Bitcoin ETF holders and treasury firms stack protection against price crash below $60,000, options exchange says
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Bitcoin BTC$67,963.04 ETF holders and corporate treasuries – the players everyone praises for their long-term vision – are stacking insurance against price crash below $60,000, cryptocurrency exchange Deribit told CoinDesk. “ETF holders and corporate treasuries are buying 6-month and 1-year puts at $60k or below ($60,000 put, a derivative contract offering protection against potential price […]

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Grant Cardone plans to tokenize his firm’s $5 billion real estate portfolio
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Real estate mogul Grant Cardone is preparing to tokenize his firm’s $5 billion real estate portfolio, the latest property heavyweight to explore blockchain-based ownership. In a Thursday X post, the investor said that Cardone Capital plans to tokenize its holdings to give investors “collateral and liquidity in the secondary markets.” He added that the firm […]

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Bitcoin at $68,000 as majors see strongest bounce in weeks
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Bitcoin came within touching distance of $70,000 on Wednesday before pulling back to around $68,300 in Thursday morning trading, a nearly 5% swing from the session high to the overnight low of $67,700. The move marks the strongest attempt to reclaim the $70,000 level since the Feb. 5 crash but stopped short of a clean […]

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MrBeast editor nabbed by prediction market firm Kalshi for alleged insider trading
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Kalshi, one of the leading prediction market firms, said it caught and penalized two users for insider-trading activity on its platform, including an editor for the popular social-media star MrBeast. The company said it has more than a dozen active insider-trading cases among 200 it’s investigated. On Wednesday, Kalshi disclosed the details of two that […]

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Leading stablecoin Tether shrinks again as market cap looks set for second straight monthly drop
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Tether USDT$1.0002, the world’s largest stablecoin by market value, continues to shrink and looks set for a second straight monthly contraction, signaling challenging conditions for a sustainable broader market recovery. Tether’s market capitalization has dropped by 0.8% to $183.61 billion this month, extending January’s 1% slide from a record $186.84 billion, according to data source […]

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Millions in crypto funded tools to exploit U.S. software, Treasury says in new sanctions
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The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Russian company, Operation Zero, and the individuals behind it after accusing them of buying stolen cyber tools for millions in cryptocurrency and re-selling those technologies, which were created to be used by the U.S. government. The tools bought and sold by newly sanctioned Sergey Sergeyevich Zelenyuk and his […]

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Bitcoin’s price discovery is moving to Chicago
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Bitcoin BTC$63,083.82, once hailed as an anti-establishment asset and antithesis to Wall Street, may now bend to sharp traders from those same floors. Trading in the leading cryptocurrency is steadily shifting toward CME Group, and the exchange’s move to 24/7 derivatives later this year could cement its role as the dominant venue for institutional crypto […]

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Solana Company starts building high-speed infrastructure to prepare SOL for next ‘super cycle’
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Solana Company (HSDT) said it plans to build a high-speed infrastructure network across the Asia-Pacific region to support the growth of the Solana blockchain and diversify its revenue streams. The initiative, called the “Pacific Backbone,” will connect Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong with a low-latency cluster designed to support staking, validation and trading services […]

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AI bot’s tipping blunder hands $250,000 memecoin pile to X sad story poster
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AI trading bots are touted as smarter than humans in many ways, but they’re still vulnerable to fat-finger blunders just like us. On Sunday, OpenAI engineer Nick Pash’s automated artificial intelligence trading bot “Lobstar Wilde” tried tipping an X handle, called “treasure David,” 4 solana (SOL) for his uncle’s tetanus treatment, but accidentally sent its […]

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How decentralized AI is leveling the playing field
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As AI infrastructure investments surge toward $300B in 2025 alone, fueled by mega-projects like the $500B Stargate initiative and hundreds of billions in Nvidia chip purchases, the decentralized AI space offers a compelling alternative to Big Tech’s centralized dominance. Now’s the time to invest in it. In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a […]

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Mentioning ‘bitcoin’ on AI agent OpenClaw’s Discord will get you banned
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The word “bitcoin” or any other mention of crypto will get you banned from the OpenClaw Discord. Not for spam, not for shilling, but just for saying it. Peter Steinberger, the Austrian developer behind OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent framework that has surged past 200,000 GitHub stars since its release in late January, has enforced […]

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Bitcoin to zero? Google searches for the term hit record in U.S. as BTC price drops
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Google searches in the U.S. for “bitcoin zero” surged to a record 100 on the company’s relative interest scale in February, coinciding with bitcoin’s BTC$67,852.62 slide toward $60,000 after a 50%-plus drawdown from its October all-time high. The spike could be read as a signal of widespread capitulation and, potentially, a contrarian buy signal. Similar […]

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