BlackRock Bets $10B on SpaceX Before Public Debut
The world's largest asset manager is about to bet more on one rocket company than most countries spend on their entire space programs, and nobody's asking why now.
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Stablecoins Already Moving More Money Than Visa While Nobody Noticed
While crypto Twitter argues about which chain will win, stablecoins already won—they're quietly becoming the dollar's new payment rails.
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Wall Street Tokenized $2B in Assets Nobody Can Actually Trade
Wall Street just proved it can put anything on a blockchain, but nobody's figured out what to do with it once it's there. JPMorgan filed for JLTXX, its second tokenized money market fund in a week, using Ethereum and its Kinexys platform to track token balances
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Bitcoin Goes Dark on Starknet Without Breaking the Law
Bitcoin finally gets a privacy toggle that regulators might actually tolerate. Starknet launched strkBTC, a shielded Bitcoin wrapper on its Layer 2 network that lets holders toggle between public and private states using zero-knowledge proofs.
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Wall Street's $15B Bet: Tokenized Treasuries Surge as Bitcoin Freezes
The flight to safety is happening on-chain now. Tokenized U.S. Treasury products crossed $15.35 billion as macro uncertainty drives capital toward yield-bearing stablecoins and Treasury tokens instead of bitcoin
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Ethereum Hits $2.3K While Wall Street Puts Billions on Its Rails
The same week JPMorgan and BlackRock put tokenized funds on Ethereum rails, the asset itself can't break $2,400. ETH touched $2,300 before sliding back to $2,250, with resistance at $2,400 holding firm despite multiple attempts
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ONDO Hit $1B in Tokenized Stocks While Wall Street Slept
Eight months to a billion dollars proves tokenized equities aren't a pilot project anymore. Ondo Global Markets hit $1 billion in total value locked across tokenized stocks and ETFs in just eight months, capturing 70% market share in the tokenized equity sector.
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JPMorgan Files Second Ethereum Fund as Wall Street Races for Stablecoin Infrastructure
Wall Street's biggest banks are now in an arms race to own the plumbing underneath stablecoins. JPMorgan filed with the SEC to launch JLTXX, a tokenized Treasury money market fund on Ethereum powered by Kinexys Digital Assets, investing in US Treasuries and overnight repos.
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JPMorgan Files Second Tokenized Fund in a Week After BlackRock's Launch
JPMorgan just filed for its second tokenized fund in a week when BlackRock beat them to the headline. JPMorgan filed to launch JLTXX, a new tokenized Treasury-backed money market fund on Ethereum, using its Kinexys platform for token balance management
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JPMorgan and BlackRock Race to Replace Stablecoins With Tokenized Funds
Wall Street's two largest asset managers just filed to tokenize money market funds on the same week—not as experiments, but as competing products aimed directly at the $200 billion stablecoin economy they spent years dismissing.
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Franklin Templeton's $1.6 Trillion Bets on Kraken After BlackRock Miss
The $1.6 trillion asset manager that beat BlackRock to onchain funds just picked the exchange that survived FTX as its distribution partner.
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BlackRock Tokenizes $6.1B Treasury Fund After BUIDL Success
The world's largest asset manager just proved BUIDL wasn't a test run. BlackRock filed with the SEC to tokenize a $6.1B Treasury fund, selecting Securitize infrastructure for the second time after BUIDL crossed $2.3B.
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Circle Bets $3 Billion on Blockchain That Doesn't Exist Yet
Circle just wrote a $3 billion check for infrastructure that doesn't exist yet—and they're betting Wall Street will follow.
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BlackRock Backs Circle's $222M Raise as Stablecoin War Hits $3B Valuation
When BlackRock writes a check for blockchain infrastructure, stablecoin competition just became a three-billion-dollar blood sport. Circle raised $222 million in a presale for Arc, its new blockchain token, with backing from BlackRock, Apollo, and Bullish at a $3 billion valuation.
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Circle Sells $222M of Its Own Token to BlackRock and a16z
The stablecoin king just tokenized its own blockchain and sold pieces to the institutions that used to call crypto a casino. Circle raised $222 million in a presale of Arc tokens, valuing its upcoming blockchain at $3 billion FDV, with backing from a16z crypto, BlackRock, and Apollo.
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BlackRock Admits Defeat: Chasing Stablecoin Money It Once Mocked
The world's largest asset manager just admitted stablecoins are a better business than most of its clients.
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BlackRock Puts $6.1B Treasury Fund On-Chain With Ethereum Expansion
The world's largest asset manager just filed to put another $6.1 billion on-chain, and this time it's bringing friends. BlackRock filed to tokenize its $6.1B Treasury fund on Ethereum, expanding beyond its existing BUIDL fund
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Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin Fund Hits $194M With Zero Outflows While Advisors Stay Silent
Wall Street's most conservative wealth manager just proved institutions will buy bitcoin when you give them a product they recognize, even if their advisors aren't allowed to talk about it yet.
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BlackRock Preparing to Own Part of a Hyperscaler
The world's largest asset manager is now placing bigger bets on AI infrastructure than most hyperscalers are placing on themselves. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink announced at Milken that his firm will partner with an unnamed hyperscaler to build data centers, with details coming this week
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BlackRock Builds Bridge for $200B in Stablecoins to Enter Traditional Finance
The world's largest asset manager just built an on-ramp for $200 billion sitting in stablecoins to flow into traditional finance, and most people still think crypto is just for trading cartoon apes.
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