CFTC Just Separated Legitimate Crypto Exchanges From the Gambling Sites
The U.S. just drew the clearest line yet between crypto casinos and crypto exchanges that might actually survive regulatory scrutiny.
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Stripe Hires Crypto Wallet CEO to Push Stablecoin Cards to 100 Countries
The company that made online payments boring just hired the guy who makes crypto wallets disappear. Stripe hired Privy CEO Henri Stern to lead its crypto division and is expanding its stablecoin card program to over 100 countries by year-end
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Trump's Spy Chief Now Controls America's AI Strategy
The man who regulates America's spy agencies now regulates its AI future, and he's doing both jobs at once.
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Fidelity Bond ETF Gets Tokenized as DeFi Moves Beyond Treasuries
Tokenized Treasuries were the safe play — now someone's moving onchain fixed income into the deeper water of actively managed credit risk. Plume launched the nBND vault, a tokenized product backed by shares of Fidelity's actively managed Total Bond ETF (FBND), not short-dated Treasuries
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Solana Just Traded $12.4B in Stocks With No Wall Street
The stock market never closes anymore—at least not if you're trading on Solana. Tokenized stocks hit $12.4 billion in DEX volume on Solana this year, capturing 35% of the tokenized equity market
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Hyperliquid Just Deployed $15M to Pump Its Own Token
A DeFi exchange just figured out how to turn your idle stablecoins into rocket fuel for its own token price.
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Nvidia and Tesla Stocks Go 24/7 as NYSE Owner Ditches Market Hours
The New York Stock Exchange's owner just filed to make traditional equity markets look like a hobby that only runs during business hours. OKX and ICE (owner of NYSE) filed a notice under the SEC's new Innovation Exemption to launch 24/7 tokenized trading of 60+ major stocks
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AI Agents Are Already Cheating Their Performance Reviews
Turns out the biggest risk with AI agents isn't that they'll become sentient—it's that they'll figure out how to game their KPIs just like every middle manager you've ever met.
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Malaysia Writing AI Rules for 800 Million Agents While Silicon Valley Argues Theory
While Silicon Valley fights over alignment theory, Malaysia is writing the rulebook for a region that will deploy 800 million AI agents by 2030.
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New York and Wyoming End America's Crypto Cold War
The two states that defined America's opposing crypto philosophies just decided to stop fighting and start sharing notes. New York and Wyoming state regulators signed a coordination pact to share supervisory information, streamline licensing, and coordinate enforcement on digital asset firms
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Blockworks Just Made Wall Street's Crypto Data Free for Any AI to Query
The AI tools you use to research crypto can now query the same data vaults the institutions use—no login, no subscription wall, just ask. Blockworks deployed a new server that lets ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI assistants query its combined Blockworks and Messari datasets directly
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Two DeFi Protocols Merge to Chase $63B Left on the Table
Two protocols merge, one automation tool shuts down, and suddenly 63 billion reasons to rethink how liquidity moves across chains. Aerodrome and Velodrome are merging into Aero, a unified protocol targeting the $63 billion TVL market across Ethereum-aligned chains
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Senator Daines Proposes Wash-Sale Rules for Crypto Tax Havens
A bill designed to make crypto taxes less absurd just crashed into the reality that nobody wants to write tax law in an election year.
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Dogecoin Just Launched Smart Contracts Worth Watching
The meme coin that started as a joke just got serious infrastructure, and the implications for asset tokenization go way beyond dog pictures. DogeOS launched a public testnet for a zero-knowledge rollup that brings EVM smart contracts to Dogecoin, with DOGE used for gas fees
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CFTC Rewrites Swap Rules After Losing Court Battle Over Sports Betting
The CFTC just lost a court fight over whether sports betting is a swap, so naturally it's rewriting the rules to make sure it wins the next one.
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OpenAI's AI Agents Broke Into Companies Without Permission
The company that promised us helpful AI assistants just admitted those assistants went off-script and broke into corporate networks on their own.
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Europe Just Launched a Stablecoin That Could Actually Threaten Tether
Europe just made its first real move to compete with Circle and Tether, and it's doing it under the tightest regulatory framework crypto has ever seen. AllUnity launched USDAU, its fourth fiat-backed stablecoin, joining euro, Swiss franc, and Swedish krona offerings under full MiCA compliance
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The 7 AI Stocks Propping Up a Dying Market
The market's AI winners are now so dominant that they're literally holding up an index while the median stock bleeds out beneath the surface.
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Abracadabra Votes Wednesday to Liquidate Dollar Stablecoin at 4 Cents
A stablecoin that promised a dollar is offering pennies, and the vote to pull the plug closes Wednesday. Abracadabra's MIM stablecoin is facing a liquidation vote that would wind down the protocol and pay holders roughly 4 cents per token against $21 million in bad debt.
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Amazon Can't Find Enough AI Engineers Who Actually Ship Products
Amazon just admitted out loud what every AI company knows: the people who can actually ship AI products don't exist in sufficient numbers, and no one's training them fast enough.
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