Israel's Biggest Bank Just Gave 2.5 Million People Bitcoin Access
The second-largest economy in crypto adoption just got a retail front door, and it's run by the people who killed the first attempt.
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Bitwise Plans First Tokenized Staking ETF After Solana Fund Hits $150M
The bridge between Wall Street and Web3 just got a structural engineer. Bitwise partnered with Superstate to explore tokenizing shares of its Solana Staking ETF (BSOL), bringing blockchain rails to a regulated financial product
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Nvidia Convinced Wall Street to Finance Its Own Customer Base
Nvidia just turned itself into a bank that only lends money to buy its own products, and Wall Street is calling it genius.
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College Grads Can't Find Jobs While High School Dropouts Still Can
The people who never worried about finding work are now the ones getting hit hardest — and AI exposure is the common thread.
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Goldman Structures $20B Nvidia Credit Deal That Could Reshape AI Infrastructure Financing
The largest credit deal in tech history might also be the riskiest bet Wall Street has ever made on AI infrastructure.
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MSCI Proposes Booting Bitcoin-Heavy Stocks From Global Indexes
The world's biggest index provider just decided that holding Bitcoin doesn't count as operating a business. MSCI proposed a new "non-operating company" screen that could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from its global indexes
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OpenAI Burns Through Another C-Suite Executive in 90 Days
When your revenue chief has a shorter shelf life than your product roadmap, you're not building a business—you're running a pre-IPO casting call.
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Treasury Yields Spike as Iran Threatens 20% of Global Oil Supply
Treasury yields don't care about diplomacy — they price risk, and right now the risk is that 20% of the world's oil flows through a choke point controlled by a country drafting legislation to block it.
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Strata Labs Freezes $1.7M in User Funds Without Warning
The protocol handling $1.7 million in tokenized assets just proved that owning your digital money means nothing if you can't actually touch it.
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Baltimore Bans Polymarket Over Sports Bets While Regulators Watch
While Polymarket was busy hiring sports prediction talent, Baltimore's mayor was writing a lawsuit that could force every prediction market to choose between sports coverage and staying legal.
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Metaplanet Launches Bitcoin Debt Hours Before Potential Index Delisting
Metaplanet just created a new debt instrument tied to Bitcoin's volatility, the same week a major index threatens to delist them for holding Bitcoin in the first place. Metaplanet launched "BitBonds," selling $1.3 million in unsecured private debt with up to 4.3% annual interest
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Kushner Turned $516M Into $3.7B Betting on 8 AI Companies
When a $516 million fund turns into $3.7 billion in four years, someone saw the future earlier than the rest of us — and it wasn't spread across a hundred companies.
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Reddit Joins S&P 500 Nine Months After Going Public
The platform that made "apes together strong" a rallying cry just became blue-chip institutional property. Reddit joins the S&P 500, sending shares up 12% in after-hours trading and ending months of speculation about the inclusion
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Cardboard Crushed Bitcoin: Pokémon Cards Up 22.8% in 90 Days
When cardboard beats code, something interesting is happening at the edge of asset classes. Pokémon cards gained 22.8% over three months while Bitcoin fell and the S&P 500 lagged, showing collectibles moving independent of traditional markets
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OpenAI Finally Gives Linux Users ChatGPT Desktop After Two Years
The OS that powers most of the world's servers just became the third wheel in OpenAI's desktop strategy, two years after Mac and Windows got theirs. OpenAI launched a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, finally completing the trifecta after Mac and Windows releases
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SEC Kills Its Own Crypto Rulebook With No Reschedule Date
The SEC's first actual attempt at crypto rulemaking just got indefinitely shelved, proving that even under a friendly administration, Washington moves slower than Bitcoin block times.
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Norway's $1.8T Wealth Fund Quietly Bought $82M in Ethereum Mining
The world's largest sovereign wealth fund just bought Ethereum exposure without saying the word "crypto" once. Norway's $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund disclosed an $81.9M stake in BitMine Immersion Technologies, holding 6.15 million BMNR shares as of June 30
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SEC Kills Tokenization Framework After Wall Street Lobbying Blitz
The SEC just blinked on the biggest tokenization framework in a decade, and Wall Street's fingerprints are all over the delay.
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Andre Cronje Says DeFi Died Because It Finally Went Mainstream
The man who built Yearn Finance just declared the DeFi revolution over, not because it failed but because it won in a way no one expected. Andre Cronje says DeFi has evolved into "onchain finance", trading its radical decentralization for institutional legitimacy
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The Fed Can Block Any Crypto Bank It Wants Unless SCOTUS Says Otherwise
The Federal Reserve's ability to gatekeep the entire banking system for crypto firms now hinges on nine justices.
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