Your weekly macro cheat sheet
Last Friday’s flash crash served as a jolt for crypto markets — a sharp reminder that macro still calls the shots. As we head into a pivotal week, focus turns to two fault lines: inflation expectations and deepening fiscal strains across major economies.
From Washington’s prolonged shutdown to Europe’s budget battles, the coming days promise a test of resilience for both policymakers and investors.
Circle tells a Wisconsin court it can’t seize USDC, while regulators argue it’s choosing not to, setting up a rare, real-time clash between technical design, contractual wiggle room, and outright defiance of a seizure order.
Celsius creditors received about 37 million Class A shares in Ionic as part of the lender's bankruptcy plan, and Friday's direct listing will be the first public pricing of what that partial recovery is actually worth.
The Singapore-based pool's U.S. units lined up a $52 million stalking-horse bid for their West Texas sites, four years after Poolin's wallet arm froze withdrawals and left customers holding $163.7 million in IOUs.
Bitkub says its founders quietly covered the loss to prevent a bank run and that no customer was ever harmed, but the SEC's case rests on the argument that concealing the theft from regulators was itself the violation.
