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Zcash has climbed roughly 19-fold in a year, while Grayscale says its market cap remains below 1% of Bitcoin’s. The firm sees potential for ZEC to challenge Bitcoin’s network effects as privacy demand grows.
A memecoin creator linked to nine days of unreleased GTA 6 footage sold his holdings hours before Rockstar’s first official gameplay reveal. The token had reached a $25 million market capitalization.
Bitcoin touched $80,000, but Strategy, Twenty One Capital, and Metaplanet still lacked common-equity premiums. CryptoSlate said the firms remain constrained by equity discounts, debt, pledged bitcoin, and potential dilution.
Bitcoin researchers propose SHRINCS, a quantum-resistant approval design that could allow larger transaction signatures while preserving more network capacity than existing post-quantum alternatives, according to CoinDesk.
CryptoSlate’s sensitivity case says faster, programmable switching in AI-enabled deposits could reduce banks’ interest-rate capacity over 10-year equivalents and potentially pressure banks to charge higher rates on everyday loans.
CoinDesk reports that a lesser-tracked Bitcoin indicator is flashing green, supporting the view that August’s surge to $80,000 was accompanied by consistent, sizable capital movement.
The Dallas Fed says tokenized deposits, programmable accounts and AI agents could make bank switching instantaneous, raising funding costs and potentially reducing U.S. banks’ lending capacity by $700 billion.
Japan plans to begin developing stock and bond tokenization this year as regulators modernize national settlement systems and seek to retain institutional investors and foreign capital.
World Liberty Financial has launched USD1 natively on the Canton Network. Cointelegraph reported that USD1 is the sixth-largest stablecoin, with a market capitalization exceeding $4 billion, according to industry data.
Cointelegraph reports that Strategy’s main vulnerability may be losing capital-market access rather than a bitcoin crash. The company faces $1.76 billion in annual obligations tied to its $66 billion bitcoin-focused strategy.
Japheth Dillman was convicted of fraud after claiming Block Bits Capital’s “Autotrader” software was finished and running. Investors gave nearly $1 million based on those claims, Decrypt reported.
