Travis Wright breaks down FalconX's IPO race against Coinbase and Robinhood, explores how former counter-terrorism experts are building AI control frameworks outside traditional governance, and examines why Anthropic delivered AI ethics guidance directly to the Vatican.
The advisors are finally paying for not asking questions, and that $54 million check is about to change how every law firm prices crypto work.
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SpaceX just stopped pretending it's a rocket company and started competing for the same AI infrastructure dollars as Nvidia and Microsoft. SpaceX is positioning itself as an AI company in its IPO marketing, targeting a $26.5 trillion addressable market
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The least volatile asset in crypto is finally getting a credit market worthy of its market cap. Ledn projects bitcoin-backed lending could hit $1 trillion within a decade, driven by borrower demand that's already outpacing the institutional capital willing to underwrite it.
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A decentralized exchange just grabbed 7% of the entire perpetual futures market in the middle of Coinbase and Binance's turf war. Hyperliquid captured a record 7% share of aggregate perpetual futures open interest, marking a notable shift in derivatives trading toward decentralized platforms
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The postmortem can't tell you what broke if it happened in a logic gap that doesn't have a name yet. 79% of organizations now run AI agents in production, but enterprises don't have frameworks to track agent-initiated infrastructure failures that weren't technically "wrong"
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The longest bear market bitcoin has ever had against traditional assets just ended, and the macro conditions that killed it are back.
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The bull who called Bitcoin's run to six figures is sitting on a $7.35 billion Ethereum hole — and the chart says it's about to get deeper. Tom Lee's BitMine is holding massive unrealized losses on Ethereum as ETH trades 55% below its 2025 all-time high
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The bottleneck in software development isn't writing code anymore—it's waiting for someone else to read it. Ramp engineers now use Codex powered by GPT-5.5 to review code, cutting feedback cycles from hours to minutes
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The company that armed cops is now arming them with AI agents — and Wall Street still thinks it's a camera business. Axon's President says investors are fundamentally misreading the company's pivot from hardware (Tasers, body cams) to AI-powered public safety infrastructure
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The robots aren't coming for your job — they're making you do more of it. Dan Shipper argues AI won't eliminate work but will create "abundant, tedious work" — more outputs requiring more human oversight, refinement, and judgment calls
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Visa and Mastercard never built payment infrastructure for machines that need to send $0.0003 a thousand times per second.
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Australia just turned every crypto withdrawal into a paperwork exercise, and the institutional money is probably celebrating. Binance Australia will require full sender and beneficiary information for all crypto transfers starting July 1, implementing the FATF Travel Rule at the exchange level
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The Commonwealth Short Story Prize just published what appears to be AI slop in a 114-year-old literary magazine, and nobody caught it until readers did.
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Big Tech dismantles Trump's AI executive order while the CFTC suspends investigators who questioned prediction market approvals. Meanwhile researchers discover they can jailbreak AI systems by manipulating personalities instead of code. Power plays dominate today's tech
The regulators who tried to protect retail investors just got benched by the agency that's supposed to protect retail investors. Senior CFTC officials who raised concerns about Polymarket, Crypto.com, and Gemini were suspended and pushed out, according to a New York Times investigation
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The billion-dollar guardrails companies built around their AI models are being bypassed by people who understand character psychology better than code. Early AI jailbreaks required no technical skill—attackers simply asked chatbots to ignore safety rules, and billion-dollar systems complied
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Bitcoin's dance around $77,000 tells you more about the collision between crypto and central banking than any white paper ever will.
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When you own the infrastructure, the cost of capital becomes a design choice. Musk restructured SpaceX, xAI, and X into a consolidated financial entity, cutting annual interest costs by nearly $1 billion
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While Depop chased hype and Poshmark got acquired for parts, a Lithuanian resale app quietly built a €8 billion empire by doing something radical: charging buyers nothing.
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When your stablecoin isn't stable and your multisig isn't multi, you get a $2.8 million reminder that tokenizing real-world assets is still very much a beta product.
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