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Bitcoin traded at $77,794 on Thursday morning, up 0.4% over 24 hours but well off the $79,388 high hit Wednesday evening, with ether, XRP and Solana all closing red.

Co-founder Eric Trump went further, saying the only thing more 'ridiculous' than Sun's lawsuit is a $6 million banana duct-taped to a wall.

The prediction market platform, which has been caught in the middle of a regulatory battle between the feds and the states, is seeking to demonstrate strong controls.

The company's bitcoin stash remained at 11,509 BTC, worth about $880 million at bitcoin's current price of around $78,000.

Blockchains are going private. The only question left is what kind of privacy the industry will build, argues Schiller.

U.S. banking groups argued that a number of federal agencies are moving quickly on stablecoin regulations, making it hard to understand how rules will interact.

Also: DPRK hacking crypto, Aave contagion and Coinbase on quantum computing.

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Jennifer Rosenthal writes on the need to protect the people actually building DeFi infrastructure. Then, Alexis Sirkia comments on how Ethereum's L2 strategy is failing due to a fundamental design flaw.

The problem is structural and as long as bridges depend on complex systems with shared infrastructure and hidden trust assumptions, they will remain vulnerable.

The Trump family-linked mining and treasury company announced 11,298 additional bitcoin mining ASICs at its Drumheller site.

Bitcoin is seeing a short squeeze dynamic and steady U.S. demand to support gains.

BTC pushed to an 11-week high with dynamics for a short squeeze building, one analyst noted.

The sites were targeted for facilitating P2P trading without required registration or anti-money laundering controls, posing a financial crime risk.

GSR is entering the asset management space with a new Nasdaq-listed ETF that actively manages a basket of bitcoin, ether and solana while offering investors a chance to earn staking yields.

HIVE raises $115M to expand data centers while Keel exits Latin America, redirecting funds into HPC and AI as both stocks climb 4%.

Stratiphy will offer access to three ETNs provided by 21Shares: those covering bitcoin, ether and one combining BTC and gold.

Internet Computer (ICP) up 5.3% from Tuesday, joined Aptos (APT) as a top performer.

The lack of a de minimis exemption for crypto payments and staking rewards taxed at receipt creates a huge reporting burden, the data shows.

North Korea's Lazarus Group has a new attack vector that allows it to exploit an apparently routine business call as a gateway into a target's systems.

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The states banned government employees from trading on insider information—a growing concern as prediction markets related to politics surge in popularity.

AI Detector Developer Pangram Labs’ browser extension tagged several posts from the Pope’s X account.

Google will invest up to $185 billion this year to build the infrastructure behind autonomous AI agents, CEO Sundar Pichai said Wednesday.

Multi-agency raid marks shift from warnings to physical enforcement as UK regulator finds zero legally registered P2P crypto traders.

An investment in President Trump's meme coin allegedly upset members of World Liberty Financial’s team, the lawsuit claims.

OpenAI has released a small, free model that strips names, addresses, passwords, and account numbers out of any text, right on your laptop, before you paste it into an AI chatbot.

Hive raised $115 million while Keel (formerly Bitfarms) sold off a mining facility as both Bitcoin miners embrace the AI boom.

SpaceX’s IPO filing says orbital AI computing remains unproven and commercially uncertain despite Musk’s public push for space as AI’s next frontier.

The Ronin gaming network will slash RON token inflation from over 20% to less than 1% while introducing automated developer rewards.

Crypto market maker GSR has launched an actively managed ETF on the Nasdaq that includes Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.

The legislation would license crypto exchanges and permit cross-border cryptocurrency use while maintaining domestic payment restrictions.

Publicly-traded miner American Bitcoin expands its owned hash rate, with its share price continuing to climb after hitting a low in March.

Robinhood’s publicly-traded fund aims to give retail investors exposure to AI startups like OpenAI, without accreditation requirements.

A new documentary asserts that Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto was actually two people: the late Hal Finney and Len Sassaman.

Sullivan & Cromwell said internal safeguards were bypassed in the Prince Group case, resulting in fabricated and inaccurate legal citations.

Bitcoin is ripping past $78K. Kevin Warsh faced off against the Senate. And Kalshi and Polymarket are now both coming for perpetual futures.

The crypto market outlook improved as altcoins rallied amid Bitcoin's $78,000 retest, but experts remain cautious.

The Tron founder says World Liberty froze his tokens, stripped his voting rights, and threatened to burn his holdings. Now he's suing.

Anthropic’s powerful Claude Mythos AI model found hundreds of vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox, highlighting its cybersecurity potential.

Advisory council says validator signatures and wallet cryptography could be vulnerable if future quantum computers break current encryption.

Core Scientific, a Bitcoin miner turned data center operator, said that it plans to offer $3.3 billion worth of speculative-grade debt.

How did Michael Saylor's firm amass a record stash of Bitcoin? Here's a look back at how Strategy made such massive gains.

Global fintech firm Revolut is eying a $200 billion IPO, according to a report—but don't expect the move any time soon.

Researchers say a prompt injection bug in Google's Antigravity AI coding tool could have let attackers run commands, despite safeguards.

The leading prediction market firms are reportedly planning to push deeper into derivatives by supporting perpetual futures trading.

Tether's USDT market cap hit an all-time high, with DeFi users appearing to favor the stablecoin over USDC as a refuge from industry fallout.

Mississippi College School of Law now mandates artificial intelligence education for first-year students as legal institutions adapt to both the risks and potential uses of the technology.

Kyle Hessling stacked two of Jackrong's Qwopus finetunes into a single frankenmerge'—and then had to heal it. The result outperforms some of the top models.

"Gemini and Coinbase’s so-called prediction markets are just illegal gambling operations," alleged New York AG Letitia James.

Crypto payments firm MoonPay enabled contributions to dog welfare programs, marking a practical use case for Dogecoin.

In a new study, researchers describe a method that feeds data into quantum computers in smaller batches instead of storing entire datasets.

Amazon secures Anthropic as a major cloud customer through 2036 in one of the largest AI infrastructure alliances to date.

Delivery firm DoorDash will use Stripe's payments-focused blockchain, Tempo, to pay its Dashers in stablecoins in more than 40 countries.

Cash App joins the youth banking race with high-yield savings, but the managed kid accounts can’t tap into the app’s Bitcoin features.

The layer-2 Ethereum scaling network’s privacy offering is expected to expand to additional blockchains.

Tokenized market has grown 6x in the past two years and is expected to become a trillion-dollar market by 2028

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Bitcoin’s move to $78,000 raises questions about sustainability, and whether a true bull run is underway.

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Reduced retail participation increases the risk of volatility if institutional momentum slows.

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Bitcoin Cash witnessed strong momentum, trading volume, and high Open Interest recently as it rallied to $474.

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Smart money inflows and declining supply support AERO’s rebound, though weak trend strength persists.

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A quiet quantum race is underway as networks prepare for future security upgrades.

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Justin Sun has filed a lawsuit against World Liberty Financial, claiming the project froze his tokens and misrepresented its decentralization model.

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Ethereum presented contrasting evidence, with whales preferring to go short, even as long-term holders continued to accumulate

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GRASS breakout holds above $0.38 as volume and leverage expansion reshape market structure.

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Why, in Samuel Paparo's opinion, is Bitcoin a tool of American national power?

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Short squeeze has accelerated recent Bitcoin's recent rally, but will it lift it above $80K?

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