Brad Garlinghouse is pushing Washington to clean up crypto’s regulatory mess, while the CFTC signals it may move ahead on market rules if Congress stalls on the Clarity Act. The fight is still about who gets to regulate crypto — and who gets left in the gray zone.
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Bitcoin and ether ETFs just logged their biggest inflow week since October, pulling in $2.6 billion combined as bitcoin led the charge. The headline-grabbing “$3 billion” figure is really the week-over-week swing, not fresh inflows — because yes, numbers do matter.
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Franklin Templeton has won SEC staff no-action relief for its blockchain-based money market fund, a quiet but meaningful sign that onchain recordkeeping is getting closer to regulated finance. It’s not a full blessing, but it is a real step forward.
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Ray Dalio says U.S. debt is nearing a dangerous inflection point and is urging investors to rethink bonds, favor gold, and hold a small bitcoin hedge. It’s not a bitcoin conversion — it’s a warning that fiscal strain could make traditional “safe” assets less safe.
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Stacks has activated PoX-5 at Bitcoin block 960,230, advancing its BTC-linked yield model with a phased rollout led by an institutional Genesis Bond. The upgrade is real, but Bitcoin itself still does not stake—no matter how hard the marketing tries.
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Coldcard firmware 5.6.1 hardens wallet security by requiring user entropy in standard new-seed generation and tightening several attack surfaces. It’s a solid step forward — but if an old seed was created under weaker conditions, a firmware update alone won’t save it.
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Stacks is pitching a Bitcoin-secured onchain setup where AI agents can handle payments, identity, and DeFi-style actions — but the key detail is that this looks more like BTC-adjacent activity on Stacks than autonomous native Bitcoin transfers.
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South Korea is moving corporate crypto access, tokenized securities, and bank-issued deposit tokens into a tightly regulated framework, signaling a serious push toward digital finance infrastructure. The shift is controlled, not crypto anarchy — and that’s exactly the point.
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Treasury buybacks can tighten bond-market liquidity and nudge investors toward gold and bitcoin, but the link is indirect, not proven. IMF research backs the market-mechanics angle, while traders may simply be reading more fiscal pressure into the plumbing.
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Fidelity’s rumored Ethereum staking move and BNB Chain’s Pasteur upgrade show crypto’s serious side: yield, scalability, and infrastructure. AlphaPepe, meanwhile, leans on presale hype, bonuses, and exchange teasers — a reminder that not every “utility” pitch is gold.
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