Crypto Newsletter

  • Uniswap dashboard goes live on Blockworks

  • BTC on Coinbase trading $150 below Binance

  • BTC still going to $189K in 2026: Citi

  • User pays $103K fee on single BTC transaction

  • After Coldcard was hacked, $15 billion in Bitcoin moved to safety, as 233,000 BTC left long-term-holder wallets in the days around the breach

  • Crypto firms urge AI labs for early model access

  • Wall Street tests tokenization

  • Lighter teases Robinhood Wallet event

  • Goldman Sachs closed a $2.25 billion NEOS deal, acquiring the covered-call fund BTCI and NEOS’s roughly $30 billion in options-based products

  • BitGo launches BTC Quantum Resistance Checker

  • SEC clears Franklin Templeton’s onchain fund

  • Capital Intl buys $300M more MSTR, holds $3B

  • A routing bug took Solana 86% of the way to losing finality, after one hosting provider's misconfigured route knocked 28.83% of staked SOL offline, leaving the chain 4.51 points from the 33.34% freeze threshold

  • Swiss National Bank discloses $72M MSTR stake

  • Kraken adds 24/7 S&P 500 perps

  • Hyperliquid also opened its low-latency data nodes for under $1,000 a month

  • Algorand v5 ships post-quantum accounts

  • South Korea tightens crypto transfers

  • Mexico mandates full KYC on crypto transfers

  • Polygon joins BoE’s CBDC Lab

  • Bitcoin spot volume fell to its lowest since 2019, as the market sits between key cost-basis levels with seller exhaustion building but spot demand still weak

  • Bitwise cut 14% of staff as the crypto slump reached ETF issuers

  • Hyperliquid is adding a "scaleWei" function

  • Fidelity files to add staking to ETH ETF

  • Wintermute expands into traditional

AI & NFT

  • Grok 4.7 to exceed all models in 3-4 weeks: Elon

  • StonkFun distributes $2.25M in rewards

  • Anthropic in talks to buy Decart AI for $6B

  • Apple's base iPhone 18 to skip autumn launch

  • Apple to pay publishers for AI-upgraded Siri

  • DeepSeek V4-Pro hits big benchmark gains

  • NFT microcaps had big runs including RH Machines (+400%), Robinhood Kitties (+400%) and fuwa (+240%)

  • DeepSeek forms team to rival Claude Code

  • SEC readies exemption for 24/7 tokenized stocks

  • BofA to invest $250B in AI, chips and energy

  • OpenAI-backed Thrive raises $2B for enterprise AI

  • Cognition in talks to raise at $40B valuation

  • Good Vibes Club (+32%) and The Saudis (+650%) led top movers

  • Lovable raises $400M at $13.3B valuation

  • AI could be 99% of SpaceX value in 5 yrs: Elon

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