Matt and Nic are back with the deals and news of the week. In this episode: 

• Nic licks his World Cup wounds
• Do Bitcoin Treasury strategies make sense?
• Trying to make sense of Saylor's "bitcoin rating"
• Trump's teleprompter operator has been trading on what Trump is going to say in his speeches
• Why do people keep insider trading on prediction markets?
• Clarity Act odds are trickling down
• Strategy shores up their balance sheet
• Is the Bitcoin cycle finally turning?
• Stripe bids for Paypal
• The AI DeFi apocalypse didn't happen
• Kathy Hochul's AI datacenter moratorium
• Why is Anthropic running ads suggesting that they could cause extinction
• The DTC is using Canton for it's tokenized settlement pilot
• Brian Chesky's AI slop thread debacle
• Jesse Pollak leaves Base
• CBDCs are officially banned federally