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Can AI Build a Startup in 72 Hours? Musk's Team Will Livestream the Whole Thing

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Can AI Build a Startup in 72 Hours? Musk's Team Will Livestream the Whole Thing

Three staffers at Elon Musk's AI company will try to build a startup from scratch in 72 hours, livestreaming every product and engineering call from September 15 to 17. It's a compelling test of AI agents, and also a product demo dressed up as an experiment.

Tom Lee Says Crypto's Next 12 Months Are 'Really Bullish.' His Firm Is $5 Billion Underwater on Ether.

1 day ago

Tom Lee Says Crypto's Next 12 Months Are 'Really Bullish.' His Firm Is $5 Billion Underwater on Ether.

Tom Lee is calling the next 12 months 'really bullish' for crypto while the company he chairs, BitMine Immersion Technologies, sits roughly $5 billion underwater on 5.93 million ether. The bullish thesis is real. So is the hole.

Nvidia's $10 Billion Anchor Could Make Anthropic's IPO the Biggest on Record

1 day ago

Nvidia's $10 Billion Anchor Could Make Anthropic's IPO the Biggest on Record

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to put as much as $10 billion behind Anthropic's IPO, a deal that could push the AI lab toward a $2 trillion valuation and a $100 billion raise. Prediction market traders give it 57% odds of pricing before November. The anchor bid, not the headline number, is what matters.

Caroline Ellison Is Going by "Carol" Now, and She's Working at a Charity

1 day ago

Caroline Ellison Is Going by "Carol" Now, and She's Working at a Charity

The former Alameda Research CEO quietly spent two months at Manifund under the alias "Carol" before cofounder Austin Chen went public with the hire. It's a redemption story for some, a transparency problem for others, and a telling look at what crypto's memory actually costs.

SKY7 and Fintech Amigo Want to Sell You Banking's Boring Layer

1 day ago

SKY7 and Fintech Amigo Want to Sell You Banking's Boring Layer

SKY7 and Fintech Amigo are teaming up on IBAN Cloud, a joint project that bundles legal, regulatory, and payments know-how for businesses hunting banking rails. The pitch is sensible. The disclosure so far is thin, and that's the part worth watching.

The Tokenized Deposit Race Is About Holding Your Balance, Not Moving It Faster

1 day ago

The Tokenized Deposit Race Is About Holding Your Balance, Not Moving It Faster

HSBC, Citi, and JPMorgan have spent two years building tokenized deposit rails, and the GENIUS Act left them largely untouched. The pitch isn't faster payments. It's keeping corporate cash inside the regulated perimeter while stablecoins circle outside.

Revolut Handed Over Passports Because of One Email. So Who Sent It?

1 day ago

Revolut Handed Over Passports Because of One Email. So Who Sent It?

Revolut confirmed that a fake government email, sent from a real agency domain with genuine credentials, pulled customer files containing passports, selfies, and Bitcoin records. The breach wasn't technical. It was a convincing message and a human who believed it.

Bitwise's Dogecoin ETF Is Shutting Down Because Nobody Showed Up

1 day ago

Bitwise's Dogecoin ETF Is Shutting Down Because Nobody Showed Up

Bitwise is liquidating BWOW on Oct. 14 after the lowest-fee Dogecoin ETF scraped together just $687,730. Three rival spot products hold $11.83 million. The fee war just met its ceiling.

Blockstream Refused a Hacker's $50M Bounty. Now 598 BTC Is Stuck in Limbo

1 day ago

Blockstream Refused a Hacker's $50M Bounty. Now 598 BTC Is Stuck in Limbo

Blockstream won't pay a 10% bounty to the attacker who drained the Liquid sidechain on Sept. 6, even after they returned 3,400 of the 3,996 stolen Bitcoin. The decision sets a precedent that could change how every future hacker weighs cooperation.

Blockstream Bets 600 Bitcoin That Hackers Don't Set the Exit Price

1 day ago

Blockstream Bets 600 Bitcoin That Hackers Don't Set the Exit Price

Blockstream is refusing to hand the Liquid attacker nearly 600 Bitcoin, roughly $50 million, as a bounty for returning most of the funds from the Sept. 6 exploit. It's a test of whether crypto's informal pay-the-hacker norm survives a nine-figure ask.

Intel Holds Above $100 as Washington's Stake Becomes the Funding Story

1 day ago

Intel Holds Above $100 as Washington's Stake Becomes the Funding Story

Intel traded 2.5% higher near $102.84 late Friday after President Trump said his $5,000 midterm payments to American adults will happen and Commerce Secretary Lutnick pointed to the government's Intel stake as a way to fund them. Washington's cost basis was $20.47 a share.

Metaplanet's CEO Just Gave Up $123 Million to Fix a Broken Bitcoin-Per-Share Problem

1 day ago

Metaplanet's CEO Just Gave Up $123 Million to Fix a Broken Bitcoin-Per-Share Problem

Metaplanet canceled 131.3 million potential shares on Sept. 11, wiping out $220 million in warrant value and cutting the CEO's payday by $123 million. The reason: its Bitcoin-per-share accretion collapsed from 129% to 2.8%. Now the entire corporate Bitcoin playbook is on notice.

L-BTC Is Trading Again, and Its Reserves Cover 85% of Supply

1 day ago

L-BTC Is Trading Again, and Its Reserves Cover 85% of Supply

SideSwap reopened L-BTC markets on Sept. 10 while the Liquid federation kept peg-outs frozen, leaving holders with a market price and no redemption route. A simultaneous onchain snapshot put backing at 85.15 percent of the 4,229 L-BTC outstanding. That gap is the whole story.

Gold Is Sitting on a Trapdoor at $4,347 and CPI Just Walked In

1 day ago

Gold Is Sitting on a Trapdoor at $4,347 and CPI Just Walked In

Gold is parked right on the neckline of a daily head-and-shoulders pattern at $4,347, with a confirmed break targeting $3,950. The August CPI print lands the same morning, and that combo could get ugly fast for longs.

Zcash Is Out-Mining Bitcoin Right Now, and Miners Are Sleeping on It

1 day ago

Zcash Is Out-Mining Bitcoin Right Now, and Miners Are Sleeping on It

Grayscale Research says Zcash now delivers better returns per machine and per kilowatt than Bitcoin. The data is real, the window probably won't last, and most miners are still chasing BTC out of habit.

US Bank Moved Its Stablecoin Across the Atlantic. The Walls Are the Real Story.

1 day ago

US Bank Moved Its Stablecoin Across the Atlantic. The Walls Are the Real Story.

US Bank just ran a live cross-border transfer of its USBDC token on Stellar, moving value between its own North American and European entities. The closed-loop design isn't a weakness, it's the whole point, and it tells you where bank-issued stablecoins go next.

UniCredit Wants In: Italy's No. 2 Bank Shops for Crypto Custody Tech

2 days ago

UniCredit Wants In: Italy's No. 2 Bank Shops for Crypto Custody Tech

Italy's second-largest bank is picking a vendor to hold and trade digital assets for clients, according to reports. It's the latest domino in a European banking race that's already well past the point of no return. Here's what UniCredit is building, why custody is the real prize, and the dates that matter next.

Nesa's Recovery Splits NES Holders Into Two Tiers, And Self-Custody Gets Nothing

2 days ago

Nesa's Recovery Splits NES Holders Into Two Tiers, And Self-Custody Gets Nothing

Nesa's NES token is trading again on Binance Alpha and funding again on Kraken's Ethereum rail after a $286M exploit. But the recovery rules are venue-specific, and nobody has published a migration path for tokens sitting in private wallets. Here's who wins, who loses, and why the hole in the middle matters.

Nasdaq Writes a $100M Check to Kraken's Parent, and the Terms Stay Hidden

2 days ago

Nasdaq Writes a $100M Check to Kraken's Parent, and the Terms Stay Hidden

Nasdaq Ventures agreed to invest $100 million in Payward, Kraken's parent, while Payward adopts Nasdaq's surveillance stack across five trading categories. The capital is the headline. The undisclosed stake size and a 2027 token launch date are the real story.

Bitcoin Tags $79K as CPI Lands In Line and Bond Yields Hit a 22-Year High

2 days ago

Bitcoin Tags $79K as CPI Lands In Line and Bond Yields Hit a 22-Year High

Bitcoin briefly broke past $79,000 while stocks turned green and the 10-year Treasury yield hit a level not seen in 22 years. That divergence is the whole story, and most traders are reading it wrong.

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