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Big Ten and Big 12 athletes will get paid from @PayPal. Tie-up also includes a Venmo marketing deal

Feels this could open the door to more crypto on campus (though release doesn't mention that)
https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-06-26-Big-Ten-and-Big-12-Enter-Historic-Partnerships-with-PayPal-to-Enable-Institutional-Payments-for-Student-Athletes-in-New-Revenue-Sharing-Model

Prediction site Kalshi raising $100M from crypto-focused Paradigm

Does this signal Kalshi is going to add crypto? (or is Paradigm moving away from crypto..)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-25/paradigm-to-invest-in-prediction-market-kalshi-at-more-than-1-billion-value?sref=2jPYL79S&embedded-checkout=true

This is a dumb headline. Tether has never focused on the U.S. and the Genius Act is likely to mean a rising tide for all stablecoin boats
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/tether-stablecoin-genius-act-e403a59b?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em:

Mastercard just signed on to Robinhood-backed stablecoin consortium & added support for PayPal's coin

https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/24/mastercard-usdg-stablecoin-pyusd-fiused-paypal-fiserv/

Can Ethereum shake off its recent slump? @bdanweiss checks in on the state of the #2 crypto

With smart insight from pro and anti ETH folks, including @pbrody @dannyryan @KyleSamani @ethereumJoseph & @maxkeiser

https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/17/ethereum-price-vs-bitcoin-l2s-wall-street-adoption/?bypass

The CEO of Franklin Templeton calls for the finance industry to go all-in on blockchain

As the crypto folks say, probably nothing 😉

https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/12/im-the-ceo-of-a-fortune-500-financial-firm-my-industry-can-no-longer-deny-digital-assets-are-the-future/?bypass

This is like 2017 when Long Island Iced Tea Co became Long Island Blockchain -- but times 60!

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-company-balance-sheets-16a1e2b8?mod=hp_lead_pos11

This is like 2017 when Long Island Iced Tea Co became Long Island Blockchain -- but times 60!

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-company-balance-sheets-16a1e2b8?mod=hp_lead_pos11

An even better idea to prevent a Bitcoin kidnapping:

Don’t be like this publicity hungry-dad and tell everyone you own a bunch of Bitcoin

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/07/bitcoin-family-crypto-security-kidnappings.html

What a long, strange journey for the Winklevoss twins!

From Facebook to pistachio pitchmen to future CEOs of a publicly traded crypto firm

https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/06/winklevoss-gemini-crypto-ipo-circle-exchange/

Apple and Airbnb are testing the stablecoin waters

Feels inevitable that next phase of crypto will feature Big Tech/corporates

Scoop by Fortune Crypto's @bdanweiss & @leomschwartz
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/06/apple-x-airbnb-google-cloud-stablecoins-crypto-conversations/

Circle CEO @jerallaire has been grinding for an IPO for nearly a decade

He finally got across the finish line and the pay-off was big -- second biggest crypto IPO in history!

https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/circle-ipo-share-price-opening-day/

Remember when Bitcoiners shared these "go brrr" memes far and wide?

Now there's no sign of them even as the White House pushes a bill to add $2.4 trillion (!) to the debt. What changed?

My favorite part of our Coinbase hacking scoop. Trolls gonna troll:
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/05/29/coinbase-hack-the-community-taskus-bpos-teenagers/

🚨How the @Coinbase hack went down:

- Hackers tied to kiddie gang The Comm. (@bdanweiss talked to one!)

- In Dec, they bribed agents at Indian call centers

- They also hit other 'BPOs'/outsourcers firms & passed on data to social engineering scammers

https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/05/29/coinbase-hack-the-community-taskus-bpos-teenagers/

I bought $360K of $TRUMP coin and all I got was a lousy steak...

Fun @bdanweiss story about one Lambo bro's night at the memecoin dinner:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/05/23/trump-memecoin-dinner-nicholas-pinto-bad-food/

The Bitcoin crowd is oddly quiet about Trump's budget plan.

If you're serious about sound money, how can you be cool with a $3 trillion (!) deficit increase?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/republican-house-tax-bill-revision-vote-79bbde41?mod=hp_lead_pos1

WSJ editorial board: Disclose the $TRUMP dinner guests

Fair is fair! As WSJ points out, Trump called out Hunter Biden's sleazy art sales and said he would be transparent. Let's see the list!

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-crypto-investors-dinner-trump-meme-coin-6280f377?mod=opinion_lead_pos2

This is such an exciting idea: Building the emerging agentic web with a stablecoin-based payment layer

It's critical to do this since the Google-driven open web is slowly dying and, with it, the digital ad system that supports publishers
https://stratechery.com/2025/the-agentic-web-and-original-sin/

Banker sources say Coinbase in talks to buy Circle—a likely outcome IMO given the contract between them

That contract gives COIN sweet terms like veto rights over 3rd party deals

And/but: the IPO market is looking up post-eToro so Circle has leverage
https://fortune.com/2025/05/19/circle-internet-coinbase-ripple-goldman-sachs-ipos-cryptocurrency-mergers-sp-500/