👻 Threading Daily — 16.04.2026 👻

🔖Macro
- US halts all Iran sea trade for 36 hours
- Trump: NATO won’t be there for us in the future
- Iran used China spy satellite to hit US bases: FT
- Saudi Arabia gives Pakistan $3B as UAE loan due
- China: US distorting Taiwan narrative
- Germany faces massive layoff wave
- Turkey loses 69.1 tonnes of gold in one week
- UK approves 3 new nuclear power stations
- Trump tells UK to utilise North Sea oil
- Spain PM Sanchez's wife charged with corruption
- JPMorgan raises 2026 IPO forecast to $60-70B
- OpenAI investors questioning valuation: FT
- Novartis CEO joins Anthropic board
- Amazon buys Globalstar for $11.6B

🔖Crypto News
- BTC ‘Risk Index’ hits 0
- 30% chance BTC hits $80K in April
- RAVE hits $15B, 90% controlled by insiders
- Hyperliquid unlocks set to double
- Etherfi commits $3B ETH to ETHGas as validator
- Visa joins Stripe's Tempo as anchor validator
- Chainlink brings SIX equities data on-chain
- Ripple tokenises Korean bonds with Kyobo Life
- CLARITY Act would unlock crypto: Bybit CEO
- SocGen launches MiCA-compliant USDCV
- Kraken co-CEO confirms confidential IPO filing
- Apple pulls fake Ledger app that stole $9.5M
- CowSwap front-end exploited
- X launches live trading cashtags in US, Canada
- ether.fi is officially live on OP Mainnet
- WLFI proposes strict vesting, lockups, token burns

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- This Is World Tyranny, Not World Liberty Financial: Justin Sun
- Squads Warns of Address Poisoning Attack Using Fake Multisig Accounts with Lookalike Addresses
- Crypto Hiring Insights: Dragonfly

🔖Raises
- Brix $5,5M, Decentralized yield engine < ConsenSys, Borderless, Circle...
- Mirage (Seed), Privacy Protocol < Seed Club...

🔖Early Projects
- @hevn_finance, Bio: Stablecoin banking for startups 🚀🏦. Run payroll, invoices, loans, taxes, and cards. Open US, EU & UAE bank accounts. Backed by @YCombinator
- @carte_gg, Bio: Private beta. Produced by
@manifoldxyz carte.gg

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