Stablecoin Yields Survive Congress as Regulators Prepare Strike
The fight over who gets to pay interest on dollars just moved from Congress back to the regulators who never wanted to share power in the first place.
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Someone Just Tokenized $40M in Silver That Pays You While It Sits in Vaults
You can now own a sliver of silver that pays rent while someone else stores it in a vault. Theo launched thSLVR, a tokenized silver product backed by $40 million in active leases, expanding its real-world asset lineup beyond Treasuries and gold
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Sam Altman Says Trust Us With Superintelligence While Dodging Public Shareholders
The company racing to build superintelligence thinks you should trust it to referee itself, then quietly admits it's too unstable to face Wall Street scrutiny.
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BlackRock Now Runs Blockchain Nodes Alongside Crypto Startups
Wall Street just deployed its own blockchain, and crypto degens are already at the gates with meme coins. Circle's Arc mainnet went live with BlackRock, DTCC, Visa and 8 other institutions running validator nodes in a permissioned proof-of-authority setup
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Arcee Hits $1B Valuation Spending $20M While Rivals Burn Hundreds of Millions
Most AI startups burn hundreds of millions chasing unicorn status — Arcee got there by spending less on model training than a Series A. Arcee AI closed a $150M funding round at a $1B valuation after training four production models for just $20M total
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Circle's CEO Says New Blockchain Beats His $50B Stablecoin
Circle's CEO just said the company's new blockchain matters more than the $50 billion stablecoin that made Circle a household name. Circle launched Arc mainnet, a blockchain where USDC is the native gas token and supports 20+ fiat stablecoins with connections to 20+ chains
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Deutsche Bank Opens Bitcoin Vaults as Europe's Banking Giants Legitimize Crypto
Germany's largest bank is about to make holding crypto as boring as holding bonds, which is exactly what institutional money has been waiting for.
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Bitcoin Buyers Vanish as Americans Dump at a Loss
When American institutions stop buying and retail sends coins to exchanges at a loss, you're watching regulatory uncertainty do what Bear Stearns couldn't.
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BASIS.pro Plugs Institutional Yield Into Enterprise Blockchain Rails
An institutional yield platform just plugged into enterprise blockchain rails and auto-compounding infrastructure — the quiet buildout of Web4's financial plumbing continues.
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Congress Ignored Miners and Validators in New Crypto Tax Bill
Congress just told every validator and miner in America: we'll make your coffee purchases easier to track, but your actual business model stays taxed like a W-2 job.
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Canada Wants Veto Power Over Your AI Models
The fracture lines in AI governance just became national borders. Canada proposed a new global oversight body for AI safety, challenging the current US-China duopoly on tech governance and opening space for international collaboration.
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Google's New Voice AI Just Beat Every OpenAI Model on Benchmarks
Google just claimed the top spot in voice AI benchmarks, but the real story is what happens when the hyperscalers stop racing to match GPT and start pulling ahead.
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US and China Can't Agree on What Makes AI Dangerous
The two countries building the most advanced AI can't agree on what's dangerous about it. US-China technological rivalry is actively preventing coordination on how to manage existential AI risks, even as both nations race toward AGI
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Bitcoin ETFs Just Lost $450M in One Day—First Major Retreat Since June
The Bitcoin ETF party just hit its first real hangover since June, and it happened the same week regulators decided clarity could wait.
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DeFi Development Corp Quietly Built a $300M Money Printer on Solana
A Solana treasury play is now writing $300 million checks using a financial instrument most crypto natives have never heard of. DeFi Development Corp added 55,491 SOL to hit 2.39 million SOL total, part of a three-week buying spree
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Trump Tells AI Industry Presidential Power Beats Safety Rules
The leader of the free world just told the AI industry that executive authority is a better safety mechanism than code review. President Trump rejected calls for AI regulation on Truth Social, declaring himself "the only guardrail" the industry needs while attacking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
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Hacker steals $7.8M in crypto — another bot steals it first
The attacker got the money out, but a bot got it first—all in the same block. An attacker drained $7.8 million in rsETH from an Ethereum Safe wallet by exploiting an over-permissioned helper module the wallet owner had authorized
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Aave Proposes Letting Wall Street Use Coinbase Custody as Collateral
Aave just drew a clear line between DeFi's wild west past and its institutional future — custody-backed lending might be the bridge traditional finance was waiting for. Aave unveils proposal for custodied collateral lending targeting institutional players who need regulated collateral management
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Anthropic Reports First Profit by Excluding AI Training Costs
The company building the smartest chatbot in the world just announced profitability by conveniently forgetting to count the billions it costs to make the thing smart.
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Injective's 24/7 Real-World Asset Markets Hit $215M in 30 Days
Wall Street's 9-to-5 asset markets just met their 24/7 crypto twin, and the volume numbers suggest traders prefer the one that never sleeps. Injective's RWA perpetual markets hit $215M in trading volume over 30 days, proving demand for always-on synthetic exposure to traditional assets
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