Lido Burns $20M to Rescue Its Token After 95% Collapse
Lido, the protocol that controls $24 billion in staked Ethereum, is spending $20 million of treasury funds to buy back its own governance token after a 95% collapse.
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Bitcoin Crashes 50% as Crypto Funds Abandon Ship for Stocks
Bitcoin is down 50% in six months, crypto fundraising has collapsed 69%, and the industry is quietly pivoting to stock trading. Bitcoin dropped from $126,080 in October to roughly $63,000 today, marking six months of uninterrupted decline with altcoins suffering worse losses.
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Half of Crypto Holders Don't Know They Owe Taxes
Half of crypto holders don't know their trades are taxable, and that's a $50 billion IRS problem waiting to happen. Only 49% of crypto investors correctly understand that selling crypto is a taxable event, according to Coinbase and CoinTracker's 2026 Crypto Tax Readiness Report
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Midas Puts $40M Into Tokenized Assets Everyone Else Just Talks About
Midas just put $40 million of real money where the tokenization hype has been for years. Midas raised $50 million Series A led by RRE and Creandum, alongside launching a $40 million liquidity facility for tokenized real-world assets
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Democrats Plan Corporate Subpoena Blitz Targeting CEOs in 2027
Democrats are planning to weaponize congressional subpoenas against CEOs and companies in 2027, turning corporate America into a proxy battlefield since they can't touch the White House directly.
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Bitcoin's First Six-Month Losing Streak Since 2018 Just Began
Bitcoin is staring down six straight months of losses for the first time since 2018, and this time geopolitical chaos is holding the knife. Bitcoin is approaching its first six consecutive months of losses since the 2018 bear market, a streak not seen in over seven years.
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Bitcoin Spikes as Trump Threatens Iran's Oil Infrastructure
Bitcoin spiked on geopolitical chaos, and that tells you everything about where we are in the adoption curve. Trump announced talks with Iran's "new regime" while threatening to obliterate the country's oil infrastructure if negotiations fail
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Midas Raises $50M to Fix Why Wall Street Won't Touch Tokenized Assets
Midas just raised $50M to fix the thing that keeps institutional money out of tokenized funds: you can't get your cash back fast enough. Midas secured $50M to build instant redemption infrastructure for tokenized asset funds
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Ethereum Foundation Bets $42M on Its Own Survival Strategy
The Ethereum Foundation just put $42 million where its mouth is, and the timing says more than the amount. The Ethereum Foundation staked 20,470 ETH ($42 million) into the Beacon Chain in coordinated deposits Monday, one of its largest visible batches yet.
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Canada Bans Crypto Donations to Stop Foreign Election Meddling
Canada wants to ban crypto donations to political campaigns, and this time they might actually mean it. Canada has proposed legislation to ban cryptocurrency political donations, arguing foreign actors could exploit digital assets to interfere in elections
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Strategy Breaks 13-Week Bitcoin Streak With Zero Explanation
Strategy just broke its thirteen-week bitcoin buying streak, and silence is its own kind of signal. Strategy skipped its weekly bitcoin purchase announcement for the first time since late December, ending a consistent accumulation pattern
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Ethereum Foundation Breaks Its Own Rules, Stakes $46M in ETH
The Ethereum Foundation just staked $46 million worth of ETH, and the real story isn't the number—it's what happens when the rule-maker becomes the yield-farmer. The Ethereum Foundation staked a record $46 million in ETH, starting last month to earn yield on its treasury holdings
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Aave Hits $20B Across 21 Chains as OKX Integration Goes Live
Aave just went live on its 21st blockchain, and the number that matters isn't 21. Aave launched on OKX's X Layer, an Ethereum L2, marking the protocol's expansion to 21 blockchains
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Bitcoin Hits $67K as Geopolitical Risk Erases $200B in Weeks
Bitcoin sitting at $67k isn't a dip to buy—it's a macro warning light nobody wants to see flashing. Bitcoin hovering near $67,000 as U.S.-Iran tensions drag into their second week with no resolution
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BlockFills Locks $75M as Crypto Trading Firm Files Bankruptcy
Another crypto lender just vaporized $75 million and locked the exits. BlockFills filed for bankruptcy after suspending customer withdrawals and racking up $75 million in losses The firm faces a lawsuit alleging misuse of customer funds, the same playbook we saw with FTX, Celsius, and Genesis
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Washington Bans Kalshi Hours After Legalizing Prediction Markets
Prediction markets were supposed to be the elegant solution to information aggregation, but state attorneys general just called them slot machines with better PR. Washington state sued Kalshi, calling it illegal gambling. Arizona filed similar charges weeks earlier.
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Wall Street Built Tokenized Stock Rails Nobody Wants to Use
Wall Street built the tokenized stock rails, but no one's running trains on them yet. Exchanges are pushing blockchain-based equities and 24/7 trading, but institutional buyers aren't biting The gap isn't technical, it's structural: liquidity fragmentation and funding risk
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Canada Bans Crypto Donations After Trucker Convoy Showed How Money Routes Around Power
Canada just showed you what governments do when crypto gets too good at routing around their controls. Canada proposed legislation to ban cryptocurrency political donations, one day after the U.K. announced a similar moratorium
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Senators Strike Stablecoin Deal That Satisfies Absolutely Nobody
The stablecoin yield compromise nobody asked for just landed, and both sides are already sharpening knives. Senators Alsobrooks and Tillis floated an agreement-in-principle on stablecoin yield, attempting to bridge crypto and traditional banking interests
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Ethereum Foundation Admits L2s Are Broken, Launches Fix With Gnosis and Zisk
Ethereum's L2 problem just got a proposed solution that's actually interesting. Gnosis, Zisk, and the Ethereum Foundation launched the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), a framework for making L2 rollups interoperate as one unified system
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