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Revolut’s LED Crypto Card Is a Gimmick — and a Signal Worth Taking Seriously
A physical card with an LED display that shows your cryptocurrency balance in real time sounds like exactly the kind of product a marketing team approves after a particularly optimistic brainstorming session. It’s the kind of feature that looks great in a product launch video, generates social media engagement from people who weren’t going to…
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Solana Just Crossed $2 Billion in Tokenized Assets — and It’s Finally Outgrowing Its Memecoin Reputation
There’s a version of Solana that the broader financial world has internalized: the blockchain that launched a thousand memecoins, the network where Pump.fun minted speculative tokens by the thousands daily, the chain that became synonymous with the frothiest, most retail-driven corner of the altcoin ecosystem’s recent cycle. That reputation isn’t fabricated — Pump.fun’s revenue contribution…
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Tether Is Building a Georgian Lari Stablecoin — and the Implications Reach Far Beyond the Caucasus
USDT. USDC. PYUSD. GELT. One of these isn’t like the others — and the one that doesn’t fit the pattern is the most interesting development in the stablecoin market this month. Tether has spent its entire existence issuing dollar-pegged assets. USDT is, by most measures, the most widely held stablecoin on the planet, the dominant…
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VanEck Puts $1 Million on Bitcoin — Here’s the Argument Behind the Number
Price targets for Bitcoin have a complicated reputation. Too many of them have been attached to too many cycles by too many people with too obvious a financial interest in the outcome to be taken at face value. The $1 million figure specifically has been floated so many times — by maximalists, by fund managers,…
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An Old College Computer, a Forgotten Notebook, and Claude Just Found Someone’s Lost 5 BTC
The altcoin ecosystem has no shortage of loss stories. Seed phrases written on paper that dissolved in a flood. Hardware wallets destroyed in house fires. Exchange accounts locked behind email addresses that no longer exist. The $140 million in Bitcoin that James Howells famously threw away on a hard drive that now sits somewhere in…