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      "title": "Mastercard expands stablecoin settlement options with USDC, PYUSD and RLUSD",
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      "summary": "Mastercard expanded settlement to USDC, PYUSD, and RLUSD, enabling intraday, weekend, and holiday card settlement across its payments network.",
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      "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:57:56 -0400",
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      "title": "New York and EU’s finance watchdogs team up to police stablecoins",
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      "summary": "Some of the information that New York and the European Union’s watchdogs will share includes the issued stablecoin, total volume in circulation and the number of holders.",
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      "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:58:05 +0000",
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      "title": "Bullish crypto bets lose $1.6 billion as ETH, SOL, DOGE drop 9%",
      "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/03/bullish-crypto-bets-lose-usd1-6-billion-as-eth-sol-doge-drop-9",
      "summary": "The single biggest unwind was a $59.67 million BTC-USDT long on HTX.",
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      "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:00:00 +0000",
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      "title": "Mastercard expands onchain settlement in bet on stablecoins and always-on finance",
      "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/03/mastercard-expands-on-chain-settlement-in-bet-on-stablecoins-and-always-on-finance",
      "summary": "The company plans to offer stablecoin, weekend and holiday settlement as demand grows for real-time movement of money.",
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      "title": "Bitcoin’s compute power dwarfs top 100 supercomputers by 600k times, says Bittensor co-founder",
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      "summary": "Ala Shaabana explains how using Bitcoin network’s coordinate-and-reward playbook can bust open corporate monopolies on AI.",
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      "published": "Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:25:44 +0000",
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      "title": "UK House of Lords committee calls on Bank of England to reconsider proposed stablecoin restrictions",
      "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/06/02/uk-house-of-lords-committee-calls-on-bank-of-england-to-reconsider-proposed-stablecoin-restrictions",
      "summary": "The Bank of England proposed limits of 20,000 pounds per coin for individuals and 10 million pounds for businesses.",
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      "published": "Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:01:00 +0000",
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      "title": "Crypto PACs pour $3M into Maryland races as California voters head to polls",
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      "summary": "An affiliate of a political action committee backed by crypto companies ramped up spending on ads in California ahead of Tuesday’s primaries, but still has millions of dollars at stake in Maryland later this month.",
      "source": "Cointelegraph",
      "published": "Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:06:39 +0000",
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      "title": "Franklin Templeton says Wall Street fears blockchain because it threatens its profits",
      "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/06/02/franklin-templeton-says-wall-street-fears-blockchain-because-it-threatens-its-profits",
      "summary": "Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton's CEO, said blockchain and crypto threaten a huge number of business models that exist today in traditional finance.",
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      "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:04:43 +0000",
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      "title": "US Treasury issues sanctions on Iran, targets 4 crypto exchanges",
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      "summary": "The sanctions come four days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US had seized nearly $1 billion in crypto from Iranian crypto exchanges and wallets since late February.",
      "source": "Cointelegraph",
      "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:12:44 +0000",
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    {
      "title": "Crypto turns ‘contrarian bet’ as AI stocks draw investor attention: Bitwise",
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      "summary": "“Investors still believe in crypto, but now that it’s a contrarian bet, they favor fundamentals over vibes,” says Bitwise investment chief Matt Hougan.",
      "source": "Cointelegraph",
      "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:31:07 +0000",
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    {
      "title": "Bitcoin's slide to $66,000 is accelerating a shift into digital dollars",
      "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/03/bitcoin-s-slide-to-usd67-000-is-accelerating-a-shift-into-digital-dollars",
      "summary": "The crypto market is seeing a capital flight into dollar-linked stablecoins even as stocks and the Dollar Index remain calm.",
      "source": "CoinDesk",
      "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:44:12 +0000",
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    {
      "title": "UK Lords warn BoE could regulate pound stablecoins into irrelevance",
      "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/news/lords-warn-bank-of-england-not-to-regulate-gbp-stablecoins-into-irrelevance?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound",
      "summary": "A UK House of Lords committee warned that strict stablecoin rules could make pound sterling tokens commercially unworkable despite supporting regulation.",
      "source": "Cointelegraph",
      "published": "Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:01:00 +0000",
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    {
      "title": "SEC makes digital assets strategic priority through 2030",
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      "summary": "The regulator’s five-year roadmap calls for clearer crypto rules, support for tokenization and a framework for staking and onchain markets.",
      "source": "Cointelegraph",
      "published": "Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:17:11 +0000",
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      "title": "Crypto correction vaporized $176B in investor funds: Are bears back in control?",
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      "summary": "Bitcoin and altcoin prices crumbled as BTC lost the $70,000 level. Will investors’ pivot to AI stocks continue to weigh on crypto markets?",
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      "published": "Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:16:33 +0000",
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      "title": "US sanctions Nobitex and other Iranian crypto exchanges under ‘Economic Fury’ campaign",
      "url": "https://www.theblock.co/post/403436/us-sanctions-nobitex-iranian-crypto-exchanges-economic-fury-campaign?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss",
      "summary": "Sanctioned exchange Nobitex handled more than half of Iran's crypto inflows last year, according to the U.S. Treasury.",
      "source": "The Block",
      "published": "Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:50:53 -0400",
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      "title": "Coinbase backs Ethena ahead of savings product launch for exchange's 100 million users",
      "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/06/02/coinbase-backs-ethena-ahead-of-savings-product-launch-for-exchange-s-100-million-users",
      "summary": "Coinbase Ventures, the exchange's venture arm, bought Ethena tokens on the open market as the protocol is set to roll out a Coinbase integration next week.",
      "source": "CoinDesk",
      "published": "Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:09:53 +0000",
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      "title": "Crypto derivatives activity slumps to late-2023 levels, but US perp market opportunity emerges",
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      "summary": "The composition of that volume remains heavily concentrated among a handful of exchanges, with Binance maintaining its dominant share.",
      "source": "The Block",
      "published": "Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:46:02 -0400",
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      "summary": "Growing AI stocks and uncertainty around the Clarity Act have put crypto in a tough spot for institutional investors, Hougan said.",
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      "published": "Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:28:40 -0400",
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