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⚡️ JUST IN: KPMG U.S issues Tether the largest inaugural financial audit in its history.
Every gold bar was physically counted, with reserves exceeding liabilities by $6.814 billion.
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🇺🇸 JUST IN: The CFTC will discuss crypto regulation, AI agents and prediction markets at its inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee meeting on Aug. 20.
🤖 JUST IN: OpenAI says the top 10% of enterprises use plugins twice as often and skills six times as often as typical firms.
🚨 UPDATE: $XRP closed near $1 on Aug. 12, its lowest level since November 2024, as active addresses rose roughly 33% month over month while new-wallet creation remained flat, according to Santiment.
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🚨 INSIGHT: Steve Eisman says the AI boom has an Achilles’ heel: OpenAI and Anthropic.
He warned cheaper Chinese open-source models could trigger a price war and threaten hyperscaler revenue.
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🚨 ALERT: Bitcoin fell back below $63,000, triggering $48M in crypto liquidations over the past hour, with $45.7M in longs wiped out.
🔥 LATEST: Anthropic investors are reportedly targeting a $2 trillion valuation for its potential IPO, according to the Financial Times.
🔥 BIG: Databricks closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation, up from $134 billion six months ago, as its revenue run rate surpassed $7 billion.
🚨 JUST IN: Riot Platforms sold 4,300 $BTC in Q2 to fund operations and data center expansion, ending June with 11,380 $BTC worth roughly $666 million.
🚨 BIG: Manhattan’s median rent hit a record $5,000 in July as listings fell more than 39% year over year, while Brooklyn rents reached $4,500.
⚡️ LATEST: SharpLink will stake $200 million in $ETH through Lido, adding wstETH to its treasury strategy to earn staking rewards while maintaining DeFi liquidity.
🔥 WATCH: You’ll never go wrong accumulating Bitcoin at these levels,” says Swan CEO @CorySwan in our latest interview.
What are the signals that the Bitcoin market may be nearing a bottom, and could one final sell-off still be ahead?
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🔥 JUST IN: The S&P 500 hits 7,800 for the first time in history.
🚨 UPDATE: A USENIX study found 65,340 abusive crypto addresses tied to $574.8M in losses on Ethereum and BNB Chain.
Researchers extracted 16.3M+ private keys from 63,004 GitHub repositories.
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🚨 UPDATE: “1011 Insider Whale” agent Garrett Jin is sitting on a $16M loss from a near $100M $BTC long.
🚨 ALERT: Trezor says a breach at one of its shipping providers exposed customer names, addresses, phone numbers and emails.
11,742 customers were fully affected, while 1,947 had partial data exposed. Trezor says its systems and devices remain secure.
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🔥 INSIGHT: Saylor says $BTC is Digital Capital, STRC is Digital Credit, and stablecoins sit on the transactional end.
🇺🇸 JUST IN: US producer prices were unchanged in July, below expectations for a 0.2% increase.
🔥 EXCLUSIVE: “DeFi doesn’t exist anymore,” says @flyingtulip_ founder @AndreCronjeTech at #CHAINREACTION#.
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🎙️ "I don't think DeFi exists anymore outside of very small niches."
@rkbaggs sat down with @AndreCronjeTech, founder of @flyingtulip_, to talk about the evolution of DeFi and how immutability has gone from a feature to a bug.
#CHAINREACTION#
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🇯🇵 LATEST: $2.7T MUFG is launching a proof-of-concept to bring Japanese government bond repo transactions onchain using Canton Network.
