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# Trump Dislikes Short Sellers: Crypto's Macro Flow Donald Trump recently articulated a sentiment that really resonated with me: he dislikes short sellers. While not a groundbreaking revelation, his comments, delivered amidst an absolutely wild stock market, signal something more significant—a perv ...

Looks like the UN is actually leaning into crypto for aid. What now? The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) just extended their partnership through 2027. This isn’t just another pilot program; this is the UN—a *major* international body ...

GRVT token generation event points to fresh interest in ZK rollups GRVT's token generation event, scheduled for July 21, gives the ZK rollup crowd a clean date to circle. One token launch does not prove adoption is back. Not even close. But it does give us a sharper read on appetite for ...

Russia Telegram Unblock Request: A Crypto Adoption Signal? Russian State Duma deputies recently asked officials to review restrictions on Telegram. Their case was not subtle: the blocks cost too much, and they do not work. I'll be honest: that is the part that matters. If the request is ...

Open Standard OUSD fake partners scandal hits crypto adoption story A June 30 report accused Open Standard, the company behind the OUSD stablecoin, of listing more than 140 global organizations as partners without real agreements. Not fringe names, either: Visa, Mastercard, Google, Blac ...

Investors move from AI to crypto: a possible rotation signal Money is starting to come out of the hottest AI trades and drift back into crypto. Memory and semiconductor stocks have cooled off, while Bitcoin has bounced enough to get traders watching again. My take: this is not confirmat ...

Cyborg Cockroach Crypto Investment: Biotech Experiment Opens a Strange New Market Everyone has been waiting for altcoin season. Meanwhile, scientists in Singapore and Japan put tiny underwater gear on Madagascar cockroaches. Weird? Yes. Also real. My take: this is exactly the kind of ugl ...

Hyperliquid HYPE long profit jumps: a DeFi whale's bet One Hyperliquid trader is sitting on about $44,000,000 in profit from a HYPE long. Wild number. I do not love treating whale trades like prophecy, but this one is hard to ignore. It shows how much size now moves through decentralized ...

Anthropic Claude Prompt Library: A new AI tool for crypto devs Anthropic has released a prompt library for Claude. For crypto developers and traders, the draw is blunt: it removes the blank-page problem. Instead of staring at an empty chat box and trying to phrase the perfect request, u ...

Fed Balance Sheet Drops $11B: Inflation Fight Gets Tougher, Crypto Flinches The Federal Reserve's balance sheet fell by $11,081,000,000 in one week. Not small. Not cosmetic. My take: that number matters because it means liquidity is still draining from the system, and risk assets usuall ...