🎬Movietime: Starring Vitalik Buterin 👷🏼‍♂️

Markets seem to be recovering more from the pains of tariffs. 

Even MANTRA's $OM, which witnessed a Sunday wipeout, is back up by 20%. 

Memes are making a case for resurgence too, but maybe the industry is too jaded to react yet—well, except maybe, to Fartcoin.

In Today’s Edition

🌕Market Watch
🌕Vitalik Buterin's Movie
🌕US Stocks On Chain!
🌕$7M Gone in Fresh Attack

Market Watch 🔍 | Fart to $1BN?

The crypto trenches are stirring again. Bitcoin touched $85K, hinting at renewed risk appetite as equities closed nearly 1% higher on the day. 

Still, it’s a tale of two markets—while BTC remains buoyant, ETH is flatlining at $1.6K and SOL continues to cling to $130, despite a 10.8% daily jump. 

Bitcoin dominance sits at 64%, proving that while the tide may be rising, not all boats float equally.

On the upside, XRP surged 13.7%, bolstered by a rare bullish technical cross and breakout volume above the $2.07 resistance. 

If momentum holds, traders are eyeing the $2.40 level, with some longer-term hopefuls pegging $10 in the long term. 

On the flip side, DOGE dipped 3% amid growing U.S. recession fears, which continue to cast a long shadow over macro and risk-on assets.

In Altland, it’s chaos as usual. 

Solana’s memecoin ecosystem is humming again, with new tokens like DICK BUTT, jobcoin, and SOLEY clocking multi-million-dollar daily volumes. 

Fartcoin, improbably, is nearing a $1 billion market cap. Legacy names like DARK, CheeseX, and jockey are seeing aggressive accumulation, up 30% or more.

Telegram trading bots are pulsing back to life, with SOL-based bots recording their highest usage in over two weeks. 

Momentum is building. However, whether this is a healthy trench rally remains to be seen. 

A Film About Vitalik, The Reluctant Star 🎬

Crypto's most reluctant icon just landed his own biopic.

“Vitalik: An Ethereum Story” is hitting global release today, pulling back the curtain on Ethereum’s enigmatic co-founder, Vitalik Buterin. 

Directed by Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci, the film follows Buterin’s unlikely journey—from a quiet childhood in Russia to building one of the most ambitious tech projects of our time out of Toronto’s Bitcoin meetups.

But this isn’t a film about charts or price predictions. It’s about a young programmer with a 40-liter backpack, a minimalist wardrobe, and a deep desire to use blockchain for something more than speculation. 

Temple and Ingrasci say they weren’t crypto natives, but after meeting Vitalik in 2021, they knew they had a story that could challenge the public perception of the crypto world—one with real emotion, purpose, and awkward charm.

The documentary sidesteps some of Ethereum’s thorniest chapters—like the DAO hack—to focus on human stakes: Vitalik’s discomfort with power, his philosophical leadership style, and his motivations 

behind using crypto to support Ukraine during the war.

It’s not “Vitalik = Ethereum,” the directors insist. It’s one story among many. But it’s a powerful one. 

In an industry often defined by hype cycles, this is a rare on-chain artifact built to humanize rather than tokenize.

Aching to see it? Head over to Amazon or Apple TV and have a good time reliving crypto foundations.

And if this film makes you bullish on $ETH, then here you go 👇🏽

US Stocks On Chain ⛓️‍💥

Kraken is doubling down on diversification—and it's doing so with Wall Street in its sights. 

The San Francisco-based exchange has officially launched commission-free U.S. equities and ETF trading for select users, making it one of the few crypto-native firms to bridge traditional and digital finance under one roof.

Initially available in just 10 U.S. states, the rollout lets customers manage both stocks and crypto from a single account via Kraken’s mobile app and web platform. 

The move is powered by a partnership with broker-dealer Alpaca and includes access to over 11,000 listed equities—more than half of which are eligible for fractional trading.

It’s a bold play that brings Kraken into direct competition with Robinhood, just as it’s prepping for a potential IPO in early 2026. 

The push into equities is also a strategic setup for the future of tokenized assets. “Expanding into equities is a natural step,” said Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi, who emphasized that crypto is becoming “the backbone for trading across asset classes.”

Beyond U.S. shores, Kraken is eyeing expansion into the U.K., Europe, and Australia—territories where digital-native brokerages and tokenized finance could still be early innings. 

With its $1.5 billion NinjaTrader acquisition pending, Kraken’s ambition is clear: to be the everything exchange, from crypto to commodities, stocks to tokenized treasuries.

What The Coin is Going On? 🪙

1. Another day, another crypto hack. DEX KiloEx loses $7M in fresh Oracle Manipulation Attack.

2. The world thought he’d cooled off after reporting a $6bn Q1 loss—but that's not how Saylor rolls. Strategy has purchased another 3,459 BTC for approximately $285.8 million in cash.

3. GBP Payments on the blockchain? That’s exactly what JP Morgan likes to do.

4. Get clear takeaways from today’s episode on Apple and Spotify.

That’s all for today, folks.    

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