AIMCo’s $25M bet on Circle shows institutions still want stablecoin exposure, but the market is cooling fast. USDC remains a key crypto rail, yet Circle faces harsh valuation resets, regulatory risk, and growing competition.
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Stablecoins are being pushed into bank-style compliance under the GENIUS Act AML rules, trading some privacy and permissionless appeal for legitimacy, institutional adoption, and tighter anti-money-laundering controls. The big question: can crypto rails stay open without becoming a surveillance machine?
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Bitcoin fell below $64K as a hawkish Fed sparked $270M in liquidations and extreme fear hit crypto. Meme coins SHIB and PEPE kept sliding, while Pepeto’s $10.28M presale tries to sell “early opportunity” amid the wreckage.
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CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju says the old Bitcoin-to-altcoin rotation is breaking down, meaning the classic alt season playbook may no longer work. BTC can still lead, but altcoins now need real catalysts, not just Bitcoin’s fumes.
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Cardano’s Leios testnet is closing in on launch, promising major scaling gains for ADA, but price remains stuck far below its peak. Meanwhile, Pepeto’s flashy presale is pitching faster upside with heavy hype, staking rewards, and exchange buzz.
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Ricardo Salinas says fiat is a rigged game of currency debasement and calls Bitcoin the better long-term store of value. He’s stacking BTC via dollar-cost averaging, dismissing AI hype, and says a $1 million Bitcoin is possible.
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CFTC permanently bars Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from trading after Celsius’s collapse, marking the agency’s first crypto-lending enforcement case. It’s a sharp reminder that “high yield” can mask high risk, weak controls, and a very expensive trust problem.
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Capital B shareholders approved a massive Bitcoin treasury mandate: up to €5B in equity and €100B in credit, backing a long-term push to stack BTC and target about 1% of supply by 2033. Big ambition, bigger leverage risk.
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Bitcoin bounced back above $63K on Middle East ceasefire headlines, but the rally looks shaky. Fed hawkishness, weak chart structure, and a whale dumping 800 BTC at a huge loss suggest this is relief, not a clean breakout.
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Axelar disabled its Secret Network bridge routes after an exploit reportedly drained about $4.7M, with early signs pointing to a Secret-side ICS-20 contract flaw rather than Axelar’s core protocol. Another reminder that bridge plumbing is still crypto’s favorite money trap.
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