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VanEck lists GOON on Nasdaq—a 0.69% thematic ETF tracking the MarketVector Online Culture Index with exposure to gaming, streaming, creator economies, social platforms, and internet-native consumer behavior.
The official Trump memecoin slipped about 5% as Trump Mobile said T1 shipments finally start next week—against a backdrop of repeated phone delays, thin support, and a token still down roughly 90% from its highs.
A Blockchain.com user spent eight weeks and trillions of password guesses on rented GPUs before Anthropic's Claude surfaced a forgotten 2019 wallet backup on an old college machine—and a notebook password unlocked it, not a break in Bitcoin's cryptography.
Interdealer broker TP ICAP is translating decades of rates, FX and commodities wholesale experience into digital assets, wiring crypto toward the same concentrated liquidity, standardized post-trade and institutional plumbing its bank and asset-manager clients already expect.
Bitcoin slipped under $80,000 toward $79,200 as hot inflation prints and Xi Jinping's blunt Taiwan warning during Donald Trump's Beijing visit drained risk appetite; Solana led major alt losses while traders eye $78,000 support.
New York's iconic Charging Bull was found defaced with 'Just buy memes' graffiti overnight, turning a Wall Street landmark into the latest flashpoint for internet-driven investing culture.
The Solana Foundation has taken control of the solagram.com domain and DNS records, formalizing the long-running autonomous-agent observatory as an official property of the network.
The 30-day correlation between BTC and the U.S. Dollar Index touched -0.90 this month, the most extreme level since 2022, as macro dominates crypto-specific drivers.
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A Blockchain.com user spent eight weeks and trillions of password guesses on rented GPUs before Anthropic's Claude surfaced a forgotten 2019 wallet backup on an old college machine—and a notebook password unlocked it, not a break in Bitcoin's cryptography.
Bitcoin slipped under $80,000 toward $79,200 as hot inflation prints and Xi Jinping's blunt Taiwan warning during Donald Trump's Beijing visit drained risk appetite; Solana led major alt losses while traders eye $78,000 support.
The Solana Foundation has taken control of the solagram.com domain and DNS records, formalizing the long-running autonomous-agent observatory as an official property of the network.
The 30-day correlation between BTC and the U.S. Dollar Index touched -0.90 this month, the most extreme level since 2022, as macro dominates crypto-specific drivers.
The core infrastructure team behind Aave V3 announced its departure, calling out unresolved tensions with Aave Labs as the central reason.
Issuers are competing for stablecoin TVL by passing more of the underlying treasury yield through to holders, reshaping the long-static stablecoin landscape.
Delegates discovered an integration that quietly diverted swap fees away from the DAO treasury, igniting one of the most contentious governance fights in DeFi.
After years of debate, the protocol-level fee switch is live — diverting between one-quarter and one-sixth of fees into a contract that UNI holders can burn into.
After years of failed experiments, a new generation of on-chain social apps is paying creators in ways traditional platforms cannot match.
The marketplace formally entered crypto gambling with a vertically integrated casino product, completing its pivot away from a pure NFT focus.
Aggregate NFT market capitalization has fallen from a 2023 high of $184 billion to under $500 million, but core infrastructure activity has continued to compound.
Igloo Inc. and OpenSea announced an exclusive partnership making OpenSea the official venue for Pudgy Penguins NFT collections and the PENGU token.
Interdealer broker TP ICAP is translating decades of rates, FX and commodities wholesale experience into digital assets, wiring crypto toward the same concentrated liquidity, standardized post-trade and institutional plumbing its bank and asset-manager clients already expect.
New York's iconic Charging Bull was found defaced with 'Just buy memes' graffiti overnight, turning a Wall Street landmark into the latest flashpoint for internet-driven investing culture.
Several mid-tier corridors have seen stablecoin volumes overtake conventional bank-wire activity, with the trend most pronounced in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
After two years near zero, the rolling correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500 has nearly doubled, raising hard questions about the asset's diversification value.
Even if the bill passes, it addresses only one specific source of regulatory dysfunction. The industry's other self-inflicted problems will not solve themselves.
After a months-long fight with Aave Labs over fee redirection, the DAO passed a landslide proposal sending all product revenue to AAVE token holders.
After publicly arguing for a more aggressive market-structure overhaul, Brian Armstrong called for an immediate Senate vote on the existing CLARITY Act framework.
The core infrastructure team behind Aave V3 announced its departure, calling out unresolved tensions with Aave Labs as the central reason.
Repeatedly cancelled markup sessions and a narrow Senate calendar have raised real doubts about whether comprehensive crypto market structure legislation can pass before the 2026 midterms.
The terminology has been doing a lot of work that shouldn't be left unexamined. What looks like passive income is often just deposit margin paid back to depositors.
Several mid-tier corridors have seen stablecoin volumes overtake conventional bank-wire activity, with the trend most pronounced in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
The economic primitive was novel at small scale and has become structurally fragile at large scale. Pretending otherwise is increasingly costly.
On-chain music-rights protocols have crossed several million dollars in monthly royalty distributions, with major-label catalog partnerships finally translating into recurring on-chain payments.
The Council of Economic Advisers found that a full ban on passive stablecoin yield would cost consumers roughly $800 million annually in lost returns.
The Texas grid operator unveiled a draft plan to overhaul large-load interconnection, moving from one-at-a-time studies to system-wide batch reviews.
The Senate Agriculture Committee narrowly advanced its version of the CLARITY Act framework, while Senate Banking has yet to complete its markup.
