BTC safe-haven test, Senate stablecoin yield ban, GameStop's $55B eBay bid
The Big Story
Bitcoin clears $80K as macro tension mounts

Trump said the US will guide stranded ships through the Strait of Hormuz, while an Iranian official warned that this could violate ceasefire.

Daily Basis Take

BTC breaking key resistance while Hormuz shipping drama escalates tests crypto's safe-haven narrative against real geopolitical risk.

Bitcoin's $80K break happened against the worst possible macro backdropPost this before your competitors do →
via The Block
Regulation Watch
Senate stablecoin deal bans yield, keeps rewards

The Tillis-Alsobrooks compromise blocks interest-bearing stablecoins but preserves rewards programs — a win for issuers, a loss for DeFi yield models.

The stablecoin yield ban just drew a legal line fintech builders must design aroundWarn your network →
via PYMNTS
Money Moves
Fun's $72M bet targets crypto's onramp bottleneck
$72M

Polymarket's onramp infrastructure coming out of stealth signals serious institutional demand for compliant fiat-to-crypto rails at scale.

Fun's raise reveals how much institutional money is chasing the unsexy crypto payments layerAdd your angle →
via Finextra
GameStop's $55B eBay bid is a meme capital play
$55B

Ryan Cohen is weaponizing GME's inflated stock to acquire real e-commerce cashflow — a rational move dressed in meme-stock clothing.

GameStop using meme-stock capital to buy eBay is either genius capital allocation or the top signalPost the numbers →
via PYMNTS
Quick Hits
TDK Ventures is quietly winning AI infrastructure bets

Nicolas Sauvage's early focus on unglamorous AI picks — compute, data, tooling — now looks prescient as mainstream VCs pile into the same layer.

The boring AI infrastructure thesis is now the consensus trade — and one fund got there firstYour network needs this →
via TechCrunch
VCs map the next compute stack beyond GPUs

Eleven startups VCs are watching signal where capital is flowing as the GPU buildout matures — photonics, neuromorphic, and edge compute are emerging themes.

The VC consensus on future compute is forming — here's what it means for AI infrastructure betsYour network needs this →
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