EscalationBlock Seeks OCC Approval for Bitcoin, Stablecoin Trust Bank
Jack Dorsey's Block is seeking approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank built to custody Bitcoin and stabl...
Nearly 4,000 BTC Leave Liquid Through Valid Peg-Out
Nearly 4,000 BTC reportedly left Liquid's federation through a valid peg-out, with no reported key compromise, according to unconfirmed reports that have not been matched to any transaction hash or official incident disclosure.
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Escalation
Early SignalStrategy's Bitcoin Buying Return Lasted Exactly One Week
Strategy's September 8 statement confirmed the company held 845,050 BTC as of September 7 , the exact same figure it reported a week earlier. No accumulation.
Market ReactionSteve Witkoff Reports $107M From World Liberty Financial
The supplied research does not establish how much Steve Witkoff earned from World Liberty Financial or the period covered by the proposed report.
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Regulation, company disputes, and ideological fights shaping the industry.
RISK: MEDIUMSteve Witkoff Reports $107M From World Liberty Financial
The supplied research does not establish how much Steve Witkoff earned from World Liberty Financial or the period covered by the proposed report.
RISK: HIGHTrump Pushes Congress to Advance CLARITY Act
Trump is pushing Congress to advance the CLARITY Act, according to the supplied headline. The accompanying research does not verify the details of that appeal.
RISK: HIGHCleanSpark Secures 585MW for Batch Zero Amid ERCOT Review
The headline fact is clean and specific: 585MW of baseload power, earmarked for a project called Batch Zero. That is the claim on the table, and it is where the...
RISK: HIGHCronos Rolls Back Two Hours After $111 Million DeFi Exploit
Cronos reportedly erased roughly two hours of transactions to reverse a $111 million DeFi exploit, an emergency intervention that, if confirmed, ranks among the...
Power
The institutions, exchanges, and narratives driving crypto direction.
EscalationBlock Seeks OCC Approval for Bitcoin, Stablecoin Trust Bank
Jack Dorsey's Block is seeking approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank built to custody Bitcoin and stabl...
Early SignalStrategy's Bitcoin Buying Return Lasted Exactly One Week
Strategy's September 8 statement confirmed the company held 845,050 BTC as of September 7 , the exact same figure it reported a week earlier. No accumulation.
Market ReactionRobinhood to Add Crypto.com Prediction Markets, Take Stake
Robinhood is moving to own a piece of the businesses behind the event contracts it offers. Its new Crypto.
EscalationStrategy Pauses Bitcoin Buys, Buys Back $176M in STRC
Strategy has hit pause on its Bitcoin buying once again, and this time it paired the freeze with a $176 million buyback of its STRC shares. The move refocuses t...
People
Founders, influencers, and institutions behind crypto's next moves.
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Vitalik Buterin
Co-founder of Ethereum
Co-founder of Ethereum, the first global smart-contract platform. He remains one of the most influential technical and p...
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Liquid Network Releases 3,996 BTC After L-BTC Burn
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Changpeng Zhao (CZ)
Founder and former CEO of Binance
Founder of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. He now focuses on the nonprofit education project Giggl...
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Netflix Sets November 2026 Premiere for 'The Altruists' FTX Drama
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Michael Saylor
Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy
The most visible corporate Bitcoin advocate, known for turning MicroStrategy into the largest public-company holder of B...
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Bitcoin faces Fed test on Sept. 16 as core inflation drops to 3%
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Brian Armstrong
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the leading US crypto exchange and the first major crypto company to go public on Nasdaq...
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Charles Hoskinson
Founder of Cardano and IOG, and Ethereum co-founder
Former Ethereum co-founder who left to build Cardano, a blockchain ecosystem centered on academic research and peer-revi...
Investigations
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COLLAPSEPolkadot Holders Vote on dotUSD Proposal With $5M Backing
The proposal lives on-chain as Referendum #1944 , titled "dotUSD: A Native Stablecoin for Polkadot. " It was in the Deciding state on the Root track when the re...
FRAUDXRP Pulls Back Despite BIS Testing XRPL as Rate-Hike Fears Return
XRP just got a landmark institutional nod from one of finance's most powerful bodies, and the price barely blinked. The token slipped to around $1.
FRAUDXRP ETF Imbalance: Why Select US Funds Beat the Token Surge by 100%
A strange gap has opened up around XRP. Select US-listed funds tied to the token have reportedly outrun XRP's own price surge by roughly 100%, creating an ETF i...
FRAUDTron Surpasses Ethereum as USDT Supply Climbs to $94B
Tron has moved ahead of Ethereum as the leading network for Tether's USDT stablecoin, with reported supply on the chain climbing toward $94 billion and reshapin...