Mastercard just started testing stablecoin settlement for card transactions, and it's the clearest signal yet that the rails underneath global payments are about to get rewritten.
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Michael Saylor just raised $1.76 billion and told the world to "Think Even Bigger" about his next Bitcoin buy. Strategy raised $1.76B through convertible notes while Saylor posted cryptic "Think Even Bigger" message days after the company's latest $1B Bitcoin purchase
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Singapore's second-largest bank just put gold tokens on Ethereum and Solana, and the move says more about institutional onchain rails than it does about gold.
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BlackRock just absorbed $906 million into its Bitcoin ETF while a sitting US Representative went public with a quarter-million-dollar bet on the same fund.
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Coinbase just built AI clones of its sharpest former executives to give feedback to current employees. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced the company is testing AI agents modeled after former executives Fred Ehrsam and Balaji Srinivasan to provide high-level strategic feedback to staff
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Polymarket, the prediction market that called the 2024 election better than every pollster combined, is raising $400 million at a $15 billion valuation just six months after its last round.
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Stablecoins aren't just for payments anymore. They're becoming balance sheet weapons that turn treasury drag into yield. Paxos Labs raised $12M to help companies issue their own stablecoins and capture yield previously lost to banks and payment processors
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The crypto VC party isn't over, but the bar to get in just got a lot higher. Venture funding in crypto has slowed, and the easy money era is dead. Top VCs say the standards for what gets funded have fundamentally shifted.
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Singapore just told its banks to patch their security before Mythos finds the holes for them. Singapore's financial regulator is pushing banks to close cybersecurity gaps as fears spread about Anthropic's new Mythos AI model reaching Asia
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Singapore's Cobo just shipped the wallet infrastructure that lets AI agents handle your crypto without also handling your private keys. Cobo launched Cobo Agentic Wallet, purpose-built for AI agents to execute onchain transactions with built-in safety rails
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Moody's just told banks they can stop worrying about stablecoins eating their lunch, which means stablecoins are probably closer to eating their lunch than anyone thinks.
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Tether just launched a self-custody wallet that supports USDT, Bitcoin, and tokenized gold, betting that ordinary people will finally want to hold their own keys.
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The infrastructure layer just got compromised, and half of Web3's frontend is sweating. Vercel confirmed a security breach with an attacker demanding $2 million ransom Crypto and Web3 projects deploying frontends on Vercel face exposure risk for secrets stored as environment variables
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The Kelp hack just turned theoretical DeFi risk into a $6 billion bank run, and nobody knows how deep the bad debt goes. Attackers exploited Kelp's rsETH token, using the drained collateral to borrow wrapped ether from Aave before the protocol could react
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A $300 million hack just proved that DeFi's promise of composability is also its Achilles' heel. Kelp DAO got exploited for roughly $292-300 million, draining funds that cascaded across multiple protocols in the DeFi ecosystem
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RaveDAO's RAVE token just lost 96% of its value in 48 hours while two of crypto's biggest exchanges opened investigations, and if you think this is just another rug pull story, you're missing the real lesson about what happens when tokenized ownership meets zero due diligence.
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Google's throwing chips at Nvidia's throne while two well-funded challengers prove the king still isn't worried. Google is developing custom AI chips to challenge Nvidia's stranglehold on AI hardware, joining a growing list of companies trying to break the GPU monopoly
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DeFi just had its Bear Stearns moment, and the contagion math is worse than the headline. KelpDAO suffered a $290M exploit that created $236M in bad debt on Aave, triggering an 18% drop in $AAVE and wiping $6B from the protocol's total value locked
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Bitcoin just vaporized $593 million in short positions because a shipping lane opened, then closed, then maybe opened again.
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Centralized crypto exchange volumes just hit their lowest mark since late 2023, and the data suggests this isn't a dip, it's a drift. Spot trading volume on centralized exchanges dropped 39% in Q1 2026, with March posting just $800 billion, the weakest month since November 2023.
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