The regulators who tried to protect retail investors just got benched by the agency that's supposed to protect retail investors. Senior CFTC officials who raised concerns about Polymarket, Crypto.com, and Gemini were suspended and pushed out, according to a New York Times investigation
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When your stablecoin isn't stable and your multisig isn't multi, you get a $2.8 million reminder that tokenizing real-world assets is still very much a beta product.
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The gap between "I could never make that" and "I just made that in 10 minutes" is collapsing faster than anyone's ready for. Google's new Gemini Omni model handles anything-to-anything AI generation, making realistic video content with minimal technical skill required
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The Gulf states aren't waiting for Western stablecoin regulation to settle. They're building rails while others argue about routes.
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The richest person you've never heard of is about to materialize from Musk's orbit with a fortune bigger than most countries' GDP.
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The market just proved something regulators still don't want to admit: you can put a deed on a blockchain. Tokenized real-world assets hit $31.4 billion, with projections ranging from $1.6 trillion by 2030 to $4 trillion by end of 2028, depending on who's counting.
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Europe just handed AI agents a corporate credit card, and it speaks Swedish. Germany's AllUnity is launching SEKAU, a Swedish krona stablecoin, targeting a June debut backed by DWS and Galaxy.
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While everyone debates whether stablecoins will replace banks, someone just raised $8 million to build the pipes that make that argument irrelevant. Checker raised $8 million from Galaxy Ventures, Framework, and others to build stablecoin infrastructure
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The man who helped build the stablecoin rails for crypto is now building the bank accounts for your AI employees. Sean Neville, Circle cofounder, raised $30M Series A for Catena Labs, an "AI-native bank" building financial infrastructure for autonomous agents
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The Senate just traded DeFi's future for two Democratic votes. The Senate Banking Committee passed the CLARITY Act 15-9 after Chairman Tim Scott reinstated a last-minute compromise on DeFi regulations to secure bipartisan support from Senators Gallego and Alsobrooks.
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Musk is building the agent economy in public, one acquisition at a time, and the 30-day timer starts the moment SpaceX goes public. SpaceX plans to acquire AI coding startup Cursor exactly 30 days after its public offering, signaling a shift from launch provider to software infrastructure company
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The world's largest stablecoins sit on $200 billion in reserves, and a German asset manager just said it won't matter when everyone wants out at once.
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The AI infrastructure build-out just minted another unlikely winner, and it's not who you'd expect. Kioxia Holdings, a Japanese memory chip maker, saw shares flooded with buy orders after reporting profit numbers driven by AI data center storage demand
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The people building the AI future are having an identity crisis about whether they matter in it. Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das says no one in Silicon Valley is happy — not the newly rich AI founders, not the $500k engineers, not the middle managers watching their jobs vanish.
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The decentralized exchange that tried to break free from Circle's stablecoin just handed the keys back to Circle's biggest distributor. Coinbase will manage USDC liquidity on Hyperliquid as the official treasury deployer, while Native Markets sunsets USDH and sells the brand assets to Coinbase.
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The money isn't for wallets. It's for proving the cloud didn't tamper with your keys. Turnkey raised $12.5 million from Circle Ventures and Sequoia Capital to fund Turnkey Verifiable Cloud, a secure computing infrastructure for digital assets
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When the bank that once called Bitcoin a fraud files to tokenize Treasuries on Ethereum, it's not capitulation—it's institutionalization. JPMorgan filed with the SEC to launch JLTXX, a tokenized Treasury fund on Ethereum, targeting the $32 billion tokenized Treasury market
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The AI model too dangerous to release widely just got its first institutional customers, and everyone locked out is scrambling to build their own.
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The banks blinked first. Senator Bernie Moreno is pushing the revised CLARITY Act through Senate markup with key amendments on stablecoin yield and tokenized securities, calling out traditional banks for "panic-lobbying" against it.
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Meta just gave its AI chatbot the one feature that might actually make people use it: the promise that the conversation never happened. WhatsApp's new Incognito Chat mode lets you talk to Meta AI without Meta (or anyone else) seeing the conversation
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