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Strategy's mNAV just collapsed below 1.0 for the first time in its history. The company Michael Saylor built to be the purest Bitcoin play on earth is now trading at a discount to the Bitcoin it holds. Here's why the entire corporate treasury model is under pressure.
82 Catholic bishops and four of the nation's largest law enforcement organizations sent letters to Senate leadership this week opposing Section 604 of the CLARITY Act — the DeFi developer safe harbor that could decide the future of permissionless finance in America.
Resupply, a stablecoin lending protocol backed by Convex and Yearn Finance, was drained of $9.5 million via a donation attack on a freshly deployed vault. The attacker started with a $4,000 flash loan and used 1 wei as collateral to borrow 10 million stablecoins.
Theodore Gillibrand, 22, raised $30 million at a $300M valuation for APEC — a CFTC-licensed perps exchange — days after graduating Stanford. His mother is Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who co-wrote the Genius Act. The crypto industry is very online about it.
Japan's Lower House just passed a landmark crypto bill slashing taxes from 55% to 20% and opening the door to spot Bitcoin and XRP ETFs. The crypto world's most hostile tax regime just became one of its most welcoming.
Morpho closes a $175M round at a $2B valuation backed by the three heaviest hitters in crypto VC — during one of the worst Bitcoin weeks of the year. Here's what they see that the market doesn't.
Bitcoin crashed to $59,100, broke its 200-week moving average for the first time since the FTX collapse, and printed an RSI of 16 — one of the most oversold readings in the asset's history. Here's what comes next.
8 senior Ethereum Foundation researchers quit in 2026 — including Tim Beiko, who ran All Core Devs for years, and Carl Beek, who helped build the Beacon Chain. ETH ETFs just hit 17 straight days of outflows. A former EF researcher now wants a $1B rival org to actually fight for ETH's price.
Three weeks after the UK FCA warned users to avoid Hyperliquid, ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher told Wall Street insiders his company is studying Hyperliquid's perps model — and talking to regulators about copying it.
Coinbase Ventures bought ENA tokens on the open market and named itself Ethena's primary custodian, wallet provider, and perpetuals venue — controlling $5B+ in assets. A savings product for all 100 million Coinbase users drops next week.
The CFTC approved the first regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures in U.S. history today — at Kalshi and through Coinbase's Deribit. Perps are a $90 trillion annual market that American traders couldn't legally touch. Until now.
Hyperliquid's HIP-4 launches macro prediction markets — CPI bets, Fed decisions — with zero fees, validator-settled outcomes, and shared margin with your perps. HYPE is up 134% this year and just hit $63.70.
Two Ethereum treasury stocks — BitMine (BMNR) and SharpLink (SBET) — are joining the Russell 3000. $12.2 trillion in benchmarked assets will be forced to hold ETH exposure starting June 29. MicroStrategy's Bitcoin playbook is officially running on Ethereum.
Eight senior Ethereum Foundation researchers quit in 2026, five in May alone. The trigger? A Milady-themed 'Mandate' document staff were told to sign or be fired. Now a former EF dev wants $1 billion to replace the whole organization.
Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the NYSE, is bringing Brent and WTI perpetual oil futures to OKX's 120 million users. Wall Street's energy benchmarks, 24/7, no expiration, no physical delivery. TradFi just moved in.
The SEC approved Nasdaq's cash-settled Bitcoin index options (QBTC) on May 22, giving institutional desks pure BTC price exposure with zero custody headaches. One CFTC sign-off stands between Wall Street and a new derivatives market.
Binance just launched Pre-IPO Perpetual Contracts, letting anyone on earth speculate on SpaceX's valuation before it goes public. Wall Street just got disintermediated.
Trump Media's Truth Social quietly withdrew all three of its spot crypto ETF filings from the SEC — the Bitcoin ETF, the BTC/ETH ETF, and the Crypto Blue Chip ETF — before a single share was ever sold. Here's why the market murdered them before launch.
A single Truth Social post warning Iran 'the clock is ticking' sent Bitcoin below $77K and triggered the biggest crypto liquidation event since February — wiping out leveraged longs in hours.
Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest bank with ~$1 trillion in assets, more than doubled its crypto exposure from $100M to $235M in Q1 2026, added Ethereum and XRP for the first time, bought Bitcoin call options — and slashed its Solana position by 99%.
New data from Finbold shows the average Web3 salary has hit its lowest point since 2021, with 232 candidates competing for every open role and only 14 developer jobs currently listed globally.
Kevin Warsh just replaced Jerome Powell as Fed Chair on May 15, 2026. He holds Solana, dYdX, Bitcoin Lightning equity, and a stablecoin stake. The most crypto-native person to ever run the Federal Reserve is now in charge of US monetary policy.
CME Group is launching Bitcoin Volatility futures (BVI) on June 1, giving institutional traders the first CFTC-regulated way to bet on how wild Bitcoin gets — not just where it goes. The VIX just got a crypto twin.
Geopolitical escalation in the Middle East sent Brent crude above $100 a barrel overnight, wiping out $300 million in leveraged crypto bets by morning. This is what war does to 24/7 markets.
Gemini quietly assembled the full CFTC regulatory stack — a DCM license to list derivatives and a DCO license to clear them in-house. No other purely crypto-native exchange has pulled this off. Futures, perps, and prediction markets are next.
Kalshi launched CFTC-regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures on April 27 — and Polymarket panicked and launched theirs first to beat them. The race to own America's $100B crypto derivatives market is on.
Payward's acquisition of Bitnomial hands Kraken a decade-long regulatory moat: the only full-stack CFTC-licensed crypto derivatives platform in America. No one else has all three licenses.
MSBT debuted on NYSE Arca at 0.14% — nearly half BlackRock's IBIT fee — making Wall Street's biggest wealth manager the most aggressive new entrant in the Bitcoin ETF war.
A whale built a $15M leveraged Fartcoin position across four wallets, then intentionally imploded it — weaponizing Hyperliquid's auto-deleveraging system to dump losses onto the exchange's own vault.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies quietly accumulated 4.8 million ETH, staked 3.3 million of it, and is now uplisting to the NYSE. The MicroStrategy of Ethereum just went mainstream.
Jamie Dimon — Wall Street's most famous crypto sceptic — has signalled JPMorgan could enter prediction markets. Goldman Sachs is already meeting with Polymarket. The last wall between TradFi and on-chain betting is crumbling.
Oracle cut 18% of its workforce overnight to fund a $156B AI buildout. If you're one of the 30,000, crypto infrastructure needs your exact skill set.
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