test if the public markets can even handle what private markets have become. SpaceX plans a $75 billion raise at a $1.75 trillion valuation, larger than the entire U.S. IPO market in most recent years and the first-ever trillion-dollar debut.
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Ethereum Foundation Breaks Its Own Rules, Stakes $46M in ETH
The Ethereum Foundation just staked $46 million worth of ETH, and the real story isn't the number—it's what happens when the rule-maker becomes the yield-farmer. The Ethereum Foundation staked a record $46 million in ETH, starting last month to earn yield on its treasury holdings
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OpenAI's Former Head of Enterprise Sales Says AI Creates Winners Not Losers
The guy who spent years selling OpenAI's vision to enterprises just said the quiet part out loud: AI isn't winner-take-all, it's winner-take-most. Zack Kass, former OpenAI Go-To-Market head, told Bloomberg that AI will create "a lot of winners" despite still being early days for investment
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Bitcoin Hits $67K as Geopolitical Risk Erases $200B in Weeks
Bitcoin sitting at $67k isn't a dip to buy—it's a macro warning light nobody wants to see flashing. Bitcoin hovering near $67,000 as U.S.-Iran tensions drag into their second week with no resolution
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Wall Street Built Tokenized Stock Rails Nobody Wants to Use
Wall Street built the tokenized stock rails, but no one's running trains on them yet. Exchanges are pushing blockchain-based equities and 24/7 trading, but institutional buyers aren't biting The gap isn't technical, it's structural: liquidity fragmentation and funding risk
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Visa Wants to Rent You AI Payments. Coinbase Lets You Own Them.
Visa and Coinbase just showed you two futures for AI agent payments, and only one of them lets you own the rails. Visa and Coinbase are both building payment infrastructure for AI agents, but Visa's is traditional card rails while Coinbase is building on crypto
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Canada Bans Crypto Donations After Trucker Convoy Showed How Money Routes Around Power
Canada just showed you what governments do when crypto gets too good at routing around their controls. Canada proposed legislation to ban cryptocurrency political donations, one day after the U.K. announced a similar moratorium
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France's Largest Bank Just Made Bitcoin Easier Than Stocks
France's largest bank just made Bitcoin as easy to buy as a mutual fund. BNP Paribas added six Bitcoin and Ether ETNs to its retail platform in France, joining the European trend of traditional banks offering crypto exposure
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Washington Just Killed Crypto's Best Shot at Regulatory Certainty
The CLARITY Act just died in the Senate, and the crypto industry's window for regulatory certainty may have closed with it. The CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate after banks, crypto firms, and lawmakers couldn't agree on key provisions, including whether stablecoin issuers can pay yields
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Crypto Startup Caught Betting $20K on Its Own Fundraise
A crypto startup bet on its own fundraise on Polymarket, got caught, and apologized—revealing exactly why prediction markets need walls between players and the game. P2P.me's team placed bets on Polymarket 10 days before their fundraise went live, wagering their own raise would succeed
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GameStop's $315M Bitcoin Bet Reveals the New Corporate Treasury Playbook
GameStop just bet $315 million in Bitcoin on the oldest move in the options playbook, and it tells you everything about where corporate treasury strategy is headed.
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Bitcoin Now Safer Than Stocks, Data Shows
Bitcoin's risk profile just flipped the script on traditional portfolio theory, and it happened while everyone was watching oil prices. Oil price surge drives inflation expectations higher, forcing markets to reprice Fed rate cuts with 40% odds of zero cuts in 2026
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