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Here's a quick preview of today’s content: Hacker steals $282M crypto in social-engineering attack, West Virginia proposes crypto investments with state funds, NYSE reveals platform for tokenized stocks and ETFs, Crypto card spending hits $18B annualized, Trump’s meme coin leaves crypto policy in limbo, and so much more

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Market Snapshot

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• Bitcoin whipsaws as policy risk overrides strong ETF inflows

  • BTC pulled back toward $93K, swinging sharply on Senate delays and escalating trade-war fears

  • Volatility spiked: up to $865M in liquidations with markets sliding while gold surged

  • ETF demand stayed resilient: $1.4B into spot BTC ETFs, helping drive $2.2B in weekly crypto fund inflows, the best since October

  • Altcoins weakened: XRP and DOGE fell on liquidation cascades and whale-linked selling; all top-10 assets traded lower

Prediction Markets

• Bettors on Polymarket are predicting Clarity Act signed into law in 2026?

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Headline Roundup
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• Coinbase refutes White House threat to pull support for crypto bill (CD)

• Trump’s meme coin leaves crypto policy in limbo (DC)

• ‘Venezuela leaker’ jailed as Polymarket accounts go quiet (CT)

• NYSE reveals platform for tokenized stocks and ETFs (DC)

• Polygon Labs lays off 60 employees (CD)

• Michael Saylor pushes back on criticism of treasury companies (CT)

• Steak 'n Shake adds $10M to BTC treasury (TB)

• Bitcoin seized from Samourai Wallet has not been sold (DC)

• Crypto platform with CZ sees $2B volume surge (CD)

• Crypto card spending hits $18B annualized (CD)

• Nasdaq warns hardware maker Canaan about delisting (DC)

• Newrez accepts crypto in mortgage approval (CT)

• Data shows more people are using Ethereum for first time (CD)

• Bitcoin crashes to zero on Paradex (DC)

• Crypto lender Nexo inks deal for Audi's F1 team (TB)

• DDC Enterprise buys 200 BTC (CD)

• BitMine pushes Ethereum into $8B staking backlog (CD)

• Binance restores bank transfers for Australian users (DC)

• Bermuda taps Coinbase and Circle for onchain economy (TB)

• Tudou Guarantee winds down amid $130M refunds (CT)

• China-led mBridge surges past $55B in volume (TB)

• Two Prime manages $250M BTC for Digital Wealth (CD)

• Injective passes vote to slash token supply (CT)

• Gusto taps Zerohash to speed up payouts (CD)

• Trove Markets announces pivot to Solana (TB)

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Venture Capital

• Crypto bank Anchorage Digital in the market to raise up to $400M ahead of potential IPO (TB)

• LMAX Group, a cross-asset trading platform, secures $150M in debt financing from Ripple (YF)

• Sentient, an open-source AI platform, raises $85M seed led by Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures (DS)

• GooMoney, a Bitcoin payments startup, raises $19.3M in BTC from undisclosed institutional and crypto fund investors (RT)

• Crypto neobank Veera raises $10M seed round from Sigma Capital, CMCC Titan Fund, 6th Man Ventures, Ayon Capital, and more (PS)

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M&A Announcements

• Cryptography Capital sells 45% equity stake for $15.5M to unnamed VC firm (RH)

• Blockspace Media acquires Bitcoin Layers, a data platform tracking Bitcoin metrics (BM)

Launches

• Robinhood offers prediction market 'custom combos' (DC)

• KBC Bank launches Bitcoin and Ether trading (CT)

• US housebuilder launches crypto rewards (CT)

Regulation

• Senate Dems serious about crypto bill reboot (CD)

• West Virginia proposes crypto investments with state funds (BM)

• South Korea approves tokenized securities framework (TB)

• Senate pushes back against crypto legislation to protect devs (TB)

• California fines Nexo over unlicensed loans (DC)

• Google Play bans overseas crypto exchanges from South Korea (TB)

• Belarus authorizes crypto banks (TB)

Cybersecurity

• Hacker steals $282M crypto in social-engineering attack (CD)

• South Korea uncovers $102M crypto laundering scheme (DC)

• Utah man sentenced for $2.9M fraud tied to crypto scheme (DC)

• 80% of hacked crypto projects never fully recover (CT)

• ‘Evil twin’ WiFi networks steal crypto passwords (CT)

Extra Reads

• Provisions addressing decentralized finance, SEC jurisdiction, authorities, and stablecoin yield all alarmed industry participants - Here's why Coinbase and other companies soured on major crypto bill

• InfoFi-fueled “AI slop” isn’t the only reason CT feels more empty, as social and trading data across platforms shows retail participants are disengaging - Here’s why crypto retail interest is diminishing

Chart of the Day

36.8K BTC has left exchanges since the beginning of the year

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