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Google and Apple go hunting for crypto talent, and CalShe gets accused of faking its trading volume. This is CoinDesk Daily.

Want trusted crypto research? Check out the Stagg, Grayscale's blog. Visit grayscale.com/thestagg. Realfight, a smarter stablecoin backed by real world assets. Join the testnet now at realfight.co. Google and Apple are both hiring for digital asset roles, a sign that stablecoins and tokenization are becoming core expertise inside big tech. Google Cloud is looking for an architect in Hong Kong to help protocol foundations, exchanges and custodians tokenize real world assets across Asia Pacific. Apple is filling an Apple Pay strategy lead role focused on Apple Card, Apple Cash and peer-to-peer payments. The listings follow Samsung's plan to build stablecoin features into Galaxy phones through Samsung Wallet. Kalshi is facing accusations of fake trading volume on its newly launched crypto perpetual futures. Analyst Benny flagged that Kalshi's ether perp logged $539 million in a 24-hour volume against just $3.1 million in open interest, a 174 to 1 gap that's often a textbook sign of wash trading. He pointed to repetitive $5,500 trades making up as much as 58% of daily volume. Kalshi's product lead, ICOB's, pushed back saying the numbers reflect maximum potential payout, not fake activity. And strategy is back to buying Bitcoin. Michael Saylor's firm added $950 BTC for $75.7 million last week, its first purchase since late August. The buy was funded from the company's dollar reserve, which now sits at $5 billion.

Strategy now holds 846,000 BTC, bought for a total of $63.81 billion.

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