👻 Threading Daily — 16.03.2026 👻

🔖Macro
- Stocks sink as oil soars back to $100
- US to ease shipping rule to tame fuel prices
- NATO intercepts third Iran missile in Turkey
- China-Cuba agree to boost bilateral ties
- Another xAI cofounder leaves the firm
- Anthropic in talks on consulting VC
- Google Maps gets Gemini AI chatbot

🔖Crypto News
- Crypto enjoys inflows while gold suffering outflows
- Crypto rallies despite surging oil and dollar strength
- TRUMP rallies on second gala promotion
- Pumpfun first SOL platform to hit $1b revenue
- Address poisoning attacks rising on ETH
- BoE could be open to revising crypto caps
- HSBC, StanChart to get HK stablecoin licenses
- TOKEN2049 Dubai postponed to Apr-2027
- Alabama judge rejects Binance terrorism lawsuit
- Circle has minted $8B+ USDC since Feb
- Lido intros first stablecoin vault with USDT, USDC
- GRVT targets Q3 token launch
- Backpack TGE goes live March 23rd
- CFTC issues first guidance on prediction markets

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- Banks Become Crypto’s Frenemies — intangiblecoins
- Ethereum Foundation Publishes the Ethereum Foundation Mandate
- Why Circle Thinks the Next Phase of Crypto will be About Payments, Not Speculation — Mastercard

🔖Raises
- Eightco Holdings, Inc. $125M, blockchain technology company (NASDAQ: OCTO) < BitMine, Kraken, ARK
- MetaComp (Pre-A) $13M, Cross-border FX payments platform < Alibaba, Spark

🔖Early Projects
- @0xmaiat, Bio: The trust layer for the internet. maiat.io
- @GeneralTensor, Bio: Building the infrastructure for decentralized intelligence. generaltensor.io
- @nozomioai, Bio: product & research lab. makers of http://trynia.ai (context for ai agents). backed by paul graham, yc, crv, lg, boxgroup, and more. ps: dsc.gg/nozomio

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