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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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The meme stock that broke Wall Street in 2021 just became a 24/7 tradable token on the chain that processes more transactions than Ethereum.
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The tokenization trade just learned an expensive lesson: bigger piles of onchain assets don't automatically translate to profitable business models. Securitize posted a $22M Q2 net loss with revenue falling 5%, sending shares down over 20% in their first earnings report as a public company
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Cerebras just proved you can beat earnings, raise guidance, unveil next-gen hardware, and still watch your stock crater 15% — welcome to the new reality where AI infrastructure investors care more about burn rate than benchmarks.
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A third of all Ethereum is now locked in staking, and core developers just filed a proposal to burn a growing chunk of the validator rewards that got it there.
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The tokenized real-world asset market just crossed $38 billion, and the winners aren't the banks—they're crypto-native platforms you've probably never heard of.
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Strategy just proved you can have your Bitcoin and eat it too — by selling some to buy back the very instrument that funded the hoard in the first place.
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The machines that train AI are now being used as collateral, and nobody's quite sure what they're worth when the music stops.
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The checks are getting written before the infrastructure even exists. Goldman Sachs is part of a consortium committing over $500 billion to NVIDIA, marking one of the largest institutional bets on AI infrastructure in history
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The code worked perfectly, the keys disappeared, and now nobody can run the company. Crypto lawyers used Ondo Finance's leadership battle to highlight a systemic blind spot: one-person boards and missing estate plans are ticking time bombs in tokenization firms
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The first paper-trading sandbox built specifically for AI agents just went live, and it runs on a blockchain where transactions cost zero. SKALE Labs launched Agent Pit, a Polymarket-inspired prediction market sandbox where builders can train AI agents without risking real capital
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Wall Street's most cautious bank just paid top dollar to own a billion-dollar Bitcoin options factory. Goldman Sachs acquired NEOS for $2.25 billion in a cash-and-equity deal, instantly gaining a ~$1 billion Bitcoin covered-call ETF business
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A corporate treasury that's 90% Bitcoin just proved it can survive a 74% crash without breaking a single bond covenant.
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The SEC just cracked the door open to a stock market that never closes. SEC Chair Atkins is advancing a framework for tokenized securities that could enable 24/7 compliant onchain stock trading while permanent rules get hammered out
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Nvidia just invented a way to sell half a trillion dollars worth of chips without putting them on its balance sheet, and Google's stock is paying the price.
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The market is quietly pricing in the possibility that the company building the AI future might not survive it. Nvidia's credit default swap (CDS) spreads have spiked to near-record levels, signaling traders are paying more to insure against the company defaulting on its debt
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The stablecoin world just forked into two paths: transparent and useful for regulators, or private and useful for humans. Miden launched USDCx, a privacy-preserving stablecoin that hides balances, counterparties, and transaction histories by default
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While the U.S. argues over whether stablecoins should exist, Hong Kong just built one with a major bank's name on it and regulatory approval in hand.
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The tokenization of real-world assets just added $7 billion in market cap this year, but the money isn't flowing where the Web3 faithful expected it to. Tokenized funds drove $7B in year-to-date market cap growth, dominating the RWA sector while ZkSync Era alone saw $77M in 24-hour growth
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