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🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!
🇺🇸 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits the company's rushed Pentagon deal looked "opportunistic and sloppy."
🔥 Tennessee's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act is recommended for passage and referred to the Finance, Ways, and Means Committee.
⚡️ Vitalik Buterin details Ethereum's plan to decentralize block building and tackle MEV through ePBS, FOCIL, and encrypted mempools.
🚨 38% of altcoins are now trading near their all-time lows, worse than the post-FTX period, per CryptoQuant.
🇯🇵 Bank of Japan to test settling central bank money on a blockchain between financial institutions.
🇺🇸 SELIG: “We’re working towards getting true perpetual futures, not long-dated contracts, here in the US within the next month or so.”
🔥 A Bitwise study using data through year-end 2025 finds that adding $BTC to a 60/40 portfolio improved cumulative and risk-adjusted returns in 100% of three-year periods and 93% of two-year periods.
🚨 Ray Dalio warns against Bitcoin over privacy, central bank adoption, quantum risks and market size, criticisms once heard when $BTC was at $100.
🇺🇸 President Donald J. Trump accuses banks of undermining the GENIUS and CLARITY Acts, vowing to secure U.S. crypto leadership.
🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Michael Selig backs Trump's call to pass the Clarity Act, saying “it's critical we have a future-proof digital asset market structure in place.”
🔥 Indiana's Governor has officially signed HB 1042 into law, protecting Bitcoin rights, banning discriminatory crypto taxes, and allowing digital assets in state retirement plans.
🇺🇸 House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill urges the Senate to adopt the House-passed Clarity Act language to resolve the stablecoin yield dispute.
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🇺🇸 JUST IN: President Donald J. Trump accuses banks of undermining the GENIUS and CLARITY Acts, vowing to secure U.S. crypto leadership.
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🇺🇸 HUGE: A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request to delay tariff refund litigation, allowing importer refund cases to move forward.
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🇸🇦 UPDATE: Saudi Aramco shuts Ras Tanura oil refinery after drone strike.
The facility has a capacity of 550,000 barrels of oil per day.
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⚡️ UPDATE: Six New Polymarket Wallets Made ~$1M on Iran Strike Bets, Sparking Insider Trading Fears.
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🚨 NEW: Tokenized gold like PAXG and XAUt now drives nearly all weekend gold price discovery while CME futures are closed, with market cap surging to $4.4B.
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🔥 INSIGHT: Goldman Sachs says its private credit arm is holding firm with lower redemptions and solid inflows, even as AI fears rattle software-focused lenders.
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🚨 BIG: Paramount Skydance agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery for $111 billion, outbidding Netflix pending regulatory approval.
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🚨 ALERT: 'The Big Short' investor Michael Burry sees Nvidia’s purchase commitments as similar to Cisco near the peak of the dot-com bubble.
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🇺🇸 TRUMP: "As time goes by, I believe that tariffs, paid for by foreign countries, will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern-day system of income tax.”
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🚨 ALERT: Goldman Sachs warns a U.S. stock market correction is the biggest near-term economic risk, with a 20% drop potentially slowing GDP growth significantly.
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🚨 LATEST: Vitalik Buterin continues offloading $ETH, selling 3,788.57 ETH worth $7.3M over the past 3 days, per Arkham data.
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🇺🇸 HUGE: U.S. mortgage rates have dipped under 6%, marking their lowest level since 2022.
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🚨 NOW: Crypto Fear and Greed Index has fallen back to 5, remaining deep in Extreme Fear territory.
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⚡ INSIGHT: Crypto investors are ditching tokens for regulated crypto stocks as most new launches quickly sink below their listing price, per DWF.
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🚨 TODAY: Bitwise’s Matt Hougan says last weekend's Iran attack proved crypto is now the world's go-to market during global crises, saying “the shift to onchain finance is inevitable.”
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🇺🇸 SELIG: “We’re working towards getting true perpetual futures, not long-dated contracts, here in the US within the next month or so.”
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⏰ THROWBACK: A year ago, Trump proposed a US “Crypto Strategic Reserve.”
It would include $XRP, $SOL, and $ADA.
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🚨 UPDATE: Over $5.8B worth of tokens to be unlocked in March, led by $RAIN ($338.02M), $ASTER ($56.02M), and $SUI ($48.65M).
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🚨 MARKET: This could be Bitcoin's first 6-month red run since 2018/2019.
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🇺🇲 NOW: 11 U.S. senators requested a federal probe into Binance over alleged Iran-linked sanctions violations.
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⚡️ LONGITUDE: @IsroilSh, CMO of @One_BullEx says the exchange is moving toward a fully AI-operating model, with more AI-driven services designed to help users trade safer and strengthen trust across the industry.
[Brought to you by @One_BullEx]
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🇺🇸 JUST IN: The US OCC proposed rules to restrict branded stablecoins and ban yield rewards.
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Strategy yield wrapper lands in Europe as 21Shares lists STRC ETP
21Shares debuts the Strategy Yield ETP on Euronext Amsterdam on Thursday, giving Europe regulated access to Strategy’s preferred stock, which is heavily backed by Bitcoin.
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🇺🇸 JUST IN: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to remove Anthropic from the Pentagon’s supply chain unless it approves the use of its AI models in lawful military applications.
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🔥 BIG: Real-world assets on Ethereum just surpassed $15 billion in market cap, marking a ~200% increase year-over-year.
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🚨 ALERT: Over $620 million in crypto positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours, with longs accounting for roughly $524 million of the wipeout.
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🔥 JUST IN: Michael Saylor says quantum computing is not an immediate threat to Bitcoin and may be at least a decade away.
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🚨 JUST IN: Over $154M were liquidated in the past 60 minutes, with $151.35M from long positions.
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🔥 UPDATE: Bitdeer's CEO confirms that the sell off doesn't mean that they have given up on BTC.
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