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Minds Games ( @MindGames_AI ) gives you an AI agent with its own persistent memory and wallet, then lets it compete in poker, chess, and debate against other people's agents. You already get $5 in real credit after your first three conversations with it.
Built by an Animoca Brands developer and powered by HelloMinds, results get anchored on Robinhood Chain.
No native token has been confirmed yet, but the live campaign covers real points, a $5 HelloMinds credit unlocked through actual use, and NFT allowlist access, none of it requiring a deposit, gas fee, or private key.
We wrote the full guide

The US government holds a 198,000 BTC Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. That's an unusual thing to stockpile if you're planning to ban it.
That's just one of seven myths still costing people money in 2026, alongside the idea that you need thousands of dollars to start (fractional shares now start at $1), that trading is the only way to earn (staking-integrated ETFs already make up over 40% of institutional Ethereum investment), and that crypto is anonymous (it's pseudonymous, and blockchain analysis tools trace it routinely).
Believing the outdated version of any of these usually means missing someth

Most airdrop campaigns dangle a maybe-token. Doma's ( @domaprotocol ) Lucky 888 skips that entirely: 5,000 winners already get real domain tokens for hitting a referral and trading target.
The protocol turns tokenized domains into something tradeable and portable across chains, backed by $30 million, including a Series A led by Paradigm.
Its separate Season 1 leaderboard tracks points across trading, liquidity, minting, and referrals through five tiers, but no token or conversion has been confirmed yet.
We wrote the full guide on how to earn Season 1 points, what's free versus what requires re

Ethereum's dollar-denominated open interest appears to be surging past $34 billion. Measured in actual $ETH , it's barely moved.
That distinction matters after ETH pulled back from a failed test near $2,800, its first real pause since breaking out of September's range.
Since the June low, ETH's price is up roughly 70% while dollar open interest rose about 60%, meaning leverage hasn't actually expanded faster than price; it's mostly just riding the higher token value.
About $97.5 million in long positions got liquidated as the pullback hit, a real cleanup of late entrants rather than a sign of d

Bitcoin dropped $2,000 in 30 minutes, and more than $230 million in leveraged longs got wiped out in a single hour.
The selloff followed a rejection above $87,000 after $BTC had rallied roughly 13% off its $75,000 low, and it lands right where three different signals overlap: a real technical supply zone, the cost basis of holders who bought 6 to 24 months ago, and CryptoQuant's upper profit-taking band for short-term holders near $90,300.
Several groups of existing holders would be crossing into meaningfully deeper profit right around the same price level Bitcoin's already struggling to clear

A platform advertising zero transfer fees can still cost more than one charging a visible fee. The real number that matters is the exchange rate spread hidden inside it.
Some platforms send crypto directly wallet-to-wallet; others convert everything into local currency behind the scenes and deposit it straight into a bank account or mobile money service, which is a completely different fit depending on whether your recipient actually wants to hold crypto.
We compared 7 platforms across fees, payout methods, and country coverage, plus the exact formula for calculating what actually lands in the

European investors can now buy exposure to a decentralized perpetuals protocol through an ordinary brokerage account, no wallet required.
$BLIT tracks LIT, Lighter's native token, listed on Deutsche Börse Xetra at a 0.85% expense ratio, fully collateralized with tokens held in cold storage.
Worth knowing before buying, though: despite the "staking" name, Bitwise says on its own product page that the underlying tokens aren't presently being staked, so any yield is a future feature, not a current return.
This is Bitwise's ( @Bitwise ) second perp-DEX ETP in under six months, following an identic

Galaxy's clients can now use the same asset to back a loan and keep earning yield on it.
Galaxy ( @galaxyhq ) added $100 million of Sky's ( @SkyEcosystem ) $sUSDS to its corporate treasury and approved it as loan collateral across an institutional platform with a $1.4 billion average loan book and over 1,600 trading counterparties.
It's not a new relationship either; Galaxy already runs a $500 million warehouse lending facility through Sky's Grove and uses Spark for separate financing; this just adds treasury exposure and a new collateral use case.
Sky itself sits at the center of a much bigge

Losing a Web3 password doesn't mean clicking "forgot password." It usually means losing access to everything, permanently.
That tradeoff is really the whole story of Web3: control moves from a handful of platforms that can freeze an account or change the rules overnight, to the person holding the actual cryptographic keys.
Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood coined the term in 2014 with a simple goal: an internet running as a shared utility instead of something hosted by one company, built on four pieces working together: blockchains, smart contracts, dApps, and the wallet tying it all together.
We

Cosmos Hub ( @cosmoshub ) stopped block production over an attack on a completely different chain, purely as a precaution.
An attack on Neutron ( @neutron_org ) may have compromised administrator privileges for Astroport's smart contracts, serious enough that Neutron halted the chain and Cosmos Hub validators temporarily paused block production, even though Cosmos Hub itself says it wasn't exploited and $ATOM balances remain unaffected.
Astroport's ( @astroport_fi ) own warning covers liquidity pools across every supported chain, not just Neutron, reflecting real uncertainty about how far the

A researcher says a malicious webpage in Safari could reach all the way into your iPhone's Keychain, no phishing link, no recovery phrase typed anywhere.
SlowMist's CISO says the reported exploit chain moves through memory corruption in Safari's WebKit and JavaScriptCore, bypassing Apple's protections to reach kernel-level access and potentially extract private keys and seed phrases.
The claimed range covers iOS 13 through 26.5, but Apple or Google hasn't independently confirmed exposure on that newer version yet; it's related to but distinct from DarkSword, an earlier exploit framework that w

An AI agent could soon pay for an API call using $ADA , no account, no API key, no human entering a card number.
Cardano's x402 integration lets an AI agent request a paid service, receive payment instructions through the HTTP response, and settle directly onchain using ADA or Cardano Native Tokens.
Cardano's facilitator completed a real transaction in pre-production, but mainnet testing hasn't happened yet, and the initial developer release supports only TypeScript, with Python planned later.
Cardano joins Solana and XRP Ledger in building this kind of infrastructure, but technical support alo

Ondo ( @Ondo ) launched 20 tokenized stocks and ETFs, including NVIDIA, Tesla, Apple, and Q, directly on near dot com, letting users fund purchases with crypto from more than 30 blockchain networks without opening a separate brokerage account.
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SoFi is migrating its entire $25 billion card program to stablecoin settlement, and cardholders won't notice a thing.
SoFi Bank ( @SoFi ) is now the first nationally chartered US bank to use its own stablecoin, $SoFiUSD, to settle transactions across Mastercard's network.
A cardholder keeps using the same Mastercard as before, merchants don't need to hold or touch stablecoins at all, and settlement funds can hit a merchant's account instantly, withdrawable to cash around the clock at zero cost.
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Canada's six largest banks are exploring the same tokenized deposit system together, instead of racing to build six competing versions.
BMO, CIBC, National Bank, RBC, Scotiabank, and TD are testing whether ordinary Canadian-dollar bank deposits can move faster between institutions using digital ledger infrastructure, while staying inside the regulated banking system, a real distinction from a stablecoin, since these tokens remain a direct liability of the issuing bank.
The project also comes right after regulators clarified that tokenized deposits aren't legally distinct from regular deposits