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The Stablecoin Surge and Stripe’s Crypto Power Play

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Bitcoin’s Hot Summer, Solana ETF Momentum, and Connecticut's Crypto Ban

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Why the SEC Chair Just Declared Self-Custody a Foundational American Value

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Trump's Taco Trade and the Dollar's Dangerous Game

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The End of Money as You Know It

206

Circle Soars, Trump and Musk Clash, and JPMorgan Embraces Bitcoin ETFs

207

Circle’s Blockbuster IPO Oversubscribed 25x

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Democrats Slam SEC Over Crypto Bill Chaos

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As Circle Prepares to IPO, Crypto Deals Heat Up

210

Who is Funding These Bitcoin Treasury Companies?

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The Five Most Important Stories in Bitcoin Last Week

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Bitcoin Vegas Goes Big as Politics Takes Center Stage

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Who Can Out-Saylor Saylor?

214

The Big Bank Stablecoin Consortium

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Bitcoin Hits All-Time High — But Nobody Seems to Care

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Bitcoin Inches Toward History as Politics, Policy, and Memecoins Collide

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Senate Clears Stablecoin Bill Hurdle

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US Credit Downgrade Hits—Bitcoin Pumps Anyway

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When Investors Should Say "No" vs. "Yes"

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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As eToro IPO Pops is Wall Street Getting Crypto Fever?

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5 Questions Shaping the Near Future of Crypto and Macro

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Coinbase Joins the S&P 500 as Bitcoin and Traditional Finance Converge

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Bitcoin's Quiet Rally and the Stablecoin Standoff

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Crypto's Crossroads for Democrats

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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The Fed Is Stuck Waiting While the Trade War Reshapes the Economy

228

Democrats Stage Crypto Walkout to Hold Dueling Hearing

229

Crypto Clash: Waters’ Walkout vs. Market-Structure Bill

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Arizona Gov Vetoes Bitcoin Bill

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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Hayes: "Time to Long Everything!"

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The Global Economic Order on the Brink

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Arizona Drives Ahead with Bitcoin Reserve Bill

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Ark Invest Ramps Up BTC 2030 Prediction to $2.4M

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A Better(?) Approach to Fixing the Broken Global Trading System

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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Bessent Says US to Stick with Bretton Woods Institutions

239

Bitcoin Rallies as Both Hedge and Risk-On

240

Respect the Bitcoin Pump

241

How Trade Negotiations Are Impacting Crypto

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Bell Curve: Beyond the Hype: Crypto’s Next Phase | Roundup

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0xResearch: Crypto Meets TradFi: The New Convergence

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Lightspeed: Launching Crypto's Largest Tokenized Fund On Solana | Michael Sonnenshein

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Supply Shock: The BPI's Plan To Make America A Bitcoin Nation | Grant McCarty

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EMPIRE: The Biggest Market Crash Since 2020, What Next? | Felix Jauvin & Quinn Thompson

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Can Bitcoin Fix What Tariffs Can't?

248

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

249

How Much Does the 90-Day Tariff Pause Actually Change?

250

Everything in Crypto That ISN'T the Tariffs

251

Are We Headed to the Mar-a-Lago Accords?

252

The Worst 3 Days in Stocks Since Oct 1987

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A Blueprint for Crypto In America

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Bitcoin Holds Up Better Than Stocks in the Tariff Turmoil

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Trump's Tariff Trouble

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Big Day For Crypto Biz As Circle Prepares for IPO

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Trump's Crypto Engagement is Making it Hard for Pro-Crypto Republicans

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What to Make of Galaxy Digital's $200m Fine

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Hester Peirce Charts a New Course for the SEC

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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Are We Finally Going to Get Securities Clarity?

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The Prophecy is Fulfilled: Gamestop to Buy BTC

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Real World Asset Tokenization Shows Positive Early Indicators

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A Win for Privacy as Tornado Cash Addresses are Unsanctioned

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Crypto's Past, Present and Future

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Making America the"Undisputed Bitcoin Superpower and Crypto Capital of the World”

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Sneaky Significant Changes at the Fed

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The Real Story of Institutional Crypto Interest

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Bitcoin is For Enemies: Pyongyang Edition

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Treasury Secretary Bessent: "The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves"

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Stablecoin Debate Illustrates the Failure of the Anti-Crypto Army

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

273

Crypto's Biggest Funding Deal Ever

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Early Signs of Crypto Bipartisanship in Congress

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Ignore the Whiners: The White House Crypto Summit WAS a Big deal

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Markets Get Spooked By Recession Possibility

277

A Preview of the White House Crypto Summit

278

Will AI Vibe Coding Lead to Web3 Adoption?

279

It's Actually Happening: The USA Gets a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

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No One Knows Anything About This Economy

281

A Bipartisan Crypto Voting Coalition Emerges

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Trump's Strategic S#^@coin Reserve

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Is the War on Crypto Actually Over?

284

Bitcoin's Brutal Crash: The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

285

Security After the Bybit Hack with Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet

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How AI Is Impacting Bitcoin Mining

287

Bitcoin is Surging at the State Government Level

288

How AI Agents Might Finally Make Micropayments Make Sense

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The Latest Updates from Washington D.C.'s "Golden Age of Crypto"

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The $LIBRA Scandal Just Gets Worse

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The Memecoin That Might Take Down a President

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US Politicians Explain What Should Come Next in Crypto

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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The Radical Sentiment Dichotomy Between Degens & Institutions

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Bitcoin vs. Altcoins vs. Gold

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Why Crypto Sentiment is So Bad Right Now

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Will Debanking Actually End Now?

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The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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The History of Operation Chokepoint 2.0

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New SEC Crypto Task Force Announces New Era of Crypto Policy