Coinbase is now the official USDC treasury deployer on Hyperliquid, a platform it competes with. Alex Weseley [@0xpampa] of @artemis ran the math on Unchained: $150M in new annual revenue for Hyperliquid, a 25% boost to its base. And he explained why Coinbase did it anyway: Timestamps: 🔵 0:00 Coinbase acquires USDH brand, and what an aligned quote asset is on Hyperliquid 📈 3:42 Why Hype jumped 10% and what's in it for Coinbase 💙 8:51 Coinbase: Get 20% off the first year of your Coinbase One annual plan at ⚖️ 10:52 Coinbase increases its staked Hype position: why is it aligning with a no-KYC competitor? 🤖 14:00 The two reasons why Alex projects that Coinbase could be a $300B company by 2031 📜 22:11 CLARITY Act: activity-based stablecoin yield compromise and what it means for Coinbase 💔 26:25 Is the Circle–Coinbase marriage heading for divorce? 🌊 30:22 After recent successes, where does Hyperliquid go from here?

'It's far easier to satisfy the market by selling them rocks with Anthropic written on it.' @kaiynne on Uneasy Money traces the full spectrum from WhatsApp scam groups to KYC'd Forge transactions to purely synthetic on-chain perps — and why the last category is unstoppable. @tayvano_ @LucaNetz

In today's @Unchained_pod Daily newsletter: 🏛️ The Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act Thursday in a 15-9 bipartisan vote, with two Democrats crossing the aisle 💵 Coinbase became Hyperliquid's official USDC treasury deployer as USDH begins its sunset 📊 JPMorgan said bitcoin is outperforming ether and altcoins across every institutional metric, and that trend won't change without a DeFi revival 📈 Read the latest update… and get more daily! Subscribe

Mad about how Tornado Cash and crypto devs have been treated by prior administrations? The new CLARITY Act draft would prevent that from happening again with what’s called a “specific intent” standard. @kkirkbos, @TuongvyLe12, and @JoshR_GSR on why that matters — and where passage odds actually stand. @DEXintheCityPod Timestamps: ⚖️ 0:00 Intro — new CLARITY Act draft drops; why there’s still a lot of work to do 📜 5:27 Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act developer protections and why the “specific intent” standard is so important 🏦 11:06 How TradFi actually feels about crypto market structure legislation 📊 14:45 What CLARITY must achieve: the US as the center for crypto innovation and the security/commodity line 🎰 18:11 Lightning round — passage odds: KK at 35%, Vy at 90%, Josh at 45% 🌸 21:32 Does the recent M&A wave, massive VC raises and Circle's Arc token presale mean it’s crypto spring? 💙 27:41 Coinbase: Get 20% off the first year of your Coinbase One annual plan at 📈 29:39 The least bearish bear market in history — RWA wave and institutional onchain demand ♀️ 33:41 The E11even controversy: ‘Maybe we should just not have strippers at official events.’ 🎤 34:56 SEC Chair Paul Atkins' speech recognizing that onchain infrastructure can achieve the same goals as TradFi rails 📚 43:00 The education gap: most legislators still at Bitcoin-level crypto knowledge 🤖 46:46 AI good news: Redmod AI system may detect pancreatic cancer early

Circle is the first public company to run a token presale, and its stock went up on the news. @ramahluwalia, @austincampbell, and @perkinscr97 ask the one question that matters: where does the value actually accrue? On @bitsandbips Timestamps: 🚀 0:00 Introduction and Iran ceasefire update 🛢️ 1:02 What Ram and Chris are watching in oil and Hormuz 📊 4:49 Why markets are shrugging off geopolitical noise 🤖 13:25 Ram on why the market is all one giant bet on AI 💬 16:03 Is the AI rally a bubble or a fundamental shift? 🏦 27:04 Circle launches Arc: could its token compete with its own stock? 📉 40:21 Coinbase: were the layoffs due to AI or the bear market? 🎭 48:26 What it says about the industry that Consensus’s afterparty was at E11even The Crypto Industry’s Maturity Problem

In today's @Unchained_pod Daily newsletter: 🏛️ The Warsh Era is officially here after a historic Senate showdown. ⚖️ Crypto’s legislative future faces a mountain of amendments. 🚨 A massive global crackdown intercepts hundreds of millions in illicit assets. 📉 BTC slides as the ETF "honeymoon" period ends. ⚡ Read today’s biggest crypto news… and subscribe for more!

🚨 #BREAKING#: T3 Financial Crime Unit, the joint initiative from @tether, @trondao, and @trmlabs, has frozen more than $450M in illicit assets globally, with 2025 interceptions running 43.9% ahead of last year.