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DeFi
Wall Street is buying DeFi tokens again, even as everyone worries the code is unsafe
Big investors are buying DeFi tokens again, betting ENA and MORPHO can re-rate as institutional financial rails despite rising security fears.
Exchanges
Crypto’s killer app may be selling stocks after its own tokens failed retail
Tokenized stocks may be crypto’s clearest product market fit yet, and a warning that users want blockchain rails more than new tokens.
Regulation
CLARITY Act momentum slows to a crawl as lawmakers clash over crypto ethics rules
Democrats say Republicans and the White House are backing away from a crypto ethics enforcement deal, raising new doubts about the bill’s fragile path to a Senate floor vote.
Market
Bitcoin faces a Wall Street test as AI’s mega-IPO wave targets the same capital
A potential mega-IPO wave led by OpenAI, SpaceX, and other AI giants could reignite risk appetite across markets, while also testing whether Bitcoin still holds its role as Wall Street’s favorite high-beta trade.
Legislation
Crypto’s CLARITY push heats up, but prediction markets aren’t buying the August deadline
Crypto groups and Senate allies are ramping up pressure for a CLARITY Act floor vote, while prediction markets are growing less convinced the bill can become law before August.
Analysis
Wall Street still says Bitcoin can hit $100,000, the market is starting to doubt it
Wall Street analysts are sticking with year-end Bitcoin targets of $100,000 or higher, even after BTC briefly lost $60,000 and ETF outflows shook confidence in the bull case.
Lending
Morgan Stanley’s Galaxy deal points to Bitcoin’s next institutional test: lending collateral
Morgan Stanley’s Galaxy deal shows the next phase of institutional crypto adoption is moving beyond ETF access and into collateral markets.
Regulation
Crypto rails made prediction markets global, gambling laws may make them local again
South Korea’s reported probe into Polymarket users follows broader action against event-contract platforms.
Regulation
A little-known 1,250% rule could lock US banks out of Bitcoin
Republican senators are pressing the Fed, FDIC and OCC to rewrite digital asset capital rules, arguing that Basel’s treatment of crypto functions like a backdoor ban on banks holding Bitcoin.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Bitcoin traders blamed Saylor’s 32 BTC sale but larger selling pressure built elsewhere
Strategy’s tiny sale was not big enough to explain Bitcoin’s correction by itself, but it raised a bigger fear of whether corporate Bitcoin treasuries are still permanent holders.
Hacks
AI-assisted Zcash flaw exposes the supply integrity gap an emergency fork could not fully close
The AI-assisted discovery of a critical Orchard flaw shows crypto’s next security crisis may start in the base-layer systems that define valid money.
Market
Bitcoin crashed and flushed leverage out, but is the bottom here yet?
The liquidation wave cleared crowded long positions, but analysts say Bitcoin still needs ETF stability, fading exchange inflows, and renewed spot demand before the bottom is confirmed.
