Crypto Newsletter

  • Saylor champions digital asset freedom and privacy

  • ETH shorts surge 13,000% on Bitfinex in 2 weeks

  • ETH evolving into “world computer”: Vitalik

  • Prosecutors seized about $84 million from a payments firm that moved money for Tether and Bitfinex

  • ETH could rally to $5K: Hayes

  • Uniswap ~40% of tokenised-stock volume

  • Rug-pull drains $18.4M from 53 Robinhood tokens

  • Longdotxyz intros LONG500

  • River sues Blockstream over payment agreement

  • Citi announced a partnership with Coinbase to provide stablecoin support for its institutional clients

  • Circle, Tether freeze funds tied to Bitget hack

  • Binance Wallet drops native gas token rule

  • CFTC sues Cash FX over alleged $950M fx scheme

  • Bitget reopened Bitcoin withdrawals Monday, four days after an attacker took about $388 million

  • California bans officials from issuing memecoins

  • Kalshi loses appeal on state gambling rules

  • Polymarket bank-collapse bets raise FDIC concerns

  • S Korea weighs crypto market-making system

  • Solana’s upgrade to settle transactions in 150 milliseconds reached a second public test network, the step before it can go live

  • Binance announced support for Marscoin with its SPCX reflection and 牛来 with QQQ

  • Hester Peirce urges end to mass KYC collection

  • Bitget updates withdrawals after wallet incident

  • Orbio launches agentic token launchpad

  • Aave introduced 7 Coinbase tokenized stocks including Apple, Nvidia and Tesla as collateral options in Aave v4 on Base

  • Ondo unveils BlackRock powered onchain portfolios

  • Securitize brings ARK Venture Fund onchain

AI & NFT

  • OpenAI freezes top models post image leaks

  • OpenAI agents tried to 'bruteforce' UN website

  • 0xQuit explains Baron Von Red NFT scam

  • OpenAI expands review after rogue AI incidents

  • NFT leaders were mostly red over the weekend; Punks even at 33.69 ETH, BAYC -10% at 6.25 ETH, Pudgy -4% at 3.27 ETH

  • Anthropic founders seek 50.1% control

  • Muse leaked user address, accepted lowball offer

  • Pump led onchain protocols in revenue over the past 7 days with $15.16M, followed by Hyperliquid ($15.06M), Stonkfun ($7.48M) and Collector Crypt ($3.24M)

  • AI already raising healthcare costs: Insurers

  • Apple hit with $5.7B damages over haptic patents

  • Ringers (+50%) and Kodas (+10%) led top movers

  • TikTok agrees to pay Alabama at least $100M

  • Tesla wants to build 20K Optimus robots a week

  • Claim site opens for NFTs recovered by 0xQuit

  • SpaceX preps first Starship orbital launch

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