AFX Builds Entire Blockchain Just to Handle Perp Trading Spikes
When your blockchain can't handle a volatility spike without choking, you don't have a trading platform, you have a wish.
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French Firm Raises Cash Just to Buy $15M in Bitcoin
European public companies are finally doing what MicroStrategy showed them five years ago, and the playbook just crossed the Atlantic with actual institutional money.
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AI Agents Are Moving Money Faster Than Compliance Can Track It
The compliance teams watching for money laundering built their systems for humans who sleep, eat, and make typos, not agents that transact at machine speed around the clock.
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SpaceX Pre-IPO Trading Debuts on DeFi While Bitcoin Crashes 7%
Price discovery for trillion-dollar private companies just moved from stuffy secondary markets to permissionless DeFi rails, and the platform token pumped while bitcoin tanked.
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SpaceX Insiders Cash Out as Musk Promises IPO Hold
The largest IPO in history might also be the messiest — insiders are cashing out while the CEO promises he's holding and the talent drain accelerates.
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Verus Bridge Drained of $11.6M in Live Exploit Attack
The bridges connecting blockchain islands just lost $11.6 million in real time, and regulators are watching. The Verus-Ethereum bridge was drained of 103.6 tBTC, 1,625 ETH, and 147,000 USDC in an ongoing exploit flagged by security firm Blockaid and PeckShield.
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Australia's Central Bank Builds Trillion-Dollar Tokenized Bond Infrastructure While Crypto Chases Memes
While crypto traders chase memecoins, Australia's central bank is quietly building the rails for a tokenized bond market that could move trillions.
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Grep Burns 50x More Tokens Than This AI Code Search Tool
The agent economy has a grep problem, and it's eating your token budget alive. Semble is an open-source code search tool built specifically for AI agents, cutting token usage by 98% compared to traditional grep+file read approaches while maintaining 99% of transformer-quality retrieval accuracy.
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Forsage Co-Founder Faces 340M Fraud Trial With One Shocking Defense
The first Forsage founder to stand trial isn't arguing the platform was legal—she's arguing she wasn't in charge. Olena Oblamska, alleged co-founder of Forsage, was extradited from Thailand and pleaded not guilty to charges related to a $340 million crypto Ponzi scheme
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Solana Absorbs $450M in Synthetic Stablecoins in Four Days
Solana just absorbed half a billion dollars of synthetic stablecoin supply in less than a week, and nobody's talking about what happens when the leverage unwinds.
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Apple's New CEO: Why Your AI Agent Bet Is Backwards
Apple's new CEO just told us exactly how the agent economy will arrive—and why the companies you think will win it are thinking about the problem backward.
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Senate Passes Crypto Bill While Regulators Declare War on Industry
A bill that was supposed to fix crypto's regulatory mess just exposed a deeper fracture in Washington. The CLARITY Act advanced through Senate markup on May 14, but barely: only two Democratic senators supported it, and zero Democratic amendments were adopted despite claims of bipartisanship
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JPMorgan Files to Tokenize $4 Trillion Portfolio After Calling Crypto Fraud
The bank that once called Bitcoin a fraud is now racing to put trillions of dollars of traditional assets on-chain. JPMorgan Asset Management filed to launch its second tokenized money market fund, expanding beyond its initial Onyx Digital Assets platform
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Ethereum Captures 72% of Wall Street's $20 Trillion Tokenization Race
Wall Street's digital rails are already being laid, and they run through one network more than any other. Ethereum now hosts 72.6% of all tokenized ETFs, establishing clear dominance as traditional finance moves on-chain
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Bitcoin Just Got Programmable and Anonymous—Wall Street Is Already In
Bitcoin is becoming the thing it was never designed to be, and this time the institutions are writing the checks. VerifiedX launched vBTC through its Prism privacy layer, a Bitcoin sidechain enabling programmable, privacy-preserving transactions without synthetic wrappers
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Italy's Biggest Bank Just Went All-In on Crypto
The euro zone's institutional dam just cracked a little wider. Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest bank, grew its crypto holdings from $100 million to $235 million in Q1 2026, more than doubling exposure in three months
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Hyperliquid Ditches Its Own Stablecoin for Circle's USDC
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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Dead Code Cost Huma Finance $101K in 90 Seconds
The contracts were dead, but someone forgot to bury them. Huma Finance lost $101,400 USDC when an attacker exploited deprecated V1 contracts on Polygon that the protocol had stopped using months ago
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Sea's AI Agents Now Write 40% of Its Production Code
The company that built Southeast Asia's super-app is now building with AI agents, and they're sharing the playbook. Sea Limited's CPO David Chen details how the company deployed OpenAI's Codex across engineering teams to accelerate what he calls "AI-native software development" in Asian markets
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