👻 Threading Daily — 14.04.2026 👻

🔖Macro
- Trump confirms US Hormuz blockade to begin
- Oil climbs above $100, futures fall
- Hormuz traffic plummets, tankers head to US
- Iran having issues clearing mines it laid
- Britain will not join Hormuz blockade
- Trump threatens 50% tariffs on China over Iran
- 2028 seen as key maturity wall for private credit
- Japan 10Y yield hits 2.48%, highest since 1997
- China Q1 GDP rebound expected, dim outlook
- TSMC set for 4th record profit on AI demand
- Japan adds $4B in subsidies for domestic chips
- Netherlands first EU country to approve Tesla FSD
- Durov calls WhatsApp E2E encryption fraud
- Altman reportedly targeted in second attack

🔖Crypto News
- Crypto sheds $83B in a day on Hormuz blockade
- Top Gainers: RAVE, STABLE, JTO, VVV, AAVE
- BTC, ETH, XRP weekly ETF inflows; SOL outflows
- Microstrategy added +13,927 BTC, now holds 780K BTC
- Bitmine acquires +71,524 ETH, now holds 4.8M ETH
- Ethereum new users surge 82% QoQ in Q1
- Justin Sun calls out being blacklisted by WLFI
- Alameda moves $16M SOL to creditor address
- Hackers mint 1B DOT on ETH, sell for $237K
- Hyperbridge DOT exploit caused by AI hack
- Hyperliquid TVL approaches $5B
- Grayscale eyes 30+ funds incl. TON, HYPE, TRX
- Bitwise files updated S-1 for Hyperliquid ETF
- EU banks selecting stablecoin partners
- Bank of Korea floats crypto ‘circuit breakers’
- HK issues first stablecoin licenses to HSBC group
- Starkware cuts staff after revenue plunge
- Binance Wallet adds pre-IPO assets

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- WLFI: Collateral Loop Breakdown
- From Neobanks to Onchain Banks
- 26 Claude shortcut hacks for faster prompts

🔖Raises
- Totalis (Seed) $0.5M, The derivatives layer of prediction markets < Y Combinator

🔖Early Projects
- @CobotCorp, Bio: Cobot's mission is to create a world where humans and robots collaborate in a trusted partnership. co.bot
- @ideogram_ai, Bio: Turn your ideas into creative graphic designs, in a matter of seconds. What will you create? ideogram.ai
- @SynaptrixAI, Bio: The future of brain-computer interfaces is non-invasive synaptrix-labs.com

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