The vault isn't just a product launch—it's a bet that enough Bitcoiners will finally trade hodl purity for yield. Kraken launched Bitcoin Vault, an earn product that generates BTC-denominated rewards through DeFi strategies while maintaining price exposure to bitcoin.
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Traditional finance just picked the least traditional crypto asset to win the ETF launch race. Spot HYPE ETFs absorbed 1.04% of Hyperliquid's market cap in their first 10 trading days, beating Bitcoin (0.59%), Ethereum (0.41%), and Solana (0.31%) ETF debuts
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The gender gap in AI adoption isn't a bug—it's a feature worth studying before we automate ourselves into a corner. Girls Who Code CEO Tarika Barrett says student skepticism about AI—especially among women—reflects legitimate concerns about energy use, errors, and tech concentration
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A real bank just handed 14.7 million people a stablecoin, no crypto exchange required. SoFi launched SoFiUSD, a bank-issued stablecoin, directly inside its consumer banking app to 14.7 million members on Ethereum and Solana
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Crypto exchanges spent a decade trying to convince Wall Street they were legitimate. Now they're just buying the stocks themselves and wrapping them in tokens.
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The conversation just shifted from "if AI takes jobs" to "which 120 million jobs first." Bloomberg Intelligence projects AI will impact 27% of workers in advanced economies — that's 120 million people across 31 countries, with banking executives already gaming out scenarios.
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The stablecoin that accounts for 70% of crypto trading volume just got its own yield infrastructure, and it's not running on Ethereum.
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Huawei just announced a chipmaking strategy that could sidestep US sanctions and rewrite the rules of AI infrastructure—if it works. Huawei unveiled a chip architecture approach called "LogicFolding" amid surging global AI chip demand from Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft
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The crypto exchange is letting retail traders buy into the same asset-backed products that institutional investors have been quietly accumulating since rates went up.
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The wisdom of crowds just got a nine-person veto. Nine anonymous crypto wallets now control dispute resolution on Polymarket, the largest prediction market platform handling billions in wagers
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Every token unlock is a loaded gun pointed at the market, and now projects can hide when they pull the trigger. Umbra partners with Streamflow to launch confidential token vesting on Solana, targeting the $97B token unlock market
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The same week UBS admits AI will cost jobs, MIT's telling you not to panic—which means the real story is what neither side is saying out loud.
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The smartphone chipmaker is walking into Nvidia's house with ByteDance as its dance partner. Qualcomm has struck a deal with ByteDance to supply AI chips for data centers, marking a strategic pivot from its smartphone chip dominance into ASIC territory
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The same indexes that made MicroStrategy's Bitcoin bet institutional are about to do it for Ethereum, just as the stock is down 95% from peak.
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Vivek Ramaswamy's anti-woke investing thesis now includes 900 bitcoin, putting Strive ahead of crypto-native companies that should know better. Strive acquired 900 BTC for $85.4 million, bringing total holdings to 2,100 BTC worth roughly $200 million
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The first American Pope just told Silicon Valley it's building a digital slave economy, and he invited Anthropic to the announcement. Pope Leo XIV released *Magnifica Humanitas*, his first encyclical, calling for AI development to slow while society builds moral guardrails and democratic oversight
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The gap between "AI agents can read your wallet" and "AI agents can trade your wallet" just closed on the second-largest Ethereum Layer 2.
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The SEC just discovered what crypto degens learned years ago: putting prediction markets in a regulatory wrapper is harder than it looks. SEC Chair Atkins is delaying approval of ETFs that would let investors bet on elections and economic data, pausing a wave of novel fund applications
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The man who shepherded crypto through its first regulatory awakening says prediction markets got ahead of their legal framework — and now Washington has to catch up without killing what's working.
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XRP Ledger's plumbing is about to get smarter, and the quiet upgrade says more about who's building real DeFi infrastructure than who's shouting about it.
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