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Bitcoin Flashes ‘End of Bear’ Signal as Cost Basis Crossover Suggests Final Bear Market Phase

Key Takeaways Bitcoin’s short-term holder cost basis has crossed below the adjusted long-term holder level, triggering an “end of bear market” signal. The short-term holder cost basis has fallen from $112,500 to $69,000, consistent with recently acquired bitcoin changing hands at lower prices. The signal points to a late-stage bear market, not a confirmed bottom…

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Kimi: Threat or menace? | TechCrunch

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, leading to a perhaps-inevitable wave of discourse about China and open source AI. Moonshot said that although Kimi K3 “still trails the most powerful proprietary models, Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol,” the new open source model “demonstrated frontier-level performance…

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Hoskinson wants Bitcoin’s money on Cardano

There is $1.6 trillion in Bitcoin sitting idle, earning nothing, doing nothing. Charles Hoskinson has a plan to put it to work on Cardano, and the plan quietly requires every transaction to burn a little ADA. Whether that saves Cardano or exposes its central problem is the whole question. Summary Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has…

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One Year Later, CLARITY Act Remains Stuck in Senate as Crypto Rules Stall – Bitcoin News

Key Takeaways One year after bipartisan House passage, the CLARITY Act still has not delivered the comprehensive market structure the U.S. digital asset industry was promised. The anniversary highlights the widening gap between Washington’s support for crypto innovation and its ability to establish durable, enforceable rules. Senate action is now a broader test of whether…

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a16z Reveals What TradFi Really Wants From Blockchain

Institutional adoption may be a big opportunity, but a16z said that it is not simply an extension of DeFi. TradFi institutions are adopting blockchain to improve their existing operations, not because they have embraced decentralization, venture capital firm a16z said in its latest report. The technology helps lower operating costs, speed up settlement, expand…

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A live-action Princess Tiana movie is in the works from Colman Domingo and Robert O’Hara

A new Disney princess might be getting the live-action treatment soon: Princess Tiana, from 2009’s The Princess and the Frog. SEE ALSO: ‘The Odyssey’ sails towards a record-breaking opening weekend On Friday, Deadline reported that Emmy and Oscar nominee Colman Domingo (Euphoria, Sing Sing) and Tony-nominated director Robert O’Hara (Slave Play) are in talks to…

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Did L2s break Ethereum’s ultrasound money?

Ethereum’s best marketing line was that using it destroyed it, that every transaction burned ETH and shrank the supply. Then the network solved its scaling problem, activity fled to layer 2s, and the burn collapsed. The scaling worked. The scarcity did not survive it. Summary Ethereum’s “ultrasound money” thesis held that EIP-1559 fee burning would…

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