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The $4.3 billion Binance settlement was supposed to close the book on crypto's compliance nightmare, but a U.S. Senator just asked if anyone's actually watching the watchdog.
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Tokenization won't rescue your illiquid real estate fund, and the people building this infrastructure finally said it out loud.
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A four-month-old AI lab just raised half a billion dollars at a $4 billion valuation because it's building agents that teach themselves. Recursive, founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, raised $500M at a $4B valuation from Google Ventures and Nvidia
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Australia is staring at $17 billion in tokenized finance opportunity, and the only thing standing between vision and reality is whether regulators can write clear rules before the capital flows somewhere else.
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The White House just granted federal agencies access to Anthropic's most powerful AI model while the Pentagon is simultaneously suing the company as a national security threat.
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Morgan Stanley just added $17 million to its Bitcoin position through a new trust vehicle that's already pulled in $34 million total, and it's happening right as JP Morgan says the market structure bill is about to pass.
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X just turned tweets into trading desks, and a billion dollars moved through them in 48 hours. X's new Cashtags feature hit an estimated $1 billion in trading volume within days of its Tuesday pilot launch for stocks and crypto
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The fintech conference circuit just admitted crypto has grown up—Money20/20 Asia is dedicating an entire stage to watching TradFi and DeFi stop pretending they're not dating.
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Someone knew what Trump was about to say, and they bet $760 million on it. The CFTC is investigating oil futures trades placed minutes before Trump's Iran policy announcements, including $580M in shorts before strike delays and $760M before the Strait of Hormuz reopening.
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Bitcoin just crossed $77K while traders yawn at the idea of it ever dipping below $62K again. Bitcoin surged past $77,000 during US-Iran tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, with the rally triggering $283M in futures liquidations as shorts got squeezed
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The AI gold rush just hit a wall made of community zoning boards and power grids that don't care about your model training schedule. Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet have halted multiple data center projects amid local opposition and infrastructure constraints
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Bitcoin just hit $78K and immediately wiped out $820 million in leveraged bets, a violent reminder that in crypto, gravity works both ways. Nearly $1 billion in leveraged crypto positions liquidated as Bitcoin rallied above $78,000, catching over-extended traders on both sides
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Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning identity project just went from crypto curiosity to mainstream infrastructure with Tinder, Zoom, and DocuSign betting their user experience on it.
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The Chinese AI lab that said no to VC money for years just put out a $300 million open hand at a $10 billion valuation. DeepSeek is seeking $300 million in outside funding at a $10 billion valuation, marking its first external capital raise after years of parent company backing
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Circle just made moving money between blockchains feel like sending an email instead of filing international wire transfer paperwork. Circle launched USDC Bridge, their official cross-chain transfer solution powered by the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP)
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Anthropic just turned Claude into a design tool, and the companies that built billion-dollar moats around creative software should be paying attention. Anthropic launched Claude Design in research preview, powered by the new Claude Opus 4.7 model unveiled yesterday
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France just flipped the script on stablecoins, and the euro's digital future hinges on whether banks can move faster than their regulators used to.
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Kraken just bought a CFTC license for half a billion dollars, and it tells you everything about where the real money in crypto is moving. Payward, Kraken's parent company, is acquiring Bitnomial for up to $550 million in cash and stock, securing a fully CFTC-licensed U.S. crypto derivatives platform
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Kraken just bought the regulatory moat it couldn't build fast enough. Payward, Kraken's parent company, is acquiring derivatives exchange Bitnomial for $550 million in cash and stock
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Traditional finance just picked its blockchain, and it's not Ethereum. Visa partnered with Cross River and Lead Bank to settle transactions in USDC on Solana, marking the first major payment network to choose Solana for institutional settlement infrastructure.
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