OpenAI Just Open-Sourced the Code That Makes AI Agents Production-Ready
OpenAI just open-sourced the scaffolding that turns code-writing agents from demos into production tools companies might actually trust.
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SEC Admits Its Rules Can't Keep Up With Instant Settlement
The SEC just admitted its rulebook wasn't written for software that settles trades in milliseconds. SEC Chair Paul Atkins signaled new rulemaking to address how existing frameworks apply to onchain market infrastructure and software applications
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Banks Claim Stablecoin Bill They Demanded Now Threatens Their Control
The banks that spent a decade calling crypto unregulated are now complaining that stablecoin legislation gives them too much freedom.
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Kraken Just Applied to Become America's First Federal Crypto Bank
The crypto industry's biggest players are no longer asking permission to sit at the banking table—they're applying for the deed to the building.
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ONDO Jumps 68% as Wall Street Tokenization Goes From Pilot to Production
Wall Street's tokenization infrastructure is finally moving from PowerPoints to production settlements, and the market is pricing in what happens when the rails go live.
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Microsoft Revives Three Mile Island to Power AI Data Centers
The nuclear plant that defined America's energy fear is being reborn to feed our AI addiction. Three Mile Island is restarting mid-2027 to power Microsoft's AI workloads, marking the first time the infamous reactor site returns to service since the 1979 partial meltdown.
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Google Gave Ad Legends AI Tools and Shipped Their Work Live
Google just turned its Gemini ad tools into a creative brief for legends—then shipped the results as proof of concept. Google launched The Small Brief, pairing four advertising legends with local businesses to create campaigns using Google's Gemini AI tools
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Ethereum Stalls at $2.4K—Four Charts Show Why This Isn't a Pause
The world's second-largest crypto can't break through a ceiling it last touched comfortably two years ago, and the data says it's not a pause, it's a problem.
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Arbitrum DAO Approves $70M Bailout That May Violate Its Own Constitution
Democracy voted yes, but the law might say no — a collision that could define what decentralized governance actually means when real money is on the line.
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Waymo's $4B Sensor Strategy Fails London While Tesla's Camera-Only Cars Navigate Freely
London becomes the proving ground for two fundamentally incompatible visions of how machines should learn to drive. Waymo's sensor-heavy, map-dependent approach faces off against Wayve's mapless, end-to-end AI model as both launch commercial operations in London
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Arbitrum DAO Defies Court Order, Votes to Move $71M in Recovered Hack Funds
A DAO with $70 million in recovered hack funds just voted to move it, and a court says they can't. Arbitrum DAO's Snapshot vote is passing with 90% support to release $71M in ETH frozen after the Kelp DAO exploit, moving toward a binding onchain governance proposal.
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Aptos Bets $50M That AI Agents Need Their Own Blockchain
While VCs tighten their belts, a Layer 1 just opened its own checkbook to build the infrastructure its agents will need. Aptos committed $50 million to grow its ecosystem, covering first-party products, protocol infrastructure, and agentic AI projects
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Trump Jr. Denies His Crypto Company Is Collapsing Mid-Billionaire Lawsuit
When the president's son has to personally deny your crypto company is imploding while you're fighting a billionaire in court, you're either building the future of finance or watching it collapse in real time.
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Bitwise Acquires $267M Fund to Tokenize Crypto Yields on Bitcoin and Ethereum
The ETF guys just figured out that tokenization isn't a threat to their business model—it's the next product line. Bitwise is acquiring Superstate's $267M tokenized Crypto Carry Fund, marking the first major crypto ETF issuer to move into tokenized fund management
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Anthropic's AI Agents Now Dream Their Way to Better Performance
Anthropic just handed AI agents something they've never had before: the ability to wake up smarter than they were yesterday.
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Solv Protocol Yanks $700M in Bitcoin After LayerZero Security Doubts
When nearly a billion dollars moves in 48 hours, that's not strategy pivot—that's security panic.
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Prediction Markets Just Became a $22B Industry Overnight
Wall Street just wrote a billion-dollar check to bet on betting, and the real story isn't the valuation—it's that prediction markets are eating traditional finance's homework.
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Bitcoin Tanks 4% While S&P Hits All-Time High
Traditional markets celebrate geopolitical calm while crypto bleeds on its own bad news, a decoupling that says more about industry fundamentals than Middle East diplomacy.
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AI Agents Are Trading Billions in DeFi While You Sleep
The same protocols that crypto skeptics declared dead in 2022 are now becoming the backend for autonomous agents that trade, lend, and optimize capital while their human owners sleep.
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Kraken Drops $600M to Kill Your Bank's Payment Rails
Crypto exchanges used to be the on-ramp. Now they're building the roads, the tollbooths, and the gas stations. Kraken parent Payward is acquiring Hong Kong-based Reap for up to $600 million in cash and stock, adding card issuance and stablecoin payment rails to its new B2B platform.
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