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Top Crypto Stories This Week: From SBF's 25-Year Sentence to brn
An exciting week for everyone, epecially SBF and brn... For different reasons of course.
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Why Crypto's Fragile Equilibrium is a Trap
Bitcoin looks calm on the surface, but ETF inflows, thin liquidity, leverage and geopolitical risk are building a market primed for a sharp move in either direction.
Strive and Strategy Deployed $513 Million Into Bitcoin the Same Week, at Nearly the Same Price
The two treasuries fund their accumulation in very different ways, and a filing shows Strive holding a stake in Strategy's own preferred stock, so the two are not just parallel bets on bitcoin. They hold each other's paper.
While Félix Raised $200M to Move Beyond Remittances, Western Union Had Already Closed Its Stablecoin Gap
A new US excise tax on cash transfers favors Félix's digital rails, but Western Union's own stablecoin card shows that advantage may not last long enough to matter as much as Félix's untested move into lending.
Sberbank's $46 Billion Bet: Russia's Regulated Crypto Market Takes Shape
Russia has opened its crypto market to regulated trading, with Sberbank forecasting $46.4 billion in first-year volume as Moscow brings digital assets deeper into its financial system.
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Why Crypto's Fragile Equilibrium is a Trap
Bitcoin looks calm on the surface, but ETF inflows, thin liquidity, leverage and geopolitical risk are building a market primed for a sharp move in either direction.
Polymarket Launches Perpetual Futures With Up to 20x Leverage Across Crypto, Stocks, Commodities
The prediction market built its name calling elections. Two days after closing a funding round above a $21 billion valuation, it turned itself into a leveraged trading venue with a real order book.
OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Says Its Most Capable Model Yet Might Be AGI
The model is the first from OpenAI to cross its own "critical" threshold for cybersecurity risk, and its launch sharpens a parallel question about how autonomous AI agents will actually pay for what they do.
Strive and Strategy Deployed $513 Million Into Bitcoin the Same Week, at Nearly the Same Price
The two treasuries fund their accumulation in very different ways, and a filing shows Strive holding a stake in Strategy's own preferred stock, so the two are not just parallel bets on bitcoin. They hold each other's paper.