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a16z is backing "Monitoring the Situation," a 24/7 X livestream born from Polymarket meme culture, as tech VCs build their own news-industrial complex. Summary Andreessen Horowitz has helped launch "Monitoring the Situation" (MTS), a 24/7 livestream show on X, leaning into crypto-prediction mar

Spark's MonetSupply says Aave's decision to unfreeze its Core WETH market lets LST/LRT whales farm \~45% weETH loops while aEthWETH sits at 100% utilization, trapping regular users. Summary Spark strategy director MonetSupply says Aave's decision to unfreeze its Ethereum Core WETH market is "il

According to market analyst Diana, approximately 60% of SWIFT-listed banks now have some connection to Ripple, marking a shift from traditional rivalry to convergence in global payments infrastructure. The trend reflects growing institutional adoption of blockchain-based settlement alongside

Nick Ducoff, head of institutional growth at Solana Foundation, stated in a recent TheStreet Roundtable discussion that Solana's vision of becoming the on-chain Nasdaq and home of internet capital markets is "getting closer and closer." Ducoff outlined four competing approaches to tokenized

Curve founder Michael Egorov is pushing for chain-wide DeFi security standards after the Kelp rsETH exploit exposed how "centralized" chokepoints can still wreck supposedly decentralized systems. Summary Curve's Michael Egorov says many DeFi hacks stem from avoidable centralized weak points. H

DMCA Takedown Abuse Removes Press Gazette Investigation From Google Search In March 2026, businesses and publishers across multiple countries discovered that a 1998 copyright law can be weaponized to erase websites from Google Search within hours with no verification required and no warning

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says USDT supply has hit a record $188b, cementing the stablecoin's dominance as broader stablecoin liquidity sits near all-time highs. Summary Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says USDT supply has reached a record $188 billion. The new peak comes weeks after stablecoins hit a

Debond Stable Growth Mixed Fund (德邦稳盈增长) released its first-quarter 2026 report on April 21, revealing rapid asset growth alongside significant investment losses. The fund's assets under management reached 50.42 billion yuan by quarter-end, up 4 billion yuan from 10.11 billion yuan at the end

Startale Group, the global crypto infrastructure company behind Japan’s largest public Astar Network chain, is taking one of the world’s fastest-growing state-backed crypto ecosystems in Abu Dhabi The company was selected as one of 27 firms from more than 2,400 global applicants for the Hub71

LayerZero attributed a $290 million exploit of KelpDAO's cross-chain rsETH configuration to North Korea's Lazarus Group on April 18, describing the attacker as a "highly-sophisticated state actor." According to LayerZero, the incident was limited to KelpDAO's rsETH setup and did not spread to other

Kash Patel news broke Monday as the FBI Director filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick in US District Court in Washington, alleging the magazine published "false and obviously fabricated allegations" in a story that reported Patel had alarmed

Ripple announced on Monday a multi-stage roadmap to build quantum-resistant infrastructure for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) by 2028, addressing growing concerns about the security of existing cryptographic systems against future quantum computing threats. Quantum Threat Context While quantum computing t

Broadridge Financial Solutions has announced a minority investment in CENTRL alongside a strategic partnership to integrate AI-driven due diligence tools into its data and analytics platform, according to the announcement. The collaboration targets financial services workflows where manual

Bitcoin rose on ETF demand while miners sold BTC; margins tightened and AI/HPC-focused pivots could turn miners into AI data-center players, potentially boosting valuations as AI demand grows. Abstract: Bitcoin rose on ETF demand amid miner selling and tight margins. The report highlights a strategic pivot by public miners toward AI/HPC infrastructure, signaling a potential shift from pure bitcoin mining to AI data-center services and higher valuation multiples.

Bitmine 单周增持 101,627 枚 ETH，总持仓逼近 500 万枚。本文解析企业级 ETH 囤积的质押收益逻辑、机构化趋势及其对以太坊供应结构的影响。

Gulf states are burning less oil for power generation even as electricity demand rises, according to the International Energy Agency's latest Global Energy Review released in April 2026. The Middle East is increasingly turning to natural gas to meet rising energy needs in growing economies and