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Morgan Stanley enters bitcoin ETF race with market-leading low fee

The bank priced its proposed spot bitcoin fund at 14 basis points, making it the lowest fund on the market, if approved.
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Bitcoin miners are becoming AI companies and selling their BTC to fund the transition

The average public miner spent $79,995 to produce one bitcoin last quarter. Bitcoin is trading at $70,000. The math doesn't work, so the industry is pivoting to AI, taking on $70 billion in contracts, and liquidating bitcoin treasuries to finance the shift.
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Ripple turns to AI to stress-test the XRP Ledger as institutional use cases scale

The next XRP Ledger release will be dedicated entirely to bug fixes and improvements.
Watch out Bitcoin devs. Google says post-quantum migration needs to happen by 2029.

The search giant set a corporate deadline to migrate all authentication services to quantum-resistant cryptography, validating the timeline Ethereum has been building toward for eight years. Bitcoin's response so far has been silence.
Here's what next as Anthropic's most powerful AI model leaked via unsecured data cache

A draft blog post left in an unsecured data cache revealed a new model tier called Capybara that Anthropic says is more capable than anything it has built, with the company flagging "unprecedented" cybersecurity risks.
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Crypto's future is bright in the context of AI's assault on software firms, says Kraken-backed investment firm

Crypto’s latest bear cycle is a mere blip when compared with the existential threat AI now poses to traditional software services, says Ravi Tanuku, CEO of KRAKacquisition Corp.
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Canada moves to ban crypto donations for election campaigns following UK

Bill C-25 follows years of warnings from Canada's Chief Electoral Officer about the risk that crypto donations could pose to electoral integrity.
Kalshi secures license to offer margin trading to institutional investors

Margin feature is a departure from traditional prediction markets, which typically require fully collateralized positions, and comes as the industry sees growing trading volumes and investment.
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Crypto needs a reset before the next bull run

The industry’s most significant opportunities are being forged during this period of uncomfortable volatility. Here’s why, argues Grider.
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Inside Aave’s governance battle as DeFi giant prepares for upgrade

In an interview with CoinDesk, Aave Labs CEO Stani Kulechov reflected on the governance debates in the Aave ecosystem, as well as what’s to come for the network.
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Bittensor ecosystem tokens' value hit $1.5 billion as Jensen Huang endorsement supports TAO rally

The ecosystem's smaller tokens are acting as leveraged bets on TAO, with multiple subnet tokens posting 200-400% monthly gains.
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XRP tests $1.33 as rising leverage and weak price action create unstable setup

Funding spikes and liquidations point to positioning build-up, with direction hinging on whether buyers can defend support.
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New Ethereum project aims to fix network fragmentation and improve user experience

The project is designed to make Ethereum’s many layer 2s work together more seamlessly.
Markets move to price in rate hikes as inflation fears and geopolitics reshape Fed expectations

Middle East tensions have driven divergences across asset markets as oil stays elevated and traditional safe havens falter.
Crypto's CLARITY Act could be a headwind for DeFi tokens ring-fencing yield, analyst says

The proposed restriction on yield would shift value toward regulated players and away from decentralized finance' tokens, 10x Research's Markus Thielen said.
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Bitcoin bullish bets hit a 28-month high on Bitfinex, and that's music to bears' ears

Historically, spikes in Bitfinex BTC/USD longs have acted as a contrary indicator.
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No one is 100% happy with the stablecoin yield agreement: State of Crypto

The crypto and banking industries saw Senators Alsobrooks and Tillis' agreement-in-principle for stablecoin yield.
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Strategy may have paused bitcoin accumulation last week, ending a thirteen week buying streak

The company seemed to have skipped it's weekly bitcoin purchase announcement for the first time since late december.
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Stablecoin payments go 'invisible' in Southeast Asia as crypto card business surges

StraitsX, a Singapore-based company, has seen rapid growth in its stablecoin card program, with a 40x surge in transaction volume and an 83x increase in card issuance between 2024 and 2025.
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Hyperliquid traders in Tokyo get 200-millisecond edge, Glassnode research shows

Hyperliquid’s validators cluster in AWS Tokyo alongside Binance, BitMEX and KuCoin, giving nearby traders a latency advantage, Glassnode data shows
The Bitcoin market remains boring. Investors chasing yields may be partly to blame

Yield hungry investors seem to have influenced market flows such that they limit price swings.