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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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While the industry chases trading volume, Bullish just proved you can lose a quarter-billion dollars and still have Wall Street cheering. Bullish posted a $280 million Q2 loss, mostly from a $244.6 million bitcoin markdown, yet shares jumped 10-14% on the news.
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The platform that let retail traders crash GameStop just packaged venture capital into a publicly traded wrapper with the same fees that VCs charge billionaires. Robinhood Ventures Fund II priced its IPO at $25 per share, raising $200M to invest in early-stage private companies
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DeFi protocols used to want you to know they were DeFi protocols. Now they're hiding the wiring. Ether.fi just launched tokenized stocks, metals, fiat accounts, and Aave-powered portfolio loans, positioning itself as a crypto neobank that deliberately downplays the crypto part.
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Corporate treasurers who bought Bitcoin for inflation hedging are now writing checks for Nvidia GPUs instead. Bitcoin trades flat near $63,500 as U.S. Producer Price Index comes in softer than forecast, but underlying inflation pressures remain sticky despite mild July CPI
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When your trading volume craters 44% but subscription revenue hits record highs, you're not pivoting by choice anymore. Bullish posted a $280 million Q2 net loss as digital asset sales dropped 44% year-over-year
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One public company bet its treasury on a DeFi protocol token while peers stuck to Bitcoin — and just printed 4x quarterly profit while everyone else bled.
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When the biggest asset in the room stops moving, watch where the smart money flows next. Bitcoin traded in a tight range near $64,000 following July CPI inflation data that matched expectations at 3.4%, killing volatility after a brief rally to $65,300 earlier in the month
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When nearly a third of your network's staked tokens vanish in a routing glitch, "technically still running" is cold comfort. A data center routing failure took 29% of Solana's staked tokens offline Wednesday, coming dangerously close to the network's consensus freeze threshold
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A server search mistake just turned 1,700 alleged fraud victims into legal ghosts. South Korean courts sentenced Delio CEO Jung Sang-ho (Jeong) to 15 years in prison for defrauding investors of approximately $50 million through the crypto lending platform
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Crypto protocols have been playing pretend with governance tokens while Web2 companies paid dividends — that gap is about to close, and fast.
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The people building the future of intelligence are about to get very, very liquid, and Wall Street is bending over backwards to catch the wave. Wealth management firms are slashing fees and negotiating terms to court employees at Anthropic and OpenAI ahead of expected IPO windfalls
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A bank-backed stablecoin just got real regulatory approval in Hong Kong, and the strategy is institutional-first, not retail-first like every doomed ICO you remember. Anchorpoint, backed by Standard Chartered, began rolling out HKDAP, a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, following licensing approval
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When a central bank waits 13 years to touch an asset class, then suddenly buys it through a financial wrapper instead of the real thing, that's not routine portfolio maintenance. South Korea's central bank took a $250 million position in a gold ETF, its first gold-linked investment since 2013
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The company that shocked OpenAI with a $3 million model is now coming for the agent layer — where the real money lives. DeepSeek is assembling a dedicated team to build AI agents that will compete directly with Anthropic's Claude Code and other established coding assistants
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The asymmetry is stark: nation-state hackers probe Bitcoin's defenses with unrestricted frontier AI models while the companies securing $1.7 trillion in on-chain value hit guardrails.
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The regulators finally noticed people are betting real money on fake internet markets, and they're not happy about how those markets found their customers.
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The Fed just lost its best excuse to keep hiking rates, and crypto markets are repricing everything. July CPI matched expectations, sending September Fed rate pause odds to 60% and pushing Bitcoin toward the $63K level
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Bitcoin traders got the inflation number they wanted and still couldn't find a reason to move. U.S. CPI rose 3.4% year-over-year in July, matching economist forecasts exactly while core inflation cooled to 2.5%, removing the risk of an upside surprise that would have forced the Fed's hand.
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The Chinese AI lab that rattled Silicon Valley with cheap reasoning models just opened job postings for coding agent developers — right as Anthropic's Claude Code prints money.
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