Animoca Brands just put money and muscle behind Avalanche's push into Asia and the Middle East, and the bet is on tokenized real-world assets, not another NFT marketplace. Animoca Brands is investing in Ava Labs and partnering to expand Avalanche's footprint across Asia and the Middle East.
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Bitcoin hit $70,800 this morning while oil prices slumped, and the divergence between BTC and the rest of crypto tells you everything about where capital is actually flowing right now.
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Atlassian just lost half its market cap while laying off 10% of its people, and if you're not seeing the pattern here, you're not paying attention. Atlassian shares have dropped more than 50% as the company announces 10% workforce cuts, making it the hardest-hit name in the broader AI sell-off
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Morgan Stanley just filed for a spot Bitcoin ETF, which would have been front-page news in 2023 but in 2026 reads more like a quiet admission they're late to the party. Morgan Stanley filed for a spot Bitcoin ETF with ticker MSBT and $1 million in seed capital
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AWS just signed a multi-billion dollar chip deal with Nvidia while simultaneously building its own silicon, and that contradiction tells you everything about who really controls the AI infrastructure layer.
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Gold just got a job. Bybit launched a yield product on tokenized gold (Tether Gold/XAUT), turning a 5,000-year-old store of value into an income instrument First major exchange to offer native yield on tokenized precious metals, not just custody or trading
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A company you've never heard of is about to go public holding $685 million in XRP, and it tells you everything about where institutional crypto is actually headed.
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EtherFi just put $25M into Plume's RWA vaults, and it's the clearest signal yet that DeFi protocols are done pretending crypto yields are sustainable on their own. EtherFi allocated $25M to Plume Network's Nest vaults, starting with a Superstate-backed fund and planning a dedicated RWA vault
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Privacy tech just stopped being a crypto purist's dream and became the only viable path for putting AI agents and real-world assets on rails together.
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When $380 million walks out the door in DeFi, most platforms panic—Gauntlet just shrugged. Gauntlet, a major DeFi risk management platform, saw $380 million in deposits exit as an OKX crypto incentive campaign ended
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Get hacked once, stay broke forever. Crypto tokens lose 61% of their value on average after a security breach, according to Immunefi's new security report, and most never recover.
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Europe's largest asset manager just put its second fund on public blockchains, and the infrastructure choice tells you everything about where institutional money is actually going. Amundi, Europe's largest asset manager with €2.2 trillion AUM, launched a tokenized swap fund on Ethereum and Stellar
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Coinbase just put a bitcoin yield fund onchain, and the fact that it's running on Base matters less than who's pushing the tokenization button. Coinbase's Bitcoin Yield Fund now has a tokenized share class on Base, enabled by Apex, a $3.5 trillion fund services giant.
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Nasdaq is automating surveillance, compliance, and trading decisions with AI agents while crypto exchanges scramble to keep pace, and the humans left in the loop are there to catch what breaks, not to make calls.
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Bitcoin just got smart contracts without forking, bridging, or asking Ethereum for permission. OP_NET launches on Bitcoin mainnet, bringing an execution layer with native DeFi primitives: DEX, permissionless smart contracts, and a new token standard (OP-20)
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Europe's biggest asset manager just put $100 million of real money on public blockchains, and they chose two networks that actually matter. Amundi launched a $100 million tokenized overnight swap fund on Ethereum and Stellar, using Chainlink for infrastructure
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XRP treasury plays just met GAAP accounting, and the damage report is $233.7 million. Evernorth, an XRP-focused treasury management firm, disclosed $233.7 million in digital asset impairment for 2025 in its SPAC merger filing, showing the gap between what they paid and current market values
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The compliance layer for tokenized securities just got its own blockchain, and it's not coming from a startup. Apex Group's Tokeny and Polygon Labs launched T-REX Ledger, a dedicated Polygon-based chain for ERC-3643 compliant security tokens
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The tokenization infrastructure wars just got serious: Polygon and Apex built a compliance-first chain for security tokens, betting that regulatory certainty beats regulatory theater.
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Crypto.com just cut 180 people and told the industry what's coming: automate or die. Crypto.com laid off 12% of its workforce, about 180 employees, as it rolls out AI across the business CEO Kris Marszalek warned that companies "that do not make this pivot immediately will fail"
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