Ethereum Foundation Slashes 20% of Staff—And VCs Are Celebrating
The world's second-largest blockchain just fired a fifth of its staff and cut its budget in half, and the smart money thinks this is exactly what needed to happen.
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$60M in Pre-IPO Stocks Just Went On-Chain and Wall Street Missed It
The private market's $4 trillion liquidity problem just met its first real on-chain solution. ColbFinance launched on BNB Chain with $60M in tokenized pre-IPO positions, starting with $CSPX representing SpaceX equity listed on PancakeSwap
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Coinbase Forces CME to Copy Crypto's 24/7 Playbook
The global commodities market just got its first real competition from crypto's always-on infrastructure, and legacy exchanges are scrambling to catch up.
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Traders Bet $300M on SpaceX Stock That Doesn't Exist Yet
The real story isn't SpaceX going public, it's the shadow market that already priced it in. TradeXYZ's SPCX perpetual contract hit $300M in trading volume before SpaceX shares even touched NASDAQ, proving synthetic markets now front-run traditional IPOs
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Coinbase Turns USDC Into a Tiered Savings Account on Morpho
Coinbase just brought TradFi's favorite product—tiered risk lending—to the blockchain, and it's using stablecoins instead of savings accounts. Coinbase launched two USDC lending vaults on Morpho, curated by Steakhouse Financial, offering users a choice between conservative and higher-yield options
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Y Combinator Tells Congress: Every Startup Will Need Crypto Infrastructure
The startup factory that minted Coinbase, Stripe, and OpenAI just told Congress that crypto isn't a sector play anymore—it's infrastructure every company will need.
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Bitcoin ETF Outflows Hit $5.5B But 96% of Investors Refused to Sell
The $5.5 billion that left Bitcoin ETFs this year didn't chase SpaceX shares — it was arbitrage traders closing the loop. Bitcoin ETFs shed $5.5 billion in 2026, but Bloomberg analysts say most retail investors held through the drawdown, signaling stickier demand than headlines suggest.
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Metaplanet Buys Japanese Broker for $13M to Launch Bitcoin Yield Products
Japan just watched a bitcoin treasury company buy itself a securities license, and now traditional finance's moat around yield products just got a lot narrower.
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Coinbase Just Gave AI Agents Their Own Bank Accounts
The infrastructure for AI agents to hold money and spend it just went from theory to live production in 48 hours. Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents, connecting AI agents directly to user accounts to trade crypto and execute financial workflows within user-defined limits
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Wall Street's First Crypto Treasury Company Loses $256 Million on Day One
The first crypto treasury company to go public just showed Wall Street exactly how much it doesn't understand tokenomics. Avalanche Treasury Co. (AVAT) fell as much as 38% on its Nasdaq debut following a $675 million merger, with shares closing down 16%
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Coinbase Gives AI Agents Their Own Wallets to Trade Without Humans
The wallet knows when to buy the dip now, and it doesn't need to ask you first. Coinbase launched "Coinbase for Agents", letting AI agents autonomously manage crypto holdings and execute trades without manual oversight
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Coinbase Warns Millions of Abandoned Bitcoin Wallets Create Quantum Vulnerability
The threat isn't some future science fiction problem. It's a coordination nightmare hiding in plain sight, buried in millions of abandoned Bitcoin wallets that nobody can agree how to handle.
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Coinbase Just Let AI Bots Control Real Money Accounts
The first major crypto exchange just gave AI agents the keys to real money, and the guardrails are thinner than you think. Coinbase launched "Coinbase for Agents", letting AI bots trade crypto, manage portfolios, and execute payments through dedicated accounts with user-defined limits.
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Coinbase Gives AI Agents Their Own Wallets to Trade Crypto Autonomously
Your ChatGPT can now buy Bitcoin while you're asleep, and a tokenized bond before you've even heard of the issuer.
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Citadel and Abu Dhabi Just Bet $355M on Wall Street's Blockchain Gamble
When HSBC, Apollo, and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund write checks together, they're not betting on the future—they're hedging the present.
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Japan Declares Crypto a Security While U.S. Regulators Still Fight Over Definitions
While the U.S. is still arguing about whether crypto is a commodity or a security, Japan just decided it's both, and neither matters. Japan's parliament advanced legislation to classify cryptocurrencies as financial instruments, treating them under the same regulatory framework as stocks and bonds.
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Finance Teams Kill AI Budgets After Bills Hit Seven Figures
The all-you-can-eat AI buffet just closed, and finance teams are staring at bills that would make a data center blush. Coinbase instituted weekly AI spending caps ranging from $500 to $5,000 per employee after usage went "parabolic" following Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 launch in February
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Pyth Just Made US Stock Markets Trade 24/7 On-Chain
Markets sleep, but the asset tokenization race doesn't. Pyth Network launched proprietary indices that price US stocks, gold, and oil continuously, 24/7, even when traditional markets are closed Coinbase, Kraken, and dYdX are already integrating the new indexes for round-the-clock trading
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Delaware Moves to Ban Bitcoin ATMs While Coinbase Operates Freely in Same State
When the government decides to protect you from yourself, it usually just changes where the risk lives. Delaware lawmakers have advanced legislation to ban all cryptocurrency ATMs statewide, with existing machines required to be physically removed within 90 days
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Banks Block Crypto While UK Courts It: Stand With Crypto Fights Back
The UK wants to be a crypto hub while its banks treat exchanges like money laundering fronts. Stand With Crypto UK launched a campaign telling its 280,000+ members to file formal complaints against high-street banks that block transfers to regulated exchanges
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