Polygon is spinning off a stablecoin payments business and raising up to $100 million to do it, betting that the real money in crypto isn't speculation but boring old transactions. Polygon Labs is in early fundraising talks to raise $50-100 million by selling equity in a new stablecoin payments unit
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A Workday CTO just traded his executive title for "member of technical staff" at Anthropic, and that tells you everything about where power is moving in tech.
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Snowflake's engineers are coding around the clock without working around the clock. Snowflake CEO says some developers now produce code 24/7 using AI agents, fundamentally changing the economics of software development
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Visa just gave AI agents the infrastructure to shop without you, and they're betting most businesses are already ready for it. Visa launched Intelligent Commerce, a global platform enabling AI agents to browse, compare prices, and transact autonomously on behalf of consumers
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The Treasury Department just said the quiet part out loud: if you issue stablecoins, you're a bank now. Treasury's FinCEN and OFAC released proposed guidelines under the GENIUS Act treating stablecoin issuers like traditional financial institutions
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The first major US bank just undercut BlackRock on Bitcoin fees and plugged into 16,000 advisors managing $6.2 trillion. Morgan Stanley's MSBT launched on NYSE Arca with $34 million in day-one inflows, making it the first major US bank to issue a spot Bitcoin ETF under its own name
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The SEC just named a new enforcement chief with zero crypto background while senators demand answers about dropped cases against Trump-connected crypto firms. David Woodcock takes over SEC enforcement after Margaret Ryan's exit, which raised concerns over crypto case handling
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OpenAI just declared the era of departmental AI pilots over—company-wide agent deployments are the new baseline. OpenAI announced "the next phase of enterprise AI" with Frontier, ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, and company-wide AI agents as core products for accelerating enterprise adoption
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AI agents are about to start lending and borrowing crypto on their own. Morpho launches Morpho Agents in beta, giving AI agents machine-readable access to read, simulate, and execute DeFi lending transactions
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Anthropic just shipped an AI so good at finding security holes that it can't measure whether it's safe to release. Claude Mythos identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system, browser, and critically, the cryptography libraries that DeFi runs on
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The Ethereum Foundation just announced it's converting $11 million of ETH to stablecoins, and for once they're showing their work. The EF is swapping 5,000 ETH into stablecoins using CoW DAO's time-weighted average price feature to fund research, grants, and donations
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A startup just convinced investors it's worth $1 billion before launching its network, betting everything on a simple premise: the financial system's infrastructure can't handle what's coming.
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A Nasdaq-listed company just put its actual shares on-chain, not a derivative or a wrapper, the real thing. Securitize is tokenizing Currenc Group's ordinary shares on both Ethereum and Solana, making them tradable on public blockchains
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Long-term Bitcoin holders just absorbed 4.37 million BTC while network activity metrics flipped to bull phase, and the quiet money is suddenly loud.
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Ethereum just became the rails for $180 billion in stablecoins, and that number might hit $850 billion by 2030. Stablecoin supply on Ethereum hit an all-time high of $180 billion, representing 150% growth over three years
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Franklin Templeton just hired a crypto head and bought a digital asset firm, which means $1.6 trillion in traditional finance is about to get serious about tokenization. Franklin Templeton is acquiring 250 Digital and installing Chris Perkins as head of Franklin Crypto
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Your AI system isn't down, it's just slowly becoming useless, and your monitoring tools have no idea. Engineers are encountering a new failure mode in AI systems: everything looks operational while outputs drift into wrongness
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The man who built the world's largest crypto exchange spent four months in prison, and now he's telling the story himself. Changpeng Zhao has released an autobiography covering Binance's meteoric rise, his regulatory battles, and his prison sentence
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Bitcoin is now a geopolitical thermometer, and Trump's Iran deadline just sent it swinging from fear trade to relief rally in 48 hours.
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A Solana DEX just told everyone to pull their money because they hired a North Korean operative, and that sentence contains every nightmare about decentralized finance in 15 words.
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