Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️

Founder of TechCrunch, CrunchBase and Arrington Capital. Be Excellent To Each Other. 🚀🌕

[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

buying bitcoin.

[BSCN @BSCNews]

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[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

@PTruthspeaker total insanity.

[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

This cannot be accurate.

[Arrington Capital @Arrington_Cap]

XION just rebranded to @Verona_dev — the intelligence layer for AI. Big moves with ero launch + $18.5M raise. Trust in AI is finally getting interesting infrastructure.
Well done, @BurntBanksy and team! 🙌

[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

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[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

NEW: Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a 0.2% tax on crypto transactions into law including transfers between personal wallets, with the Crypto Council for Innovation calling it "the most punitive digital asset tax in the country."

[Bland @usebland]

Today, we’re announcing that we’ve closed our Series C and raised $100M to continue automating the world’s most complex phone calls.

We grabbed some guy named Paul to talk about it because nobody else in the office wanted to. 🧵

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

A UK startup can now assess skin cancer from a smartphone!

People have been talking about using AI to cure cancer.

This is the first time I've seen a company actually come close.

Users take a close-up photo of a mole or lesion through the app and it returns one of two results: clear, or a referral for further assessment.

The same decision a dermatologist would make but made autonomously by an AI on a consumer device.

The technology has already been used on 230,000 patients and identified over 20,000 cancers, but this is the first time it's being used on a smartphone.

CRAZY, amazing stuff from the team at @SkinAnalytics

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

For the first time, these are real 1:1 backed tokenized stocks you can trust. You own an actual chunk of the company onchain.

Other current solutions are some form of derivative or IOU - not real ownership.

Our product will give all the benefits of true ownership, with all the benefits of tokenized assets. This is a great step towards unlocking global access to U.S. markets

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Frank Chaparro @fintechfrank]

NEW: Standard Chartered initiates coverage of Uniswap.

The bank forecasts UNI will rise from roughly $2.50 today to $100 by 2030 — a 40x increase.

The thesis: tokenized assets active in DeFi grow 37x this decade, and Uniswap becomes a core piece of trading infrastructure for traditional finance as trillions of dollars move on-chain.

[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

@narendra @FrancisSuarez That’s a lot of different stuff. I don’t disagree with it all. But remember, the cure for high prices is high prices.

[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

This is exactly how I see the world, and @LukeGromen says much the same in his newsletters. It all makes sense. Except why Berkshire Hathaway has been sitting on $400b in cash.

I guess this can all be directionally correct, but it may be a very bumpy ride getting there.

And once we are there, it's real misery for normal folks.

[Lee Roach @leevalueroach]

I do not understand, in 2026, why anyone is shorting anything, and I have, over the last several years, watched a generation of intelligent, well-credentialed, technically sophisticated investors set fire to their capital on the short side of a market that has been telegraphing its direction with the subtlety of a marching band, and the only explanation I have ever been able to construct is that none of these people have read a single page of monetary history written before 1990.

The setup is not subtle. The federal government is running a 7% structural deficit with no political coalition in either party willing to address it. The Treasury is issuing debt at a pace that will push publicly held debt-to-GDP past 130% within five years, which is the level at which, historically, every government in recorded history has either inflated its way out, defaulted, or both. The Fed is, regardless of what it says in public, the marginal buyer of that debt, and the only mechanism it has to fund the purchases is the creation of new dollars. The money is being printed. The debt is being monetized. The currency is being debased. And asset prices, which are denominated in the currency being debased, are doing the only thing they have ever done in any country that has ever tried this, which is going up.

Every country that has run this experiment has produced the same chart. Weimar Germany in 1922 and 1923 produced one of the most violent equity bull markets in recorded history in nominal terms, as the mark collapsed and the Berlin exchange repriced upward by orders of magnitude. Argentina, across four separate inflationary cycles since 1975, produced in each cycle a nominal rally that outran every short thesis published, while the peso lost 99.9% of its purchasing power. Zimbabwe in 2007 and 2008 produced an equity market that rose so violently the exchange had to be closed because the calculations could not keep up. Turkey, right now, in front of the entire world, has produced a Borsa Istanbul up 1,400% in lira terms while the lira has lost 85% against the dollar, and every short of Turkish equities has been carried out in nominal terms even when they were right in real terms.

The lesson is not that asset prices are going up because the businesses are getting better. The lesson is that asset prices are going up because the unit they are measured in is getting smaller, and any investor who positions short against this dynamic is betting against the will and capacity of a government to debase its own currency, which is the single most reliable bet you can lose in 4,000 years of recorded monetary history. The government always wins. The government always debases. The currency always loses purchasing power. The assets always reprice upward in nominal terms, on a path the shorts always insist is unsustainable and that always, somehow, sustains.

You can short individual frauds. You cannot short the market. You cannot short the currency itself without being on the wrong side of the largest force in modern capital markets, which is the slow, politically inevitable destruction of the dollar’s purchasing power against everything that cannot be printed. The shorts have been wrong for five years. They will be wrong for the next five. The only investors who will, in real terms, preserve and grow their wealth are the ones who understood, early, that the game is not about being right on valuation, it is about being on the right side of monetary debasement, and the right side has always been owning real assets, productive businesses, scarce commodities, and the one monetary metal that has functioned as money continuously for 5,000 years, while the people on the other side continue to insist this time is different. This time has never been different. The math is the math. The shorts will continue to lose. The owners will continue to win.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Many people are saying.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 LATEST: The SEC approved T. Rowe Price’s multi-asset crypto ETF, which could include BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, SHIB and up to 15 digital assets.

[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

@narendra @FrancisSuarez They are building a huge amount of housing here. The free market works great, Narendra. You built your fortune via capitalism.

[Yuval Rooz @YuvalRooz]

Why did we raise our last round:

We’re already profitable. So why raise?

For years we’ve asked ourselves what it would take to truly bring finance OnChain. We believe @CantonNetwork has finally identified the components needed to establish crypto rails as a new global settlement layer, rather than treating crypto wallets as a mere distribution mechanism (as most “tokenization” does today). Those components are: privacy, issuer control and sovereignty, governance, and alignment of economics.

We have the largest organizations in the world moving their core businesses to run on Canton. That will drive utility to canton-network:native. @digitalasset’s entire business is canton-network:native.

So why raise? Because we have a unique opportunity right now. Organizations are willing. Regulators are willing. Admin is willing. We could wait for organic growth, or DA can step in to accelerate it. Rather than wait for large corporates with long budget cycles to build this infrastructure, DA will build much of what’s needed to double, triple, and quadruple canton-network:native utility.

We will enter new partnerships to build applications that drive more usage. Those will be announced later this year.

We will partner with builders to bring burns to subnets.

And there are potential M&A activities that will further align other companies with @CantonNetwork.

All of this requires a healthy balance sheet, which we now have.

There is still a lot of work to do, but I’m excited for what’s ahead.

[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

@Krista888222444 @bernsteind @tricrobotics good point. although chemicals don't really discriminate between good and bad bugs either.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

A lot of people seem angry that Elon is now a trillionaire, so it’s worth reminding them that he didn’t achieve this by making anyone else poorer. Wealth isn't zero-sum. Paul Graham explained it well:
https://t.co/W97pq3FLYg

[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

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[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

Trying this thing out. Great reviews. Anyone have experience with it? Would love thoughts on competitors too. https://t.co/41NoRdyVKG

[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

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