Lending
Visa is quietly routing $2.5 billion in credit through smart contracts, and no one knows who carries the risk
Private Visa files size the loans, smart contracts collect repayment, and undisclosed terms determine who takes the first loss.
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ETF
Wall Street’s altcoin ETF rotation is not producing an altseason, and the old playbook may be breaking
Wall Street's ETF demand is clustering in Ethereum, XRP and Solana while smaller products like BNB and Polkadot struggle for flows.
Hacks
A crypto project paying nearly 1 million people a daily income just had its reserves looted
More than $100,000 was exchanged out of protocol reserves, and GoodDollar is now working to remove excess supply and rebuild liquidity
Regulation
India moves to block 15 crypto apps, leaving users facing sudden account lockout
App and URL takedown notices raise disruption risks, but completed blocks and withdrawal limits remain unconfirmed.
Market
Bitcoin holds near $78K as markets confront the macro shocks they may have underpriced this week
Bitcoin is holding near key on-chain thresholds as CPI, the Fed, BOJ policy and Hormuz risks test the assumptions already embedded in rates, oil and market positioning.
Stablecoins
Paolo Ardoino says 650 million people decentralized US debt, but Tether still controls the T-bills
USDT spreads dollar claims and Treasury funding demand while Tether keeps reserve ownership, portfolio control and gains above face value.
AI
OpenAI just showed why one of its former researchers thinks AI could kill everyone
A former OpenAI researcher says labs are racing toward superintelligence while Anthropic’s alignment lead puts extinction risk above 10% this decade.
Governance
Solana’s 300ms speed boost to outrun trading bots might come with a hidden cost
Fee-charging pools have the clearest modeled benefit for Solana, while proprietary market makers and validators face different trade-offs.
Crime
How 4,100 stolen Bitcoin bankrolled a life of private jets and supercars
Malone Lam admitted joining a racketeering conspiracy that prosecutors say stole and laundered more than $245 million in crypto.
Lending
You can borrow against Bitcoin without selling it, but there’s a catch
Bitcoin can serve as collateral for a loan without being sold, but moving its value into blockchain lending markets introduces risks that owning BTC alone doesn't carry.
Mining
Nearly a fifth of all Bitcoin mining power is sitting completely dark, and turning it back on could trigger a brutal margin trap
Bitcoin’s hashrate is rebounding from 850 EH/s as improving miner economics bring sidelined capacity back online.
Market
Bitcoin holds near $78,500 as a surging Japanese yen threatens global risk assets
Bitcoin faces a fresh liquidity test as the surging yen forces carry trades to unwind ahead of the BOJ decision.
