Crypto Newsletter

  • Samsung Brings Solana Stablecoins to the Galaxy

  • Trump unveils $215M quantum computing plan

  • Two firms tied to market maker DWF Labs sued custodian BitGo for $141 million in London claiming it sold tokens that were supposed to stay locked

  • US government moves $1.01B BTC

  • 6.26M BTC have public keys exposed: Glassnode

  • A wallet holding 100 Bitcoin mined in July 2010 moved for the first time in 16 years coins worth about $29 when they were created; notably, the holder paid $1.22 in fees to move $8.3 million

  • ZEC devs target Jan for quantum resistant payments

  • Tether signs exploratory Kazakhstan MoU

  • Securitize launched tokenized versions of 12 big US stocks on Solana including Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft

  • CFTC chair Selig backs right to self-custody

  • Monad shifts focus to quantum security

  • Decrypt launched Money Accounts on Solana, a single balance that funds everything it builds

  • Aptos unveils tokenomics overhaul

  • DWF Labs sues BitGo for $141M

  • Securitize jumps 10%+ on tokenised US stocks

  • Ondo launches Private Markets onchain

  • Netflix releases FTX series ‘The Altruists’ trailer

  • French committee backs stablecoin trade tax

  • Greece proposes cutting crypto tax to 10%

  • Securitize Stocks launch on Solana

  • Vitalik Buterin said it's plausible AI could break encryption within two years and warned the industry may be quantum-proofing with the wrong tools

  • Extended plans settlement move to Arc

  • Aptos proposes tokenomics overhaul

  • Citrini Research published a crypto basket betting on AI agents moving money onchain

  • Robinhood explores ETF-linked stock token

AI & NFT

  • OpenAI ARR near $50B, not $70B

  • Iran used ChatGPT for fake news plants vs US

  • OpenAI defends firing of researchers

  • PumpFun introduced Custom Pairs, letting users launch a coin paired to others

  • Anthropic offers free security scans for OS projects

  • Anthropic bans abusive behavior towards Claude

  • Arkham reports U.S. government-linked crypto move

  • Claude Dashboards, Claude Motion enter beta

  • Google wants Gemini as coworker with own email

  • Hyperliquid led onchain protocols in revenue on the day with $2.45M, followed by Pump with $2.41M and Polymarket with $472k

  • Vera CPU has 2x throughput vs x86: Nvidia

  • Apple to debut first touchscreen MacBook

  • SpaceX spectrum deal hammers AT&T, Verizon

  • S Korea banks hacked using Chinese AI agent

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