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The Block taps ex‑Azuki COO Steve Chung as CEO and takes another $10M from Foresight Ventures, doubling down on an institutional data, research, and AI‑driven media pivot. The Block’s decision to install former Azuki COO Steve Chung as CEO, backed…
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Onchain IP turns static, illiquid rights into transparent, tradable assets, letting games like My Pet Hooligan convert fans from passive consumers into real economic stakeholders The entertainment industry has long treated intellectual property like the paranoid owner of a rare…
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Consensys and Joseph Lubin pledge up to 30K ETH to DeFi United’s rsETH rescue stack, shoring up Aave and DeFi after Kelp DAO’s $293M exploit left deep collateral holes. Ethereum infrastructure firm Consensys and its founder Joseph Lubin have joined…
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Whale pulls 72K HYPE off Gate.io, expanding a $168M stash as spot buyers face off against crowded leveraged shorts around the key $40 support zone. A crypto whale controlling the address 0xEe0A18B394ecE1D7bE81Be15d6cEc3Ac7707b71C has withdrawn 72,264 HYPE from centralized exchange Gate.io,…
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U.S. Treasury and Tether froze $344M in USDT tied to Iran’s IRGC, spotlighting how Tehran’s $7.8B crypto ecosystem leans on stablecoins to dodge sanctions and move oil money. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has confirmed that the United States has…
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Google‑parent Alphabet will commit $10 billion in cash to Anthropic now and up to $30 billion more over time, in a package that Bloomberg reports could reach $40 billion in total if the AI lab hits aggressive performance and usage…
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DeFi heavyweights urge the SEC to turn its temporary “non‑custodial UI” safe harbor into binding broker rules that shield neutral infrastructure from creeping regulation. Humanity Foundation has effectively put more than 100 investors on the clock. By April 26 at…
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Nakamoto Inc. is running an actively managed options program with Bitwise and Kraken, writing covered calls and buying puts on part of its Bitcoin stack to turn volatility into income and partial downside hedges. Nakamoto Inc. (NASDAQ: NAKA) has announced…
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EIP‑8182 would add a shared shielded pool and ZK precompile to make private ETH and ERC‑20 transfers a native Ethereum feature, aligned with its 2026 privacy roadmap. Ethereum (ETH) is finally putting protocol‑level privacy on the table. Tom Lehman has…
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AWS Marketplace now offers Chainlink’s oracle stack as a native service, letting banks and fintechs wire tokenization, stablecoins, and RWA apps into existing cloud workflows. According to a report from The Block, AWS Marketplace has integrated multiple Chainlink data services,…
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DeFi heavyweights urge the SEC to turn its temporary “non‑custodial UI” safe harbor into binding broker rules that shield neutral infrastructure from creeping regulation. A broad coalition of DeFi builders and investors is pressing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…
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Robin Markets raised $475k to launch a staking product that turns Polymarket positions into yield, a targeted crypto VC bet in a funding cycle otherwise dominated by AI. Robin Markets has closed a $475,000 angel financing round led by Fabric…
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Polymarket catapulted Waller’s Fed chair odds from 27% to 85% after reports the DOJ will drop its criminal probe into Jerome Powell, clearing a key Senate roadblock. Prediction markets have dramatically repriced the odds that Christopher Waller will become the…
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Senator Bernie Moreno’s end‑of‑May ultimatum has turned the CLARITY Act into Congress’s last credible chance this cycle to set U.S. crypto market‑structure rules before politics and bank lobbying slam the window shut. At a Washington event on April 22, Senator…
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Hyperliquid whales now hold $3.66B in nearly balanced perp positions, turning the on‑chain DEX into a real‑time gauge of institutional crypto sentiment. Whale traders on Hyperliquid, one of the fastest‑growing on‑chain derivatives exchanges, are currently running $3.66 billion worth of…
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$178M in crypto liquidations over 24 hours show a choppy, leverage‑heavy market where both long and short traders are getting whipsawed out of positions. Crypto traders absorbed a fresh wave of forced deleveraging over the past day, with data from…