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The stories we follow every week, each with our latest coverage, explainers, research, interviews and the market data behind them.

Stablecoins

Dollar-pegged tokens such as USDT and USDC have become the cash layer of crypto markets and a growing part of payments.

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Tokenization

Tokenization puts traditional assets such as Treasury bills, money market funds, private credit and stocks on blockchains, so they can settle faster and trade around the clock.

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AI chips

The AI buildout runs on accelerators from Nvidia, AMD and custom chips designed with Broadcom, all made by TSMC with machines from ASML.

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AI infrastructure and data centers

Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle are spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on data centers, chips and power for AI.

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Crypto ETFs

Spot bitcoin and ether ETFs brought crypto into brokerage accounts, retirement plans and model portfolios, and funds for other assets have followed.

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Crypto treasury companies

Public companies that hold bitcoin, ether or solana as a core treasury asset, led by Strategy and BitMine, have become a major source of demand and a market of their own.

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The Fed and interest rates

Interest rates and the dollar drive valuations across stocks and crypto.

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Crypto market structure and regulation

Who regulates which tokens, and how, is being settled through the CLARITY Act fight in Congress and rulemakings at the SEC and CFTC.

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AI agents and payments

AI agents that can browse, transact and pay on a user's behalf are moving from demos into products.

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Bitcoin miners and AI

Bitcoin miners own power contracts and sites that AI companies need, and many have signed multi-year leases to host GPUs for hyperscalers and AI labs.

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AI regulation

Governments are writing the rules for AI at the same time the technology races ahead: the EU AI Act, US efforts to preempt state laws, and export controls on advanced chips.

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