Americas
The Only Person in the White House Who Understood Crypto Just Lost His Desk
David Sacks' 130-day crypto czar term expired March 26. No replacement is coming. The CLARITY Act is stuck in committee. The midterms are in seven months.
Crypto
Coinbase Just Let Non-US Traders Long Apple at 10x on a Saturday Night. Wall Street Can’t Do That.
Coinbase launched 24/7 stock perpetual futures for non-US traders. Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla at 10x leverage, settled in USDC. The NYSE closes. Coinbase doesn't.
Crypto
Strategy Owns 761,000 Bitcoin and Still Thinks That’s Not Enough
Strategy bought 22,337 BTC in one week and now holds 761,068 coins. The goal is 1 million by December. The preferred stock engine funding it just changed gear.
Crypto
Coinbase Is Reportedly Buying Into Bybit. Read the Strategic Logic Before the Hype Does.
Coinbase is reportedly in talks to take a stake in Bybit at a $25B valuation. Neither side confirmed it. Here's the actual strategic logic behind the deal and the regulatory friction nobody is discussing.
Crypto
The DOJ Is Investigating Binance for Iran. Binance’s Response Was to Sue the Newspaper That Broke the Story.
The DOJ opened a probe into Iran's alleged use of Binance to move $1B+ past U.S. sanctions. Binance's response: sue the Wall Street Journal for defamation. On the same day. Meanwhile, the U.S. is the one that started the war.
Crypto
Pakistan Just Gave 40 Million Crypto Users a Legal Framework. The Real Target Is $38 Billion in Remittances.
Pakistan passed its first crypto law. 40 million users just got legal. But the real play is $38 billion in remittances and a stablecoin corridor to replace hawala.
Crypto
Kraken Just Got a Key to the Fed. Five Years Ago They Were Told That Would Never Happen.
Kraken Financial just became the first crypto company with a Federal Reserve master account. Direct Fedwire access. No middleman bank. Five years in the making.
Crypto
A Central Bank Just Committed $350 Million to Crypto. Not From Seized Coins. From Its Actual Reserves.
Kazakhstan's central bank is allocating $350M from reserves into crypto-linked assets starting April. Not seized coins. Actual sovereign capital.
Crypto
Banks Are Blocking the Biggest Crypto Bill in US History. Trump Just Called Them Out by Name.
The CLARITY Act passed the House 294-134. Banks are blocking it over stablecoin yield. Trump called them out. March markup is the last window before midterms.
Crypto
Six Wallets Knew Iran Was Getting Hit and Made $1 Million on Polymarket Before the First Missile Landed
Six fresh wallets made $1M on Polymarket betting on Iran strikes hours before the bombs hit. $515M in crypto liquidations followed. This is how it happened.
Crypto
Binance’s $1.7 Billion Iran Mess, MiCA’s Ticking Clock, and Why the US Is Speedrunning Crypto Regulation
Binance's $1.7B Iran scandal, MiCA's July 1 deadline, and a US banking charter blitz — here's what's reshaping European crypto right now.
