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The CFTC Is No Longer Waiting on Congress

Aug 21, 2026

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The CFTC Is No Longer Waiting on Congress

Plus: Plus: 🇦🇪 Binance staff detained in the Emirates | 📈 Bitcoin's best week in over two years | 🥊 CME and Kalshi execs go at it on camera

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Bitcoin's Rally Found the Bears Right Where It Wanted Them

Aug 20, 2026

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Bitcoin's Rally Found the Bears Right Where It Wanted Them

Plus: Plus: 🏛️ Trump tells Congress to finish the Clarity Act | ⚡ A White House aside sends HYPE flying | ⚖️ Two FTX cooperators learn their CFTC price

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

The SEC Built the Door It Kept Telling Crypto to Use

Aug 19, 2026

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The SEC Built the Door It Kept Telling Crypto to Use

Plus: 🧾 Stablecoins edge toward cash-equivalent status | 🏦 Citi names its bitcoin custody product | 🇯🇵 Metaplanet plants a flag on Nasdaq

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Treasury Draws Its Stablecoin Border, and Exchanges Man the Gate

Aug 18, 2026

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Treasury Draws Its Stablecoin Border, and Exchanges Man the Gate

Plus: 🏛️ Wall Street's legal threat froze an SEC framework | 🤖 A Trump crypto venture's AI menu has a China problem | 🔓 Binance left Russia, but Moscow still got answers

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Trump Takes a Seat at Crypto's Table This Week

Aug 17, 2026

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Trump Takes a Seat at Crypto's Table This Week

Plus: 📉 MSCI's new screen catches Strategy and Metaplanet | 🏦 World Liberty clears its first federal banking hurdle | 🇫🇷 A French tax leak lands amid wrench-attack surge

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

The SEC Was One Day Away, Then It Wasn't

Aug 14, 2026

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The SEC Was One Day Away, Then It Wasn't

Plus: 🧾 KPMG signs off on Tether's books | 🎲 Kalshi's valuation nearly doubles again | 📦 Trezor buyers' addresses leak

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

What's It Like to Hire a North Korean 'IT Worker'? I Interviewed One

Aug 13, 2026

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What's It Like to Hire a North Korean 'IT Worker'? I Interviewed One

The crypto industry has been unwittingly hiring North Korean “developers” who are really hackers. But as I found out, an almost incomprehensibly easy question incapacitates them.

Laura Shin
Laura Shin

Unchained Daily

The Bank of England Puts a Stablecoin Next to Its Own Money

Aug 13, 2026

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The Bank of England Puts a Stablecoin Next to Its Own Money

Plus: Plus: 🏦 Goldman buys its way into bitcoin yield | 💸 Fidelity's ether ETF prepares to pay out | 🚨 Solana came very close to freezing

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Bitcoin's Editors Closed Ranks After the Fork Failed

Aug 12, 2026

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Bitcoin's Editors Closed Ranks After the Fork Failed

Plus: ⚖️ Washington tells Kalshi to keep trading, court order or not | 🇦🇪 Coinbase takes tokenized stocks to Abu Dhabi | ✈️ FlightAware's Lawsuit Against Kalshi Vanishes Before Anyone Could Rule

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

The SEC Picks up the Senate’s Slack

Aug 11, 2026

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The SEC Picks up the Senate’s Slack

Plus: 📉 Strategy sells bitcoin cheap and hoards dollars | 🔌 A big miner unplugs every U.S. rig | 🩸 Trump Media rethinks its crypto stack

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Thune Sets Clarity Act up for September Vote

Aug 10, 2026

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Thune Sets Clarity Act up for September Vote

Plus: 🕵️ World Liberty's $100 million backer has a court file | 📉 Trump Media walks away from CRO | ⚡ Lightning nodes emptied overnight

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Clarity Act Misses Its August Window

Aug 7, 2026

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Clarity Act Misses Its August Window

Plus: 💰 A divestiture deal that could save Trump a fortune in taxes | 🐛 AI auditors raid Bitcoin codebases | ⚖️ A control fight breaks out at Ondo Finance

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Putin Puts Russia's Crypto Market on the Books

Aug 6, 2026

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Putin Puts Russia's Crypto Market on the Books

Plus: 🇦🇪 Warren links UAE chip deal to Trumps’ WLFI | 🏦 Wall Street signs on to secure Circle's chain

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

The President's Memecoin Lands on the SEC's Desk

Aug 5, 2026

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The President's Memecoin Lands on the SEC's Desk

Plus: 💸 Cloudflare hands AI agents a stablecoin wallet | 🔥 Ethereum weighs switching off staking rewards | 📉 A U.S. bitcoin ETF closes

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

An FBI Agent, a Seed Phrase, and a Confession

Aug 4, 2026

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An FBI Agent, a Seed Phrase, and a Confession

Plus: 🥶 Coldcard's tally keeps climbing | 🎟️ A crypto mainstay calls it quits | 🟠 Saylor sells low again

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

The Dubai Exchange With No Website and Binance's New Iran Problem

Aug 3, 2026

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The Dubai Exchange With No Website and Binance's New Iran Problem

Plus: Plus: ⛴️ Iran's bitcoin toll on the Strait of Hormuz | ⚖️ New York's $36 billion swing at Kalshi | 🪙 Tether's cushion thins

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

The Bitcoin Wallets That Were Never Really Random

Jul 31, 2026

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The Bitcoin Wallets That Were Never Really Random

Plus: 📉 Coinbase's third straight quarterly loss | 📬 Fake IRS letters are landing in crypto mailboxes

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

The Clarity Act May Now Ride on Language Nobody Has Seen

Jul 30, 2026

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The Clarity Act May Now Ride on Language Nobody Has Seen

Plus: 🚨 Russia charges Telegram's founder | 🎲 Binance.US wants a piece of prediction markets | 📈 Robinhood's crypto desk gets lapped

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Morgan Stanley Aims Its Advisor Network at Ethereum and Solana

Jul 29, 2026

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Morgan Stanley Aims Its Advisor Network at Ethereum and Solana

Plus: 🚔 Police say Binance got harder to work with | ✈️ Emirates opens checkout to a crypto wallet | 🧨 Crypto's most-hacked half-year on record

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Crypto's Biggest Bill Falls Behind in the Senate Queue

Jul 28, 2026

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Crypto's Biggest Bill Falls Behind in the Senate Queue

Plus: Plus: 📉 Bitcoin buckles before the Fed speaks | ⏸️ Saylor's five-week bitcoin freeze | 📜 Circle's quiet patent land grab

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

HTX Gets EU Sanction Designation

Jul 27, 2026

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HTX Gets EU Sanction Designation

Plus: 🏦 An exchange winds down and its CEO finds out with everyone else | 📈 Robinhood shops for a new prediction partner | ⚖️ The CFTC has had enough of copy-paste filings

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Crypto's Biggest Bill May Have Run Out of Runway

Jul 24, 2026

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Crypto's Biggest Bill May Have Run Out of Runway

Plus: Plus: 🏴 A perps pioneer calls it quits | 🔐 Bitcoin's whales fund a quantum shield | 🎭 Robinhood CEO’s account hijacked to shill a coin

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Washington's Big Crypto Bill Finally Comes for the President's Wallet

Jul 23, 2026

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Washington's Big Crypto Bill Finally Comes for the President's Wallet

Plus: 🕳️ A $24 million bridge hack empties an Arbitrum protocol | ⚖️ Crypto Mom tells DeFi its yield vaults aren't untouchable | 🇫🇷 Polymarket lawyers up against France

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Bitcoin Retreats From $67,000 After Clarity Excitement

Jul 22, 2026

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Bitcoin Retreats From $67,000 After Clarity Excitement

Plus: 💀 A hyped layer-2 project lab finally runs out of road | 🇷🇺 Russia passes a landmark crypto law with a catch | 🏳️ Jack Mallers walks away from Tether's Bitcoin bet

David Okoya
David Okoya

Unchained Daily

Trump Moves on the Ethics Clause Blocking the Crypto Bill

Jul 21, 2026

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Trump Moves on the Ethics Clause Blocking the Crypto Bill

Plus:🎖️ The White House's crypto point man isn't shipping out after all | 🏛️ A former NY governor lands on a crypto exchange's board | 💰 Saylor's cash pile grows while his bitcoin sits still

David Okoya
David Okoya
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