Culture
Vanity Fair “bathrobe-gate” proves $135 million bought the crypto industry leverage but not respect
Hayden Adams walked, others didn’t, and the backlash exposed how shaky crypto’s “official representatives” really are.
Sentiment: Neutral
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Macro
Retail is rushing into gold, but institutions are buying Bitcoin again – so why the split?
Gold and Bitcoin are no longer rivals — and the split could catch investors off guard.
Wallets
Coinbase tells users to follow ‘foolish’ steps scammers use to withdraw funds from wallets
Coinciding with past breaches, Coinbase's new flow raises alarms among security experts over phishing vectors.
Banking
Stablecoins just lost key battle as insurance protection to be reserved only for bank-issued tokens
Not all digital dollars are equal anymore as FDIC signals only banks will get insurance protection.
Banking
Banks risk another 2008 crisis after moving the equivalent of 18 million BTC into shadow lenders
Banks shifted $1.3 trillion into nonbanks after 2008 and that’s where the next scare could start
Market
Why the US-Iran conflict sent traders to Hyperliquid — and pushed HYPE into crypto’s top 10
Weekend oil trading surge on Hyperliquid’s platform fuels HYPE token’s rise during wartime market adaptation.
Macro
Recession risk hits historic danger zone, setting up Bitcoin’s biggest test yet
Bitcoin will finally face the pain Satoshi wrote about in the first block transaction before the next halving.
Tokenization
Wall Street is building on Solana despite its memecoin reputation
Ondo’s 24/5 mint and redeem structure keeps securities with broker-dealers while Solana handles the transfer layer.
Analysis
Iran war bets turned Polymarket and Kalshi into the next fight over what people should be allowed to trade
Wall Street likes platforms that can monetize attention, but Washington tends to notice once that attention turns into incentives around the wrong topics.
Analysis
Coinbase’s $70B Bitcoin move made it look like investors were selling — but no one actually did
Bitcoin traders often treat old-coin movement as a sign that long-term holders are waking up. Coinbase’s $69.5 billion BTC migration suggests that signal may be less reliable than it looks.
Analysis
Washington is trying to stop a government digital dollar before the Fed even builds one
The Senate voted 84-6 to advance a bill blocking a Federal Reserve digital dollar through 2030, leaving just six senators on the other side of one of Washington’s biggest crypto-policy flashpoints.
Regulation
The CFTC says prediction markets have an insider trading problem
After listings exploded from about five a year to thousands, the CFTC is warning exchanges to catch manipulation before it hits headlines.
