👻 Threading Daily — 17.03.2026 👻

🔖Macro
- Oil higher after US strikes Iran’s Kharg Island
- Trump eyes seizure of Kharg Island oil hub
- Mag 7 stocks enter correction
- Trump restarts oil drilling along California coast
- Chinese economy surprises with rebound
- UK economy grew only 0.1% in Q4
- Meta’s layoffs could effect 20%+ staff
- Nvidia prepares AI ‘inference’ chip

🔖Crypto News
- ETH leads L1s as ETF inflows continue
- Top Gainers: PEPE, TAO, DOT, ADA, KAS
- HYPE highlighted in WSJ for oil trading
- ETH Foundation publishes mandate
- Strategy buys $1.5b BTC
- ETH Foundation sold $10m ETH to BMNR
- ETH supply is up 1m+ since the Merge
- US sanctions $800m N Korean IT worker fraud
- Australian senate backs crypto license bill
- Kraken SPAC has $10b for acquistions
- Coinbase exploring investment collab with Bybit
- USDC overtakes USDT in adjusted transfers
- AAVE & SKY both set to cut token buybacks
- THE price manipulated in exploit
- New docs link $5m LIBRA promotion deal to Milei

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- The Great Perpification
- AI: The New Industrial Infrastructure — Nvidia
- It All Comes Down to Who Controls the Straight of Hormuz - The "Final Battle" — Ray Dalio

🔖Raises
- Yumi Finance (Seed), “buy now, pay later” solution < Coloseum, Kevin, Arnold...
- Ironlight (Series A) $21M, Securities Tokenization Market < Greg, Sei, Laidlaw
- RoboForce $52M, AI Robotics Company < YZi, Jerry, Myron...
- dtcpay (Series A) $10M, Payment Service Provider < Vertex

🔖Early Projects
- @cludeproject, Bio: Persistent memory that learns, consolidates, and proves itself on-chain. 83.9/100 benchmark
- @arcxtrade, Bio: The trading layer for all perp DEXs. Trade across DEXs, build strategies, capture yield. app.arcx.trade
- @YumiFinance, Bio: Onchain "buy now, pay later" for the next generation of money. NO TOKEN

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