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How to Talk About Crypto With Your Normie Family This Xmas
From Bitcoin's $100K milestone to Elon Musk's DOGE initiatives to Trump's MAGA crypto plans, here are all the normie questions you're likely to be asked this Christmas
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Draft rules for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act are exposing contradictions at the heart of web3 lobbying, as industry players push back against the very DeFi exemptions and developer protections they once demanded.
The Woeful State of Web3 Auditing, And What Can Be Done
Crypto audits have evolved from catching real bugs to listing quantum computing risks and noting that "code quality could be improved." As programmers got better at avoiding basic mistakes, auditors started padding reports with generic warnings, leaving the actual risks buried or ignored entirely.
Tokenized RWAs: Where Demand Is Real, and Where It Isn’t
RWA tokenization isn’t waiting for adoption; it’s waiting for demand. The winners are emerging where yield, efficiency, and balance-sheet logic already exist, not where narratives are loudest.
Bitcoin’s Next Phase: From Store of Value to Productive Financial Asset
The next phase of Bitcoin’s evolution is not about leverage or yield chasing, but about using BTC as credible collateral, security, and economic infrastructure.
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Hong Kong's Stablecoin Revolution Will Be Whitelisted
The HKMA handed its first approvals to the banks that already print the Hong Kong dollar. That tells you everything about what these tokens are meant to be.
Oil Shock Puts $70,500 Support in Focus as Bitcoin Struggles to Reclaim $72,000
Geopolitical pressure from the Strait of Hormuz standoff continues to weigh on BTC, which has failed to sustain gains above $72,500 even as whale selling dries up and leveraged shorts accumulate.
Bitcoin Slides as Trump Orders Strait of Hormuz Blockade, Wiping Weekend Gains
BTC retreated from a weekend high near $73,000 after the U.S. announced naval interdiction of vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, compounding an already fragile market structure.
MEV: Not Suitable for Financial Markets
DRW founder Don Wilson's blunt critique of MEV cuts to a deeper flaw: blockchain market design has drifted into engineering complexity that extracts value without improving price discovery or capital allocation.