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Ben Weiss

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Influencer who attended Trump’s memecoin dinner says he got a ‘Walmart steak’—and no access to the president

“I was hoping for either Big Macs or pizza. That would have been better than the food that we were served,” said Nicholas Pinto.

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Bitcoin nears all-time high of $109,000 amid stock market recovery

The world’s largest cryptocurrency last notched its highest price in January during President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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Consumer sentiment plunges to near-record lows—but stock markets remain unfazed

Sentiment readings dipped from 52.2 in April to 50.8 in May, according to new data from the University of Michigan.

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JPMorgan Chase steps beyond ‘walled garden’ to settle transaction on public blockchain

This is the first time the U.S.'s largest bank has built out a system to interface with a public blockchain.

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The new CFO of eBay left 20 years ago. Now she’s ‘boomeranged’ back to return it to its roots—and invest in AI

“Now the focus is on, ‘Let's go back to the rich history of collectors and people that need a personalized, customized experience,” Peggy Alford said.

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Stock markets stagnate as investors wait for Bessent’s trade talks with China

“Many Trade Deals in the hopper, all good (GREAT!) ones!,” President Donald Trump posted Friday on his social media app Truth Social.

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Coinbase says $2.9 billion Deribit deal will increase profits even as income drops in Q1

CEO Brian Armstrong added that Deribit’s acquisition is his company’s “biggest move yet” to expand internationally.

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Exclusive: Statsig raises $100 million at $1.1 billion valuation after abandoned Datadog acquisition attempt

Statsig bet on itself. Datadog bought a competitor.

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Stocks climb back to ‘Liberation Day’ levels after surprise jobs report

The U.S. added 177,000 jobs in April, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s more than the 135,000 that economists had estimated.

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Remember MoviePass? It’s still around—and going all in on crypto

“I think that blockchain and virtual reality are going to be an amazing force together,” proclaimed MoviePass’s CEO.

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Americans can finally scan their eyeballs for crypto in return after Sam Altman-backed World launches in U.S.

The eyeball-scanning crypto play had originally stayed out of the U.S. market amid a more uncertain regulatory regime.

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Trump Media plans launch of ‘utility token’ and digital wallet tied to streaming service

President Donald Trump’s publicly traded company has already signaled that it wants to dive into crypto.

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Stock market retreat in Trump’s first 100 days is among worst starts for a president in almost a century

In President Joe Biden’s first 100 days, the S&P 500 surged more than 9%. Under Trump, it’s tanked almost 8%.

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Exclusive: Camp Network raises $25 million to help firms collect AI copyright royalties using blockchain

1kx and Blockchain Capital both led the Series A, which valued the startup at up to $400 million.

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Andreessen Horowitz leads $25 million bet on Miden, a former Meta engineer’s privacy blockchain

Miden used to be part of Polygon Labs, one of crypto’s biggest blockchain development firms.

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Markets notch small gains as tech stocks rise and Trump delivers mixed signals on tariffs

President Donald Trump said he’s made “200 deals” on tariffs but declined to say with whom.

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Exclusive: Startup Theo raises $20 million to give investors a piece of high-frequency trading strategies

The trading app’s three cofounders used to work at the HFT firms Optiver and IMC Trading.

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Crypto firms gave $18M to Trump’s inauguration, Ripple’s $4.9M gift was second biggest overall

Only Pilgrim's, one of the world's largest poultry producers, outspent Ripple.

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Coinbase in hot water over $12 million ‘content coin’—but exec tells haters to lean in

Detractors said the U.S. crypto exchange was buying into memecoin mania. Pollak says he was just having fun "on chain.”

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Crypto exchange OKX relaunches in U.S. two months after settling with DOJ for $500 million

The Seychelles-based crypto exchange also established a regional HQ in San Jose, California, and appointed Roshan Robert as its new U.S. CEO.

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Sam Bankman-Fried sent to ‘notoriously hard’ prison in California

“He’s gone from a five-star hotel down to a one-star hotel,” said one federal prison consultant, in reference to Bankman-Fried’s move from...

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Justice Department scraps crypto unit as Trump further loosens oversight of digital assets

The National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit, was established in 2021 and prosecuted major crypto-related felonies.

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Crypto venture firms like Paradigm enjoy banner years, Multicoin posts 56% annual growth

New SEC filings show that crypto VCs had a massive bump in 2024.

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Exclusive: Codex raises $16 million to build a blockchain just for stablecoins

Dragonfly led the round, while the venture arms of Coinbase and Circle also invested.

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Renault and Nissan agree to loosen alliance as Japanese carmaker finds itself in financial trouble

The two carmakers have been partners since 1999 when Renault rescued Nissan from bankruptcy.

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Trump sons launch new Bitcoin mining business called ‘American Bitcoin’

American Bitcoin is yet another crypto venture from the Trump family over the past year.

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Sam Bankman-Fried parts ways with ‘Diddy’ as feds transfer crypto conman from Brooklyn prison to Oklahoma

The former FTX CEO is presumably en route to California, where his parents live.

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Incoming SEC chair Paul Atkins and his wife have 54 life insurance policies. Why?

Experts speculate that the dozens of policies may be a tax strategy—or that Atkins may be buying up others’ policies as an investment.

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Incoming SEC chair Paul Atkins owns up to $6 million in crypto-related assets—though no Bitcoin

Atkins has a position in Anchorage, a crypto custodian, and Securitize, a tokenization firm.

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Donald Trump’s crypto business launched a dollar coin called USD1: What we know so far

His family’s crypto project, World Liberty Financial, implicitly confirmed the launch on Monday.

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Exclusive: Walrus Foundation raises $140 million from Standard Crypto and a16z for a high speed storage network

The foundation supports the Walrus protocol, a decentralized network for storing files.

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Exclusive: Pluralis raises $7.6 million from prominent investors to take on OpenAI with big decentralized models

Alexander Long has assembled a team of PhDs and postdocs to see if it’s possible to build decentralized models that compete with the tech titans.

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XRP soars 10% after Ripple CEO says SEC will drop appeal

The lawsuit was one of the agency’s longest-running cases against a crypto company.

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Exclusive: Crossmint nets $24 million to build crypto developer platform for tech firms

Rodri Fernández Touza dropped out of Stanford and Harvard to moonlight as a Buddhist monk. Then he became a founder.

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Four teens charged for alleged pistol-whipping, attempted Bitcoin robbery of OnlyFans influencer

Kaitlyn Siragusa, 31, was assaulted in her Houston home in early March.

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The stock market gained 2% during Biden’s first 60 days. Under Trump the market has tanked 7%

The S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones have all plummeted since President Donald Trump took office in January.

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How Jump and Solana vets are building a hyper fast internet for blockchains

The high frequency trading-inspired project DoubleZero has raised $28 million at a reported $400 million valuation.

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U.S. crypto czar’s $200 million portfolio held Bitcoin, Coinbase, and Robinhood

The AI and crypto czar divested a substantial portfolio of crypto holdings before he entered the White House, according to a memo.

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Argentina seeks arrest of U.S. crypto figure tied to Melania and Milei cryptocurrencies

Hayden Adams claimed to be one of the key actors behind the launch of Javier Milei’s memecoin in February.

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Binance nets biggest ever crypto investment as UAE-backed MGX puts in $2 billion

The investment came in the form of stablecoins and reflects the growing presence of crypto in the Middle East.

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Sam Bankman-Fried is behind bars serving a 25-year sentence. So how is he conducting a media blitz?

The former FTX CEO spoke with Tucker Carlson from prison in early March.

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Coinbase CEO plans to hire 1,000 U.S. workers, saying Trump ‘breathed life back’ into industry

The crypto CEO attended the White House’s Crypto Summit on Friday.

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Trump holds long-awaited crypto summit, calls for bill ‘on his desk’ before August

"Never sell your Bitcoin. That's a little phrase that they have," Trump said during a Friday press conference. "I don't know if that's right or not."

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Hackers are taking aim at board directors, warns Cisco security exec

Jason Lish, global CISO of Cisco, also said that bad actors are sending out more physical ransom letters.

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Trump signs order for strategic crypto reserve, adds 200,000 seized Bitcoins

President Donald Trump promised Bitcoiners a strategic reserve during his appearance at a crypto conference in July.

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Robinhood taps HQ Trivia host for new contest with $2 million in Bitcoin prizes—and some Doge

The “Quiz Daddy” is back (just for two days), and he’s ready to dive back into the “nitty-gritty.”

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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian wants to buy TikTok—and add a bold new crypto element

Ohanian posted Tuesday on X that he’s looking to bring TikTok “on-chain.”

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How North Korea cracked Bybit’s crypto safe to steal $1.5 billion in a record heist

North Korean hackers laid in wait for “probably many months." Here is a step by step guide to how they pulled off the robbery.

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Here are the 5 cryptocurrencies Trump wants to buy with your tax dollars

The U.S. president sent crypto markets soaring with just two posts Sunday on Truth Social.

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Coinbase’s stock slides nearly 30% as Bitcoin tanks

Other fintech firms that have a crypto business have also seen their stocks dip, including Robinhood.

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