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Robinhood Chain is seeing real onchain traction, but the $10 billion weekly DEX claim doesn’t hold up against the data. Verified seven-day Uniswap volume is about $3.1 billion, with heavy traffic, rising activity, and plenty of speculation driving the surge.
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Iran’s Economy Ministry has launched an “economic war” command center as tensions with Israel escalate, signaling Tehran expects serious economic fallout. Details are sparse, but the move points to tighter coordination around trade, markets, sanctions pressure, and wartime instability.
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XRP is holding around $1.42 after its August surge, but traders are still waiting for a clean break above $1.48 to $1.50. The CLARITY Act is the bigger catalyst, while utility headlines may help sentiment without guaranteeing upside.
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Standard Chartered has expanded institutional spot trading in bitcoin and ether to the UAE, adding direct crypto market access through its DFSA-regulated DIFC arm. It’s another sign that major banks are getting more comfortable with regulated crypto rails.
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Gold’s price is racing ahead, but drilling and exploration are still lagging badly — a mismatch that could tighten supply later if demand stays firm. Central bank buying adds support, but miners’ caution today may become tomorrow’s shortage.
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Nscale is reportedly showing investors $103 billion in contracted revenue ahead of a possible IPO, driven in part by a $45 billion Anthropic compute deal. Big number, sure — but it’s backlog, not cash, and turning power-hungry AI contracts into real revenue is where the fun starts.
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Zcash surged past $1,000 on a brutal short squeeze, boosted by Grayscale’s growing ZEC ETF and upgrades aimed at making private transactions faster and easier to use. The move puts privacy back in focus — but leverage, not just fundamentals, did a lot of the heavy lifting.
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Sapient has open-sourced HRM-Text, a 1B text model built on a hierarchical recurrent architecture, and says the reference run cost about $1,472. The release is a real test of whether smarter training and recurrence can beat brute-force scaling — with healthy skepticism still warranted.
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A dormant Bitcoin wallet from 2011 just moved 40 BTC — coins that were worth about $120 at the time and roughly $3.09 million today. The transfer doesn’t prove a sale, but it’s another reminder of Bitcoin’s wild upside and why old wallets still grab attention.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum slipped as stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs data cooled rate-cut hopes, but ETF inflows are still coming in. Macro pressure is running the show for now, while BTC and ETH try to hold key levels and avoid a deeper slide.
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