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Here's a quick preview of today’s content: California passes bill to ban memecoin issuance, Cronos halts after exploit estimated at $75M, Russia’s Sber eyes USDT loans, US cities eye AI data center limits, Investors $4.7B underwater across Trump crypto ventures, and so much more

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• Bitcoin slides below $78,000 as markets digest Fed Chair Warsh's hawkish inflation vow

  • BTC hit its highest level in three months before pulling back, cooling off as Warsh downplayed softer inflation prints

  • BTC ETFs end a 9-day inflow streak, though ETH ETFs take $226M in a day

• Tokenized stock transfer volume jumps +415% to $29.5B as altcoins consolidate

Prediction Markets

• Streets are saying we’re out of the bear market…

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Headline Roundup
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• Investors $4.7B underwater across Trump crypto ventures (TB)

• Trump administration illegally retaliates against Anthropic (DC)

• Charles Schwab expands crypto trading (DC)

• Former White House employee ordered to pay $172k (TB)

• Meta tests robots to handle data center work (DC)

• ICE accused of unfairly steering $95M blockchain contract (TB)

• US cities eye AI data center limits (DC)

• Bitcoin wallets untouched for 10 years move $40M (CD)

• Kraken users locked out after sanctioned transactions (CD)

• UK police seize $1.4M bitcoin traced to darknet (DC)

• XRP treasury gets closer to listing on Nasdaq (DC)

• Russia’s Sber eyes USDT loans (CT)

• Real Trump Coins denies launching token (CT)

• Circle strikes Chelsea sponsorship deal (TB)

• Dunamu and Visa partner on stablecoin business (TB)

• Bitwise fund is first Solana ETF to hit $1B (TB)

• Solana prints less SOL as disinflation vote passes (DC)

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Venture Capital

• USD.AI, a stablecoin protocol, secures $100M stablecoin debt from Bullish (CD)

• FinTax, a crypto solutions provider, raises funds at $40M valuation led by YZI Labs (SN)

• Bitcoin treasury Capital B raises $24.5M through private share placement (CT)

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M&A Announcements

• BitGo acquires the institutional trading business of NYDIG (DC)

• Ajaib, an online brokerage, receives $270M minority-stake investment from SBI Group (CD)

Launches

• Bybit launches options on stock perps (TB)

• Ethena plans equity-perpetual trades (TD)

Regulation

• California passes bill to ban memecoin issuance (CT)

• Ninth Circuit deals blow to Kalshi (TB)

• Evernorth’s SEC registration now effective (TB)

Cybersecurity

• Cronos halts after exploit estimated at $75M (TB)

• Cosmos wrongly clears bug behind $5.7M hack (TB)

• Avici users lose $500k in exploit (TD)

• Fogo halts mainnet after attack (TB)

Extra Reads

• If 50 to 100 billion AI agents start booking, buying, and paying each other online, they'll need money they can actually hold, and since no bank will open an account for a bot, executives argue the default becomes crypto - Here's the race to build the money AI agents will use

• Stablecoins and tokenized deposits promise cross-border payments that are instant, cheap, and always-on, but Swift's real moat is the 11,500 banks already plugged into it, and the fight now is whether blockchain replaces that network or just runs through it - Here's the battle over the plumbing behind global money

Chart of the Day

Tokenized real-world assets reach $44.7B market cap

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