War drives oil up, the Kimi selloff drags chips down, and bitcoin sits between them.
Bitcoin ETFs have attracted $273 million in new inflows in two weeks, but the total is barely enough to cover a single “slow” week of recent selling.
Brent jumped almost 4% on escalating U.S.-Iran strikes, while Asian chip stocks stayed under pressure from Friday’s Chinese AI shock.
The GENIUS Act turns 1: State of Crypto
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The stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act became a law a year ago.
Michael Saylor argues that a new proposal, BIP-110, to temporarily block “spam” data from the Bitcoin blockchain would undermine the network’s neutrality and create a dangerous precedent for censorship.
The rise of autonomous AI agents necessitates the utilization of zero-knowledge proofs, argues Brian Trunzo, chief growth officer at Succinct Labs.
Project Eleven says it has funded a proof that lets a wallet’s own key-derivation path stand in as ownership after quantum computers can forge its signatures. It runs in 243 milliseconds on a laptop.
The new Zakura client is the first live piece of a plan to take Zcash from roughly one private transaction per second to payment-network scale.
The regulator cited concerns over addictive mechanics, a lack of self-exclusion tools, and a high volume of French users bypassing previous financial restrictions.
Steakhouse Financial co-founder Adrian Cachinero says digital-native generations may rely less on banks, while Binance says younger users are already driving crypto adoption in emerging markets.
Leonidas’ DOG Mode client challenges Bitcoin’s default relay policies, reopening a philosophical debate over censorship, free markets and who really governs the network.
Washington views Brazil’s promotion of non-dollar payment channels, including Pix and the growth of stablecoins, as a potential threat to dollar-based trade, even as dollar-linked stablecoins account for about 90% of Brazil’s crypto transactions.