Crypto Newslette

  • Zama publishes “TGE: The Full Story”

  • BTC bull market is just starting: Franklin

  • HYPE gets Binance spot listing

  • Stock tokens for Meta, Nvidia, and SpaceX appear among Uniswap’s top 25 tokens

  • CFTC warns that mention markets carry a high risk of manipulation

  • 'It's GO TIME' on crypto market structure: Seelig

  • Institutions hold just 1-2% in crypto: Bitwise

  • Coinbase launched fixed-rate Bitcoin-backed loans in the first enterprise-scale deployment of Morpho Midnight, letting users lock the rate and maturity on USDC borrowed against BTC, alongside a variable-rate book above $1.4 billion

  • Trump discloses Coinbase, Strategy stock buys

  • Solana DEX trades surpass NYSE

  • Prediction markets explore margin trading

  • We gave every early user 1 free BTC: Coinbase

  • Circle expands CCTP to EURC and cirBTC on Arc

  • SEC opens path for tokenized stocks onchain

  • Kalshi denied being under CFTC investigation after the WSJ reported the agency was examining its ether perp trading, with a spokesperson saying the patterns are typical of liquidity incentive programs

  • NYSE, Blockchaincom collab on tokenised stocks

  • IBM links Digital Asset Haven to Swift ledger

  • Trump's accounts bought up to $115,000 of Strategy stock in July across two purchases plus Coinbase shares, while selling MARA and CleanSpark, per an Office of Government Ethics filing released Tuesday

  • FBI crypto forum targets scams and DPRK threats

  • MoonPay to acquire private-markets infrastructure platform North Capital

  • Brooklyn man jailed for $16M Coinbase scam

  • EU watchdogs warn on quantum risks

  • Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest test tokenised deps

  • The Trump administration is weighing an initiative to push dollar stablecoins overseas, potentially through joint ventures with private firms, to defend the dollar's reserve status and boost Treasury demand

  • Nearly $1T wiped from stocks, metals, and crypto

  • Stonk posted its 6th straight $1M+ revenue day yesterday according to its own metrics

AI & NFT

  • OpenAI agent hacked Australian govt website

  • OpenAI gives Ukraine access to Daybreak AI tool

  • Patreon co-founder to lead OpenAI's creator team

  • Altman, Amodei brief UN on AI safety cooperation

  • About $15.9 billion in Bitcoin options settle Friday alongside ether’s quarterly expiry, with positioning skewed toward calls, and max pain at $75,000, well below spot near $85,500

  • Claude found novel enzyme system in DNA

  • Gemini 4 almost ready: Google

  • Meta intros VR glasses, Muse Charm AI pendant

  • Microsoft's President backs an AI 'kill switch'

  • Variational announced its tokenomics and TGE info, including a 32% “genesis” airdrop to users and a 100% treasury buy-and-burn model

  • Enveda raises $311M for nature-derived AI drugs

  • Quantum chip crams in more data by vibrating

  • YouTube lets users customise algorithm with AI

  • Hackers deface FBI jobs site, claim agent data

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