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View More NewsMorning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors are very green as SOL jumps 10%; BTC +5% to $61.3k Venice AI announces $65M raise at $1B valuation, creating crypto’s newest unicorn Robinhood launches Robinhood Chain with tokenized stocks focus, Lighter perps Lighter’s LIT jumps 15% to new local highs on back of Robinhood launch Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire…
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has promised a “more ambitious” approach to tackling crypto ransom attacks after confirming there were 77 kidnapping, extortion or attempted extortion incidents linked to crypto in the first half of 2026. Nuñez said Tuesday that the 77 incidents recorded so far this year are up sharply from the 45 recorded in all of 2025, according to local outlet BFM Business.“These are serious matters, and your concern is legitimate,” he told the Association for the Development of Digital Assets (ADAN) as he promised more government support.France has become one of the biggest hot spots for crypto wrench…
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A review of The Promise of America: Reflections on Our Enduring Ideals by various authors; 208 pages; Simon & Schuster (May 2026)As the semiquincentennial of the American founding neared, a number of excellent books on the watershed events of 1776 were loosed upon the world. Titles like Michael Auslin’s National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America, Sarah M.S. Pearsall’s Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution, and H.W. Brands’s American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington filled bookstores while their authors toured the podcast circuit. But one book in this recent glut stood out…
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ESMA itself said in a February statement that firms with derivatives marketed as “perpetual futures” are likely to fall under the existing product-intervention measures…
Stock and cryptocurrency trading platform Robinhood announced the launch of its public mainnet about four months after it began testing the network.On Wednesday, the…
In brief American Bitcoin Corp. will execute a 1-for-15 reverse stock split on July 2. The move is intended mainly to boost the per-share…
“A MiCA license is not something you can buy because you have money and power,” he said. “It is making sure every process is…
Illustration: Lex Villena Few Americans have taken much notice, given the vast amount of other political news. But two Canadian provinces – Alberta and…
Bitcoin climbed above $64,000 on Saturday, reaching an intraday high of more than $64,200. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is up more than…
In brief The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing a…
This Week in 2016 FBI Won’t Tell Me How Much It Paid To Break Into Syed Farook’s iPhone, Saying It Might Jeopardize Its Investigation…
Crypto tried to solve this with its own version of yield. We tried staking rewards, liquidity mining, and levered DeFi strategies. At first glance,…
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For Elon Musk’s company, it’s a rounding error against a valuation of over $1.8 trillion: small enough that the stock will never trade on…
In brief Google filed a lawsuit in New York federal court against Outsider Enterprise for allegedly using Gemini AI to power fraudulent campaigns. The…