This week overview (June 8 - June 12, 2026): • Cyera raised $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, highlighting growing demand for AI-era cybersecurity platforms. • TensorWave secured $350 million to expand its AMD-powered AI infrastructure. • Bybit launched IPO Express, bringing tokenized IPO access to retail investors and allowing participation in offerings such as SpaceX. • NinjaOne surpassed a $12.3 billion valuation after raising over $400 million.

At a recent Bitcoin conference panel in Las Vegas, moderated by Brandon Keys from Green Candle and participants from across the Bitcoin financial ecosystem tackled exactly that. But instead of landing on a clean number, the conversation exposed something far more important: Retirement in the Bitcoin era may no longer be about escaping work. It may be about gaining optionality.

At Consensus Miami 2026, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley, had a conversation with Gareth Jenkinson from The Block, about the evolution of crypto markets, institutional adoption, Bitcoin ETFs, Michael Saylor’s financial engineering, and why he believes the traditional four-year cycle is officially over.

At the recent Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, Jack Mallers, Strike CEO, and Miles Suter, Bitcoin Product Lead at Block, Inc. and Cash App, are pushing the same idea from different angles: Bitcoin isn’t just something to hold, it has to function as money.

Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Circle, frames AI as a force that will fundamentally reshape the structure of the economy.

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Key deals of February 23 - February 27, 2026 Better x Framework: Stablecoins Enter the Mortgage Engine Better is plugging mortgage origination into DeFi liquidity. The lender secured up to $500M in financing from Framework Ventures through the Sky stablecoin ecosystem , a structure rooted in MakerDAO , positioning itself as a designated capital recipient within the system. Better will continue underwriting and originating conforming home loans, while capital generated insi

Every few years, decentralized social comes back into focus. This time, the trigger was X (Twitter)’s mass bans of so-called “content farming” and airdrop platforms. The event reignited an old question: if centralized platforms are unstable, biased, or opaque, why haven’t decentralized alternatives won? In a Chinese AMA co-hosted by WuBlockchain and Mask Network , Vitalik Buterin and Suji Yan revisited that question directly. The conclusion wasn’t that decentralized socia