10 Sep 2026
A Bitcoin Sidechain Lost 95% of its Reserves In Minutes
Oil soars above $108 on US-Iran tensions, Bitcoin ETFs see $987M weekly inflows, and Blockstream's Liquid Network loses 95% of its reserves.
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03 Sep 2026
The CLARITY Act Vote Is 10 Days Away. The Odds Are 15%.
The Senate votes on the CLARITY Act in 10 days with Polymarket giving 15% odds. Strategy bought back $635M in stock instead of Bitcoin.
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27 Aug 2026
Bitcoin Hit Its Highest Price Since May
Bitcoin touched $80,000 for the first time since May, XRP rallied 43% before a flash crash.
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20 Aug 2026
$2.7 billion in shorts just got liquidated. Bitcoin hit $72,000.
The Treasury doubled its bond buybacks. $2.74 billion in short positions got liquidated in a single day. Trump held a crypto meeting at the White House. And Bitcoin hit $72,000 in three days.
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15 Jul 2026
Hormuz Is Closed Again But Crypto Keeps Climbing
The June US-Iran peace deal collapsed, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and oil hit a one-month high, but a soft June CPI print pulled Bitcoin back toward $65,000. Plus the CLARITY Act stalls in the Senate and an SBI-backed XRP treasury moves toward a Nasdaq listing.
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09 Jul 2026
Bitcoin ETF Stopped Bleeding And Buy Boost is Live
The 10-day Bitcoin ETF selloff finally broke, Buy Boost went live, Washington still can't pass the CLARITY Act, a $6M Summer.fi exploit, and Ripple cleared Europe with a MiCA license.
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02 Jul 2026
The carry trade is cracking. Whales don't care.
The yen hit a 40-year low and a $4 trillion carry trade is looking shaky, while Bitcoin whales made the largest single on-chain accumulation ever recorded at $59,000. Plus, Ripple joins the 140-company Open USD stablecoin consortium.
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24 Jun 2026
The Ceasefire Is Real. But It's Fragile.
The US and Iran signed a 14-point ceasefire memorandum, but localized escalation in Lebanon is already testing it. Plus: South Korea's KOSPI fell 10% in a day and cascaded into crypto, and a $15 million reverse honeypot drained one of Ethereum's most aggressive sandwich bots.
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18 Jun 2026
Ceasefire signed. Oil crashes and markets recover.
A signed US-Iran peace deal reopened the Strait of Hormuz and sent Brent crude down 35% in a single session. New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh held rates at 3.50-3.75%, while XRP sentiment hit 2026 lows even as institutional ETF inflows kept climbing.
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11 Jun 2026
The $1.7 trillion dollar company that can't get into the S&P 500
Lantern now lets you buy, sell, and hold crypto directly in the app. Plus: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic head for the public markets, and the Clarity Act clears committee.
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