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Opinion

Wall Street won’t buy ‘trustless’ security promises

Chen argues that crypto exchange security is still mostly theater, and that stricter enforcement is essential.

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Crypto Long & Short: Fighting fraud in the digital age: why state-led identity is the future

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Tricia Gallagher writes how the fix for broken digital identity systems will need to be state-led and user-controlled.

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Finance

Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp says it's better to freeze 5.6 million BTC than let hackers have them

Lopp says dormant coins could pose systemic risk if quantum computing gives attackers the ability to grab them, intensifying the growing “freeze or not freeze” debate.

Casa CTO Jameson Lopp (right) speaks at Consensus 2019.

Finance

Why Morgan Stanley's CFO sees tokenization as the next big step for its multi-trillion wealth business

Morgan Stanley CFO Sharon Yeshaya says the bank is eyeing a "tokenized world" where blockchain technology allows client assets and liabilities to move more efficiently across its wealth management platform.

Sharon Yeshaya (Morgan Stanley)
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Markets

Allbirds abandons sneakers in pivot to AI computing, shares surge 400%

The footwear brand plans reinvention as Newbird AI with a $50 million convertible in a sign of the broader market shift into GPU infrastructure.

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Markets

TeraWulf stock declines on $900 million share sale to fund AI data center expansion

The shares had been on a big run higher, rising more than 50% since late March.

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CoinDesk 20 performance update: AAVE rises 4.3% as trades flat

Aptos (APT), up 3.8% since Tuesday, joined Aave (AAVE) as a top performer.

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Markets

Beyond ‘digital gold,’ Iran conflict forces a rethink of the nature of bitcoin

Bitcoin's 12% gain since the Iran war began isn't a risk-on trade. It's the market repricing bitcoin's role as a neutral settlement layer, Bitwise's CIO argues.

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Policy

Pakistan lifts seven-year ban, allowing banks to service crypto providers

Pakistan sent a letter to all banks and financial regulatory firms notifying them that they may provide crypto services,, but remain barred from trading or holding crypto assets.

Old State Bank of Pakistan building. (Asim Iftikhar Nagi/Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

Prediction market volumes to hit $1 trillion by 2030 with Robinhood, Coinbase as key players, Bernstein says

The broker said prediction markets are scaling into a trillion-dollar asset class, driven by regulatory clarity, crypto rails and distribution via major trading platforms.

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Markets

Trump-backed WLFI moves to unlock 62 billion tokens after $75 million loan controversy

The project would burn 4.5 billion tokens while beginning to vest 40.7 billion tokens for founders and the team, restructuring locks that were originally set to be indefinite.

World Liberty Financial leadership team. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
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Markets

Bitcoin pulls back as $75,000 remains 'both the milestone and the ceiling'

Bitcoin is struggling to break and hold above the key $75,000 resistance level while ether, solana decline.

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Markets

The 100% debt trap: Why the IMF’s latest warning is a massive long-term signal for bitcoin

The IMF warns that global public debt could reach about 100% of world GDP by 2029.

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Markets

A new class of crypto treasury companies is forming around Strategy’s high-yield stock

Firms and protocols are accumulating Strategy’s preferred stock to capture yield and bitcoin-linked exposure.

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Tech

Why this ex-Solana exec is using a Wall Street trick to level the playing field in DeFi

DoubleZero’s private fiber network aims to eliminate latency advantages like Hyperliquid’s Tokyo edge, but exchanges have yet to show an interest.

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