The BitMEX co-founder and Maelstrom CIO sat down with Anthony Pompliano to break down the Iran war, AI deflation, Bitcoin's next move, and why he thinks one decentralized exchange with 11 employees is about to reshape global finance.

Ethereum's 7-day transfer count SMA just broke 1.3 million, exceeding every prior bull market peak including 2021 and 2025.

JPMorgan reported Q1 2026 institutional crypto flows dropped to $11 billion. The same quarter, monthly crypto card volume reached $606.7 million, a 300% year-over-year increase and the highest single-month figure ever recorded.

S&P Global and Chainalysis released reports one day apart reaching opposite conclusions about the same asset class. Both are right. They are describing different parts of the same picture.

The second-largest crypto treasury company in the world uplisted to the NYSE and quadrupled its share repurchase program. It also bought 71,252 ETH last week at the fastest pace in months.

Coinbase secured an Australian financial license three months before the deadline, turning regulatory clarity into an Everything Exchange combining crypto perpetuals, equity perpetuals, and institutional partnership.

USD1 reached $27.8 billion in cumulative volume in under a year, but growth is incentive-driven and Binance-concentrated, while the stablecoin market's real competition happens in $226 billion B2B payments.

Grayscale backs Google's quantum whitepaper and calls for immediate action - the cryptographic solution exists, but Bitcoin's governance may be the harder problem to solve.

Q1 2026 produced $11 billion in crypto inflows - one-third of last year. On the day JPMorgan published that number, Schwab opened a waitlist for the largest traditional brokerage entry into spot crypto ever announced.

The CoinGlass 2026 Q1 Cryptocurrency Market Share Research Report provides a detailed look at how trading activity, open interest, liquidity, and user assets are distributed across major cryptocurrency exchanges.

IMF's note on tokenized finance warns that stablecoins resemble money market funds, not central bank money. The data suggests the stakes of getting this wrong have never been higher.

Initial claims fell to their lowest 4-week average since 2024. Historically strong claims data is often interpreted as bearish for Bitcoin, But the environment this number lands in makes the read more complicated than usual.