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Crypto's Value Capture Problem & Why Robinhood Built Its Own Blockchain

What’s Circle’s End Game, Robinhood Launches A Chain & Venice Raises $65M

Can You Really Buy A House Without Selling Your Crypto? | Vishal Garg

State of The Market, The Prediction Market Wars & Kraken Pursues Aave

Optimism Co-Founders: What Happened to the L2s? Ben Jones & Karl Floersch

Anthropic's Fable Banned, Will Microstrategy Blow Up & Structuring A Portfolio in 2026

The intersection of AI, crypto, and macro-economic trends reveals a shifting landscape where public hostility toward AI, driven by job displacement and data center expansion, forces a strategic pivot toward health and longevity applications. While closed-source AI models dominate, the narrowing performance gap with ope...

The Bull Case For Hyperliquid | Ryan Watkins

Current crypto markets demand a shift from blind beta exposure to rigorous business underwriting. While the broader industry faces skepticism, select assets like Hyperliquid demonstrate real value through perpetual swap revenue, product-market fit, and a vision to become a comprehensive financial super-app. Unlike prev...

Blockworks Acquires Messari

CFTC Chair Michael Selig On Perps, Prediction Markets & Crypto In The U.S

SpaceX’s $1.75T IPO, Strategy Sells Bitcoin & Crypto’s Hard Reset

Avichal Garg On Investing in Crypto, AI and Ethereum’s Path Forward

Why’s Everyone So Bearish, Robinhood's AI Agent and SoFi's Stablecoin Launch

Hyperliquid Just Had It's Breakout Moment

Figure Co-Founder: How Figure Became A $10B Business | Mike Cagney

AI Feels Like Crypto In 2017, Circle Raises $222M and Anthropic Cracks Down On SPVs

How KelpDAO's $290M Exploit Nearly Killed DeFi | Stani Kulechov & Mike Silagadze

Big Tech Earnings, DeFi United and Pump Fun’s Token Burn

The current market landscape reveals a significant divergence between traditional equity performance and the crypto sector, where trading volumes and volatility are experiencing a notable decline. While major hyperscalers drive record-breaking earnings through massive AI-related capital expenditures, the crypto industr...

A Quantum Fork is Coming to Bitcoin | Alex Pruden & Philip Martin

DeFi’s Latest $290M Hack, Kalshi vs Polymarket & Will the Clarity Act Pass?

The DeFi ecosystem faces a critical inflection point as recent exploits, such as the KelpDAO-LayerZero-Aave incident, expose the vulnerabilities of unchecked composability. Protecting capital from sophisticated adversaries like the Lazarus Group requires a shift toward pragmatism, including the implementation of rate l...

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