Bitcoin just lost 3% in hours because a cabinet secretary is about to speak. Bitcoin dropped below $66,000 ahead of a Defense Department briefing by Pete Hegseth, trapping recent buyers who entered at $68,000.
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CoreWeave just borrowed $8.5 billion against its GPUs, the largest chip-backed debt deal ever, and Meta's signature is all over the collateral. CoreWeave raised $8.5 billion in debt to expand cloud computing capacity, the largest chip-backed financing on record
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Cross River just raised $50 million to build the banking rails for AI agents and crypto, and that's the clearest sign yet that traditional finance is done pretending Web4 isn't happening. Cross River Bank raised $50 million from existing investors to expand into AI and crypto infrastructure
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Standard Chartered just led a $1.1 billion valuation round for a crypto market maker most people have never heard of. SC Ventures and Ripple are backing Keyrock's open Series C at a $1.1 billion valuation, with the round expected to close soon
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David Bailey's public bitcoin treasury strategy just ate a 40% loss to keep the lights on. Nakamoto Holdings sold 284 BTC for $20 million at ~$70,422 per coin, 40% below their average acquisition cost, according to their annual filing
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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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Japan's biggest corporations just made a $147 million bet that Africa's startup ecosystem matters more than Silicon Valley thinks.
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When a Bitcoin treasury company dumps $20 million in BTC at a 40% loss, that's not just bad timing—it's a stress test for the whole "Bitcoin as corporate treasury" thesis.
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A British chip startup you've never heard of is raising $200 million to take on Nvidia, and the odds say they'll fail, but the attempt tells you everything about where AI infrastructure is headed.
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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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Oil just hit $105 a barrel, and if history is any guide, Bitcoin holders should be watching their exits. WTI crude crossed $105 on Monday, a three-year high that historically correlates with Bitcoin bear market acceleration
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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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Two GOP senators just dropped a bill that treats bitcoin mining like steel mills and strategic oil reserves. Republican Senators Cynthia Lummis and Bill Cassidy introduced the "Mined in America Act" to expand domestic crypto mining infrastructure and formalize bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset.
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Microsoft just showed its hand: the future of enterprise AI isn't picking sides, it's orchestrating multiple models like instruments in a band. Microsoft launched new Copilot 365 features that combine OpenAI and Anthropic models in a single workflow, not as alternatives but as sequential tools
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Consensus 2026 just marked the moment crypto stopped being an industry and became infrastructure. Consensus 2026 in Miami drew massive institutional presence after a decade of building, with deep focus on agentic commerce
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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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Jack Dorsey just made bitcoin payments the default for millions of U.S. businesses, and most of them don't even know it yet. Square flipped bitcoin acceptance from opt-in to opt-out for eligible sellers across its network
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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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