👻 Threading Daily — 13.04.2026 👻

🔖Macro
- Oil back above $100 on limited Hormuz traffic
- European airlines warn of fuel shortage
- Melania Trump denies Epstein links
- White House warns staff on insider trading
- Trump calls out $7b fines from EU to Big Tech
- Google will use Intel chips in data centers
- Florida launches investigation into OpenAI
- Alibaba leads $290M AI world model investment
- Amazon says it may create its own chips
- Anthropic also considering designing its own chip
- Apple closing store in the US

🔖Crypto News
- BTC fails to break $73K for third time
- Top Gainers: ZEC, ENA, CFX, ZEN, DEXE
- WLFI borrowed $75m against its own token
- Covenant AI exits Bittensor, TAO drops 15%
- Japan approves crypto as financial products
- Ex-SEC staffer becomes Securitize president
- Kraken’s Fed account causing criticism
- OKX, HashKey invest $380M in Vietnam exchange
- x402 protocol adds AI compute pricing
- Bitmine uplists to NYSE, buyback up to $4B
- Alibaba joins THETA as validator
- Circle stock sinks 10% on downgrade
- CZ offers $1b bet against OKX founder
- Metamask launches Advanced Permissions to eliminate repeated approvals

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- Q1 2026 Becomes Largest Venture Quarter Ever at $300B, Up 150% Year-Over-Year — a16z
- Lido's CircuitBreaker: From Disposable Fuses to a Permanent Panic Layer — c4lvin

🔖Raises
- SimpleChain (Seed) $15M, The Global RWA Infrastructure Layer

🔖Early Projects
- @isometricmkts, Bio: a new defi primitive— isometric replaces binary prediction markets with continuous curve derivatives. isomkts.com
- @facto_to, Bio: We enable every DeFi position to spend facto.to
- @saidinfra, Bio: On-chain identity, verificaton and communication for AI agents on @solana. Join the discord: http://discord.gg/saidprotocol saidprotocol.com

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