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Spot Bitcoin ETFs just logged $2 billion in inflows over eight days, flipping positive for the year — but short-term holders are selling into the rally, and the broader market backdrop is more complicated than the headline suggests.
Morgan Stanley just launched a money market fund for stablecoin issuers — and it reveals how much custody risk is quietly embedded in the coins you already use.
After an exploit drained backing from Kelp DAO's rsETH, a coalition of major DeFi protocols pledged 43,500 ETH to restore solvency — and the episode reveals something important about how on-chain finance handles crises.
Morgan Stanley's new government money market fund for stablecoin issuers is a quiet but significant signal that Wall Street is building the infrastructure layer beneath the next generation of payment rails.
After the Kelp exploit threatened rsETH's backing, a coalition of major DeFi protocols pledged 43,500 ETH to cover losses — a stress test that exposed both Ethereum's vulnerabilities and its unusual capacity for self-correction.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2 billion over eight days and flipped positive for 2026, even as on-chain data shows short-term holders beginning to distribute — a split worth paying attention to.
Bitcoin's key sentiment indicator has crossed out of bear territory for the first time in months, but analysts and institutional observers are urging restraint before reading it as a green light.
A senior US military official framing Bitcoin as an instrument of geopolitical power marks a meaningful shift in how Washington's national security apparatus views crypto.
XRP spot ETFs cracked open the institutional door in late 2025, but the more durable story is what's being built underneath — custody rails, settlement infrastructure, and cross-border payment pipelines that banks are now quietly running in production.
Three separate power moves — a state AG lawsuit, a $2.5 billion corporate buy, and a Senate bill racing a jammed calendar — are redefining who controls crypto's next chapter.
The world's central bank clearinghouse just flagged dollar stablecoins as a systemic risk — which is another way of saying they're becoming real infrastructure.
New York's lawsuit against Coinbase and Gemini over prediction market products is a preview of the regulatory gray zone that XRP and other payment-rail tokens still inhabit — and why the Senate's Clarity Act matters more than ever.
The Ethereum Foundation's new L1/L2 framework and DeFi mandate signal a deliberate architectural bet — and it has real consequences for where value accrues in the ecosystem.
Strategy's latest $2.54 billion purchase pushes its holdings past 815,000 BTC, cementing a model that other corporations are watching — and that skeptics still can't fully dismiss.
A Lazarus Group hack on Kelp DAO's rsETH token created fake collateral on Aave, exposing up to $230 million in potential losses and revealing how interconnected DeFi protocols can amplify a single exploit into a sector-wide crisis.
The Kelp DAO exploit didn't just drain funds — it exposed how shared collateral and evolving state-sponsored attacks are turning DeFi's composability into its biggest liability.
The Lazarus Group's attack on Kelp DAO and the $190 million cascade into Aave reveals something most retail users miss: your collateral's safety depends on every protocol in the chain, not just your own wallet.
A deal to repurpose an idle upstate New York aluminum smelter into a Bitcoin mining facility signals how serious operators are getting about owning their power infrastructure outright.
Strategy's latest $2.54 billion Bitcoin buy cements its position as the world's largest corporate BTC holder — but the same week's DeFi meltdown offers a pointed lesson about what institutional-grade risk management actually requires.
The Bank for International Settlements says dollar-backed stablecoins could drain deposits from traditional banks and complicate monetary policy — a warning that reframes the stablecoin debate from "crypto vs. regulation" to "crypto vs. the banking system itself."