In one week, CME sued the CFTC over perps, Oman made its national Bitcoin mining pool mandatory, and China advanced a SWIFT rival. Three layers, one pattern: states and incumbents claiming crypto's rails.
ZachXBT alleges insiders controlling 90% of supply engineered a short squeeze that caused $44 million in liquidations. RAVE has dropped over 50% from its $27 peak.
A Bitcoin developer wants to fork the chain in August, copy Satoshi Nakamoto's wallet history onto a new network, and hand 500,000 of those coins to people who pay for them now. Jameson Lopp called it outrage marketing. Sztorc says it's a matter of life or death for Bitcoin.
Attorney General Letitia James wants triple damages, customer restitution, and a ban on under-21 wagering. Coinbase stock fell 6% as the lawsuit landed.
Payward just paid $600 million for a Hong Kong payments company that makes money moving stablecoins across borders. The firm was already profitable on $60 million in total funding.
Push notifications said BTC hit a 52-week low. Charts showed candles at two cents. XRP and Solana displayed the same crash. No major exchange recorded a single matching trade.
Revenue down 31%. Stock down 5%. 700 employees gone. And the company added Bitcoin to its treasury the same quarter it posted a $482 million unrealized crypto loss.
88 trades over nine months. Average price: $350. The stock is at $170 now. The sales stopped in January. The losses started in Q1.
CHIP hit CoinGecko's trending list with $200M in daily volume. The protocol has $225M in active GPU loans. But 80% of the token supply is still locked.
At Consensus Miami, two of the biggest names in payments said the next wave of commerce will run on stablecoins and open protocols because traditional finance simply wasn’t built for machines.
The rejection puts GameStop's 4,709 BTC position back in play. Ryan Cohen called the deal more compelling than bitcoin. The market is not so sure.
The decentralized AI compute protocol raised $78 million from a16z, Galaxy, and CoinFund. Only 13% of tokens are circulating. Binance gave it a Seed Tag.
AWS built payment rails for bots with Coinbase and Stripe. The system settles in 200 milliseconds on Base using USDC. Warner Bros. Discovery is already testing it.
Binance cut 12 spot pairs. Bybit removed 7 tokens entirely. Coinbase pulled DAI, TIME, and a dozen futures pairs. The cleanup happened while Consensus Miami was running.
The company behind USDC sold 740 million tokens at $0.30 each. BlackRock, a16z, Apollo, and ICE all bought in. The question is what Circle needs a blockchain for when it already runs a $77 billion stablecoin.
Robinhood launched Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card. Third-party AI agents can now connect to customer accounts, monitor markets, rebalance portfolios, execute stock trades, and make purchases through virtual cards. Crypto support is next. The company says guardrails exist. The details suggest they are minimal.
