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Here's a quick preview of today’s content: US sentences farmers tied to North Korean IT workers, Swiss bitcoin reserve push fails, Bitcoin miner IREN secures $3.4B Nvidia deal, Coinbase outage disrupts trading and transfers, Elizabeth Warren wants Meta to spill their stablecoin plans, and so much more

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Market Snapshot

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• Bitcoin briefly tops $82,000 as spot ETFs snap 5-day inflow streak, liquidating $300M

  • BTC ETFs log 6th straight week of inflows for first time in 9 months despite flows turning negative

  • TRX, ADA, and SOL lead weekly gains while DOGE leads major losses

  • XRP new addresses and active supply plunge as COIN rebounds on altcoin surge

• Bitcoin exchange reserves fall to two-year low with negative funding rates setting 10-year record

Prediction Markets

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Headline Roundup
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• Kraken parent Payward applies for national bank charter (DC)

• Coinbase outage disrupts trading and transfers (DC)

• Duke lecturer argues World Liberty issued unregistered security (TB)

• Banks and crypto backers tussle as Senators eye crypto bill (BBG)

• Olympic sprinter charged in UK crypto fraud investigation (DC)

• Elizabeth Warren wants Meta to spill their stablecoin plans (DC)

• CZ says exchange rivals opposed his pardon bid (CT)

• Bitcoin miner IREN secures $3.4B Nvidia deal (DC)

• Trump Media’s loss widens to $406M on bitcoin (CD)

• Morgan Stanley bitcoin ETF absorbs $194M first month (TB)

• Tether freezes over $500M in 30 days (CT)

• Bitcoin whale moves $41M after 12 years (TB)

• Stablecoin card spend grows 100% (CD)

• Emerging-markets treat crypto exchanges like banks (CD)

• TeraWulf's AI revenue outpaces bitcoin mining (DC)

• Arbitrum votes to unlock $70M for Kelp (DC)

• Revolut users report Bitcoin price glitch (CT)

• ONDO surges amid tokenization push (TD)

• Bored Ape NFTs make a comeback (CD)

• Solv Protocol drops LayerZero in favor of Chainlink (TB)

• Seven major Bitcoin mining pools join Stratum (CD)

• Zcash targets post-quantum milestone (DC)

• Aptos commits $50M across ecosystem (TB)

Venture Capital

• DRW-backed Digital Asset raises money at $2B valuation (BBG)

• Antier Solutions, an blockchain engineering firm, raises $3M led by GVFL (PN)

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Launches

• BlackRock launches tokenized money-market funds (BBG)

• Exodus launches AI stablecoin on Solana (CT)

Regulation

• SEC weighs new rules for onchain markets (TB)

• ECB’s Lagarde pushes back on euro stablecoins (DC)

• Swiss bitcoin reserve push fails (CD)

• South Korea tightens oversight of firms moving crypto (TB)

• AUSTRAC launches crypto supervision campaigns (DC)

Cybersecurity

• Taiwan news anchor indicted for taking Chinese crypto payments (TB)

• US sentences farmers tied to North Korean IT workers (CT)

• Australian police seize millions in Bitcoin from darknet (DC)

• Crypto attacks on the rise with families at risk (TB)

Extra Reads

• As Wall Street chases upside in stocks like never before, the implications for bitcoin appear bullish, though with an important caveat - Here’s what it means for bitcoin

• Autonomous software may be more natural users of wallets and stablecoins than humans, though agentic payments remain mostly theoretical - Here’s how AI could solve crypto’s user problem

Chart of the Day

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