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Ditch the Bitcoin Illusion and Tokenize Real Assets — bloomberg.com
Ditch the Bitcoin Illusion and Tokenize Real Assets Bloomberg.com
Bitcoin Trapped in Fragile Trading as Hedge Funds Pivot to Cash — bloomberg.com
Bitcoin settled into a narrow trading range with investors still seeking direction almost two weeks after a market collapse that wiped out the last remnants of gains registered since since Donald Trump won re-election.
Warren warns Fed, Treasury against crypto bailout — americanbanker.com
Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., warned the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve in a Wednesday letter not to bail out cryptocurrency firms in the wake of sharp declines in digital asset values over the last several
Market Maturity Over Mayhem: ARK Invest’s Vision for Bitcoin’s Stable Next Chapter — dailycaller.com
Bitcoin is entering a structurally different phase of its market life. After more than a decade defined by extreme volatility, regulatory uncertainty, and retail-led cycles, the asset is increasingly behaving like a mature financial instrument. According
Fed confirms it obeyed White House request for an unusual ‘rate check,’ weakening the dollar against foreign currencies — fortune.com
The U.S. Federal Reserve confirmed yesterday that its trading desk did conduct a rare “rate check” on the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen on behalf of the White House earlier this year. The move is often regarded as a precursor
A Cautionary Note to Fellow Dems From an AIPAC Target — thebulwark.com
The stage before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on March 2, 2015 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) I KNEW I HAD A PROBLEM when voters I met while campaigning at
Who is OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger? The millennial developer caught the attention of Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg — fortune.com
Peter Steinberger spent 13 years building a company that formatted PDFs. It took him only one hour to build the model that would eventually kill that app. Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, the open-source agentic website that took the world by storm,
Trump Family Crypto Bash Convenes Wall Street’s New Believers — bloomberg.com
Wall Street executives and government officials gathered in Mar-a-Lago’s gilded ballroom for a conference hosted by the Trump family’s cryptocurrency platform — underscoring how digital assets have become both a policy priority and personal profit center
Prediction markets won over Trump — but the rest of Washington will be harder — semafor.com
The News Prediction markets have won over the Trump administration. The rest of the Republican Party might prove more of a challenge. Kalshi, Polymarket, and their cohorts won big this week when Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Mike Selig
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