
Bitcoin rose above $70,000 after reports that Pakistan was brokering a 45-day ceasefire framework between the US and Iran. Those gains faded as ceasefire hopes weakened and Trumpâs 48-hour deadline got closer, sending BTC back down to about $68,300.
Strategy bought 4,871 BTC for $330 million, resuming purchases after a one-week pause. The average price was about $67,700 per bitcoin, and most of the funding came from STRC preferred shares.
BitMine added 71,252 ETH, worth about $152 million, last week. That brought its total holdings to more than 4.8 million ETH, or about 3.98% of the circulating supply, and it is staking 3.14 million ETH for yield.
Polymarket is overhauling its exchange with a new order book and a native stablecoin called Polymarket USD. Users will need to wrap USDC into Polymarket USD to use the new system, and the move could set up future yield features or a potential POLY token.
Circleâs Arc will launch its mainnet with post-quantum signature support built in from day one. The company said the protection will cover wallets, validator authentication, private smart contract state, and supporting infrastructure.
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Bitcoin hit its highest price in over a week Monday morning as reports emerged that Pakistan is brokering a 45-day ceasefire between the US and Iran, what mediators are calling the âIslamabad Accord.â
The move sent a wave of risk-on buying across crypto, equities, and oil markets, with BTC passing $70,000 and the broader crypto market adding roughly $70B in market cap within hours.
But as the day went on, those ceasefire hopes faded as Trumpâs 48-hour countdown got closer to its end. Bitcoin fell 3% into the evening, now just at $68,300. Meanwhile Oil jumped 4% to $114 and stock futures are red (-0.5%) ahead of Trumpâs deadline ending today.
It appears we are not out of the woods yet.
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Strategy snapped a one-week pause in Bitcoin buying Monday, announcing a $330M purchase of 4,871 BTC at an average price of $67,700, well below where BTC was trading at announcement. The buy was funded overwhelmingly by STRC, which contributed $227M versus $72M from common stock. STRC remained hot on Monday, doing enough volume for another ~936 BTC purchases.
Meanwhile Tom Leeâs BitMine added 71,252 ETH ($152M) last week, pushing its total stash to more than 4.8M ETH, valued around $10.3B and representing 3.98% of all circulating Ethereum. The firm is staking 3.14M ETH generating approximately $272M per year in yield. One more week like this and BitMine controls 4% of the entire ETH supply.
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Polymarket just announced what itâs calling its âbiggest change to date.â
The prediction market is rolling out a new order book, replacing its existing smart contract infrastructure from the ground up. But the real news is its currency exchange: Polymarket USD, the platformâs own native stablecoin backed 1:1 with USDC. Users will need to wrap their USDC into Polymarket USD to participate in the new system.
The move has obvious implications. A platform-native stablecoin means Polymarket controls the float. If that stablecoin pays yield, it becomes a serious competitor to on-chain savings products. And a native stablecoin is the logical precursor to a native token (i.e. the POLY token).
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Circleâs Arc is shipping major updates to handle the pending quantum threat.
The Layer-1 blockchain backed by USDC issuer Circle announced Monday that its upcoming mainnet will launch with post-quantum signature support built in from day one. The move is a direct response to last weekâs Google paper, which put a real probability on quantum computers cracking Bitcoinâs elliptic curve cryptography by 2032.
Arcâs approach is opt-in with no mandatory migration, or network reset, which is in stark contrast to a potential Bitcoin migration to post-quantum wallets, which âcould take months of continuous processing in a best-case scenario.â
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OpenAI published a sweeping policy paper Monday titled âIndustrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First,â calling on world governments to overhaul tax policy, strengthen worker protections, and build safety oversight infrastructure before AI-driven economic disruption arrives at scale.
The 2 core goals of the 13-page report are to:
For goal 1, their ideas include policies around worker voice and input into AI usage, public access to AI tools, new tax structures, shorter work weeks, and even a public wealth fund.
For goal 2, they mention stronger safety nets in high-risk domains like cyber and biology, an âAI trust stackâ for provenance, verification, and privacy-preserving audit logs, and model-containment playbooks for scenarios where dangerous systems are already out in the world.
In short, OpenAI is saying the AI transition is likely to be faster and more destabilizing than prior industrial revolutions and we need to prepare now. And they want society to have a voice in who benefits, who decides, and who is protected.
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