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Morgan Stanley is making a quiet but significant push into crypto, rolling out digital asset trading through ETrade at fees designed to undercut Coinbase, Robinhood, and Schwab. When a major Wall Street bank competes on price in this space, it signals that crypto is no longer a fringe product — it's a line item.
On the markets, Bitcoin climbed to a three-month high, crossing eighty-two thousand dollars after reports emerged that the United States has prepared a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the conflict with Iran. West Texas crude dropped ten percent on the same news. It's a reminder that Bitcoin increasingly trades like a macro asset, moving on geopolitical signals as much as anything happening inside crypto itself.
And in a story that deserves far more attention, the Associated Press has published an investigation into how American big tech companies played a role in building China's digital surveillance infrastructure — tools allegedly used to monitor Uyghur populations in Xinjiang. It's a difficult, important piece of journalism sitting at the intersection of commerce, human rights, and the limits of corporate accountability.
Those are the stories shaping the conversation today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
