— Legal, Roman Storm
DOJ seeks October retrial for Tornado Cash dev Roman Storm
US Attorney Jay Clayton has requested a re-trial of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm on two of his criminal charges.
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Bitcoin up, Dubai real estate down since Iran war began
Amid the Iran war sell-off, influencers’ Dubai property values are crashing harder this month than BTC or most crypto portfolios.
— Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy
Strategy is paying credit card rates to keep STRC at $100
Strategy founder Michael Saylor has increased the dividend rate on STRC so high that it's now roughly 60% of a typical credit card rate.
Whoever’s running SBF’s X account keeps following memecoin shills
The proxy currently running Sam Bankman-Fried’s X account is following degenerate memecoin promoters on behalf of the former FTX supremo.
— Cloudflare, Crypto
AI just bypassed the Cloudflare protection that DeFi needs
A new AI tool claims it can “bypass Cloudflare natively” and scrape DeFi websites with “zero bot detection.”
Bitcoin outperforms gold and oil in first days of US-Iran war
Curiously, BTC has demonstrated relative strength among trillion-dollar assets since the onset of the Iran war.
— XRP
No, DTCC isn’t settling $4 quadrillion on XRPL
Fans of XRP thought its blockchain could benefit from "quadrillions" of trade settlements at the DTCC via Ripple Prime.
Odds swing wildly as Polymarket bets on Iran’s successor collapse
Polymarket trades about the next supreme leader of Iran illustrate the wild gambles that crypto traders are willing to make.
Kalshi uses ‘death carve-out’ to avoid paying out on Ali Khamenei ousting
Kalshi apparently allowed traders to bet on Ali Khamenei's ousting, racked up $54M in trades, then voided the result when he was killed.
US margin debt reached all-time highs as crypto lost $2 trillion
Crypto markets have been penalized with downside volatility amid historic levels of US margin debt relative to income.