Crypto Newsletter

  • Apple and Google are hiring for stablecoin and blockchain roles

  • New 4-yr bull cycle underway: Fidelity

  • Strategy buys $76M BTC, Strive buys $108M

  • Coinbase opened IPO allocations to US retail customers starting with Oura’s Nasdaq debut this week

  • DeFi Dev Corp buys $10M SOL

  • VVV ATH, up 3,000% in 2026

  • Strategy acquires 950 BTC and repurchases $174M of STRC

  • Punk sales surge, Floor up to 32 ETH

  • Zcash reveals roadmap for Network 7 upgrade

  • Trueo is moving its prediction market from Base to Ethereum mainnet, with Vitalik Buterin calling it a strong new entrant focused on decentralization and ethical design leading to the TRUE token jumping 10x

  • Bitcoin Core 32 enters final testing

  • CFTC Innovation Task Force will host a Frontier Forum series on financial technology

  • Coinbase opens IPO share access to US retail

  • X launches crypto, stock trading

  • Ethena USDe briefly plunged to $0.92 on Binance

  • Circle Mint lets institutions borrow USDC vs BTC

  • X also sued two UK men in London’s High Court alleging a six-account Bitcoin bot network pulled at least £207,384, about $278,000, from its now-closed creator payout program

  • Animoca suspends Currenc merger

  • Anchorage taps LayerZero for stablecoin rails

  • Polymarket seeks MiFID status in Europe

  • Bitcoin hit an eight-month high near $86,000 as roughly $750 million in shorts were liquidated above $82,000, with about $2 billion in new leverage added since the breakout and analysts eyeing $90,000

  • The first tokenized stock venues could file their notices next quarter, SEC Crypto Task Force chief counsel Taylor Lindman told Crypto In America, with several firms already asking about the new exemption

  • Kalshi allegedly inflated prediction-market volume through parlays

  • Catena receives preliminary conditional OCC approval to establish a national trust bank

  • $VVV surges to $33, up 50% on the week

  • X shared a promo video for its new cashtag program which will allow X users to trade crypto tokens and stocks directly from the home page via CEX connection

  • Circle says USDC accounts for 98.8% of agent-driven transaction volume

AI & NFT

  • Meta surges as Muse hits #1 on App Store

  • Muse outpacing ChatGPT's early mobile launch

  • Amazon blocks Muse from its online store

  • StonkFun leads launchpad 24hr revenue

  • AMD hits ATH, joins the $1T club

  • US won't take liability for AI labs: Bessent

  • NFT leaders were green led by Punks; Punks +8% at 32 ETH, BAYC +3% at 6.66 ETH, Pudgy +4% at 3.4 ETH

  • OpenAI calls for global frontier AI safety standards

  • SpaceXAI unveils Grok 4.7

  • Zero chance AI makes humans extinct: Jensen

  • CryptoPunks saw 28 sales in the past day as the floor moved up to 32 ETH

  • Texas halts data center permits

  • Aurora Intents routed $19M into Zcash NFT auction

  • Jack Butcher’s Identity MD buy-it-now option discovers a $12,902.99 price

  • $200B of data center projects blocked this year

  • Stonk Cats (+94%) MAYC(+15%) led top movers

  • California tightens AI data center energy rules

  • Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 chip to rival NVDA

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