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Here's a quick preview of today’s content: US seizes over $25M tied to crypto romance scam, Crypto PAC pours $1M into Michigan race, Jack Dorsey's Block launches Buzz, SEC reaches settlement with Coinbase from Gensler era, Tesla holds bitcoin treasury steady, and so much more

Happy Thursday - Let’s dive in.

Market Snapshot

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• Bitcoin holds near $66,000 as chips extend their rally and the yen hits a 40-year low

  • BTC ETFs extend their inflow streak to six days with $203M added

  • Tokenized equity perps drive RWA trading to $470B monthly volume, with tokenized stocks hitting record at $2.3B

  • Crypto employs 34,000 in the US and contributes $55B to the economy

• Bitcoin avoids major Iran jitters as stocks claw back from a big early decline

Prediction Markets

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Headline Roundup
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• Clarity Act draft bars Trump from crypto ventures (DC)

• Winklevoss Twins donate $10M to Trump PAC (BM)

• Lawmakers say Clarity Act falls short on ethics (CD)

• AI models escape OpenAI and hit Hugging Face (CD)

• SEC reaches settlement with Coinbase from Gensler era (TB)

• Franklin Templeton says AI is crypto's 'killer use case' (DC)

• Anthropic joins UK AI regulatory sandbox (CT)

• Justin Sun's HTX moves amid sanctions (DC)

• Tesla holds bitcoin treasury steady (CD)

• Revolut hits $115B valuation in employee share sale (CD)

• Kraken parent company makes moves to offer xStocks (DC)

• Violent crypto attacks rise as criminals hunt bigger payouts (BBG)

• Clarity Act’s impact on Circle could be negative (TB)

• Robinhood Chain overtakes Base on active users (TD)

• BitGo and OTC Markets plan tokenized securities access (CT)

• SecondFi shuts down after wallet theft (CD)

• Zhibao takes 3,500 BTC in PIPE financing (BM)

• Ostium reopens trading after exploit (TD)

Launches

• Jack Dorsey's Block launches Buzz (DC)

• Talos brings trading tools to Kalshi (CT)

• Ramp adds stablecoin accounts (TD)

• Lightning Labs launches Wavelength (BM)

Regulation

• SEC's Peirce warns vault builders against twisting law (TB)

• BIS warns stablecoins evade capital controls (TB)

• Crypto PAC pours $1M into Michigan race (CT)

• Polymarket plans legal challenge in France (TB)

Cybersecurity

• US seizes over $25M tied to crypto romance scam (DC)

• Crypto wrench attacks total climbs to 52 (TB)

• Balance stablecoin collapses after $1M exploit (CD)

• Zilliqa halts transactions over bug (TB)

Extra Reads

• When software starts paying software millions of times a second, card networks break and banks can't keep up, and that is exactly where blockchains stop being speculation and become AI's payment layer - Here's why the next big AI trade could be crypto

• Backers say the digital euro would preserve central-bank money, but critics warn a currency that's "trackable by design" hands the ECB the power to control how Europeans spend - Here's the case for and against Europe's digital euro

Chart of the Day

Bitcoin long-term holder supply hits new all-time high

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