FOMO HOUR: A Daily Crypto & Web3 News Show

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FOMO HOUR is your daily Crypto, Web3 and Blockchain podcast. Decrypt is a next-generation media company capturing the most compelling narratives in emerging technology. All Decrypt Media News and Content is Powered by myriad.markets

  1. 3 days ago

    Massive ZCash Exploit Found by Claude, Extent Unknown, Markets Did NOT Like It, BTC Steady at $62.5K


    Crypto majors are mixed; BTC +0.2% at $62.3k; ETH -4% at $1,670; SOL -2% at $66; HYPE -5% at $61.65. WLD (+9%), JST (+9%), and DEXE (+8%) led top movers. ZEC fell 40% to $324 after the exploit was published, wicking as low as $250. Oil -1% at $93; Gold -0.2% at $4,490. Stock futures are mixed with the DOW green but Nasdaq down 1%. Crypto longs saw $830M in liquidations over the past day, includng $336M in BTC longs, $277M in ETH and $117M in ZEC longs. Coinbase and Better Home & Finance funded the first Fannie Mae-backed Bitcoin mortgage in US history, completed by a married couple in Ann Arbor who used their Bitcoin as collateral to purchase their first home without triggering a taxable sale. Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) announced plans to add prediction market restrictions to the House’s stock ban bill, barring members of Congress from betting on elections and public policy on Kalshi and Polymarket. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said humanity is standing in the “foothills of the singularity” and predicted AGI will arrive around 2030, possibly as early as 2029. The DOJ’s “Disruption Week” operation froze more than $3.8 million in stolen crypto with help from Coinbase, SpaceX, Meta, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. A fast-growing gray market for peptides has become one of cryptocurrency’s newest high-volume markets, processing more than $100 million annually primarily through Bitcoin and stablecoin payments. Powered by https://myriad.markets/markets

    55 min
  2. 5 days ago

    Bitcoin’s Saylor Problem, Hype Breaks Out, and Alts Are Going Big

    Crypto majors are red again down 3-5%; BTC -3% at $67.2k; ETH -5% at $1,880; SOL -5% at $75.45; HYPE +1% at $73.05. LIT (+27%), ENA (+22%), and WLD (+21%) led top movers; NEAR and VVV +10% as well. Oil +5% at $96; Gold -1% at $4,490. Stock futures are mixed with the Nasdaq up 0.1% and DOW down 0.4%. Bitmine’s Tom Lee predicted Ethereum will reach $250,000 as corporate treasury firms, institutional stakers, and sovereign wealth funds increasingly take over network validator control. Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile acquired Helium Mobile Tuesday; Noble will use the Helium Network’s 137,000 community-operated hotspots for expanded coverage (HNT -9%). MoneyGram launched a USDC stablecoin payment service on the Stellar network Tuesday, letting consumers send dollar-pegged transfers across borders using Stellar’s rails. Franklin Templeton partnered with MoonPay to let institutional investors swap stablecoins for yield-bearing assets around the clock, pairing Franklin Templeton’s $1.74 trillion in AUM and tokenized money market funds with MoonPay’s institutional settlement infrastructure. Galaxy Research entered the institutional prediction markets space by facilitating a $10 million Arca trade Tuesday, the first nine-figure institutional prediction market position brokered by a major crypto research firm. NewLimit, the anti-aging biotech co-founded by Brian Armstrong, closed a new $435M Series C funding round backed by Founders Fund, Thrive, Greenoaks, and others, while also announcing it has developed a prototype drug that reverses the biological age of human cells by restoring function they had when younger. Powered by https://myriad.markets/markets

    1hr 3min
  3. 5 days ago

    Bitcoin Falls Below $67K as MSTR Plummets, The Saylor Fallout Continues, Alts Still Pumping

    Crypto majors are red again down 3-5%; BTC -3% at $67.2k; ETH -5% at $1,880; SOL -5% at $75.45; HYPE +1% at $73.05. LIT (+27%), ENA (+22%), and WLD (+21%) led top movers; NEAR and VVV +10% as well. Oil +5% at $96; Gold -1% at $4,490. Stock futures are mixed with the Nasdaq up 0.1% and DOW down 0.4%. Bitmine’s Tom Lee predicted Ethereum will reach $250,000 as corporate treasury firms, institutional stakers, and sovereign wealth funds increasingly take over network validator control. Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile acquired Helium Mobile Tuesday; Noble will use the Helium Network’s 137,000 community-operated hotspots for expanded coverage (HNT -9%). MoneyGram launched a USDC stablecoin payment service on the Stellar network Tuesday, letting consumers send dollar-pegged transfers across borders using Stellar’s rails. Franklin Templeton partnered with MoonPay to let institutional investors swap stablecoins for yield-bearing assets around the clock, pairing Franklin Templeton’s $1.74 trillion in AUM and tokenized money market funds with MoonPay’s institutional settlement infrastructure. Galaxy Research entered the institutional prediction markets space by facilitating a $10 million Arca trade Tuesday, the first nine-figure institutional prediction market position brokered by a major crypto research firm. NewLimit, the anti-aging biotech co-founded by Brian Armstrong, closed a new $435M Series C funding round backed by Founders Fund, Thrive, Greenoaks, and others, while also announcing it has developed a prototype drug that reverses the biological age of human cells by restoring function they had when younger. Powered by https://myriad.markets/markets

    1hr 3min
  4. 6 days ago

    BTC Under 70K After Saylor Sells, Polymarket’s 'Strategy Sell' Drama, NEAR Up 15% on Day

    Crypto majors are red on the day with BTC falling 4% after Saylor sold; BTC -4% at $69.4k; ETH even at $1,980; SOL -2% at $79.1; HYPE -1% at $72.25. NEAR (+15%), WLD (+11%), and RENDER (+9%) led top movers. Oil -1% at $91; Gold +1% at $4,560. Stock futures are red and down slightly after the S&P hit a new ATH yesterday. Pavel Durov announced Telegram is rebranding Toncoin to GRAM, its original planned name before the SEC forced Telegram to abandon the project in 2020; TON +6%. The CME saw $50M in volume in its first weekend of 24/7 trading for its crypto futures and options. Charles Schwab is targeting a 2027 roll out of its crypto spot trading for wealth advisors. SpaceX added dilution language to its amended IPO filing Monday, disclosing it “may issue a significant amount of equity in connection with future transactions,” widely read as preparation for an eventual Tesla merger. Vitalik proposed using options contracts in DeFi as a structural fix for liquidation cascades - the mechanism behind most major 2026 DeFi losses; his model would let borrowers pay a premium for a “soft liquidation” option that reduces collateral requirements gradually rather than triggering an instant forced sale. A crypto wallet recovery team recovered more than $2 million in Ethereum that had been inaccessible for over a decade. Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party formally proposed legalizing crypto ETF trading,, calling for a legal framework that would allow crypto ETFs on Japanese exchanges by 2027. Powered by https://myriad.markets/markets

    37 min

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