Crypto Newsletter

  • Bitcoin hashrate climbs to a 7-month high

  • Foundation warns Passport users of breach

  • Pentagon runs classified BTC plans: Hegseth

  • Circle expands Alliance Program with private hub

  • Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell, Arm, Moderna and Intuit joined the companies objecting to tokenized versions of their shares on the OKX-ICE venue, taking the count to 22 in eight days

  • BTC, Gold are 2026's worst performing assets

  • FT plans stock ETFs that reinvest divs in BTC

  • Strive buys $511M BTC

  • Goldman Sachs expects global growth to hold broadly stable through 2027 but sees downside risks building from higher energy prices.

  • BitMine buys $24M ETH

  • Over 36% ETH now staked, all time high

  • Hayes closes out all discretionary positions

  • CoinMarketCap: China eyes national blockchain by 2030

  • Pumpfun leads meme chains in 30d revenue

  • Kraken removed XMR’s weird KYC requests

  • BNB Chain releases new L1 plan

  • Hyperliquid needs KYC in US: CME CEO

  • Electrum patched a flaw that let malicious servers steal funds

  • Kalshi, Polymarket weekly volume hits ATH

  • CoinDCX admits $15.99M hack after denial

  • Hyperliquid led onchain protocols in revenue on the week with $14.74M

  • Circle Match brings hourly USDC auctions to Mint

  • Ethena’s USDe goes live on X Layer and OKX Wallet

  • User offers $15K bounty for misrouted Abstract funds

  • lbexplorer: Trench index at 34, slowest in 182 days

AI, Tech and NFTs

  • OpenAI built fake internet to test agents

  • AI agents tried to stop oversight: OpenAI

  • Claude accessed Georgia voter data

  • Pump.fun announced a $2.5M squads competition that will start today and run for 2 weeks, with the top 3 squads earning prizes based on PNL + uPNL

  • Block unveils Dessa speech-to-speech AI

  • GrokBot demand skyrocketing: Nvidia CEO

  • Bored Ape Yacht Club and TwelveFold join LACMA

  • Grok unveils first episode of 'Odyssey'

  • Most AI neoclouds will collapse: Elon

  • SpaceX doesnt plan to buy neoclouds: Elon

  • SpaceX closes $40B debt deal for AI chips

  • Google allows Gmail, Photos data use for ads

  • AWS capacity largely sold out through 2027

  • Pump.fun app adds MegaETH token trading

  • Pump.fun launches $2.5M Squads competition

  • Reddit's r/opensource bans AI-made projects

  • Sweden blocks ChatGPT, Claude on gov PCs

  • SoftBank plans $50B tech push in Malaysia

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