👻 Threading Daily — 18.03.2026 👻

🔖Macro
- Dollar resurgent on bullish bets
- Oil stays near $100 as Iran strikes oil hubs
- Russian oil exports benefitting from Iran war
- Treasury buys back ATH $15b debt
- Private credit defaults hit ATH in 2025: Fitch
- Nvidia projects $1T AI chip revenue over 2 years
- Okara launches AI CMO

🔖Crypto News
- Crypto rally continues in massive short squeeze
- ETH & BTC at 6 week high
- PIPPIN suddenly drops 50%
- Metaplanet to raise $531m to buy BTC
- GSR expands eco with $57M double acquisition
- Argentina blocks Polymarket nationwide
- PayPal expands stablecoins to 70 countries
- Privy launches DeFi Vault integration
- Tether teases AI break-through this week
- StanChart to collab with Hana Financial on crypto
- Binance issues rebuttal over Iran links
- OpenSea delays SEA token launch
- Aster chain is now live
- CHIP announces airdrop allocations
- Messari CEO steps down amid layoffs in AI pivot
- Kalshi offers $1b prize for March Madness

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- 100+ signals , 38 indicators, 80% win rate hit — noisyb0y1
- Decentralized AI: From "Impossible" to "Investable" — jbrukh

🔖Raises
- Derivio $6M, Decentralized structured derivatives ecosystem < YZi, CMT, Signum, UOB, Big Brain...
- TransFi (Series A) $14.2M, Cross-border payment platform < Turing Finance

🔖Early Projects
- @cryptio_co, Bio: Back-Office OS for regulated enterprises. Setting the Standard for Crypto Financial Integrity – (SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2).
- @apyx_fi, Bio: Onchain Digital Credit Yield | On Track to Become the Largest Holder of $STRC | linktr.ee/apyx_fi

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