Crypto Newsletter

  • Uniswap Processes $70B in Monthly Volume

  • Clarity 2026 odds climb to 31% on Polymarket

  • Revolut leaks HNW client data to fake gov request

  • A fake government request slipped through Revolut’s checks, exposing passports, verification selfies, home addresses, and full Bitcoin transaction histories for an undisclosed number of customers, with no funds lost

  • ZEC mining rewards 2x of BTC mining: Grayscale

  • Tokenised stocks need no issuer approval: Tenev

  • AMC CEO continues attacks on Robinhood

  • Memes suffer large dips on Robinhood chain board

  • Stonkfun had a blowoff revenue day on Friday with $2.2M, though revenue did fall to $1.05M and $900k in the 2 weekend days following

  • Pumpfun intros Holder Rewards

  • Blockstream refuses ransom to Liquid hacker

  • SOL tokenised stock volume beats Nasdaq + NYSE

  • Tokenised stocks on Base hit $100M daily volume

  • Chainlink buys 91K LINK tokens

  • Pump introduced Holder Rewards, where creators can select a percent of fee share that will go back to holders of their token

  • SpaceX to launch DOGE-1 Moon mission next week

  • Hassett disclosed $1-5M in Coinbase stock

  • Tokenized Equity Supply on Solana Reaches $684M

  • India launched “Demat 2.0” to issue corporate bonds as digital tokens on a permissioned ledger settled with the wholesale digital rupee, with REC, Larsen & Toubro, and IIFL Finance already raising about $107 million against a $620 billion market

  • DOJ restrains $52M crypto with Tether's help

  • Robinhood Chain Board Sees Major Dips

  • Pump led onchain protocols in revenue over the past 7 days with $10.2M, following by Hyperliquid ($9.9M), Aerodrome ($9.2M), Pons ($8M) and Stonkfun ($7.4M)

  • Coinbase Wallet launches Pulse Mode for perps

  • UK firms get 5-month window for FCA nod

  • BitMEX cofounder donates Reform UK ATH £72M

  • Dario Amodei called for slowing frontier AI development, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk both publicly agreeing, citing AI systems that increasingly help build their own successors

  • Bitcoin Suisse Plans Workforce Reduction

AI & NFT

  • Amodei urges AI frontier slow down

  • Elon, Altman back Amodei's call to slow AI

  • TokenWorks Pauses V1 Purchases for V2 Migration

  • Anthropic, OpenAI, Google discussed safety body

  • Trump rejects AI slowdown calls

  • Go ahead, slow down: Sacks to AI labs

  • Argonauts had a 14.5 ETH sale overnight as the floor ran to 0.86 ETH

  • Impossible to slow AI development: Russia

  • OpenAI IPO in 2026 would be 'ill-advised’: Altman

  • OpenAI ships Agents API

  • Argonauts (+20%) and Cat Street Broker (+120%) led top movers

  • Anthropic chooses Nasdaq for its IPO

  • Anthropic expects to be profitable in Q3 too

  • NFT leaders were mostly flat; Punks even at 29.8 ETH, BAYC -1% at 6.65 ETH, Pudgy -3% at 3.46 ETH

  • Nvidia could invest $10B in Anthropic IPO

  • AI server payback is under 2 years: Google

  • OpenSea Mobile Gets Faster With 0% Platform Fees

  • Apple working on iPhone game

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