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Bitcoin Surges on Hopes of a China Deal

102

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto

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Democrats Blow Up at Crypto Executives Over Market Structure Bill

104

Is the Gold to Bitcoin Rotation Underway?

105

Why the Internet Crash Made Bitcoin Look Stronger

106

Is It All Over for Crypto?

107

The 5 Most Important Stories in Crypto Last Week

108

The Tokenization Era Begins (says Fink)

109

The Short, Brutal Bear Market of October ‘25

110

Could This Actually Be An Amazing Setup for Bitcoin?

111

Wall Street Discovers the “Debasement Trade”

112

ICE Invests $2 Billion in Polymarket

113

The TradFi-Crypto Fusion Is Here

114

Bitcoin Breaks $125,000: The October Melt-Up Is On

115

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

116

Bitcoin’s Favorite Month Has Arrived

117

Government Shutdown Hits as Politics Markets and AI Collide

118

SEC & CFTC Call a Truce on Crypto Regulation

119

Kraken’s $15B Secret Raise and the Race to IPO

120

Friday Five: Tether’s $500B Play, SEC Opens the Door, and Vanguard Bows to Crypto

121

Agentic Payments and the Next Internet Economy

122

Tether’s Half-Trillion Dollar Valuation

123

Bitcoin’s September Shakeout: $1.7B in Liquidations Sets Stage for Q4

124

Senate Democrats Push for Bipartisan Role in Crypto Market Structure Bill

125

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

126

Fed Cuts Rates Amid Rising Labor Market Risks

127

Google’s New Agent Payments Protocol and What It Means for Crypto

128

Coinbase Considers Token Launch

129

Checking In On Last Week’s Crypto IPOs

130

Friday Five: SEC Turns Pro-Crypto, Tokenization Race Heats Up, Gemini IPO

131

SEC Chair: "Crypto’s Time Has Come"

132

Senate Democrats Unveil Competing Crypto Market Structure Bill

133

Soft Jobs Report Clears the Way for Fed Cuts

134

Stripe’s Tempo Chain and the Return of Enterprise Blockchains

135

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

136

The Fed’s Big Stablecoin Shift

137

Exchanges Get the Green Light to Offer Crypto

138

Bitcoin Seasonality Means A Messy September Set Up

139

Brazilification Risk and the Fight for Fed Independence

140

Whales Unload Billions As Bitcoin Plunges To Six-Week Low

141

A Nothingburger Speech that Moved Markets

142

Crypto Narratives Becoming Reality

143

Markets Hold Their Breath in Wyoming

144

Fed Governor Waller Says Crypto Adoption Is Nothing to Fear

145

Crypto at a Crossroads in Wyoming

146

Jackson Hole Retrospective: Powell’s Fed Legacy

147

Correction Watch 2025: Bitcoin Pullback or Just Another Bull Run Pause?

148

Bitcoin, Politics, and Privacy

149

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

150

Crypto Froth Watch: Bullish IPO Pops 200% as Bitcoin and Ethereum Near Highs

151

Circle’s Corporate Chain Gamble

152

Democrats Gear Up for Fight Over Crypto Market Structure Bill

153

It Wouldn't Be A Bitcoin Cycle Without a China Ban Rumor

154

What FTX Marketing Was Actually Trying to Accomplish

155

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

156

Hung Jury Delivers Mixed Verdict in Roman Storm Tornado Cash Trial

157

The Real Battle Behind Debanking and Operation Chokepoint

158

Crypto Sprint in DC Signals Big Shifts Ahead

159

After Weak Jobs Report, BLS Commissioner Gets the Ax

160

The Stablecoin Free Banking Debate—What History Really Says

161

Crypto's Regulatory U-Turn: The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

162

Powell's Hawkish Wait-and-See

163

Crypto Treasuries Face Their First Real Test

164

Ray Dalio Says We’ve Hit the Point of No Return

165

Finish the Job: Crypto Legislation, Token Rights, and Spicy Dividends

166

$9 Billion Bitcoin Sale Stress Tests the Market—and Passes

167

Crypto's Institutional Summer: Perps, Policy, and the Ethereum Surge

168

Is the Trade War Actually a Capital War?

169

The Senate's Surprising Market Structure Bill

170

Alt Season or Exit Liquidity? Parsing the Crypto Market’s Next Move

171

Inside the Genius Act: Trump Signs Landmark Stablecoin Bill into Law

172

The Eerie Railroad of Crypto, Stablecoin Regulation, and the Cypherpunk Legacy

173

This Week's Top 5(00) Crypto Stories

174

The Longest Vote in House History and a Crypto Week in Chaos

175

CBDC Fears Derail Stablecoin Bill

176

Why This Crypto Bull Run Feels Different

177

Bitcoin Breaks $120K as Crypto Week Kicks Off in Washington

178

The State of Bitcoin Treasury Critique

179

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

180

Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High as Macro Forces Align

181

The Push to Accelerate Crypto ETFs

182

Elon Musk Launches a Bitcoin-Friendly Political Party

183

The Mystery of the $8 Billion Ancient Bitcoin Whale

184

Stablecoins and Streaming Money

185

A Mid-Year Bitcoin Check-In

186

Robinhood and Kraken Bet Big on Tokenized Stocks

187

Trump Eyes Fed Shake-Up as Markets Brace for Cuts

188

Is Tokenization the 3rd Leg of this Bull Market?

189

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

190

Crypto Mortgages Are Here

191

The Central Banks Strike Back on Stablecoins

192

Texas Gets to Bitcoin Buying

193

How the Markets Are Handling the Latest in Iran

194

The Importance of the Token Transparency Framework

195

Bitcoin Holds Firm Above $100K as Senate Stablecoin Bill Opens Floodgates for Crypto

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Senate Passes Historic Stablecoin Bill

197

Is Tron Going Public This Cycle's Shark Jump?

198

How Markets Are Reacting to the Middle East

199

What Everyone Missed About Circle's Explosive IPO

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week