Crypto Newsletter

• Visa Connects Settlement Data to Onchain Credit

• LIT, and VVV hit ATH, LAPTOP dumps post launch

• Hunter substack subs get 4.3k LAPTOP each

• Circle agreed to buy Tazapay for $400 million in stock, its biggest acquisition since Poloniex in 2018, picking up a Singapore payments firm that moves $25 billion a year across 100 markets with roughly 60% of volume already in stablecoins

• Robinhood Chain tops all chains in 24hr fees

• Kraken launches wrapped HYPE on Ink

• Solana leads x402 volume for second week

• GOP senators warn CLARITY Act likely to fail

• Blockstream is negotiating with the Liquid hackers for the remaining 598.5 BTC worth about $47 million, after they returned 3,400 of the roughly 4,000 BTC drained from the sidechain

• Dorsey’s Block files for OCC charter

• NYSE launches Grayscale Zcash ETF options

• Robinhood to take minority stake in Cryptocom

• Poland blocks its own crypto bill a third time

• Bybit launches 24/7 fx perps with 100x leverage

• Cronos erased 2h of txns to reverse $111M exploit

• The Ethereum Foundation set a December 2029 deadline to make transactions, validators, and data storage quantum-resistant, with five hard forks planned after next year's Hegotá upgrade at roughly one every 7.2 months

• Kalshi loses emergency appeal bid against Utah

• Iran turns to crypto to evade sanctions

• Citi offers instant blockchain payments in Japan

• Cronos rolled back 10,961 blocks to reverse $111.2 million tied to the Tectonic exploit, erasing one hour and 54 minutes of settled transactions including activity unrelated to the attack, with $9.19 million still gone

• Bank of Italy wants checks on all crypto transfers

• Family killed in Mexico over $1.5M BTC

• Rain Launches Global Payouts in 50 Currencies

  AI & NFT

  • 10K-agent swarm solved Navier-Stokes: OpenAI

  • OpenAI internal model much better than GPT-6

  • 10%+ chance AI kills all: Anthropic science lead

  • Anthropic researcher quits over AI fears

  • Hackers stealing Claude tokens from subs

  • Meta intros Muse, its first consumer AI agent

  • AI compute demand stretches into 2028:

  • NFT leaders were mostly flat; Punks even at 30 ETH, BAYC even at 6.8 ETH, Pudgy even at 3.7 ETH

  • Google to invest $15B in Finland AI infra

  • Google maps effect of 9B DNA mutations

  • FBI accuses Chinese AI firms of model theft

  • Quotrons (+17%) and Templars (+57%) led top movers

  • Tesla to deploy up to 1,000 Cybercabs: NHTSA

  • The Exploration Co. raises $450M to rival SpaceX

  • China curbs humanoid IPOs after Unitree debut

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