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Bitcoin briefly fell below $66K as rising oil prices fueled concerns about persistent inflation in the U.S., and is now trading slightly above that level. Meanwhile, the parent company of the NYSE is increasing its bet on Polymarket with a new $600 million investment, prediction markets have exceeded $20 billion in monthly volume as geopolitical events drive most activity, and a judge has prevented the Pentagon from classifying Anthropic as a national security threat.

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News Roundup

Artificial Intelligence

  • Anthropic’s Massive 'Claude Mythos' Leak Sends Software Names — and Crypto — Sharply Lower (CoinDesk)

  • Is AGI Here? Not Even Close, New AI Benchmark Suggests (Decrypt)

  • Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Text in Articles Under New Editing Policy (Decrypt)

  • OpenAI Cancels Erotic ChatGPT Mode (Decrypt)

  • Agent Wastes 14 Hours of Scammers’ Time, LLMs ‘Poisoned’ by Iran (Cointelegraph)

  • Apple Plans to Open Up Siri to Rival AI Assistants in iOS 27 Update (Bloomberg)

  • OpenAI Backs New AI Startup Seeking Bot Army Breakthroughs (WSJ)

  • Google DeepMind Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live for More Natural Conversations (Google DeepMind)

  • Unitree Releases Open-Source Dataset for Real-World Humanoid Teleoperation (Unitree)

Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance

  • Musk Rewrites IPO Playbook with Large Slice of SpaceX Stock for Retail Investors (Reuters)

  • NYSE Owner Doubles Down on Polymarket With Fresh $600 Million Investment (CoinDesk)

  • ARK Invest Adopts Kalshi to Better Inform Investors (Kalshi)

  • GameStop Did Not Sell its 4,709 Bitcoin After All, Filing Shows (Cointelegraph)

  • Tether Hires KPMG for USDT Audit, Brings in PwC as it Gears up for U.S. Expansion (CoinDesk)

  • ECB Paper Questions if DeFi DAOs are Decentralized Enough to Sit Outside MiCA (Cointelegraph)

  • NYSE Parent ICE Invests Another $600 million in Polymarket (The Block)

  • Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Dumps Meta, Nvidia and Bitcoin ETF Shares (Decrypt)

Exchanges

  • OKX Won’t Rush IPO as Exec Warns Poor Listings Hurt Crypto Industry (CoinDesk)

  • Binance Australia Entity Fined for Misclassifying Retail Clients (Bloomberg)

Exchange-Traded Funds

Infrastructure

  • Metadata for Trustless Agents Registered via the ERC-8004 Identity Registry (Etherscan)

  • Ethereum Devs Vote to Deprioritise Buterin-Backed Proposal (DL News)

  • Umbra Opens Privacy Wallet to the Public on Solana (The Block)

Markets

  • XRP Falls to 2-Week Low as Ripple Deploys AI to Boost Ledger Security (Decrypt)

  • Retail Investors Drive Widespread Bitcoin Selling as Prices Fall (CoinDesk)

  • What Rising US Bond Yields Mean for Bitcoin (Decrypt)

  • Ethereum ICO Participant Offloads $23 Million in ETH (The Block)

  • $13B in BTC Options Expire as Call-Heavy Positioning Dominates Quarterly Settlement (GreeksLive)

  • Institutions Are Scooping Up Bitcoin Again as Iran War Sparks $2.3bn ETF Buying Spree (DL News)

  • Prediction Markets Top $20B in Monthly Volume as Geopolitics Drives Activity (The Block)

  • Early Bitcoin Whale Sends Another $33 Million to Binance (The Block)

  • Bitcoin Dips Under $66K as Oil Sparks 'Unsustainable' US Inflation Risk (Cointelegraph)

  • Strategy, BitMine and Robinhood Shares Hit Monthly Lows as Bitcoin Sinks Further (Decrypt)

  • Sudoswap Token Jumps 225% as Traders Rush to Profit From DAO ‘Rage Quit’ Proposal (DL News)

Mining

  • Why the Industry’s Biggest Miner Just Sold $1B Bitcoin to Chase AI (DL News)

Politics & Regulation

  • Trump Policy Has Crypto Privacy Developers in a 'Very Bad State' (Decrypt)

  • David Sacks Leaves White House Crypto Role With Key Legislation Still Unresolved (Decrypt)

  • Judge Blocks Pentagon From Branding Anthropic a National Security Threat (Decrypt)

  • Rep. Waters Presses Kansas City Fed on Approving Kraken's Master Account (The Block)

  • FTC Warns PayPal, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe Against Debanking (DL News)

  • Gavin Newsom Bans California Public Officials From Prediction Market Insider Trading (Decrypt)

Treasuries

  • Retail Investors Growing Exposed to Bitcoin Giant Strategy’s STRC Over MSTR (Decrypt)

Other News

  • India Arrests Suspect Tied to Myanmar Crypto Scam Compounds (Decrypt)

  • Crypto's Popularity Among Kids Drove X Games-MoonPay Deal (The Block)

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According to CryptoRank, Bitcoin has outperformed traditional assets across multiple geopolitical events over the past six years.

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