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Beijing is building an AI stack that doesn't need Nvidia, doesn't trust OpenAI's secrecy, and doesn't care if Silicon Valley thinks it's impossible. China aims to train frontier AI models on fully domestic hardware by 2028, ending reliance on US chips and accelerating indigenous AI development
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The smart money just switched horses mid-race. Ethereum ETFs logged 10 consecutive days of net inflows while Bitcoin's nine-day streak ended, marking the first clear institutional preference shift between the two assets since spot ETFs launched.
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Retail traders now hold Nvidia shares on-chain the same way they hold Bitcoin—and 74,000 of them are doing it without Schwab, Fidelity, or a single T+2 settlement cycle.
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The central bankers' central bank just drew a line in the sand: private stablecoins can't handle real money at scale, but bank-issued tokens can.
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The hottest Bitcoin ETF streak in almost a year just hit a speed bump, and the timing tells you everything about how fragile this rally still is.
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BlackRock's clients just sold $33M in Bitcoin the same week the firm bought $2B worth — proof that Wall Street's crypto regime is less about consensus and more about infrastructure.
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A French firm just bet $24.5 million that corporate Bitcoin hoarding is the new normal, and one of Bitcoin's inventors is backing the thesis with cash. Capital B raised €21 million ($24.5M) in a private placement led by Blockstream CEO Adam Back and asset manager TOBAM to buy more Bitcoin.
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The world's most famous crypto convert pocketed $1.4 billion while his followers ate $4.7 billion in losses. Public Citizen estimates investors are down at least $4.7 billion across Trump's TRUMP memecoin, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), NFT collections, and Trump Media's crypto treasury
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When a crypto billionaire lets an AI agent decide whether to pay his ex-girlfriend $50 million for unused eggs, we've officially entered the strangest corner of the agent economy.
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The cryptography protecting your digital assets just got a countdown clock. Ripple is quantum-proofing the XRP Ledger ahead of "Q-Day," when quantum computers become powerful enough to break current blockchain encryption
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The promised land of crypto debit cards just hit a pothole that drained half a million dollars from 1,685 users who thought their money was safer than a bank account.
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Wall Street just watched a company double its revenue and decided to panic anyway. Nvidia's sales more than doubled to $96bn, with data center division growing 117%, yet markets reacted negatively to forward guidance
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The company that gave us Claude is about to find out if the market believes AI agents are worth more than oil companies. Anthropic is eyeing an IPO this year with whispers of a $1T–$2T valuation, potentially raising more than $86B in what could be the largest public offering in history.
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The first XRP treasury company is headed to public markets while holding a bag worth $200 million less than what it paid.
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The machines just became better at keeping themselves honest than we are. Anthropic's Claude models now outperform human researchers on alignment deception tasks, marking the first time AI has exceeded human capability in detecting its own failure modes
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Wall Street's 9:30-to-4 monopoly just got a permissionless competitor that never closes. Coinbase's tokenized stocks hit $124M in DEX volume in four days, while Uniswap's weekly tokenized stock volume reached $325M, signaling rapid adoption of on-chain equities
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While everyone's debating whether AI will take jobs, AI agents just processed 23 million payments in 30 days using a protocol most humans have never heard of.
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While everyone watches MicroStrategy's Bitcoin playbook, Strive just proved there's a smarter way to fund a corporate treasury bet—one that doesn't put shareholders on the hook if the trade goes south.
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The exchange that made crypto accessible just made stocks behave like tokens, and the market responded with $125M in on-chain volume before most people noticed it happened. Coinbase launched tokenized stocks on Base using a new B20 standard, immediately generating $125M in DEX trading volume
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Private credit just became the preferred term sheet for companies that need a hundred million dollars worth of GPUs yesterday. Blue Owl structured a $2.8B debt deal for Iren to buy Nvidia GPUs, while Lambda separately raised $1B in private debt for its Nvidia chip collaboration with Microsoft.
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