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While the rest of the market nervously watched the ceasefire countdown this weekend, Michael Saylor was doing what Michael Saylor does, posting cryptic orange dot charts and hinting the buying isn't close to done…

Strategy just confirmed it picked up 13,927 Bitcoin for $1 billion at an average price of $71,902, bringing total holdings to 780,897 BTC, the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury on the planet.

Then on Sunday, Saylor posted his signature orange dot chart with one caption: "Think Even ₿igger." 👀

On-chain data suggests Strategy may have already crossed 800,000 BTC, nearly 4% of the entire Bitcoin supply that will ever exist.

The one slightly uncomfortable detail:

Strategy's average cost basis sits at $75,789 per coin, meaning the world's biggest corporate Bitcoin holder is currently sitting right at break-even.

The conviction is incredible. The maths is a little stressful. 😬

One man. 800,000 Bitcoin. Zero chill. ☕📈

What we’ve covered for you today:

Right on cue, just as Saylor posts "Think Even Bigger," crypto's favourite gold bug has entered the chat. 😂

Peter Schiff says Strategy's Bitcoin funding model is becoming unsustainable, arguing the company is "shifting toward more expensive capital" as it moves to 11.5% yield preferred shares, after previously funding purchases more cheaply through share sales at a premium.

Translation: the machine that prints money to buy Bitcoin is getting more expensive to run. And Schiff wants everyone to know about it.

Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra also weighed in, calling Strategy "a giant Ponzi that will unravel when the next financial crisis hits."

Strong words from a man who has been saying this since Bitcoin was $20,000. 💀

To be fair, not everyone agrees. BitMEX Research pushed back, noting "nobody is forcing MSTR to do this" and that Strategy still has financial levers available, including adjusting coupon rates, without needing to sell a single Bitcoin.

So here we are…

Saylor is buying 800,000 Bitcoin with borrowed money at break-even prices while the ceasefire expires in two days. It's either the greatest trade in history or the most spectacular implosion waiting to happen.

Probably one of those... ☕📈💀

Not a great morning for anyone who builds on Vercel. ☕

Web infrastructure giant Vercel has confirmed a security breach traced back to a compromised third-party AI tool called Context.ai, where an attacker used the access to take over an employee's Google Workspace account and gain entry into Vercel's internal environments and environment variables.

A threat actor using the ShinyHunters persona has claimed responsibility, reportedly selling the stolen data on cybercrime forums for $2 million, including access keys and source code.

Nothing says Monday morning like a $2M data dump... 💀

Why does this matter for crypto?

Vercel underpins the frontend infrastructure for a huge number of crypto applications, including Solana-based exchange Orca, sending Web3 teams scrambling to rotate API keys and audit their code.

Vercel says environment variables marked as "sensitive" were stored in encrypted form and there is currently no evidence they were accessed, but the company is working with Mandiant, cybersecurity firms and law enforcement to investigate the full scope.

If you're a developer building on Vercel, rotate your credentials. Now. Not after coffee. Now. ☕🔐

Coinbase has started testing AI agents that show up in Slack and email just like any other teammate.

The first two are named Fred and Balaji, modelled after legendary former Coinbase employees co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former CTO Balaji Srinivasan.

Fred handles strategy and executive feedback. Balaji handles creativity and challenging assumptions. Essentially two former bosses, now available 24/7 with no salary. 😅

Armstrong said any employee will soon be able to spin up their own agent for their team. Then came the line everyone is talking about: "I suspect we will have more agents than human employees at some point soon."

To be clear, Coinbase has over 4,000 employees and has previously said it wants more than half of its code written by AI. So this is not exactly coming out of nowhere.

The robots are not taking over. They are just... showing up in your Slack. Which is arguably worse. ☕🤖

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Bitcoin ripped to $78K on Friday, dumped over the weekend, and left something behind on the chart that traders are now staring at very nervously.

An open CME futures gap. Right between $75,000 and $77,000.

For the uninitiated, futures gaps form when price moves sharply over the weekend while CME markets are closed. When trading resumes Monday, the chart has a literal hole in it. And historically, Bitcoin fills these gaps with roughly 90% probability.

Every prior open gap has eventually been filled. Every single one.

That means before this market continues in either direction, there is a high probability price revisits that $75K to $77K range this week to close the gap.

Whether it bounces from there or keeps going lower is the real question.

Watch the gap. The chart usually does. ☕📊

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AlphaNet, an AI quant trading platform backed by Asian prop firm Tensor Investment, has raised $10 million led by Joffre Capital to go public, giving retail traders access to institutional-grade algorithmic strategies that were previously completely out of reach. The hedge fund robots are coming for everyone.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in nearly $1 billion in net inflows last week, their strongest week in over three months, with Friday alone bringing in $663.9 million as the Hormuz ceasefire lifted sentiment, pushing total ETF assets back above $101 billion.

Moody's says stablecoins pose limited near-term risk to banks since US rules ban yield-bearing stablecoins, making them unlikely to replace deposits at scale, but warns that growing adoption and tokenized real-world assets could eventually pressure the sector down the line. The banks are safe. For now.y projected to

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The dollar is weakening and Bitcoin is sitting right there going "so anyway, about that store of value narrative..." ☕🟠