DeFi - The Wire by FourthWeb - AI, RWA, & Web3 / Web4 Intelligence (Page 13)

AI Agent Economy May 14, 2026

OpenAI's Chief Futurist Says Musk Called Him a Jackass During AI God Fight

The jury about to decide OpenAI's fate just heard what happens when the world's richest man loses an argument about building God.

Real World Assets May 14, 2026

Ledger Cancels $4B IPO as Crypto Giants Retreat from Public Markets

When the companies holding billions in crypto assets won't go public, that tells you more about public markets than it does about crypto. Ledger shelved its $4B NYSE IPO plans, joining Kraken in pausing public offerings as market conditions sour for crypto stocks.

Real World Assets May 14, 2026

Figure Brings $19 Billion in Real Assets to Ethereum Through New NUVA Bridge

The tokenization dream just got its first Wall Street translator, and he brought $19 billion to the conversation. NUVA, backed by Animoca Brands, launched to bridge Figure's $19 billion in tokenized real-world assets to Ethereum, starting with home equity lines of credit and U.S. Treasuries.

AI Agent Economy May 14, 2026

xAI Installs 19 More Turbines While Judges Debate the First Ones

The playbook for scaling AI infrastructure in 2026: deploy first, ask permission never, and add more capacity while the lawyers argue.

Real World Assets May 14, 2026

Democrats Want Jail Time for DeFi Developers in Crypto Bill

The first real crypto bill with a shot at passing just got 100+ amendments, and 15 of them want to criminalize writing code.

Real World Assets May 13, 2026

246-Year-Old French Bank Ditches SWIFT for Stablecoins

The bank that launched the first covered bond in 1769 just decided blockchain settlements beat SWIFT rails. Societe Generale is deploying its EURCV and USDCV stablecoins on Canton Network for tokenized collateral, repo financing, and institutional settlement.

Real World Assets May 13, 2026

Ethereum Just Matched Solana's $45B Trading Volume War

The horse race is dead even, which means the real competition is just starting. Ethereum and Solana DEX volumes have converged near $45 billion, erasing Solana's previous dominance in decentralized exchange trading activity.

AI Agent Economy May 13, 2026

Anthropic Just Stole OpenAI's Enterprise Customers While Preaching Ethics

The ChatGPT company just got outspent by the company that said it would never chase revenue. Anthropic hit 34.4% business adoption in April, overtaking OpenAI's 32.3%, according to Ramp's AI Index tracking billions in corporate AI spending from 50,000+ US businesses.

Real World Assets May 13, 2026

Nvidia's Compute Moat Widens as AI Agents Burn 10x More Chips

The chip wars just became a software game—and Nvidia's betting that selling shovels beats selling gold when agents start thinking in loops instead of lines.

AI Agent Economy May 13, 2026

Archivists Crack 300 Years of Handwriting in Weeks Using ChatGPT

The constraint wasn't technology — it was patience, and now patience is artificial. Archivists are using LLMs like ChatGPT to transcribe handwritten documents at scale, solving a problem that eluded AI researchers for 60 years

Real World Assets May 13, 2026

Bitcoin NFT Explorer Ord.io Shuts Down After Running Out of Money

The infrastructure for Bitcoin NFTs is dying before most people realized it was alive. Ord.io, a major Bitcoin Ordinals explorer, and its consumer app Zap are shutting down June 1 due to financial challenges

Human Imperative May 13, 2026

SpaceX's Million Data Centers Plan Has a Rocket Fuel Problem

SpaceX wants to launch a million data centers into orbit, and the climate math doesn't add up the way Elon says it does.

Real World Assets May 13, 2026

Japan's Enterprise Blockchain Just Weaponized Boring to Beat Crypto

Japan just made stablecoins boring on purpose, and that's exactly the point. Japan Open Chain is launching a yen-backed stablecoin designed exclusively for B2B settlements, not retail speculation.

Human Imperative May 13, 2026

Jensen Huang Boards Air Force One as Trump Weaponizes Silicon Valley

When the president brings a chipmaker CEO on a 36-hour diplomatic sprint, you're not negotiating tariffs—you're negotiating the future of compute.

Real World Assets May 13, 2026

Wall Street Just Bet $1B That Public Blockchains Are Dead

Wall Street wants blockchain, just not your blockchain. Three institutional blockchain platforms — Arc, Canton, and Tempo — have collectively raised over $1 billion, signaling that privacy infrastructure is becoming the primary institutional on-ramp to crypto

Real World Assets May 13, 2026

Ethereum Just Fixed the $1.7B Problem That's Been Draining Crypto Wallets

The billion-dollar UX problem of Web3 just got its first real fix, and every major wallet is already on board.

AI Agent Economy May 13, 2026

Anthropic Blocks Eight Platforms From Selling Its Shares to Investors

When a $60 billion AI company tells you not to buy its shares from eight specific platforms, the real story isn't fraud protection—it's who gets to profit from the picks-and-shovels economy of intelligence.

Real World Assets May 13, 2026

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.