😮 Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Banks Over Crypto Debanking. The Democratic Senator finally calls out a bad thing as bad.
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Daily Market Snapshot: With just about every non-stable altcoin in the top 100 down by 10% this week and a healthy chunk of them down more than 25%, it's a good time to be king. BTC is showing relative strength with dominance climbing as the asset weathers the trade war volatility storm better than most.
DeFi is one of the core pillars in crypto. AI agents have begun to capture excitement as an emerging opportunity.
Now, projects are being built out that will allow users to type in an action-oriented prompt and an AI agent will carry out the trade or swap in the background, pioneering a whole new sector of crypto called DeFAI (DeFi + AI).
Don't ask us exactly how to pronounce it, but we can tell you why it's worth paying attention to. 👇
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Donald Trump’s newly announced 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico (and 10% on China) have rattled global markets and sparked fresh uncertainty around the U.S. dollar. According to Bitwise’s Jeff Park—whose article “Tariffs, Triffin, and Trump: How the End Game Sends Bitcoin Vertical” has gone viral—this policy shift is fueling one of the biggest crypto-macro convergences since COVID. In this episode, we explore how these cascading forces could radically suppress Treasury yields, devalue the dollar, and propel Bitcoin into unprecedented territory.
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