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Bitcoin is hovering above $73,000 as traders grow more bullish. Meanwhile, Bittensor’s TAO token has come under pressure following the departure of a key builder amid decentralization concerns, World Liberty Financial has used its WLFI tokens to secure a $75 million loan from a platform tied to one of its advisers, contributing to a sharp decline in its market cap, and U.S. officials, including Powell and Bessent, are warning banks about potential security risks linked to Anthropic’s Mythos AI.

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News Roundup

Artificial Intelligence

  • OpenAI Says Enterprise AI Is Already 40% of Its Revenue Amid ‘Agentic Workflow’ Shift (Decrypt)

  • YouTube Now Lets You Create Your Own AI Deepfakes (Decrypt)

  • OpenAI Plans Advanced Cybersecurity Product—With 'Trusted Access' Only (Decrypt)

  • Google and Intel Deepen AI Infrastructure Partnership (TechCrunch)

  • ChatGPT Finally Offers $100/Month Pro Plan (TechCrunch)

  • Anthropic Weighs Building its Own AI Chips (Reuters)

  • 'It is Decentralization Theatre': Covenant AI Exits Bittensor, TAO Drops 15% (The Block)

  • Subnet Owners Respond to the Covenant Exit (TAO Daily)

  • Bittensor Co-Founder Denies Suspending Subnet Emissions After Covenant AI Exit (The Block)

  • The CIA Let AI Write Its First Intelligence Report—And AI 'Coworkers' Are Up Next (Decrypt)

  • Gen Z Thinks AI Is Rotting Their Brains, But Can't Stop Using It (Decrypt)

Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance

  • AlphaTON Capital Looks to Raise $43 Million to Bolster Telegram's Cocoon AI Infrastructure (The Block)

  • DeFi Needs to ‘Mature’ if it Wants to be the Future of Finance (DL News)

  • Polygon, Frax and Curve Launch Onchain Forex Liquidity Pools (The Defiant)

  • Kamino Introduces Contract-Level Security Controls for Lending Vaults (The Defiant)

  • World Liberty Financial Uses Five Billion WLFI to Borrow $75 Million From a Platform its Adviser Co-Founded (CoinDesk)

  • Bank of France Calls for Tougher MiCA Limits on Stablecoin Payments (Cointelegraph)

  • Hong Kong Grants First Stablecoin Licenses to HSBC and Anchorpoint Consortium (HKMA)

  • Chipmaker Giant TSMC Reports $35.71B Revenue in Q1, Up 35% YoY (TSMC)

  • Circle Clarifies USDC Freeze Policy After Drift Exploit (Crypto Briefing)

  • Powell, Bessent Warn Banks About Security Risks From Anthropic's Mythos AI (Decrypt)

  • Velora DAO Votes to Wind Down, Hand Operations to Laita Labs (The Defiant)

Exchanges

  • From Zero to a Global Pricing Hub: Binance TradFi’s First 90 Days (Binance)

  • Binance Offers UAE Staff Temporary Relocation as Middle East Conflict Disrupts Region (CoinDesk)

  • Bitget Debuts IPO Prime Market With SpaceX Pre-IPO Exposure Token (The Block)

Exchange-Traded Funds

Infrastructure

  • StarkWare Researcher Publishes Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Scheme (The Defiant)

  • XRP May Be Less Exposed to Quantum Computer Threats Than Bitcoin (CoinDesk)

  • XRP Adjacent Flare Proposes Protocol-Level MEV Capture and 40% Inflation Cut (CoinDesk)

  • Aethir Halts Bridge Exploit, Promises Compensation After $90K Loss (Cointelegraph)

  • AI Has Dramatically Accelerated the Quantum Threat to Bitcoin (Cointelegraph)

  • Ethereum is Abandoning Layer 2s. Arbitrum’s Creator Still Sees a Bright Future Ahead (DL News)

  • Exodus Rolls Out 'Exodus Pay' to Turn Bitcoin Wallet Into Spending App (Decrypt)

  • Securitize Integrates with TRON Network to Expand Tokenized Asset Offerings (The Defiant)

Markets

  • Kalshi Now Controls 89% of the U.S. Prediction Market (CoinDesk)

  • Galaxy Stock Rallies 11% After Annual Report Shows Core Business Profitable Despite $241 Million Net Loss (The Block)

  • Scroll’s Valuation Collapses to $8M Despite zkEVM Leadership and Early Binance Hype (CoinGecko)

  • U.S. CPI Rises 3.3% YoY, Exp. 3.3%, Prev. 2.4% (BLS)

  • U.S. Core CPI Rises 2.6% YoY, Exp. 2.7%, Prev. 2.5% (BLS)

  • U.S. Core CPI for March Rises 0.2% MoM, Exp. 0.3%, Prev. 0.2% (BLS)

  • Bitcoin Rebound Faces Oil Shock, Inflation Test Despite Ceasefire Relief as Macro Jitters Persist (The Block)

  • Bhutan Moves Another $18 Million in Bitcoin as Tracked Holdings Continue to Shrink (The Block)

  • Bittensor AI Token Plunges as Top Builder Departs Over Decentralization Doubts (Decrypt)

  • WLFI Erases $427 Million From Market Cap on DeFi Loan, Token Unlock Proposal (Decrypt)

  • Bitcoin Hits $73K as Cool US CPI Data Shows 60-year Record Gas Price Hike (Cointelegraph)

Meme Coins

  • Pepe May Follow Dogecoin to Wall Street—But ETF Investors Aren't Buying Meme Hype (Decrypt)

Mining

  • BitFuFu Reports 214 BTC Output, Trims Holdings to 1,794 BTC (Blockonomi)

Politics & Regulation

  • US Secret Service Freezes $12 Million in Crypto Tied to Global Fraud in Operation Atlantic (The Block)

  • Treasury Launches Cybersecurity Information Sharing Initiative for the Digital Asset Industry (U.S. Treasury)

  • Roman Storm Defends Tornado Cash Pperation as Judge Weighs Acquittal (DL News)

  • Dubai Clarifies Token Issuance Rules for RWAs and Stablecoins (Cointelegraph)

  • White House Warns Staff Not to Place Bets on Prediction Markets Amid Iran War (WSJ)

  • US and UK Team With Firms to Trace, Freeze Millions in Stolen Crypto (Decrypt)

  • Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Colorado Arguing its AI Rules Restrict Speech (Cointelegraph)

  • Japan Moves to Classify Cryptocurrencies as Financial Products (CoinDesk)

Treasuries

  • Bitcoin Treasury Nakamoto Seeks Reverse Stock Split as Delisting Deadline Looms (DL News)

Venture Capital

  • OKX Ventures, HashKey Back VPBank-linked CAEX for Vietnam Crypto Pilot Push (Cointelegraph)

Check This Out!

A $1-per-barrel toll through the Strait of Hormuz could generate roughly $20M per day—equivalent to about 281 BTC, or 62% of Bitcoin’s limited daily issuance of around 450 BTC.

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