139 stories this week.

• Markets · 45
• Crypto · 40
• Regulation · 29
• Tech · 22
• Defi · 3

Most covered

• Trump Media Posts $238M Quarterly Loss as Crypto Treasury Value Drops $361M · 5 sources
• Goldman Sachs to Acquire NEOS Investments in Deal Worth Up to $2.25 Billion, Gaining Bitcoin and Ether Income ETFs · 4 sources
• Bitwise Cuts 14% of Staff as Crypto Asset Manager's Client Assets Fall to $9 Billion · 4 sources
• Strategy Sells 1,690 Bitcoin, Raises $653M in MSTR Shares to Fund STRC Buyback · 4 sources
• Standard Chartered Sets $200 Price Target for Chainlink's LINK by End-2030 · 4 sources

8 exploits tracked this week totalling $146,090,000 — the running tracker.

BYTE Mood ran 62 → 72 across 9 readings — how it is scored.

The week

Coverage clustered around three threads: banks and chipmakers pouring money into AI infrastructure, a steady drumbeat of wallet and exchange breaches across the crypto industry, and regulators moving slowly or inconsistently on digital-asset rules and prediction-market disputes. Corporate earnings and portfolio moves from large institutional holders ran alongside these threads, with crypto trading volumes and hiring showing signs of strain…

• Mastercard's acquisition of a stablecoin infrastructure firm
• Goldman Sachs' purchase of a crypto income ETF provider
• A Senate delay on the CLARITY crypto bill vote
• A conditional bank charter granted to a Trump-linked crypto venture
• Nvidia's financing partnership with Wall Street asset managers for AI buildout
• Berkshire Hathaway's deployment of its cash reserves
• A regulatory standoff over Kalshi's operations in New York
• A wallet compromise that triggered a bitcoin security scramble
• Quarterly losses reported at two crypto exchanges
• A chipmaker's earnings tied to AI chip demand
• A rebound in crypto ETF inflows
• Diverging regulator schedules on crypto rulemaking

Sources: BYTE NEWS

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