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NewsFrom Crypto Gold Rush to AI Mania: Why Venture Capital Left Web3, What It Still Funds, and What Comes Next

From Crypto Gold Rush to AI Mania: Why Venture Capital Left Web3, What It Still Funds, and What Comes Next

For a few brief years, crypto was the place where venture capital wanted to look early, brave, and slightly dangerous. Every major fund needed a Web3 thesis. Every generalist investor wanted access to token networks, DeFi infrastructure, NFT platforms, crypto gaming, Layer 1 chains, wallets, custodi

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EthereumFake Uniswap Ads on Google Show Crypto’s Most Dangerous Attack Vector Is Still the Search Bar

Fake Uniswap Ads on Google Show Crypto’s Most Dangerous Attack Vector Is Still the Search Bar

The latest Uniswap phishing campaign did not require a protocol exploit, a bridge vulnerability, or a smart contract bug. It needed something far simpler: a sponsored Google result that looked convincing enough for users to click. According to on-chain analyst b-block and Web3 marketer Stacy Muur, s

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EthereumThe SquidRouterModule Exploit Shows Why Safe Wallet Security Is Now a Supply-Chain Problem

The SquidRouterModule Exploit Shows Why Safe Wallet Security Is Now a Supply-Chain Problem

The latest DeFi exploit did not hit a flashy yield farm, a thinly audited memecoin contract, or a bridge holding hundreds of millions in pooled liquidity. It hit something more uncomfortable: smart accounts that many crypto users treat as the safer side of on-chain custody. A third-party module labe

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BitcoinArthur Hayes’ Privacy Trade: Why NEAR and Zcash Sit at the Center of His AI-Era Crypto Thesis

Arthur Hayes’ Privacy Trade: Why NEAR and Zcash Sit at the Center of His AI-Era Crypto Thesis

Arthur Hayes has never been subtle about macro trades. When the former BitMEX chief and Maelstrom CIO sees a narrative forming, he tends to say the quiet part out loud. This time, the trade is privacy. Not privacy as a cypherpunk slogan, not privacy as a niche feature buried in wallet settings, but

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NewsBrian Armstrong’s Future of Finance Is an On-Chain System Built for AI, Stablecoins, and Tokenized Everything

Brian Armstrong’s Future of Finance Is an On-Chain System Built for AI, Stablecoins, and Tokenized Everything

Brian Armstrong’s latest post reads less like a casual X thread and more like a compressed manifesto for the next financial system. The Coinbase CEO laid out eight areas where finance still needs an upgrade, ranging from tokenized real-world assets and 24/7 global markets to stablecoin payments, AI-

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EthereumVitalik’s Ethereum Vision Is Not About Being the Fastest Chain. It Is About Being the Hardest to Capture.

Vitalik’s Ethereum Vision Is Not About Being the Fastest Chain. It Is About Being the Hardest to Capture.

Vitalik Buterin’s latest statement on Ethereum is not a hype post. It is not a price prediction, not a roadmap teaser, and not another attempt to frame Ethereum as the inevitable settlement layer for global finance. It is something more revealing: a philosophical reset. In his view, Ethereum’s futur

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BitcoinBlackRock’s $1 Billion Bitcoin Exit Is a Warning Shot for the ETF Market

BlackRock’s $1 Billion Bitcoin Exit Is a Warning Shot for the ETF Market

The latest Bitcoin market anxiety has a familiar name at the center of it: BlackRock. According to reports citing Arkham data, BlackRock-linked wallets moved roughly $1.01 billion worth of Bitcoin over the past week, with the sales reportedly spread across daily transactions rather than executed as

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CardanoCardano’s Research Showdown: Charles Hoskinson Warns the “Science Coin” Could Lose Its Edge

Cardano’s Research Showdown: Charles Hoskinson Warns the “Science Coin” Could Lose Its Edge

Cardano has always sold itself as crypto’s most intellectually disciplined chain: peer-reviewed papers, formal methods, academic conferences, mathematically grounded engineering and a development culture that often seemed more like a research institute than a startup. Now that identity is being test

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BitcoinPompliano’s Crypto Purge: Why Bitcoin, Stablecoins and Tokenization May Be the Only Survivors

Pompliano’s Crypto Purge: Why Bitcoin, Stablecoins and Tokenization May Be the Only Survivors

Anthony Pompliano has never been shy about drawing hard lines in crypto, but his latest argument cuts deeper than the usual Bitcoin maximalist sermon. His message is not simply that Bitcoin will win. It is that most of the crypto industry has already lost. In his view, the future belongs to a narrow

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