JPMorgan Says MicroStrategy Bitcoin Sales Could Crash the Market
The bank that called Bitcoin a fraud now says Saylor's company is making the crypto market too risky by threatening to sell some.
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Ripple's Biggest Donor Invests in Senator Lummis's Son During Her Crypto Bill Push
A senator writing crypto law says she has "no involvement" in her son's crypto-adjacent startup, which just took money from an industry titan who needs her vote.
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Trump Wants Bitcoin Tax-Free While His Sons Run a Mining Company
The president floats a trial balloon on Bitcoin tax policy the same week his sons' mining company executes a desperation move to stay listed.
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KASTxyz Locks User Points Into Equity With No Exit Date
The points game just got real — and possibly illiquid. KASTxyz is converting user points into tokenized equity, with full details expected Q4 2026 The move introduces uncertainty around liquidity and user expectations, as equity tokens trade differently than points that can be redeemed
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Securitize Lists Its Own Stock Onchain While Going Public on NYSE
The company that tokenizes other people's assets just proved the model by tokenizing its own. Securitize launched shares simultaneously on the NYSE and onchain, making it the first dual-format IPO in history
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Meta Burns $145B While Its AI Agents Fail to Launch
The company spending more than the GDP of Hungary on AI just admitted its agents aren't ready for prime time. Meta is doubling its AI capex to $145B while Zuckerberg admits agent development is moving slower than expected
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eToro Bets $12.5M That Retail Traders Are Ready for Onchain Perps
A retail trading giant just wrote a check to move its users onchain — and you probably missed the quiet redirect. eToro led a $12.5 million funding round for Extended, an onchain perpetuals exchange, signaling a retail-to-DeFi bridge is being built right now
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IMF Admits Blockchain Could Fix Broken Global Finance System
The world's financial firefighter just admitted blockchain might be better plumbing than what we've got, but only if we can agree on the specs. The IMF says blockchain-based tokenization could streamline settlement and strengthen financial stability across global markets
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Hyperscale Data Dumps $6.4M Into Bitcoin While Wall Street Still Calls It Risky
Another day, another corporate treasury swapping dollars for digital gold while the rest of the Fortune 500 pretends crypto is still a hobby.
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Securitize Tokenizes Itself While BlackRock Watches Wall Street Adapt
The company that tokenizes assets for a living just tokenized itself—and you can trade its shares on-chain 24/7 while the NYSE sleeps.
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Circle Loses $2B in 48 Hours as Stripe Launches Rival Stablecoin
When Stripe and Coinbase team up to compete with you, the market notices. Circle's CRCL stock dropped 16-18% Tuesday after Open USD, a Stripe and Coinbase-backed stablecoin consortium, went public with launch plans
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NVIDIA Bets Future on AI Rent Model as Big Short's Burry Goes Bearish
NVIDIA is betting its next decade on a move from selling shovels to splitting gold, and the guy who called the 2008 crash thinks they're wrong. NVIDIA launched a revenue-sharing AI compute model with cloud providers, shifting from hardware sales to partnership-based recurring income
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Bitget Adds Stock Options While Robinhood Still Figures Out Crypto
Crypto exchanges spent a decade trying to look like traditional finance — now they're racing to become better at it than the actual banks.
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Sam Altman Wants a Global AI Regulator He Controls
OpenAI's CEO wants the UN for AI, but with America holding the veto pen and his company writing the rulebook. Sam Altman proposed an international AI safety framework modeled after nuclear watchdog organizations, positioning it as necessary for global AI governance
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Ondo Tokenizes Voting Rights, Threatens DTCC's $2.15 Trillion Stranglehold
Tokenized stocks just got governance rights, which means the rails for replacing the DTCC are being laid right now. Ondo expanded its tokenized equities offering with onchain shareholder voting, adding governance to blockchain-based stock ownership through a new partnership
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Robinhood CEO Bets Against Memecoins as Company Launches Blockchain
Robinhood just launched a blockchain and picked a side in crypto's identity crisis. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says crypto's future is in real-world assets, not memecoins, calling it the "merging of TradFi and crypto" as digital assets face questions about an "enduring downturn"
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Anthropic Sued Pentagon to Stop Military From Using Claude AI
When your AI safety principles collide with Pentagon procurement, you don't get a conversation — you get a courtroom. Anthropic is in active litigation with the Pentagon over the military's use of Claude AI, with court documents exposing fundamental disagreements about ethical deployment
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Treasury Freezes $1.4M in ISIS-K Crypto Across 100 Addresses
The Treasury just turned 100+ crypto addresses into dead money, and stablecoin issuers are now the enforcement layer whether they like it or not. US Treasury sanctioned over 100 ISIS-K crypto addresses that moved more than $1.4 million, targeting wallets across Tron, Monero, and Bitcoin networks
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BlackRock's $500B ETF Just Got Tokenized Without Asking Permission
The real-world asset tokenization industry just got its first compliant path to public equities without asking permission.
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Fetch.AI Built a Stock Market for AI Agents Without Asking
AI agents just got their own stock market, and they didn't ask permission. Fetch.AI launched its Agentic Token platform, enabling AI agents to autonomously create and manage tokens on decentralized exchanges
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