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🚨 NEW: Open interest in Hyperliquid's oil perpetual contracts hits an all-time high as crypto traders increasingly rotate into commodity-linked products, Bloomberg reports.

LATEST: ⚡ Bitcoin firm Fold paid off $66.3 million in convertible debt and unlocked 521 BTC previously held as collateral, freeing up capital as it prepares to launch a BTC rewards credit card.

CORPORATE TREASURIES ARE BUYING BERA.
Nasdaq listed Greenlane holdings just confirmed they aggressively bought another 8 million of Bera.
This is part of a massive ongoing corporate treasury accumulation strategy.
Public companies are front running retail liquidity. CORPORATE TREASURIES ARE BUYING BERA.
Nasdaq listed Greenlane holdings just confirmed they aggressively bought another 8 million of Bera.
This is part of a massive ongoing corporate treasury accumulation strategy.
Public companies are front running retail liquidity.

Everyone knows about the 10K Bitcoin Pizza, but NOBODY talks about the other 150K BTC he wasted afterwards
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Before the famous pizza order, Laszlo Hanyecz invented GPU mining for Bitcoin
This made it possible for him to mine thousands of BTC per day
Satoshi personally messaged him about it, and was worried it would break the network
Laszlo's response: "I feel like I crapped up your project"
He kept buying strangers dinner in Bitcoin until he couldn't mine fast enough to keep up
His wallet has a whopping total volume of 162,864 BTC
That's $10.7 BILLION in today's value, and $20.3 BILLION at the

SUDDEN MARKET SHAKEOUT
Bitcoin drops -1.7% in 5 hours, falling below $68K as global uncertainty rises.
Silver slides -4% to $86.5/oz and gold dips -1% to $5.3K/oz as investors reassess safe-haven demand.
Volatility is picking up fast.

Vitalik Buterin details Ethereum's plan to decentralize block building and tackle MEV through ePBS, FOCIL, and encrypted mempools.

COINBASE PREMIUM JUST FLIPPED -- FLOWS ARE DRIVING THIS MOVE
Bitcoin’s rebound looks less about geopolitics and more about real money stepping back in.
After weeks of negative readings, the Coinbase Premium just turned positive (~+0.05%) for the first time in about 40 days. At the same time, U.S. spot #Bitcoin ETFs saw roughly $1.1B of inflows in three days, including about $652M into BlackRock’s $IBIT. $BTC responded by bouncing back toward the $68K area.
The structure here matters. Coinbase is a key venue for U.S. institutional flow, and a positive premium typically signals real spot demand

SoftBank-backed PayPay is aiming to raise up to $1.1 billion in its US IPO, potentially one of the largest Japanese listings on American markets.

BREAKING: President Trump says wars can be fought “forever” using US munitions stockpiles with a “virtually unlimited” supply of weapons.

The Yen Tokenization.
Dentsu Soken and Fusion Layer are collaborating to tokenize the Japanese Yen.
Quant is the architecture underneath.
ECB. Bank of England. Now Japan.
The CBDC lockup thesis isn't speculation.
It's a licensing model that removes QNT from circulation permanently.

🔥 NEW: CME Group says its crypto futures lineup including BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, LINK, and XLM now covers over 75% of the total crypto market cap.

Investors are hedging against a credit market crash at an accelerating pace:
Put option open interest in US large credit ETFs, $HYG, $JNK, $LQD, and $BKLN, is at a record ~11.5 million contracts.
The total number of outstanding contracts on these funds has DOUBLED over the last 12 months.
By comparison, the 2022 bear market high was 10.0 million contracts.
Meanwhile, tech high-yield credit spreads surged to 556 basis points, surpassing the April 2025 highs and reaching the widest level since October 2023.
By comparison, the all sector high-yield spreads stand at 361 basis points, the highest s

ISRAELI MARKETS JUST HIT ALL-TIME HIGHS -- IN THE MIDDLE OF WAR
While headlines focus on Iran tensions, the market is telling a very different story.
Israel’s stock market pushed to fresh record highs despite the ongoing military conflict, reinforcing a pattern we’ve seen repeatedly this cycle: geopolitical shocks are creating volatility hookup… but not sustained risk-off behavior.
This matters for Bitcoin and broader risk assets.
Markets are increasingly trading on liquidity and flows, not just fear headlines. Even with elevated regional tensions, equities rebounded quickly — the same resilie

📈 Pump.​fun's mobile app has added support for tokens from other Solana launchpads as well as Wormhole-bridged Bitcoin and Ethereum.

BREAKING: Global gold funds posted +$6.2 billion in inflows last week, the 3rd consecutive weekly intake.
Year-to-date, gold funds have attracted a record +$148 billion in annualized inflows.
In other words, at this pace, investors will pour more capital into gold funds than the 2025 record of +$101 billion.
This would also be +200% higher than the 2020 pandemic year.
Gold funds saw +$19 billion in inflows in January, the strongest month on record.
Asset owners are accumulating even more assets.

IN: Uniswap wins full dismissal of the scam token class action lawsuit, with the judge ruling the platform cannot be held liable for third-party token issuers' misconduct.

Investors are rushing into international stocks at a record pace:
Global equity funds posted +$38.1 billion in inflows last week.
Year-to-date, equity funds have pulled in a record $1.1 trillion in annualized inflows.
This puts 2026 on track to surpass last year’s record of +$826 billion by +33%.
South Korea led the rush with +$3.7 billion inflows last week, bringing YTD annualized inflows to +$21 billion, larger than any full year on record.
The appetite for global equities has never been this strong.

425 million credit union St. Cloud launches "digital asset vault" for customers to custody their Bitcoin 💥

MASSIVE:
Visa is now settling stablecoin transactions on Ethereum.
One of the world’s largest payment networks is quietly upgrading its rails.
Finance is going on-chain by necessity.