Drift Protocol just lost $285 million on Solana, and the comparison to Ronin's 2022 disaster tells you everything about how little DeFi learned. Drift Protocol suffered a $285 million exploit on Solana, with security experts drawing parallels to Ronin's $625 million bridge hack in 2022
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Coinbase just handed the keys to its payment protocol to the Linux Foundation, and Google, Stripe, and Visa showed up to help drive. Coinbase's x402 payment protocol is now an open standard under the Linux Foundation, with 20+ founding members including Google, Stripe, and Visa backing it
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Cursor just walked into a cage match with OpenAI and Anthropic, and the ref hasn't shown up yet. Cursor launched a new AI agent experience aimed directly at competing with Claude Code and Codex
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Cursor just turned its AI coding assistant into a full agent—and picked a fight with OpenAI and Anthropic on their home turf. Cursor launched a new AI agent experience designed to compete directly with Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex
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A nationally chartered bank with $50 billion in assets just made stablecoins a boring business banking feature. SoFi launched Big Business Banking, an enterprise platform combining fiat and stablecoin services on Solana with 24/7 payment rails
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A $270 million exploit on Solana didn't need a single line of buggy code—just a feature designed to make transactions easier. Drift Protocol was drained of over $270 million using Solana's "durable nonces" feature, which allows pre-signed transactions to remain valid indefinitely.
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Telegram just turned 150 million chat app users into potential derivatives traders. Telegram Wallet integrated Lighter to enable perpetual futures trading directly in-app, giving users leveraged access to crypto, stocks, and commodities.
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OpenEden just launched tokenized high-yield corporate bonds, and it's the first real test of whether crypto rails can handle actual credit risk. OpenEden introduced tokenized high-yield corporate bonds, moving beyond the T-bills and cash equivalents that make up 90%+ of the RWA tokenization market
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The CEO who built AI detection software just admitted something uncomfortable: most people can't write as well as machines anymore. Max Spero of Pangram Labs, whose company detects AI-generated content, says AI already writes cleaner, more persuasive copy than most humans
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A Japanese investment firm just vaulted past American mining giant MARA to become the world's third-largest corporate bitcoin holder, and the geography matters more than the ranking.
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Bitcoin's falling while the dollar surges to levels not seen since mid-2025, and traders are warning this is just the beginning. Bitcoin dropped on renewed US-Iran tensions as geopolitical risk drives money into traditional safe havens
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The bond market just got a blockchain interface, and it's not a startup doing the tokenizing. OpenEden launched HYBOND, a tokenized wrapper for BNY Investments' Global Short-Dated High-Yield Bond strategy, putting institutional fixed income onchain.
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While Washington debates AI policy, the real constraint isn't regulation—it's whether we can physically power the buildout. US policymakers are wrestling with AI infrastructure bottlenecks, particularly energy capacity limitations that are slowing data center expansion
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Grayscale just published a roadmap for how tokenization actually rolls out, and it's not the story crypto Twitter is telling itself.
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South Korea's Bithumb just pushed its IPO back three years, and the reason tells you everything about what it takes to bring crypto into traditional capital markets. Bithumb is delaying its IPO until after 2028, pushing back from an already-delayed 2025 target
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Drift Protocol just lost $285 million to an exploit, and the wreckage tells you everything about where Solana DeFi actually stands right now. Drift Protocol, a Solana perpetuals DEX, was exploited for upwards of $285 million, one of the largest DeFi hacks in recent history
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OpenAI just raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, and even the VCs cutting the checks are saying valuations are "punchy." OpenAI closed its largest fundraising ever at $122 billion, pushing its valuation to $852 billion while Anthropic hit $380 billion
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Uniswap Foundation just showed its books: $85.8 million in assets, runway through January 2027, and a rare glimpse at how DeFi's infrastructure actually gets funded. Uniswap Foundation disclosed $85.8 million in treasury assets with projected funding through January 2027
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A $1.7 trillion asset manager just stopped dipping its toe in crypto and jumped in with both feet. Franklin Templeton is launching Franklin Crypto, a dedicated digital asset division built around its acquisition of 250 Digital
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Prediction markets didn't kill crypto—crypto killed itself, and now the smart money is betting on reality instead of vibes. Bitcoin crashed from $126K in October to $63K today while prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket doubled in value to $22B and $20B respectively.
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