SpaceX's Tokenized IPO Opens at $171—Congress Already Demanding Answers
The first mega-IPO to debut with tokenized equity products just opened 27% above its IPO price, and Washington is already writing angry letters about it.
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Coinbase Turns USDC Into a Tiered Savings Account on Morpho
Coinbase just brought TradFi's favorite product—tiered risk lending—to the blockchain, and it's using stablecoins instead of savings accounts. Coinbase launched two USDC lending vaults on Morpho, curated by Steakhouse Financial, offering users a choice between conservative and higher-yield options
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Y Combinator Tells Congress: Every Startup Will Need Crypto Infrastructure
The startup factory that minted Coinbase, Stripe, and OpenAI just told Congress that crypto isn't a sector play anymore—it's infrastructure every company will need.
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Bitcoin Hits $64K on SpaceX Hype While Support Crumbles Beneath It
Bitcoin's bounce to $64K on SpaceX IPO news looks good on screen, but the on-chain data tells a different story: you're watching a bear market rally, not a reversal.
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Binance Raised $557M for SpaceX Tokens That Don't Exist
The future of capital formation just face-planted in public view. Binance, Bybit, and Bitget all canceled their tokenized SpaceX IPO allocations after they couldn't secure enough actual shares to back the tokens they'd already sold
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Bitcoin ETF Outflows Hit $5.5B But 96% of Investors Refused to Sell
The $5.5 billion that left Bitcoin ETFs this year didn't chase SpaceX shares — it was arbitrage traders closing the loop. Bitcoin ETFs shed $5.5 billion in 2026, but Bloomberg analysts say most retail investors held through the drawdown, signaling stickier demand than headlines suggest.
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Exodus Dumps Wall Street for Solana to Trade 200 Real Stocks
Crypto wallet meets brokerage meets blockchain, and suddenly 200 stocks don't need Wall Street's plumbing anymore. Exodus partnered with Ondo to launch tokenized trading of over 200 stocks and ETFs directly on Solana through a new platform called Exodus Markets
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Ethena Labs Dumps $250M Into Wall Street Debt No One Saw Coming
Stablecoins just figured out what to do with the other $249 billion sitting in their reserves. Ethena Labs is putting $250 million into Securitize's tokenized AAA CLO fund, marking one of the largest DeFi-to-TradFi crossovers to date.
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Cardano Foundation Breaks 7-Year Silence, Now Deploying Capital While Hoskinson Burns Bridges
The foundation that once played Switzerland is now playing venture capitalist, liquidity provider, and enterprise sales team—right as its founder picks fights with everyone.
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Wall Street Watched $256 Million Vanish From Crypto's First Public Treasury Before Lunch
Wall Street just watched $256 million evaporate from the first publicly traded crypto treasury company before lunch on day one. Avalanche Treasury Co. (AVAT) dropped 38% to $1.85 on its Thursday Nasdaq debut after completing a $675 million SPAC merger with Mountain Lake Acquisition Corp.
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Metaplanet Buys Japanese Broker for $13M to Launch Bitcoin Yield Products
Japan just watched a bitcoin treasury company buy itself a securities license, and now traditional finance's moat around yield products just got a lot narrower.
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Bezos Bets $12B That AI Creates a Worker Shortage, Not Job Losses
While everyone argues about whether AI will steal jobs, Bezos just put $12 billion on the opposite bet: not enough workers. Prometheus, Bezos's physical AI startup, closed a $12 billion Series B at a $41 billion valuation, making it one of the fastest climbs to decacorn status in AI history.
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Citi Makes Private Company Shares Tradable Like Stocks on Blockchain
The biggest banking shift isn't about crypto going mainstream, it's about private markets becoming liquid. Citi has launched a blockchain marketplace offering tokenized depositary receipts of private company shares, marking Wall Street's most direct bet yet on tokenized equity markets.
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Bitcoin Jumps $2,000 as Iran Signals Peace Deal With Israel
Geopolitical volatility just became the most reliable trading signal in crypto, whether you like it or not. Bitcoin climbed above $63,000 Thursday after Trump canceled planned U.S. military strikes against Iran and signaled a multi-nation peace deal was imminent
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Coinbase Just Gave AI Agents Their Own Bank Accounts
The infrastructure for AI agents to hold money and spend it just went from theory to live production in 48 hours. Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents, connecting AI agents directly to user accounts to trade crypto and execute financial workflows within user-defined limits
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KPMG's AI Report on AI Benefits Contains Fake AI Benefits
The Big Four consultancy selling AI adoption just got caught using AI that made up its own success stories. KPMG published a report promoting AI benefits that included fabricated case studies, with bogus examples involving UBS and transit systems that never happened
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Wall Street's First Crypto Treasury Company Loses $256 Million on Day One
The first crypto treasury company to go public just showed Wall Street exactly how much it doesn't understand tokenomics. Avalanche Treasury Co. (AVAT) fell as much as 38% on its Nasdaq debut following a $675 million merger, with shares closing down 16%
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Coinbase Gives AI Agents Their Own Wallets to Trade Without Humans
The wallet knows when to buy the dip now, and it doesn't need to ask you first. Coinbase launched "Coinbase for Agents", letting AI agents autonomously manage crypto holdings and execute trades without manual oversight
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SEC Kills 20-Year Rule Blocking Tokenized Stocks From DeFi
The rule that kept tokenized stocks out of DeFi wasn't about crypto at all—it was a 20-year-old equity market speed bump the SEC just decided to remove. The SEC proposed scrapping Rules 611 and 610(e) of Regulation NMS, the trade-through rule that's governed US equity markets since 2005
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Trump Backs Down on Iran and Bitcoin Rips 3% in Minutes
Risk-on assets just got a geopolitical tailwind, but the institutional money tap is still shut. Trump cancelled planned military strikes on Iran and announced a memorandum of understanding could be signed this weekend in Europe, sending Bitcoin up 3% from $61,100 to above $63,400 on June 11.
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