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🤝 US-Japan Plan to Strengthen Yen Could Boost Bitcoin Arthur Hayes outlines a US-Japan strategy to strengthen the yen, now undervalued and frustrating the US, China, and Japan. Raising rates by the Bank of Japan risks crashing Japanese bonds. Forcing Japan to sell US assets would destabilize Treasuries. Japan’s Ministry of Finance pledges US Treasuries to the Federal Reserve via FIMA, using the dollars to buy yen—creating fresh Fed money. This requires lifting the $60 billion FIMA cap and letting GPIF join. ✅ Follow @cryp

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💎 Bybit Sues North Korea and Lazarus for $1.5B Hack Bybit sued North Korea and hacker group Lazarus for stealing $1.5 billion in ETH. A US court froze some traced assets for Bybit. The 2025 hack was crypto’s largest, with funds converted mostly to BTC via THORChain. Bybit covered losses from reserves, avoiding collapse unlike many tier-2 exchanges. Since 2017, North Korean hackers stole about $6.75 billion in crypto. The Bybit WSOT prize pool appears secured. ✅ Follow @cryp

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A hacker stole 500,000 USDC but forgot to set slippage protection during the swap and got sandwich attacked by an MEV bot. The bot took around $371,000, leaving the hacker with only $129,000. ✅ Follow @cryp

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🪙 Trump Warns US on Crypto Leadership Loss Trump said if the US doesn’t lead in crypto, China will take over. He stressed the US must not fall behind China in crypto or AI, calling the sector too big to lose. He noted, "Crypto is a big deal. I see more people paying with Bitcoin and forgetting about cash." Trump also criticized the CLARITY Act proposals restricting officials' crypto trades, saying they unfairly target him while Democrats trade stocks freely. ✅ Follow @cryp

📈 OG Whale Gareth Jean Returns with New Trades OG whale Gareth Jean, liquidated for $250M in an ETH futures position in January, is back. Known for early BTC holdings and a $1B+ short opened hours before Trump’s China tariffs on October 10, he vanished after a failed large ETH long and shifting spot BTC. Weeks ago, Gareth Jean reemerged, backing SPCX, memory stocks like 000660 - SKHynix, gold, BTC, and ETH. ✅ Follow @cryp

🇮🇷 Iran Rejects Talks with Trump Until End of Term Iran has refused negotiations with Trump until the end of his term. An advisor to the Iranian parliament speaker confirmed no agreement will be made. Tehran demands $300 billion compensation for opening the Strait of Hormuz, asset unfreezing, and US troop withdrawal. Iran and Oman are coordinating a new shipping route. Trump demands compensation from Iran for American casualties and protesters. ✅ Follow @cryp

😏 Vitalik Updates Ethereum Roadmap Priorities Vitalik revised the Ethereum roadmap, raising quantum security priority while downgrading VDFs and most EVM improvements. Verkle trees are replaced by ZK-friendly PBT. Privacy is now a core goal with privacy pools, wormholes, and keyed nonces. New features include zkzk-frames and leanSPHINCS for post-quantum scaling. The spec is streamlined for formal verification with AI. The focus is on specialized scalable mechanisms, favoring STARKs and AI over rushing upgrades. ✅ Follow @cryp

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⚡️ JUST IN: Strategy sells 1,691 BTC over last week, increasing USD reserve by $650M. ✅ Follow @cryp

US national debt has surpassed $40 trillion for the first time amid ongoing government borrowing growth. At the time of reporting, the debt slightly fell below the $40 trillion mark again. ✅ Follow @cryp

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A lot of smart people lack confidence because they’ve never stayed with anything long enough to become great at it. They’re interested in everything, so choosing one thing feels like giving up ten others. Then once they finally choose, they get bored before the boring part has had enough time to turn into skill. Eventually they start believing they have no real talent. But talent may have never been the problem. They just keep leaving before competence has enough time to become confidence. ✅ Follow @cryp

⚡️ JUST IN: Trump is sued over plan to sell fast access to Truth Social posts. ✅ Follow @cryp

Pokémon cards are outperforming Bitcoin and the S&P 500 this year, with the PV100 index up 27.9%. The $13–15 billion collectibles card market is shifting toward blockchain to trade tokenized assets. ✅ Follow @cryp

😙 Standard Chartered Raises Chainlink Price Target Analysts at Standard Chartered raised their price forecast for Chainlink (LINK) to $200 by the end of the decade. They see growth potential about 25 times its current level near $8. The forecast is based on Chainlink's role as a key infrastructure provider for tokenized assets. Jeff Kendrick, head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered, called it the "only end-to-end platform" covering the full lifecycle of tokenized assets in DeFi and traditional finance. ✅ Follow @cryp