Latest from Shaurya Malwa
SpaceX's $75 billion IPO could drain the liquidity that's helping lift bitcoin and crypto
SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are set to raise more than $240 billion combined from June through year-end, a capital pull larger than every venture-backed US IPO since 2000 combined, and crypto sits in the same liquidity pool.

Bitcoin-holder Metaplanet raises $50 million to buy more BTC
Metaplanet has issued 8 billion yen, or about $50 million, in zero-interest bonds to fund additional bitcoin purchases.

Bitcoin ETFs just pulled in $2 billion in 8 days while short-term holders quietly started selling
Spot bitcoin ETFs logged their first 8-day inflow streak since October, but on-chain profit-taking is already running at 3x the rate that has marked every local top this year.

Ripple-linked XRP slips amid bitcoin profit-taking, ETF delay
Token falls 2.5% after rejection near $1.44 as leveraged ETF launch pushback adds to mixed sentiment.

U.S. military runs Bitcoin node, sees crypto as power projection versus China
Admiral Samuel Paparo, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, told two congressional panels this week that the military is running a live Bitcoin node for cybersecurity testing and views the protocol as a tool of national power in competition with China.

FTX sold its Cursor stake for $200,000 in 2023. It would be worth $3 billion today
SpaceX's agreement to acquire AI coding startup Cursor at a $60 billion valuation has retroactively turned a routine bankruptcy asset sale by FTX's estate into one of the largest missed recoveries in crypto history.

Cardano builder seeks smaller funding slice of $46.8 million for scaling and Bitcoin DeFi
The engineering organization behind Cardano submitted nine proposals totaling $46.8 million for the 2026 voting cycle, down from $97.5 million last year.

Bitcoin loses grip near $80,000 as ETH, SOL, DOGE fade on profit-taking
Bitcoin traded at $77,794 on Thursday morning, up 0.4% over 24 hours but well off the $79,388 high hit Wednesday evening, with ether, XRP and Solana all closing red.

A $575 bet on a Shiba-themed token became $1.17 million in 5 days
An anonymous wallet bought 2.79 billion ASTEROID tokens for $575 on April 17 and exited Tuesday for 503 ETH, worth $1.17 million, in one of the year's cleanest memecoin trades.

Bitcoin climbs to $78,100 on Trump ceasefire extension, Strategy's $2.5 billion buy
Bitcoin traded at $77,541 on Wednesday morning, up 2.2% over 24 hours and 4.3% on the week, after Trump extended the Iran ceasefire and Strategy disclosed its largest BTC purchase in 17 months.

