A DeFi protocol just did what most can't: it paid VCs to leave and never come back. Ethena Foundation executed a buyout of early investors and eliminated all future VC token unlocks, ending the monthly selling pressure that haunts most crypto projects
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SoftBank is borrowing $10 billion to refinance debt it took on to buy more of OpenAI — which means Masa Son is either playing 5D chess or doubling down on a position he can't afford to exit.
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A zombie project with no team just got a $1M acquisition offer, and speculators turned it into a 2,800% pump in an hour. FRIEND token surged 28-fold within an hour after Machi Big Brother offered $1M to buy Friend.tech's domain and X account.
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The man building AGI just said it'll be here in 16 months, and the people betting real money on it are calling his bluff.
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The US just declared financial war on Iran and told the world to pick a side — with crypto compliance as the new battlefield.
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While Silicon Valley's fintech darlings chase crypto integrations and AI copilots, Indonesia just proved there's still massive money in solving basic access problems. Ajaib, an Indonesian stock trading app, raised $270 million in the country's largest tech funding round since 2022
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Meta just paid more to settle accusations it hurt kids than it spent to buy Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus combined. Meta agreed to a $17 billion child-safety settlement—the largest tech payout in history, 12x bigger than the second-largest Big Tech privacy settlement in the past four years
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The companies racing to build the most powerful AI models just admitted they can't secure them alone. OpenAI organized 116 organizations — including Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic — in an open letter calling for collective AI cybersecurity defenses
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Meta just paid $18 billion to avoid regulation, then immediately tried to make it everyone else's problem. Meta settled a teen addiction lawsuit for up to $18 billion and immediately launched ads calling on TikTok and YouTube to "join us in supporting teens"
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The stock market closes at 4pm EST because someone rang a bell in 1903, and we've been pretending that makes sense ever since. Token Terminal listed NVDAc, a tokenized version of Nvidia stock that trades 24/7 on Base, while Aerodrome Finance enabled weekend trading of the same asset
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Anthropic just made AI agents everyone else's problem, not just theirs. Anthropic launched the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), an open framework that lets any AI model control physical lab equipment and manufacturing hardware
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OpenAI is building agents that don't clock out when you close the browser tab. OpenAI is developing a "persistent" mode for its Codex agent that keeps working after you walk away, until explicitly told to stop
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The same market that invented "do your own research" just built a machine to do it for you. DefiLlama and Forgd launched Universal Token Ratings, scoring 128 tokens on a 0-to-100 scale using approximately 40 inputs
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The four horsemen of the AI apocalypse walk into a G20 meeting — except this time they're setting policy, not pitching it.
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The AI boom just ate your next iPhone's lunch money. Nvidia is halving memory capacity on its upcoming Vera CPU (1.5TB down to 768GB) and downgrading HBM memory in Rubin Ultra systems due to supply constraints, not reduced need.
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The home you buy today might be the first time Bitcoin gets a FICO score. Coinbase and Better have launched Bitcoin-backed mortgages for US homebuyers, letting them pledge crypto as collateral for down payments without selling
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Wall Street is finally spending real money on the pipes that will carry tokenized stocks, bonds, and real estate—not pilot programs, but actual clearing infrastructure. RQD* Clearing raised $74 million led by Bain Capital to expand digital asset clearing and custody infrastructure
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The $80B wipeout in Bitcoin treasury stocks just wrote the playbook for what NOT to do next time BTC runs. Top 50 Bitcoin treasury companies shed $80B in market cap as the naked long strategy implodes, with Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) accounting for $79B of the loss alone
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Meta just bought its way out of a teen addiction trial for $18 billion — and locked its competitors into the same cage. Meta settled a multi-state lawsuit over teen social media addiction for $18 billion, with $5 billion contingent on YouTube and TikTok adopting identical restrictions
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The man building AI's future just admitted nobody wants the infrastructure required to power it. Sam Altman told Time Magazine that "people hate data centers—right now, at least" and acknowledged widespread negativity toward AI
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