Crypto Newsletter

  • Card Map Launches True Cashback Calculator

  • IBIT forms first ever Golden Cross

  • NEAR Intents recovers all hacked funds

  • Chainalysis blamed North Korea for the $387 million Bitget hack and used its own AI to trace the money; the funds left in 23 transfers over three hours onto Ethereum, XRP, Zcash and Tron, and the year’s North Korean total is now past $1 billion

  • Bitwise CEO personally buys into NEAR ETF

  • Chainlink and Swift Automate Equity Actions

  • OKX and the NYSE's parent company told the SEC they're launching a tokenized stock venue starting with 63 NYSE-listed companies; their joint venture OKXICE filed Sunday under the SEC's new framework

  • No MetaMask funds hit in incident: Lubin

  • Cronos Approves CRO Burn and Market-Buy Plan

  • Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan teased a potential Polymarket token announcement coming soon at Token 2049

  • Tate moves $1.87M of HYPE to Binance

  • Banking Group sues to block crypto 'side door'

  • OKX files with SEC for tokenised US stocks

  • Hyperliquid got its first $14.58 million payment from USDC sitting on the exchange money it can now use to buy back HYPE; the 30-day payment works out to roughly $193 million a year at current size

  • Blast to shut down after raising $20M

  • Pump led onchain protocols in revenue on the week with $17.86M; Hyperliquid was next with $14.64M, then Stonk with $4.46M

  • Russia pays ministry staff in Digital Rubles

  • Japan imposes new digital sanctions on Russia

  • South Korea unveils tokenization rules

  • BofA raised its Coinbase target to $203 from $174 and kept a Buy; it lifted 2027 and 2028 earnings forecasts on stronger stablecoin revenue after September's Fed hike

  • South Korea Unveils Tokenized-Securities Rules

AI & Tech

  • Elon to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI

  • OpenAI safety employee quits, sounds alarm

  • World must 'accept some bad things’ re AI: Altman

  • Hyperliquid got its first $14.58 million payment from USDC sitting on the exchange money it can now use to buy back HYPE; the 30-day payment works out to roughly $193 million a year at current size

  • Hackers posed as Anthropic staffer for AI data

  • AI lacks the 'spark of humanity’: Pope Leo

  • Anthropic lobbying Vatican on AI consciousness

  • China's Kimi AI 'thinks she is Claude’: Bessent

  • PewDiePie unveils 'uncensored' Ajax AI model

  • NFT leaders were slightly red; Punks even at 33 ETH, BAYC -4% at 5.95 ETH, Pudgy +1% at 3.02 ETH

  • Cerebras chips run short as Jane Street buys

  • Identity MD (+52%) and Quotrons (+21%) led top movers

  • Data Centres will 'go to China' if shunned: Trump

  • South Korea to invest $900B+ in AI

  • GameStop CEO buys ~$57M of stock in a month

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