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Bitcoin’s move toward $76,000 is facing notable resistance that could slow or stall further gains, according to a recent report. Meanwhile, Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, delivering improved performance but with significantly higher token usage, Drift is working with Tether on a $148 million recovery plan after a DeFi exploit and is moving away from Circle’s USDC, and BitMEX Research has proposed a soft fork that would only trigger a freeze of vulnerable coins if a quantum computer capable of compromising Bitcoin is proven to exist.

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News Roundup

Artificial Intelligence

  • Free Qwen Is Dead: Alibaba Shuts Down Qwen Code Free Tier (Decrypt)

  • 'Killing Satoshi': $70M Bitcoin Film Starring Casey Affleck Will Make Heavy Use of AI (Decrypt)

  • You Switched to Claude Over Surveillance Fears. Now It Wants Your Passport (Decrypt)

  • Google's Latest AI Update Makes Industrial Robots Way Smarter—Here's How (Decrypt)

  • The Gemini App is Now on Mac (Google)

  • Nvidia’s Huang Says Mythos Shows Need for US-China AI Dialogue (Bloomberg)

  • Alibaba Moves Onto Tencent’s Turf With AI Model for 3D Video (Bloomberg)

  • Anthropic Plans to Bring Mythos to UK Banks Within the Next Week (Bloomberg)

  • Snap Cuts 1,000 Jobs, Aims to Save $500 Million as AI Reshapes Operations (Decrypt)

  • Claude Opus 4.7 Is Here: Anthropic’s Latest Model Delivers, But It’s a Token Eating Machine (Decrypt)

Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance

  • HIP-3 Open Interest Tops $2 Billion as Demand for 24/7 Tokenized Equity Exposure Surges (The Block)

  • Justin Sun Blasts WLFI Token Unlock Proposal as 'World Tyranny' (The Defiant)

  • World Liberty Wants WLFI Locked Beyond Trump's Second Term—Investors Aren't Thrilled (Decrypt)

  • Tether Backs Stablecoin Development Corporation’s $134 Million Private Placement Used to Acquire SKY Tokens (The Block)

  • Why Morgan Stanley's CFO Sees Tokenization as the Next Big Step for its Wealth Business (CoinDesk)

  • Circle CEO Sees ‘Tremendous Opportunity’ for Yuan Stablecoin Despite China Curbs (Cointelegraph)

  • South Korea to Pilot Blockchain-Based Deposit Tokens for Government Spending (The Block)

  • Nomura: Four Out Five Institutional Investors Plan to Pile into Crypto With DeFi a Top Focus (DL News)

  • Drift Taps Tether for $148 Million Recovery Plan, Ditches Circle's USDC Following DeFi Exploit (Decrypt)

  • Exodus Expands XRP and RLUSD Support, in Collaboration with Ripple (Exodus)

  • Charles Schwab Begins Rollout of Spot Bitcoin, Ethereum Trading Platform (The Block)

  • AI Agents Make Card Purchases With New Mastercard–Lobster.cash Integration (The Block)

Exchanges

  • Binance Launches In-App Chatroom with Messaging and Crypto Transfer Features (Binance)

  • Ethereum DEX Aggregator Market Grows More Competitive as Kyber, CowSwap Rise (The Block)

Exchange-Traded Funds

Infrastructure

  • EIP-8105: A New Design for Ethereum’s Encrypted Mempool (Cointelegraph)

  • BitMEX Pitches ‘Canary Fund’ Alternative to Bitcoin Quantum Coin Freeze (Cointelegraph)

  • Adam Back Pushes for Optional Upgrades to Quantum-Proof Bitcoin (Decrypt)

  • VerifiedX Brings Privacy Layer to Bitcoin as Institutional Demand for Confidentiality Grows (CoinDesk)

  • Polkadot-Ethereum Bridge Hack Losses Were 10x Worse Than Reported, Team Admits (Decrypt)

  • Ethereum Security Initiative Identifies 100 DPRK IT Workers and Recovers $5.8M (Ethereum)

Markets

  • Bitcoin Rally Faces Rising Profit-Taking Risk as Exchange Inflows Jump (The Block)

  • Iran's Bitcoin Toll 'Virtually Impossible' to Collect, Says Policy Institute (DL News)

  • China's Q1 Economic Rebound Faces Rough Seas as Iran War Jolts Gobal Outlook (Reuters)

  • Bitcoin Whales Add 270K BTC in Biggest Accumulation Wave Since 2013 (Bitfinex)

  • Fed Reports U.S. Economy Growing Modestly Amid Rising Inflation and Geopolitical Uncertainty (FRB)

  • Exchange Inflows Spike as Bitcoin Faces $76K Headwinds (Decrypt)

  • A Trader Made $1.5M Buying Anthropic ‘Shares’ on Solana (DL News)

  • BNB Burns $1.02B Worth of Tokens in 35th Quarterly Supply Reduction (BscScan)

  • UAE Investors Buy AI Dip, Keep Crypto Exposure Despite Conflict (Cointelegraph)

Mining

  • Bitcoin Miner HIVE Lines Up $75 Million Note Offering to Fund AI Infrastructure Expansion (The Block)

Politics & Regulation

  • Crypto PAC Fellowship Discloses $11M From Cantor Fitzgerald and Anchorage Digital (Cointelegraph)

  • Will Maine Governor Janet Mills Sign Nation's First AI Data Center Ban Into Law? (Decrypt)

  • Solana Institute-Backed Super PAC Pours $8 Million Against Sherrod Brown in Ohio Race (The Block)

  • Trump Issues Ultimatum to Fed Chair as Bitcoin Trembles at $75,000. ‘I’ll Have to Fire Him’ (DL News)

  • Forget Stablecoin Yield, How Does the CLARITY Act Treat DeFi? (Cointelegraph)

  • French Minister Says New Measures are Coming After Crypto Kidnappings (Cointelegraph)

  • Tennessee Senate Committee to Weigh State Bitcoin Reserve Next Week (Bitcoin Magazine)

  • CFTC Chair Mike Selig Faces Bipartisan Pushback on Prediction Markets, Hyperliquid Perps (Decrypt)

  • Stack BTC CEO Steps Down as Farage-Linked Bitcoin Venture Reshuffles Leadership (Decrypt)

  • White House Works to Give US Agencies Anthropic Mythos AI (Bloomberg)

Other News

  • Apple Defends App Store Record After Fake Ledger App Drains $10m in Bitcoin and Solana (DL News)

  • French Police Rescue Mother and Child After $400K Crypto Ransom Kidnapping (Decrypt)

  • IR & Token Transparency in 2026 (Novora)

  • Bitcoin Taxes Make No Sense (Cato Institute)

  • Crypto Fund Manager Questioned in Zanzibar Police Probe into Fiancee's Death (The Block)

  • Paraguay Police Confiscate Coins From $1M Teen Crypto Hacking Gang (DL News)

  • MC Ryan SP Among Influencers Arrested in Suspected $300M Money-Laundering Ring Raids (DL News)

  • Ethereum Foundation Exec Josh Stark is Stepping Down (The Block)

Check This Out!

Bitcoin adoption continues to expand globally, as relatively few countries enforce full bans compared to those that embrace or regulate it.

Source: Cointelegraph

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Source: Crypto Tea

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