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🇯🇵 NOW: SoftBank is working with Nvidia and Foxconn to build domestically produced AI servers as part of Japan’s push into advanced infrastructure.
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⚡️ NEW: Zcash surges +75% in a week as demand for privacy-focused assets rises amid growing surveillance concerns, per Santiment.
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⚡ LATEST: AMD hits record highs on AI demand, adding billions in value and driving a global semiconductor rally.
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🇺🇲 CHANGE: Eric Trump says JPMorgan went from calling Bitcoin a joke to offering mortgages against it in just 18 months.
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🔥 JUST IN: Meta is developing a consumer AI agent 'Hatch' and an agentic shopping tool for Instagram, per The Information.
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🚨 GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is offering $56 billion to acquire eBay, with plans to turn it into a major competitor to Amazon, per WSJ.
🔥 Elon Musk sets his sights on a $10 trillion net worth target after crossing $800 billion, representing roughly 2.7% of the entire US GDP. "$10T or bust."
🔥 Anthropic is finalizing a $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman to sell AI tools to private equity-backed companies, WSJ reports.
🚨 Crypto Fear & Greed Index drops to 40 (Fear) today, down from Neutral last week.
🚨 The US government's cash balance has hit ~$1 trillion for the first time since April 2021, surging $300 billion in just three weeks.
⚡️ Live audio for the Elon Musk v. Sam Altman/OpenAI trial starts streaming via the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California’s official YouTube channel.
🔥 Western Union's stablecoin $USDP is now live on Solana.
🔥 Tom Lee's Bitmine adds 101,745 ETH in the past week, bringing total holdings to 5.18M ETH.
🇺🇸 A stablecoin yield compromise is helping move the CLARITY Act forward, allowing usage-based rewards while banning yield on idle balances, with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong backing the deal.
🚨 Inflation continues to erode money, with $1 losing nearly half its purchasing power over 30 years, while the same $1 invested in the S&P 500 would have grown to around $20 after inflation.
🔥 Stablecoin volumes could hit $719T by 2035 and up to $1.5 quadrillion with macro catalysts, per Chainalysis.
🇺🇸 Senator Cynthia Lummis urged immediate passage of the Clarity Act, warning that without clear rules, crypto businesses may move overseas.
🔥 Corporate Bitcoin holdings hit 1.15M $BTC in Q1 2026, up 4.6% QoQ, led by buyers like Strategy, MARA, Metaplanet, and other public companies.
🚨 Anthropic and FIS are partnering to build an AI agent that helps banks independently investigate financial crimes, per WSJ.
🇺🇸 Banking trade groups say the CLARITY Act's stablecoin yield language "falls short" of a full prohibition.
🇺🇸 Senators Tillis and Alsobrooks say the stablecoin yield compromise in the CLARITY Act is final, pushing back on banking industry criticism with a joint statement.
"We respectfully agree to disagree."
🚨 "The Big Short" investor Michael Burry has sold his entire GameStop $GME position.
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🚨 UPDATE: Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund raised a record breaking $6B in its 4th funding round.
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🇺🇸 LATEST: SEC Chair Paul Atkins said his first year focused on restoring trust, clarity, and investor protection at the agency, with further reforms still ahead.
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🔥 BIG: Claude maker Anthropic is weighing a fresh funding round that would value it at over $900 billion, potentially overtaking OpenAI as the world's most valuable AI startup.
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🔥 NOW: Jack Mallers explains why Bitcoin is better than gold.
“Bitcoin is uniquely both a monetary asset and also a monetary network.”
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🇺🇸 TODAY: Senator Thom Tillis says he will support Kevin Warsh's Fed Chair confirmation.
His backing comes after the DOJ closed its criminal investigation into Jerome Powell, clearing a key hurdle.
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🚨 UPDATE: NVIDIA's Market Cap just reclaimed $5T.
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🇺🇸 US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Senate it is essential to pass the crypto market structure legislation.
🔥 Bitcoin supply is moving to stronger hands, long-term holders added 303K $BTC while short-term holders offloaded 290K $BTC in the last 30 days, per CryptoQuant.
⚡️ A new documentary "Finding Satoshi" argues that Hal Finney and Len Sassaman were Bitcoin's co-creators.
🚨 Tether freezes $344M+ in USDT with US Treasury Dept. and law enforcement, its largest asset freeze ever.
⚡️ Pavel Durov said Toncoin fees will drop 6× to 0.00039 TON per transaction, fixed regardless of network load, with plans for most transactions to become feeless soon.
🇺🇸 Donald Trump said he is in no rush to end the conflict with Iran, warning that time is not on Tehran’s side and a deal will come only on U.S. terms.
🚨 National Association of Realtors data shows U.S. pending home sales fell to a record-low March reading of 73.7, down ~30% vs. pre-pandemic levels and ~45% below pandemic peaks, signaling continued weak buyer demand.
🇺🇸 The DOJ charges a US soldier for making $400K by betting on Polymarket using classified intel about Nicolas Maduro's removal.
🚨 Jane Street is seeking to dismiss an insider trading lawsuit accusing it of profiting on inside information ahead of Terraform's $40 billion crypto collapse.
🇺🇸 Trump vows to investigate federal workers placing bets on prediction markets amid concerns over insider trading using classified government information.
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🇺🇸 LATEST: US lawmakers unveil the bipartisan PACE Act to create a national payments license for fintechs and crypto companies under OCC oversight.
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🔥 TODAY: Coinbase's x402 launches Agent(.)market, an app store for AI agents to access services from dozens of major providers.
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🇺🇲 BIG: "USD1 launched less than a year ago and already hit $4.5B in circulation, making it the fastest-growing stablecoin ever." - Zach Witkoff
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🇺🇸 BIG: White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt is targeting July 4 to pass the CLARITY Act.
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🚨 MUSK: "xAI will be dissolved as a separate company, so it will just be SpaceXAI, the AI products from SpaceX."
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🔥 JUST IN: Coinbase launches 24/7 gold and silver perpetual futures.
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🔥 BULLISH: “The more money that is printed in the U.S. or the world, the more value $BTC will have.” — Arthur Hayes
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🇨🇳 NEW: China orders firms to ignore US sanctions on refiners tied to Iranian oil.
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🔥 BIG: GameStop ($GME) is preparing an offer to acquire eBay, per WSJ.
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🚨 UPDATE: Meta Platforms shares fell ~10% after raising AI spending to $125–145B and planning a $20–25B bond sale, fueling investor concerns over returns.
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🚨 INSIGHT: Peter Schiff says the Federal Reserve is misreading both inflation and growth, warning rate cuts and QE could reignite inflation while high oil prices push the economy toward recession.
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🇺🇸 BIG: The US stock market has added nearly $8 trillion in market cap over the past month.
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🇺🇸 BIG: US authorities froze $344M in crypto tied to Iran.
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🔥 HUGE: AI-related stocks now make up a record 45% of the S&P 500's market cap, up 20 points since ChatGPT launched in 2022.
Meanwhile, AI-linked debt has nearly doubled to an all-time high of $1.4 trillion.
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🇺🇸 JUST IN: Donald Trump said he is in no rush to end the conflict with Iran, warning that time is not on Tehran’s side and a deal will come only on U.S. terms.
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🇺🇸 NOW: Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh says monetary policy will remain independent when confirmed.
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🔥 BIG: Amazon plans to invest up to an additional $25 billion in Anthropic as part of an AI infrastructure deal.
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