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The omnichain launchpad raised $4.5M, collected most of its fees in one month, then pulled the plug before anyone got paid. Printr will cease operations Aug. 31, canceling both its token generation event and promised airdrop to users
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The smart money isn't fleeing Bitcoin—it's getting more sophisticated about how it holds it. Brevan Howard cut its Bitcoin ETF position by 70% to $255M while Macquarie dumped 62% to $55M, but the story isn't about exodus
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The CEO promising to cure cancer is also preparing a $2 trillion IPO while telling everyone AI is a trust problem, not a communication problem.
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Ethereum is finally building privacy into the protocol itself, which means fewer workarounds, fewer middlemen, and a real shot at compliance that doesn't kill anonymity.
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Crypto perpetual contracts are now pricing private AI companies before they even file S-1s, and the numbers are absolutely unhinged. Anthropic's pre-IPO perpetual contracts on crypto exchanges price the company at $1.8T, 88% above its last private funding round valuation
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The more layers you add to make AI agents smarter, the more ways they find to fail. New benchmark data shows AI agents follow complex instructions less than 30% of the time, exposing a fundamental execution gap as enterprises race to deploy autonomous systems
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Real-world equities are quietly moving on-chain faster than most crypto natives realize, and three platforms now control the gateway. Tokenized stock market share hit 15% with a $2.8 billion market cap, tripling from early 2026 levels as Ondo, Binance, and xStocks emerge as dominant players
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The exchange that holds billions in customer crypto just deputized an AI agent to hunt for the bugs that could drain it all. Payward, Kraken's parent company, joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing, an initiative using Claude Mythos 5 to find software vulnerabilities before attackers do
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The company that built the payment rails for SaaS is now buying the company that routes AI requests—because machines don't pay with credit cards. Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter for somewhere between $7B and $10B, depending on which report you trust—either way, it's Stripe's largest acquisition ever
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The machine economy just processed 14 million transactions, and Circle's betting the next trillion-dollar question isn't if AI agents can buy and sell — it's whether we'll trust them to.
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While Congress fights over what crypto is, Treasury just asked the industry to help write the rulebook. The U.S. Treasury is seeking public comment on proposed rules for the GENIUS Act, landmark crypto legislation aimed at clarifying who needs licenses in the digital asset space
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The company that couldn't get attention two years ago just built one of the fastest revenue ramps in tech history—and Wall Street is already pricing in a bigger IPO than Meta's.
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When you've lost 90% of your deposits and Aave is eating your lunch, you stop chasing DeFi degens and start courting the suits.
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The U.S. just drew the map for licensed digital dollars, and the January deadline means the market's about to sort winners from pretenders fast.
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While everyone's been treating AI as a productivity tool, three separate bets just landed on agents that buy, sell, and decide without asking permission first. Stripe is integrating AI agents as economic participants, positioning them to transact autonomously rather than just automate tasks
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The biggest infrastructure bet in AI history isn't about chips or models — it's about who controls the power grid. Nvidia commits up to $105 billion in lease payment guarantees for OpenAI's Ohio data center campus, the largest financial backing in AI infrastructure to date
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The biggest payments company in the world just paid $7 billion for a router most people have never heard of, and crypto's vision of micropayments is suddenly looking very mortal. Stripe acquired OpenRouter, the AI routing layer that decides which model serves your prompt, for a reported $7 billion
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The company racing to build superintelligence just fired its team responsible for making sure superintelligence doesn't kill us all. OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team focused on AI safety and risk management as part of broader restructuring ahead of an expected IPO
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A crypto miner just signed a contract worth more than most AI startups raise in a lifetime. HIVE Digital Technologies' subsidiary BUZZ HPC secured a $350M GPU cloud contract, bringing the company's total contracted AI revenue to $180M annually
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Michael Saylor just broke his own playbook — raising a third of a billion dollars and not buying a single sat.
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