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🗞 HOT News ! Stripe Bridge Stablecoin Volume Quadruples. • Stripe stablecoin service Bridge saw a fourfold increase in transaction volume last year despite broader crypto market declines. • This growth highlights stablecoin adoption's independence from traditional crypto

🗞 HOT News ! Microsoft Partners with Starlink. • Microsoft has announced a new collaboration with Starlink to expand internet access in rural, agricultural, and hard-to-reach areas. • This strategic partnership combines Microsoft's cloud infrastructure with Starlink's

🗞 HOT News ! Trump Won't Pardon Sam Bankman-Fried. • The White House confirmed that President Trump will not pardon FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, despite his recent pro-Trump social media activity. • This decision ends speculation about a potential presidential pardon for

🐋 Whale Movements. • 3,262 $BTC ($205.37M) net outflow from Bitcoin ETFs in the past 24 hours, indicating profit-taking or bearish sentiment among institutional investors. • 25,337 $ETH ($46.04M) net outflow from Ethereum ETFs over the same period, reflecting broader smart

🗞 HOT News ! Mastercard DeFi Expansion. • Mastercard is hiring a Director of Cryptocurrency Liquidity to expand its presence in DeFi, focusing on card-based crypto entry points, stablecoin-linked issuance, tokenized assets, and DeFi payment processes. • The role also

🗞 HOT News ! Meta Stablecoin Comeback. • Meta (formerly Facebook) is planning a stablecoin comeback in H2 2026, partnering with a third-party vendor to power payments across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. • This follows the earlier Diem (formerly Libra) project, whose

🐋 Whale Movements. • 1,814 BTC ($114.45M) and 24,472 ETH ($44.57M) deposited by BlackRock into Coinbase, signaling major institutional accumulation. • 808 BTC ($51.1M) transferred from Coinbase Institutional to an unknown wallet, indicating large-scale movement of long-term

🗞 HOT News ! Terraform Labs Sues Citadel. • Terraform Labs' liquidation trustee has filed a lawsuit against global market maker Citadel, accusing the firm of market manipulation through spoofing and wash trading that contributed to the collapse of the Terra ecosystem. •

🗞 HOT News ! CECO to Acquire Thermon for $2.2B. • CECO Environmental Corp. is considering acquiring Thermon Group Holdings Inc. • in a $2.2 billion transaction, including debt, involving both cash and stock components. • The strategic move aims to expand CECO market

🗞 HOT News ! Arizona Senate Digital Asset Fund. • The Arizona Senate is advancing a bill to create a state-managed digital asset reserve fund, to be funded by seized cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin. • The fund, managed by the state treasurer, would be allowed to invest

🗞 HOT News ! Russia Investigates Telegram Durov. • Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation into Telegram founder PavelDurov, accusing him of facilitating terrorist activities through the encrypted messaging platform. • The probe focuses on Telegram

🗞 HOT News ! BNP Paribas Tokenizes Fund on Ethereum. • BNP Paribas, Europe second-largest bank with $3T in assets, has launched a tokenized share class of a French money market fund on the public Ethereum blockchain. • The move, executed through its Asset Foundry platform,

🗞 HOT News ! Machi Big Brother Fully Liquidated. • Machi Big Brother, the crypto pseudonym of Taiwanese-American entrepreneur Jeffrey Huang, has been fully liquidated with total realized losses of $28.95 million. • His account balance is now just $24.9K, marking a

🗞 HOT News ! Bitcoin Futures OI Drops 53%. • Bitcoin futures open interest has fallen to 695,600 BTC ($44.22 billion), the lowest level since August 2025. • This represents a 53% decline from the October 2025 peak of $94.12 billion, indicating a significant reduction in

🗞 HOT News ! BTC Drops to $64,500 • Bitcoin slid to a weekly low of $64,500 during New York trading, remaining within its three-week $65,000-$71,000 range. • The drop liquidated $240 million in long positions, with $3.5 billion in short positions vulnerable near $70,000,

🗞 HOT News ! Chainlink Joins RealFi Alliance. • Chainlink (LINK) has joined the RealFi Alliance for the Pharos Network, a strategic ecosystem initiative to unify institutional asset issuers, financial infrastructure providers, and onchain builders under a standardized

🗞 HOT News ! Vitalik on Bitcoin Privacy. • Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin explained that Bitcoin prioritized decentralization from inception, which meant privacy wasn't fully optimized. • Early privacy approaches relied on centralized institutions, while decentralized