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Right this moment’s high information:
- Crypto majors flat on the day, BTC at $68,600
- Tempo hires Farcaster cofounders, provides to their deep expertise bench
- Mr. Beast acquires teen-focused banking app Step
- Leap Buying and selling to earn fairness stakes in Polymarket & Kalshi
- MegaETH launches its mainnet, debuts “The Rabbit Gap” hub
🔵 Coinbase Was Crypto’s Solely Tremendous Bowl Advert—And Watch Events Booed
Coinbase was the lone crypto firm with a Tremendous Bowl advert.
And the group… was not completely on board.
📌 What Occurred
Coinbase ran a 60-second spot throughout Tremendous Bowl LX that appeared nothing like a typical Tremendous Bowl advert (and “tricked” lots of viewers).
Karaoke-style lyrics from the Backstreet Boys’ 1997 hit “Everyone (Backstreet’s Again)” scrolled throughout the display screen in lo-fi graphics, mimicking a karaoke bar.
In the meantime, the lyrics had been subtly rewritten to weave in Coinbase messaging (“am I Authentic… am I Safe… am I for Everybody”), and the advert closed with a pivot to the Coinbase emblem alone on display screen.
The response was instantly polarizing.
A number of movies surfaced on X exhibiting watch social gathering crowds fortunately singing alongside to the Backstreet Boys—then audibly booing and groaning the second Coinbase’s branding appeared on display screen.
One viral clip confirmed a complete room go from a full singalong to useless silence in seconds.
Coinbase leaned in. When one person referred to as the advert “horrible,” the corporate’s official X account responded: “In case you’re speaking about it, it labored. Crypto is for everyone.”
In the meantime, ARK Make investments was fairly actually promoting its Coinbase place. Cathie Wooden’s agency dumped over $22M in COIN shares throughout a number of ETFs on Thursday and Friday.
Perhaps they noticed the advert prematurely.
🗣️ What They’re Saying
Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO: “Turning 100M+ screens into karaoke, so the entire U.S. (and plenty of world wide) can sing in unison, is an antidote to polarization and simply plain enjoyable. Everyone deserves financial freedom.”
Cat Ferdon, Coinbase CMO: “We’re actually making an attempt to successfully use this because the world’s largest singalong, to point out that crypto isn’t only for techies, however actually for anybody who is aware of the lyrics.”
🧠 Why It Issues
Let’s zoom out.
In 2022, crypto firms flooded the Tremendous Bowl—FTX had Larry David, Crypto.com had Matt Damon telling you fortune favors the courageous, and Coinbase’s floating QR code crashed its servers with 20 million hits in a single minute.
Quick ahead to 2026 and Coinbase is the one one left standing.
However the lone crypto advert isn’t the issue right here.
The issue is the response from retail.
From jovial singing and laughing to loud boos on the web site of Coinbase and/or crypto?
That’s not an important signal for retail coming again any time quickly.
Crypto clearly has a picture downside with retail, one doubtless made worse throughout the Trump administration (and the Trump meme coin debacle).
And with gold & silver + a number of sectors of the inventory market outperforming crypto in 2025, there’s an actual query on the market as to why retail ought to care / come again to crypto.
Sadly, as sturdy of a price prop as “financial freedom” delivers, it’s not one which’s resonating with mainstream within the U.S. And why would it not? This cohort isn’t being persecuted and doesn’t want that use case (and let’s hope it doesn’t ever).
It appears we have to discover the brand new messaging past financial freedom to get retail again on.
And resolve crypto’s branding downside as soon as and for all…
🌎 Macro Crypto and Markets
- Crypto majors are largely flat; BTC -1% at $68.6K; ETH -1% at $2,010; SOL even at $84; XRP even at ~$1.40
- STABLE (+20%), H (+7%) and ASTER (+5%) led high movers
- ZRO briefly jumped 20% earlier than promoting off, amidst hypothesis of launching its personal chain
- Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan joined Stripe’s Tempo, calling stablecoins a “generational alternative”
- Tether invested $150M in Gold.com for a ~12% stake; Tether’s gold stash now tops $23B (148+ tonnes), making it a top-30 international gold holder per Jefferies
- MrBeast’s Beast Industries acquired Step, a teen-focused banking app backed by Stephen Curry and Justin Timberlake
- Logan Paul faked a $1 million Polymarket wager throughout the Tremendous Bowl
- Polymarket sued Massachusetts in federal court docket, arguing solely the CFTC has jurisdiction over prediction markets; in the meantime Kalshi sports activities markets face a 30-day geofence deadline
- It’s a giant week forward for macro: Delayed nonfarm payrolls Wednesday, Coinbase earnings Thursday, Robinhood earnings Friday, and CPI on Friday
Company Treasuries & ETFs
- The BTC ETFs noticed one other $145M in internet inflows on Monday whereas the ETH ETFs noticed $57M
- Technique purchased 1,142 BTC for $90M at avg $78,815 per coin; whole holdings now 714,644 BTC (~3.4% of provide) at a $76,056 avg price foundation
- BitMine (BMNR) continued loading up on ETH throughout the crash, including one other
Meme Coin Tracker
- Meme majors had been largely flat; DOGE -1%, SHIB -1%, PEPE -1%, TRUMP -1%, FARTCOIN +1%
- BNKR rallied one other 30% after deploying its new launchpad with higher charges for brokers and extra income streams for the protocol
- GIRAFFES was the runner of the night time on Solana, leaping 96x to $4M; MOLTEN was the highest mover on Base, up 17x to $3.5M
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
- Leap Buying and selling will earn fairness stakes in each Polymarket and Kalshi in trade for offering market-making liquidity
- MegaETH launched its mainnet and ecosystem hub “The Rabbit Gap”
- BackPack Trade is reportedly elevating $50M at a $1B valuation forward of its anticipated TGE
- ENS Labs scrapped its Namechain L2, will deploy ENSv2 solely on Ethereum mainnet
- Kinetiq introduced the launch of perps dot enjoyable, permitting anybody to launch a perps market
🚚 What is occurring in NFTs?
- NFT leaders had been largely purple; Punks even at 29.9 ETH, Pudgy -3% at 4.4 ETH, BAYC -3% at 6.2 ETH; Hypurr’s -3% at 445 HYPE
- Cyberkongz (+10%) and Kodas (+10%) led notable movers
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