World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the Trump-linked crypto venture that says it wants to “democratize finance,” has approved a governance overhaul that explicitly prices premium access at roughly $5 million worth of its native token. The move highlights a widening gap… Read More »Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Courts $5M ‘Super Node’ Investors While Preaching Democratized Finance
February’s US inflation data gave markets what they wanted on the surface: evidence that price pressures were still easing and that the path to lower interest rates remained open. But within days, the macro backdrop shifted sharply — with weaker… Read More »Why a ‘Soft’ February CPI May Not Be Enough to Sway the Fed
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is moving to rein in insider-style trading and manipulation risks in prediction markets, a fast-growing corner of derivatives that now overlaps heavily with crypto-native platforms and retail trading apps. For crypto traders, prediction… Read More »CFTC Targets Insider Trading Risks in Crypto Prediction Markets
Donald Trump is touting plans for what would be the first major new U.S. oil refinery in nearly half a century just as gasoline prices spike and energy re-emerges as a key inflation driver. For crypto and macro investors, the… Read More »Trump’s Brownsville Refinery Promise Meets the Reality of Rising Oil and Bitcoin Pressures
Within days of acknowledging that crypto mixers can have lawful uses, Washington also moved to retry one of the most high-profile mixer-related criminal cases in the US. For investors and builders, the juxtaposition around Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm has… Read More »Tornado Cash Retrial Push Exposes Washington’s Confusing Stance on Crypto Mixers
AI agents can already talk to each other, call tools, and move money over the internet. What the stack still lacks is a shared way to decide when the money should actually move. That unresolved “judgment layer” is where crypto… Read More »Do AI Agents Need Crypto to Safely Pay Each Other Online?
The U.S. Treasury has, for the first time, explicitly acknowledged that lawful users of digital assets may turn to crypto mixers to protect their financial privacy on public blockchains. The language, contained in a March 2026 report to Congress, does… Read More »US Treasury Opens Door to Regulated Crypto Mixers for Financial Privacy
Bitcoin’s derivatives market lit up ahead of the latest US jobs report, offering one of the clearest looks in months at how macro stress migrates into crypto. Funding rates for Bitcoin perpetual futures flipped sharply negative while open interest stayed… Read More »Bitcoin Funding Rates Turn Deeply Negative as Traders Brace for US Jobs Shock
AI is moving from experimental side project to everyday tool inside tech companies, including crypto firms. But the data emerging from job postings, usage metrics, and early academic work points to a more nuanced shift than a simple story of… Read More »How AI Is Reshaping Tech Careers: More Senior Roles, Fewer Entry-Level Paths
Bitcoin’s behavior around $70,000 in early March looked perplexing if you only watched it through a simple “risk assets down” lens. While oil markets absorbed one of their sharpest shocks in years and shipping risk in the Strait of Hormuz… Read More »Inside Bitcoin’s $70K ‘Options Magnet’: How $13B in Open Interest Is Steering Price Action
Public Bitcoin miners are suddenly being treated less like speculative crypto plays and more like scarce infrastructure assets. The reason has little to do with Bitcoin’s long‑term outlook and everything to do with a bottlenecked U.S. power grid and a… Read More »Why Wall Street Is Backing Bitcoin Miners as an AI Infrastructure Play
On Apr. 16, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will host a public roundtable on listed options market structure — a plumbing discussion that usually stays in the background of equities and index trading. This time, it arrives just… Read More »How the SEC’s Options Market Review Could Supercharge Bitcoin ETF Volatility in April