Robinhood's Blockchain Hits $3B Weekly Volume in Months
A brokerage known for gamifying stock trading just built a blockchain that's moving $3 billion a week in DEX volume, and it only took them a few months to crack the top five.
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Ethereum Foundation Spent Millions on AI Agents to Find One Bug Humans Fixed
The Ethereum Foundation just ran the most expensive filter job in blockchain history, and the ratio is brutal.
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Apple Sues OpenAI While Musk and Altman Burn Bridges Publicly
OpenAI just survived Musk's lawsuit only to get hit by Apple — and now the real damage might come from the public insult match happening in plain sight. Apple sued OpenAI accusing ex-employees of stealing trade secrets for rival AI hardware, weeks after OpenAI beat Musk in court
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Pakistan's Crypto Czar Meets the Scholar Who Just Banned His Industry
When your regulator sits down with the scholar who just declared your whole industry haram, you're either building a bridge or watching one burn. Pakistan's virtual-assets regulator met with an Islamic scholar who backed a ruling declaring crypto payments impermissible under Shariah law
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BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Reverses $2.2B Exodus With One Day
Eight weeks of steady bleeding just stopped, and the question isn't whether institutions are back—it's whether they're early or late. BlackRock's IBIT led a $292M single-day inflow, ending an 8-week outflow streak across Bitcoin ETFs
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Messi Explodes at Ref as Crypto Traders Bet $4B on His Name
The World Cup isn't just moving the ball anymore — it's moving markets worth billions, and most of the players have no idea their names are being traded. World Cup semi-finals drove $3.9B in crypto prediction market volume, while fan token trading spiked across Argentina, England, and Norway matches
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Ripple's CEO Nearly Pulled the Plug on XRP Entirely
The company now worth billions almost chose the nuclear option: shut it all down, hand the tokens to shareholders, and let the SEC argue with ghosts.
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Robinhood's Secret Blockchain Just Hit $130M in One Day
The retail brokerage that taught a generation to buy stocks with their lunch money just built a blockchain, and it crossed $130M in locked value faster than most Layer 2s manage in a quarter.
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Ripple's CEO Nearly Killed XRP and Walked Away During SEC Battle
The company that's been fighting the SEC for four years almost didn't fight at all. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris Larsen considered shutting down the company in 2020 and distributing its XRP holdings to shareholders rather than fight the SEC lawsuit
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SK Hynix Raises $26.5B in Largest Tech Listing Since 2021
The same share, traded two ways, on the same day — this is what the merge of TradFi and DeFi actually looks like. SK hynix raised $26.5B in a record ADR listing on Nasdaq, the largest South Korean company to list on a U.S. exchange
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Michael Saylor and Adam Back Declare War on Bitcoin Upgrade Proposal
The fight isn't about spam anymore. It's about whether Bitcoin's governance can survive a consensus war over a problem that's already fading.
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Argentina's Fan Token Jumps 30% While Messi Advances to Semifinals
The most expensive souvenir from this World Cup isn't a jersey — it's a token that moves faster than Messi.
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Empery Digital Dumps Half Its Bitcoin Stash for AI Gold Rush
The Bitcoin treasury playbook just got its first high-profile defector, and the market rewarded the pivot. Empery Digital sold roughly half its Bitcoin holdings to fund an AI data center project and tackle debt, with shares rising on the news.
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OpenAI Beats Musk in Court, Faces Apple Lawsuit Hours Later
OpenAI just beat Musk in court, and now Apple's lawyers are at the door — turns out winning one war doesn't pause the next. Apple is suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets through ex-employees working on rival AI hardware
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Scammers Beat Real DeFi to Robinhood's 220,000 New Crypto Users
Robinhood just gave 220,000 DeFi traders what they wanted, and scammers got there first. Uniswap hit $1B in daily volume on Robinhood Chain with over 220K daily active traders, while SteakhouseFi onboarded 6,000 vault users in its first days.
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England's World Cup Run Is Pumping Soccer Fan Tokens
The beautiful game just became the tokenized game, and the scoreboard isn't just tracking goals anymore.
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Robinhood Built Its Own Blockchain to Trade Stocks Like Crypto
Wall Street is building on Ethereum now, and retail traders get to play with the same rails as the institutions. Robinhood Chain launched as an Ethereum layer-2 network built on Arbitrum technology, targeting tokenized assets and on-chain financial products
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Robinhood Just Let Millions of Amateurs Deploy Trading Bots
The platform that taught a generation to YOLO their stimulus checks just handed them a robot that never sleeps. Robinhood is rolling out AI agent trading capabilities to its millions of US users, with crypto trader assistance coming "soon"
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AI Flagged 11,000 Ethereum Bugs. Only One Was Real And Critical.
The AI found the needle in the haystack, then buried it under a mountain of fake needles. The Ethereum Foundation used AI agents to find a remotely triggerable crash bug in validator software that could take nodes offline
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Robinhood Opens Crypto Trading to AI Agents This Year
The 70,000 equity traders who already handed their portfolios to bots are about to get company from the crypto crowd. Robinhood is expanding its Agentic Trading product — which lets AI agents execute trades on behalf of users — from equities to crypto for eligible US customers
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