Crypto's political playbook just got a direct line to Congress. Anchorage Digital and Chainlink Labs launched the Blockchain Leadership Fund, a hybrid PAC timed for November's midterm elections Unlike super PACs, this structure can contribute directly to candidates, not just run independent ads
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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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The CLARITY Act's developer protections might be the most important part of the bill, but everyone's too busy arguing about stablecoin yield to notice. Senator Lummis claims the CLARITY Act includes the "strongest" developer protections for crypto builders in U.S. legislative history
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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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While crypto worries about bear markets, traditional software companies face something worse: AI that writes their products for free. Ravi Tanuku, CEO of Kraken-backed KRAKacquisition Corp, argues crypto's bear cycle is trivial compared to AI's existential threat to software companies
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A Chinese woman just got 6.5 years for stealing $176M in Bitcoin because someone wrote down their seed phrase and she watched them do it. Jian Wen convicted in UK for laundering 61,000 Bitcoin stolen via seed phrase surveillance, one of Britain's largest crypto theft cases
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Anthropic just leaked an AI model that's apparently very good at breaking things, and the market is pricing in a world where software security just got exponentially harder.
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A British bank just turned customer deposits into blockchain tokens, and regulators said yes. Monument Bank is tokenizing £250 million in retail deposits, making them programmable while keeping FSCS protection and interest payments intact.
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Singapore just opened a sandbox for programmable money in trade finance, and Ripple walked in with a live stablecoin ready to settle cross-border payments. Ripple joined Singapore's Monetary Authority BLOOM initiative to test RLUSD and XRP Ledger for automated trade settlement
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The company dies, the protocol lives, and we're supposed to call this decentralization working as intended. Balancer Labs shut down its corporate entity four months after a $128 million exploit drained the DeFi protocol
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Bitcoin's price is now a geopolitical weather vane, and the forecast depends on whether Trump and Iran can actually talk. Bitcoin held above $70,000 after bouncing on Trump's announcement of a five-day pause in tensions with Iran
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A compromised key just turned $25 million of stablecoin collateral into proof that "trustless" still has a single point of failure. An attacker exploited a compromised key to mint 80 million USR tokens, Resolv Labs' stablecoin, causing it to depeg and plunge 74% from its dollar peg.
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European banks just declared war on stablecoins, and they're using your deposit account as the weapon. UK Finance published a report arguing tokenized deposits should be the primary onchain cash mechanism, positioning them as superior to stablecoins for institutional settlement
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Institutions don't want your tokenized Treasury bonds—they want programmable yield curves they can code into. DeFi protocols are rebuilding fixed-income infrastructure with programmable yield as the core value proposition, not just asset tokenization
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AI developers are ignoring crypto, but their agents will run on stablecoins whether they like it or not. Stablecoin experts argue programmable crypto is the only viable rail for autonomous AI agents making micro-transactions, even as AI developers remain skeptical of crypto broadly
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An OG Ethereum whale just dropped $19.5 million back into ETH, and the timing tells you everything about where smart money thinks we are in the cycle. Early Ethereum participant thomasg.eth bought $19.5 million in ETH this week, rebuilding a position after previous exits
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The SEC and CFTC just published a joint framework for crypto regulation, and the lawyers are actually impressed.
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The Trump DeFi project just gave AI agents their own wallets with spending limits, and that's actually the interesting part. World Liberty Financial released AgentPay SDK, giving AI agents self-custodial wallets with programmable spending policies on EVM chains
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Coinbase just turned stocks into crypto products for everyone except Americans. Coinbase launched stock perpetual futures for non-U.S. customers, starting with major tech stocks and ETFs Contracts trade 24/7, settle in USDC, and offer up to 10x leverage on single stocks, 20x on ETFs
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Corporate treasurers aren't experimenting with stablecoins anymore—they're making them standard equipment. Ripple surveyed 1,000+ global finance leaders who now view digital assets as strategic infrastructure, not optional pilots
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