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🔸 Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell called an urgent meeting with Wall Street bank CEOs over cybersecurity risks posed by Anthropic's AI model Mythos.
🔹 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong backs Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's call to pass the Clarity Act.
🔸 Anthropic is exploring building its own AI chips to address the growing shortage needed to power its advanced AI systems, according to Reuters.
🔹 The White House warned staff against placing bets on prediction markets amid the Iran war, per WSJ.
🔸 The US stock market added $4.5 trillion in market capitalization over eight trading days.
🔹 The U.S. Treasury’s OCCIP announced a new initiative to share actionable cybersecurity intelligence with eligible digital asset firms at no cost, expanding protections across the crypto industry
🔸 The US Treasury is advancing the GENIUS Act with a proposed rule requiring stablecoin issuers to implement AML and sanctions compliance and enable blocking or freezing of certain transactions targeting illicit finance.
🔹 TON blockchain is now 10× faster with a 6× higher block rate and subsecond transactions, the first step in its MTONGA roadmap, Pavel Durov said
🔸 Paul Atkins says SEC and CFTC ready to implement CLARITY Act after Congress approval.
🔹 Bitmine announces stock buyback program of $4B from $1B planned initially and uplisting to 'Big Board' NYSE.
Something notable is unfolding around Bittensor ( $TAO ).
At a glance, the recent activity may look like a typical spike. A closer look, however, shows a broader alignment across key metrics that is difficult to ignore.
Current signals:
▫️ Trading volume reached $800.7M, approximately +326% above daily average
▫️Year-over-year volume growth stands at +326.69%
▫️ Market capitalization has increased +76.57% YoY
▫️ Social dominance is up +2365.29% over the past week
Individually, these metrics are meaningful. Together, they point to a clear shift in both market participation and attention.
What is increasingly standing out now is the shift in social voice.
Larger, more established accounts, many with 100K+ followers, are beginning to actively discuss Bittensor ($TAO). This marks an important transition from niche awareness to broader market visibility.
This layer of attention tends to act as a multiplier:
▫️ Narratives reach wider audiences
▫️ Information spreads faster
▫️ New participants enter the conversation
In many cases, this is where momentum begins to compound.
What we are now seeing is a convergence:
▫️ Liquidity is expanding
▫️ Capital allocation is increasing
▫️ High-reach social voices are amplifying the narrative
This type of alignment typically reflects more than short-term activity. It suggests growing conviction and a strengthening position within the broader AI and crypto landscape.
For Bittensor ($TAO), early signals are already visible.
The next phase will depend on how sustained this attention and participation become.
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🔸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls for Congress to pass the Clarity Act to establish clear crypto market regulations and keep the US as the global financial standard.
🔹 Visa launches Intelligent Commerce Connect, enabling AI agents to make purchases on behalf of consumers across businesses worldwide.
🔸 Oil rises again as supply disruption fears return, WTI crude oil up 2.8% to $97.03 and Brent up 2.5% to $97.14 a barrel.
🔹 Fed minutes reveal a growing number of policymakers open to rate hikes, citing war-driven inflation that continues to exceed the 2% target.
🔸 Anthropic fails to block a Pentagon declaration labeling it a US supply-chain risk, as a federal appeals court declines to pause the designation, per Bloomberg.
🔹 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows a proposed “Canary Pepe ETF” under a new S-1 registration statement.
🔸 The US Treasury is advancing the GENIUS Act with a proposed rule requiring stablecoin issuers to implement AML and sanctions compliance and enable blocking or freezing of certain transactions targeting illicit finance.
🔹 Ethereum Foundation to convert 5K $ETH into stablecoins to support R&D, grants, and ecosystem growth.
🔸 Meta launches Muse Spark, first AI model after Mark Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar push to catch rivals.
🔹 Iran to charge oil tankers fees in Bitcoin to pass the Strait of Hormuz during ceasefire, per FT.
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🔸 Iran and Oman will charge fees for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz as part of the two-week ceasefire deal, per AP.
🔹 Stablecoin supply on Ethereum has hit an ATH of $180B, up 150% in 3 years, per Token Terminal.
🔸 US Treasury's FinCEN proposes a major overhaul of bank anti-money laundering programs, aiming to refocus compliance on stopping illicit finance.
🔹 President Trump announces a two-week ceasefire in Iran, suspending US attacks on the condition that Iran fully reopens the Strait of Hormuz.
🔸 Anthropic has launched Project Glasswing with major tech partners to secure critical software using advanced AI capable of discovering high-severity vulnerabilities.
🔹 Coinbase plans to expand into equities trading and payments in Australia after securing an AFSL license, per Bloomberg.
🔸 FDIC Chair Travis Hill says the agency is moving to implement the GENIUS Act, proposing new rules for stablecoin issuers and reaffirming that tokenized deposits will be treated as traditional bank deposits.
🔹 Intel joins Terafab with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla for integrated chip design, fabrication, and packaging.
🔸 CME Group announced plans to launch Avalanche and Sui futures on May 4 pending regulatory approval.
🔹 Global payment platform Paysafe launches Pay with Crypto using MoonPay tech, across US iGaming and fantasy sports.
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🔸 Solana Foundation launches STRIDE and SIRN, bringing 24/7 threat monitoring, formal verification for top protocols, and real-time crisis response to the Solana ecosystem.
🔹 US M2 Money Supply has hit a new all-time high of $22.7 trillion.
🔸 SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the crypto safe harbor proposal has advanced to White House review, with a formal rule expected shortly.
🔹 Anthropic strikes a deal with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-gen TPU capacity starting 2027, as Claude's run-rate revenue hits $30 billion.
🔸 Senator Bill Hagerty says the Senate Banking Committee could advance a crypto market structure bill as early as April.
🔹 Security researcher Taylor Monahan says North Korean IT workers have infiltrated over 40 DeFi platforms over the past seven years.
🔸 JPMorgan projects tokenized real-world assets market could reach $13T by 2030.
🔹 U.S. Treasury taps BNY Mellon and Robinhood to help manage “Trump accounts”, per WSJ.
🔸 China’s tax authority urges banks to use blockchain to boost SME lending and and reduce information gaps.
🔹 Bitmine Immersion Tech buys 71,252 Ethereum, bringing its total to 4.803M $ETH.
“Bittensor $TAO subnet 3's Covenant-72B model scored 67.1 on MMLU, a popular benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of LLMs, putting it in a competitive range with @Meta's Llama 2 70B” via @TheBlockCo
Grayscale Bittensor Trust (ticker: $GTAO) is open for private placement for eligible accredited investors.
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⚡️JUST IN: Grayscale files an amended S-1 for its Bittensor ($TAO) Trust, advancing its push to expand institutional access to AI-focused crypto assets.
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🔸 The IMF released a note on tokenized finance, highlighting its potential to transform banking, capital markets, and payments.
🔹 Todd Blanche, author of the DOJ memo that scaled back federal crypto enforcement, is now serving as interim U.S. Attorney General.
🔸 Google launched Gemma 4, calling it the most intelligent open model to date, designed for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.
🔹 Anthropic has acquired biotech startup Coefficient Bio for approximately $400 million, per The Information.
🔸 Elon Musk's SpaceX is targeting a valuation of more than $2 trillion for its upcoming IPO, which would make it bigger than all but five companies in the S&P 500, per Bloomberg.
🔹 Nikita Bier says large accounts (>10K followers) launching meme coins without crypto history will face verification.
🔸 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said oil at $150 per barrel could trigger a global recession.
🔹 Circle just announced cirBTC, a 1:1 Bitcoin-backed token with onchain-verifiable reserves built to move seamlessly across DeFi.
🔸 Coinbase has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to charter a federally regulated trust company for crypto custody.
🔹 US Authorities seize $600K in crypto linked to hardware wallet phishing attack targeting Ledger users.
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🔸 The US is rushing to build a refund portal to pay back $166 billion in Trump tariffs after the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional in February.
🔹 Brent crude oil closed March 2026 with a 60% monthly gain, its largest since the futures contract launched in 1988, per The Kobeissi Letter.
🔸 Senator Cynthia Lummis says the Clarity Act is “the best thing” for DeFi, offering long-awaited legal certainty for developers, validators, and node operators in the US.
🔹 Trump to address the nation on the Iran war at 9PM ET Wednesday per White House Press Secretary Leavitt.
🔸 New Hampshire's Bitcoin-backed municipal bond scores a Ba2 rating from Moody's, marking an unprecedented first in public finance, per Bloomberg.
🔹 Trump says US will exit Iran in two to three weeks.
🔸 Oracle has begun mass layoffs, notifying thousands of employees via a 6 a.m. email that their roles were eliminated effective immediately
🔹 OpenAI raises $122B at an $852B valuation in its largest funding round to date.
🔸 U.S. stock market added $1.75T in market cap today.
🔹 Elon Musk on quantum computing says, it could one day recover lost crypto wallet passwords.
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🔸 Ripple is rolling out AI-driven security upgrades for the XRP Ledger.
🔹 Around $3.5 trillion in S&P 500 market cap has been wiped out since the Iran War began.
🔸 Claude's maker Anthropic wins a court order blocking the Trump administration's ban on government use of its AI tools.
🔹 Donald Trump’s signature will appear on U.S. dollar bills for the first time alongside traditional Treasury signatures.
🔸 Elizabeth Warren introduces a bill to impose a 2% annual wealth tax on households over $50M, with an additional 1% on billionaires.
🔹 David Sacks announces his role as Trump's White House AI and crypto czar has officially ended, departing one day after being named chair of the new Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
🔸 JPMorgan says Bitcoin has seen inflows and stronger activity, while gold and silver have experienced outflows.
🔹 Elon Musk is reportedly considering allocating up to 30% of SpaceX IPO shares to retail investors, far above the typical 5–10%, to boost demand and stabilize trading.
🔸 Trump said the U.S. may take a short-term economic hit to fix structural issues, noting a gas tax is being considered as a potential revenue measure.
🔹 Stablecoin yield framework remains unresolved as Coinbase along with other crypto firms push back. Talks are active and ongoing.
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🔸 SEC Chair Paul Atkins says tokenization innovation exemption could arrive within the next few weeks.
🔹 Senator Cynthia Lummis says bipartisan compromise needed for Clarity Act to pass, working to protect stablecoin rewards and prevent community bank deposit flight.
🔸 Coinbase tells Senate offices it cannot support the latest stablecoin yield compromise due to significant concerns over the proposed language, per Punchbowl.
🔹 Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF ($MSBT) has received an official NYSE listing announcement, signaling a potential launch in the near term.
🔸 Larry Fink says the AI era will increase demand for skilled trades like plumbers and electricians while reducing the need for some office jobs, calling for a shift in how careers are valued.
🔹 CZ warns that anyone claiming they can secure a Binance listing, especially via personal connections to him, is almost certainly a scammer and should be avoided.
🔸 Donald Trump appoints tech leaders including Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jensen Huang to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, co-chaired by David Sacks and Michael Kratsios.
🔹 A Trump-backed proposal to allow crypto and private equity in $12T 401(k) plans has cleared White House review, with a Labor Department rule expected soon.
🔸 Peter Schiff warns that rising inflation-driven housing costs could trigger a real estate crash worse than 2008, citing a sharp drop in mortgage and refinance applications.
🔹 Bitmine officially launches MAVAN staking platform with over 3.14M $ETH already staked.
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🔸 Canada's Bank of Montreal partners with CME Group to launch tokenized cash service for institutional clients, enabling 24/7 fund movement and settlement.
🔹 Tether hires “Big Four” accounting firm to conduct first-ever full independent audit of USDT reserves.
🔸 Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to file IPO prospectus as soon as this week, targeting June public listing, per The Information.
🔹 OpenAI shuts down Sora video platform, refocusing on business and coding functions ahead of potential Q4 IPO.
🔸 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says major banks are integrating stablecoins for faster payments, tokenizing assets, and offering crypto trading to clients.
🔹 Robinhood has approved a new $1.5B share buyback program as its stock climbs nearly 80% over the past year.
🔸 Ethereum Foundation launches post quantum security platform outlining roadmap and research progress.
🔹 CFTC launches an Innovation Task Force to set clear rules for market innovators.
🔸 $867B AUM Bernstein Research says Bitcoin has likely bottomed, keeps $150K target for 2026.
🔹 New York Stock Exchange partners with Securitize to build tokenized securities platform, per WSJ.