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Crypto has officially claimed the top spot as the most-muted topic on X since the platform rolled out its snooze feature, leaving politics, sports, and even business in the rearview…
When I first caught wind of Strategy’s STRC preferred stock, I was skeptical—an 11.5% yield tied to bitcoin’s price? That had to be a trap, right? But then, digging deeper…
The narrative that crypto “lost” its anonymity is misleading. Nothing fundamental broke at the protocol level. What changed is the economic layer built on top of it. The market didn’t…
The Ongoing Debate Over Bitcoin’s Real-World Referent A long-running philosophical critique of Bitcoin is resurfacing in academic and crypto-native circles, questioning whether the system’s underlying units — often referred to…
Hyperliquid Whales Turn Net Long Bitcoin as Negative Funding Signals Short Squeeze Risk Large traders on Hyperliquid have shifted from net short to their most aggressive net-long positioning in Bitcoin…
Small Group of Traders Drives Polymarket Prices, Study Finds A new academic working paper analyzing trading activity on Polymarket from 2023 to 2025 finds that a small minority of participants…
KelpDAO Exploit Triggers $13 Billion DeFi TVL Drop as Aave Sees $8.45 Billion in Outflows KelpDAO suffered a $292 million exploit over the weekend, triggering a sharp decline in decentralized…
ETF Tokenization Seen Reshaping Market Structure as JPMorgan Signals Multi-Year Timeline JPMorgan Sees ETF Tokenization Driving Structural Shift, But Says Adoption Still Years Away JPMorgan expects tokenization to play a…
DOJ Charges U.S. Soldier Over Polymarket Bets Tied to Maduro Capture The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a military serviceman with using classified information to place profitable bets on…
Wisconsin Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against a group of fintech and crypto platforms, accusing them of facilitating illegal sports betting through the offering of so-called “event contracts,” according…