DeFi just lost $13 billion in TVL in 48 hours, and it wasn't a market crash. Volo Protocol lost $3.5 million across three vaults holding WBTC, XAUm, and USDC, days after the KelpDAO breach triggered a sector-wide cascade
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Bitcoin just jumped 4.3% in a week on the back of geopolitical de-escalation and the largest corporate BTC buy in over a year. Bitcoin traded at $77,541 Wednesday morning, up 2.2% in 24 hours and 4.3% on the week after Trump extended the Iran ceasefire
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A $8.1 billion corporate spend unicorn just made stablecoins feel like regular money. Ramp rolled out zero-fee conversions between USDT and dollars across its entire corporate card and spend management platform
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Japan's two biggest banks and its central clearinghouse just put real government bonds on blockchain rails, and they chose Canton over everything else.
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The Trump family's crypto project just got sued by one of its biggest investors for freezing $30 million in tokens and locking him out of governance.
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A $3.5 million exploit just proved that liquid staking protocols are still the soft underbelly of crypto infrastructure. Volo Protocol, a Sui-based liquid staking platform, lost roughly $3.5 million from its WBTC, XAUm, and USDC vaults in an exploit
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Bitcoin holders aren't selling on Binance anymore, and that's the first real signal the market has flipped since 2023. Binance BTC inflows dropped to their lowest level since 2023, signaling reduced selling pressure as traders hold rather than deposit to exchange wallets
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Anthropic's Claude Mythos just found 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox while the Pentagon is suing them and the NSA is running their models on classified networks.
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Arbitrum froze 30,000 ETH to stop a $292 million hack, and the exploiter's response just mapped out exactly why decentralized rails still win. Wallets tied to the Kelp DAO exploit started moving funds across chains after Arbitrum froze roughly 30,000 ETH from the $292 million hack
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The SEC just ended its war on crypto, and the tokenization of real-world assets finally has a regulatory pathway that won't land you in court. SEC Chair Atkins is shifting to a crypto-friendly stance, ending the enforcement-first approach that's frozen institutional capital for years
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New York just declared war on the prediction market economy, suing Coinbase and Gemini for running what it calls illegal gambling operations.
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Strategy Inc. just bought 77,000 Bitcoin for $1.1 billion, dwarfing every spot ETF combined this year and becoming the third-largest institutional BTC purchase on record. Strategy Inc. acquired 77,000 BTC for $1.1 billion, marking the third-largest institutional Bitcoin purchase in history
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Bitcoin just learned that monetary policy independence still matters, even when your guy is in the White House. Bitcoin slid toward $75,000 as Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh told senators Trump didn't demand rate cuts, cooling bets on easy money
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DoorDash just made stablecoins useful for something other than trading jpegs. DoorDash partnered with Tempo blockchain to integrate stablecoin-powered payment infrastructure, alongside Stripe, Paradigm, Coastal Bank, and ARQ
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Self-custody wallets just got serious about derivatives, and the timing tells you everything about where regulation is heading. Blockchain.com integrated Hyperliquid to bring perpetual futures trading directly into its DeFi wallet, covering 190+ crypto markets with no custodial handoff.
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Strategy now holds more Bitcoin than BlackRock's ETF and is on track to own more than Satoshi Nakamoto by September. Strategy reported 815,061 BTC holdings in April, gaining 47,079 BTC worth $3.6 billion and achieving a 6.2% BTC yield for the month, surpassing BlackRock's ETF holdings.
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Banks spent years building blockchain strategies, and one month of exploits might have just set them back to the whiteboard. April saw $606M in crypto exploits, with the Kelp DAO hack alone taking $293M
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Optimism just made private transactions on Ethereum usable for businesses that can't afford to broadcast every trade to the world.
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Crypto exchanges just turned private equity into a tradable asset class with leverage, and SpaceX is the guinea pig. BTCC launched SPACEXUSDT perpetual futures with 50x leverage, while Bitget opened IPO Prime with Republic to offer Solana-based tokens tied to pre-IPO companies
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One in three European investors will leave their bank if a competitor offers better crypto access, and traditional institutions just realized they're in a retention war they didn't see coming.
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