🐶📰 Weekend Update

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Headlines

• STRC shattered volume records with an estimated 4,038 BTC generated — Strategy announced a purchase $1.28B worth of Bitcoin on Monday

• Ripple kicked off share buyback valuing the company at $50B

• The DOJ announced they will seek to retry Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm — Investigated Binance for helping Iran evade sanctions

• Token2049 in Dubai was pushed to 2027 amidst conflict in Iran

Macro & Global

• Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei new Supreme Leader — Israel struck Iranian oil fields

• February CPI came in at expectations

• Nasdaq partnered with Kraken’s parent company to push 24/7 tokenized equity trading

• G7 countries considered joint release of oil reserves

• US stock market Fear and Greed is on the verge of entering “extreme fear”

Crypto

• Blackrock’s ETH staking ETF goes live

• US Senate includes CBDC ban included in bi-partisan housing bill

• Ark Invest report shows 34% of Bitcoin supply remains vulnerable to quantum attacks

• Polymarket partners with Palantir to identify insider trading — Targets $20B valuation

• Trader loses $50M in swap from USDT to AAVE due to price impact — Oracle error on the AAVE protocol leads to $26M in liquidations

Tokens & NFTs

• Backpack announced March 23 TGE

• Trump to host a crypto and business conference with entry gated to TRUMP token holders

• Bonk website posted a drainer after team account gets hacked

• Pump Fun became the first platform on Solana to hit $1B lifetime revenue

• The POAP platform announced it is going into maintenance mode

• Trends went live on Zora’s Base website

• “Birb Bubbly” collab announced between Rekt Drinks and Moonbirds with a Vibes TCG card included with each case

AI

• Nvidia partnered with Palantir to build AI operating system

• Circle launched AI skills

• Perplexity released “Personal Computer” virtual AI platform

• Kraken released CLI for AI agents

• Meta acquired Moltbook — MOLT and YNE tokens pumped and retraced

• Microsoft launched Copilot Cowork