Tech stocks surge 2.1% as inflation drops below Fed target
When inflation data comes in soft, tech stocks party like it's 2021, and the assets no one wants to think about as correlated suddenly move in perfect lockstep.
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Metaplanet Launches Bitcoin Debt Hours Before Potential Index Delisting
Metaplanet just created a new debt instrument tied to Bitcoin's volatility, the same week a major index threatens to delist them for holding Bitcoin in the first place. Metaplanet launched "BitBonds," selling $1.3 million in unsecured private debt with up to 4.3% annual interest
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Winklevoss Twins Burn $107M and Wall Street Shrugs
The Winklevoss twins are burning through nine figures a year to prove crypto exchanges can be public companies, and the market just told them it's not buying it yet. Gemini shares dropped 7% to $4.00 after reporting a Q2 net loss of $107.7 million, despite revenue climbing 37% to $45.5 million
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Chinese AI Cracks Security Tests That OpenAI Won't Even Attempt
American AI safety guardrails just handed China the keys to critical infrastructure security.
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Reddit Joins S&P 500 Nine Months After Going Public
The platform that made "apes together strong" a rallying cry just became blue-chip institutional property. Reddit joins the S&P 500, sending shares up 12% in after-hours trading and ending months of speculation about the inclusion
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Cardboard Crushed Bitcoin: Pokémon Cards Up 22.8% in 90 Days
When cardboard beats code, something interesting is happening at the edge of asset classes. Pokémon cards gained 22.8% over three months while Bitcoin fell and the S&P 500 lagged, showing collectibles moving independent of traditional markets
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SEC Kills Its Own Crypto Rulebook With No Reschedule Date
The SEC's first actual attempt at crypto rulemaking just got indefinitely shelved, proving that even under a friendly administration, Washington moves slower than Bitcoin block times.
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Norway's $1.8T Wealth Fund Quietly Bought $82M in Ethereum Mining
The world's largest sovereign wealth fund just bought Ethereum exposure without saying the word "crypto" once. Norway's $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund disclosed an $81.9M stake in BitMine Immersion Technologies, holding 6.15 million BMNR shares as of June 30
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Gemini Just Pulled a MicroStrategy With $324M Bitcoin Buy
When crypto exchanges start acting like MicroStrategy, you're watching the infrastructure layer realize it can be the treasury layer too.
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SEC Kills Tokenization Framework After Wall Street Lobbying Blitz
The SEC just blinked on the biggest tokenization framework in a decade, and Wall Street's fingerprints are all over the delay.
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Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in US Enterprise Adoption Despite Safety Focus
The model that was supposed to be "safer" just became the one businesses actually use. Anthropic's Claude is now leading OpenAI in US business adoption, according to spending data from fintech platform Ramp
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Andre Cronje Says DeFi Died Because It Finally Went Mainstream
The man who built Yearn Finance just declared the DeFi revolution over, not because it failed but because it won in a way no one expected. Andre Cronje says DeFi has evolved into "onchain finance", trading its radical decentralization for institutional legitimacy
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White House Summons Crypto Execs One Day Before CFTC Vote
The timing isn't subtle: one day before the CFTC convenes its new Innovation Advisory Committee, the White House is putting crypto execs in the room where it happens.
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The Fed Can Block Any Crypto Bank It Wants Unless SCOTUS Says Otherwise
The Federal Reserve's ability to gatekeep the entire banking system for crypto firms now hinges on nine justices.
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DeepSeek's 1,100% Price Hike Signals the Budget AI Era Is Over
The race to the bottom just reversed at 1,100% speed. DeepSeek is raising API prices by up to 1,100% for its V4 models, effective August 16, abandoning its position as the budget AI provider
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JP Morgan Adds $6M to Bitcoin Hoarder It Once Called Fraud
The banks that called Bitcoin a fraud are now buying the companies that hoard it. JP Morgan increased its Strategy stake by 11% with a $6M purchase, while State Street boosted its position by 7% to $758M—two of America's largest banks are quietly stacking indirect Bitcoin exposure
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Anthropic Drops $6B on Decart While Chasing $2T Valuation
While the market whispers about a $2 trillion IPO valuation, Anthropic is telling investors to forget the spreadsheets and watch the models run.
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Standard Chartered Doubles Down on $100 Uniswap Target After $90M Burn Rate
Traditional banking analysts don't usually revise crypto price targets upward mid-cycle, but when token burns start running at $90 million annualized, the math changes fast.
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Kalshi Chasing $40B Valuation Just Three Months After Raising $1B
Three months after raising a billion dollars, Kalshi is already back at the table asking for nearly double the valuation—either prediction markets just became the fastest-growing asset class in crypto, or venture capital has completely lost the plot.
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Deel's Payroll Now Pays Interest While You Wait to Send It
Stablecoin yield is finally escaping the crypto bubble and landing in the workflows where money actually moves. Tempo launched Tempo Earn, an embedded yield product that lets platforms offer stablecoin returns to users, with Deel's contractor wallet as the first deployment
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