GameStop Just Turned $368M in Bitcoin Into a Money Printer
GameStop just turned its bitcoin treasury into a covered call machine, and it's a bigger deal for corporate crypto strategy than the headline suggests.
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Stand With Crypto Endorses Six Candidates as Coinbase Makes Its Midterm Power Play
Coinbase's political arm just drew the midterm battlefield map, and it's not about left versus right. Stand With Crypto endorses six candidates across both parties for November 2026 midterms, including Republicans Zach Nunn (Iowa) and Mike Lawler (New York)
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BlackRock's $1.7B Fund Just Added a Layer Wall Street Didn't See Coming
BlackRock just added a verification layer to the world's largest tokenized fund, and it's not about making numbers prettier. BlackRock's $1.7 billion BUIDL fund integrated Chronicle as a verification layer, signaling infrastructure maturation for tokenized real-world assets
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Fannie Mae Just Let Americans Use Bitcoin as a Down Payment
The government just legitimized your Bitcoin as a down payment, and nobody seems to realize what door just opened. Coinbase and Better are launching crypto-backed mortgages with Fannie Mae backing, letting borrowers use Bitcoin or USDC as down payment collateral without selling
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Anthropic Eyes $60B Public Debut Before Year's End
Anthropic might IPO by Q4 2025 at a $60B+ valuation, and the timing tells you everything about where we are in the AI race. Anthropic executives are discussing a potential IPO as soon as Q4 2025, with bankers expecting a raise north of $60 billion
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OKX Exec: Recent Crypto IPOs Are Damaging The Industry
OKX just told the entire crypto industry that valuation theater is over. OKX won't rush its IPO despite hitting a $25 billion valuation through its NYSE parent company deal. An exec warned that poorly timed public listings damage the entire crypto industry's credibility.
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Circle Loses $5B After Congress Bans Stablecoin Interest Payments
Circle lost $5 billion in a day because Congress decided stablecoin holders don't deserve interest. Circle's stock dropped 20% on Tuesday, wiping out $5 billion in market cap after a new CLARITY Act draft proposed banning passive yield on stablecoin balances
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BlackRock Bets $2.6B on Data Centers Over AI Models
BlackRock's data center play just got $2.6 billion in institutional capital, and the smart money is betting infrastructure beats models.
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Argentina Puts $800M State Energy on XRP Instead of Ethereum
Argentina just put $800 million of state-backed energy on a blockchain, and it's not Ethereum. YPF Luz, Argentina's state-backed energy giant, launched Enertoken, a tokenization platform on XRP Ledger with over $800 million in energy assets already live
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Polymarket's $20B Valuation Suddenly Looks Defensible With Revenue Engine Turned On
Polymarket is finally turning on the revenue engine, and the numbers say that $20 billion valuation might actually pencil out. Polymarket extended taker fees to nearly all markets on March 30, marking its first serious monetization play after generating $31 billion in volume across six months.
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Trust Wallet's AI Agents Now Control $7B in User Crypto Trades
CZ's Trust Wallet just gave AI agents the keys to your crypto wallet across 25 blockchains. Trust Wallet launched Agent Kit, infrastructure that lets AI agents execute actual crypto transactions across 25+ blockchains, not just simulate or suggest them.
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Wikipedia Just Banned AI Content While Google Ranks It First
Wikipedia just drew a hard line: no AI-generated content, and it tells you everything about where the trust boundary actually sits in 2026. Wikipedia banned AI-generated articles, citing violations of core content policies around accuracy and verifiability
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MARA Dumps $1.5B in Bitcoin After Preaching 'HODL Forever
The largest bitcoin miner just chose clean balance sheets over bitcoin maximalism, and the choice reveals where this industry's really headed. MARA Holdings sold 15,133 bitcoin for $1.1 billion over three weeks ending March 25
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Tom Lee's Mining Giant Targets $300M Staking Empire as Ethereum Infrastructure War Heats Up
Tom Lee's mining company just built an Ethereum staking platform that targets $300 million in annual rewards, and the real story is what it says about where crypto infrastructure money is moving. Bitmine launched MAVAN, an Ethereum staking platform eyeing $300M in annual staking rewards
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Saylor's Strategy Now Buying 99% of All Corporate Bitcoin
Michael Saylor isn't just winning the corporate bitcoin race anymore. He's running it alone. Strategy now accounts for nearly all recent corporate bitcoin purchases, with other firms' share collapsing from 95% to roughly 2% according to CryptoQuant data
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Bhutan Dumps $150M in Bitcoin as Crypto Treasury Crashes Two-Thirds
Bhutan just moved another 500 bitcoin to exchanges, and the kingdom's crypto treasury is now down two-thirds from its peak. The Royal Government of Bhutan transferred 519.707 BTC to exchanges Wednesday, part of 2026 outflows now exceeding $150 million
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Congress Just Admitted Tokenized Securities Are Securities—And It Only Took a Decade
Congress just agreed that tokenized securities are securities, which sounds obvious until you realize this is the first time U.S. lawmakers have said it out loud with cameras rolling.
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Musk Demands Judge Removal Over LinkedIn Posts in Corporate Power Play
Elon Musk is trying to disqualify a Delaware judge from his cases by pointing at her LinkedIn activity, which tells you everything about where corporate governance is headed.
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X Hires Designer Who Built $2B Crypto Platform to Launch Payments
Elon Musk just hired someone who helped build Base and Aave to design X Money, and that tells you exactly what kind of payments product is coming. X hired Benji Taylor, former Chief Product Officer at Aave Labs and design lead at Coinbase's Base, to lead design for X Money
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BitGo Built the Rails to Put Your Bank Account Onchain
BitGo and ZKsync are building the rails for banks to issue tokenized deposits, which means your checking account is about to get programmable. BitGo is partnering with ZKsync to build tokenized deposit infrastructure currently in testing, designed to bring traditional banks onchain
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