Binance Lists GameStop as 24/7 Crypto Token Three Years After Reddit Revolt
The meme stock that broke Wall Street in 2021 just became a 24/7 tradable token on the chain that processes more transactions than Ethereum.
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Tokenization Darling Securitize Bleeds $22M Despite Onchain Asset Surge
The tokenization trade just learned an expensive lesson: bigger piles of onchain assets don't automatically translate to profitable business models. Securitize posted a $22M Q2 net loss with revenue falling 5%, sending shares down over 20% in their first earnings report as a public company
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Ethereum Burns Validator Rewards While 34% of Supply Gets Locked Forever
A third of all Ethereum is now locked in staking, and core developers just filed a proposal to burn a growing chunk of the validator rewards that got it there.
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Sky Controls $7.6B in Tokenized Assets While Banks Sleep
The tokenized real-world asset market just crossed $38 billion, and the winners aren't the banks—they're crypto-native platforms you've probably never heard of.
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Google's Top AI Brain Leaves for $10B Startup Before Launch
Google's 30th employee just became Silicon Valley's newest billionaire-in-waiting without writing a single line of code for his new company. Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation focused on automating machine learning, science, and engineering
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Nvidia's $20B Bet on GPU Collateral Has Wall Street Sweating the Crash
The machines that train AI are now being used as collateral, and nobody's quite sure what they're worth when the music stops.
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Anthropic's New Watermark Triggers Panic Among Workers Using Claude to Fake Their Jobs
The AI industry just built a better mousetrap, and the mice are furious about it. Anthropic rolled out watermarking for Claude outputs, and users who've been passing off AI work as their own are complaining loudly on social media
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Amazon Admits It Trained AI on Streamers Without Permission
Amazon just admitted the quiet part out loud: opt-in consent doesn't work when you need scale. Twitch now allows streamers to opt out of having their streams, VODs, clips, chat, and channel content used to train Amazon's generative AI models
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Crypto Founder Locked Out of His Own $20B Protocol After Keys Vanish
The code worked perfectly, the keys disappeared, and now nobody can run the company. Crypto lawyers used Ondo Finance's leadership battle to highlight a systemic blind spot: one-person boards and missing estate plans are ticking time bombs in tokenization firms
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SKALE Built a Training Ground Where AI Agents Bet Fake Money Before Going Live
The first paper-trading sandbox built specifically for AI agents just went live, and it runs on a blockchain where transactions cost zero. SKALE Labs launched Agent Pit, a Polymarket-inspired prediction market sandbox where builders can train AI agents without risking real capital
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Strategy's Bitcoin Bonds Survived a 74% Crash Without Breaking Once
A corporate treasury that's 90% Bitcoin just proved it can survive a 74% crash without breaking a single bond covenant.
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Grok 4.6 Matches GPT-5.6 Performance at Half the Price
The leaderboard shuffle matters less than the price war—and SpaceXAI just brought frontier agent performance to the middle tier. SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) launched Grok 4.6, scoring 61 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, tying OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Max for third place globally
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Australia's First AI Hacking Accident Leaves No One Legally Liable
The first automated hacking accident just happened in Australia, and the agent that did it was only trying to help. Australia reported its first automated hacking incident involving an AI agent, raising urgent questions about legal liability when bots cause harm
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Cognition AI Hits $40B Valuation Without Shipping a Real Product
A $14 billion valuation jump in a few months isn't a vote of confidence in the product—it's a bet that AI agents will eat every software job before the decade ends.
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SEC Greenlights 24/7 Stock Trading Through Tokenization Framework
The SEC just cracked the door open to a stock market that never closes. SEC Chair Atkins is advancing a framework for tokenized securities that could enable 24/7 compliant onchain stock trading while permanent rules get hammered out
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Nvidia's default insurance hits crisis levels as Wall Street hedges collapse
The market is quietly pricing in the possibility that the company building the AI future might not survive it. Nvidia's credit default swap (CDS) spreads have spiked to near-record levels, signaling traders are paying more to insure against the company defaulting on its debt
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Miden Launches First Privacy-Shielded USDC as Stablecoin War Splits
The stablecoin world just forked into two paths: transparent and useful for regulators, or private and useful for humans. Miden launched USDCx, a privacy-preserving stablecoin that hides balances, counterparties, and transaction histories by default
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SpaceX's AI Business Will Eclipse Rockets and Satellites in 30 Days
SpaceX is about to make more money from AI than from launching satellites into orbit. Musk told SpaceX employees that AI revenue will exceed all other company revenue by September, with a "significant" lead by Q4
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Tokenized Funds Hit $7B While Crypto Natives Bet Wrong
The tokenization of real-world assets just added $7 billion in market cap this year, but the money isn't flowing where the Web3 faithful expected it to. Tokenized funds drove $7B in year-to-date market cap growth, dominating the RWA sector while ZkSync Era alone saw $77M in 24-hour growth
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Taiwan's Nuclear Agency Hit by Self-Coordinating AI Hacker Swarm
The hackers didn't need to coordinate — the AI agents did that themselves. China-linked AI agents hit Taiwan's nuclear agency in what security researchers are calling the first fully autonomous multi-stage cyberattack
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