Robinhood Chain Just Hit 285K Transactions in One Week
Robinhood just proved that zero trading fees plus real stock exposure on-chain is the unlock for mass crypto adoption no one saw coming.
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Bezos Bets $450M on AI That Designs Molecules, Not Chatbots
Jeff Bezos just wrote a nine-figure check for a company that doesn't make software, doesn't train chatbots, and won't ship a consumer product for years.
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London Stock Exchange Goes 24/7 to Compete With Crypto Markets
When the 300-year-old London Stock Exchange decides it needs to match crypto's hours, you know the 24/7 economy isn't coming — it's already here. The London Stock Exchange will launch a separate overnight trading venue in the first half of 2027, extending market access beyond traditional hours
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Sony Names All 30,000 Songs Udio Allegedly Stole to Train Its AI
Sony just named names, all 30,000 of them, and suddenly AI music training isn't an abstract legal theory anymore.
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Morgan Stanley Bets on Solana With Cheapest ETF Yet
Wall Street's new Solana play arrives the same week tokenized assets on the chain doubled in six months — timing that looks less like coincidence and more like capitulation.
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Robinhood Chain Lets You Create Memecoins Backed by Apple Stock
You can now back a memecoin with Apple shares instead of prayers and Discord promises. Bankr launched stock-paired tokens on Robinhood Chain, letting users create new tokens with liquidity pools denominated in tokenized equities like Apple and Tesla
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Solana Now Processes 95% of Tokenized Stock Trading While Wall Street Wasn't Looking
While everyone's been arguing about whether crypto has real-world utility, Solana quietly became the stock market's back-office. Solana now processes 95% of on-chain tokenized equity volume, captured by rwa.xyz's new analytics dashboard tracking 2,613 tokenized stocks worth $1.85 billion
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Bank of America Doubles Down on Google While Gemini 2.0 Stalls
Wall Street's biggest bank just bet $30 billion more on Google the same week its flagship AI model missed the launch window. Bank of America doubled its Alphabet stake while setting a $430 price target — 16% above current levels — ahead of Q2 earnings on July 22
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Robinhood Just Let AI Agents Trade Real Money on Autopilot
The battle for who hosts the world's trading agents just went from theoretical to live, and it's happening on two very different rails.
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Chinese Startup Moonshot Hits $3.3B Valuation While Western AI Labs Burn Cash on AGI
While Western AI labs chase AGI, a Chinese startup just proved that betting big on foundation models can still win—even when you're not OpenAI. Moonshot AI drew massive crowds at China's premier tech summit, outshining tech giants Alibaba and Tencent despite operating from a small booth
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Strategy Dumps $263M in Stock but Skips Bitcoin for Second Straight Week
The world's most famous Bitcoin maximalist just chose dollars over sats for the second week running. Strategy sold $263.5 million in MSTR shares without purchasing any Bitcoin, raising its USD cash reserve to $3.225 billion while holding 843,775 BTC
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Wall Street Puts $15B On-Chain With Nothing to Do
Wall Street's going on-chain, but the $15 billion parked in tokenized treasuries mostly just sits there — the infrastructure arrived before the use cases did.
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Anthropic Just Solved AI's Biggest Smart Contract Problem
The gap between "AI can code" and "AI can ship production smart contracts" just collapsed. Anthropic merged Claude's Chat and Cowork modes into a unified interface with local file access and persistent memory, rolling out first to Max plan users
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LayerZero Floods Market With $700M in Tokens While Insiders Cash Out
Over $700 million in locked tokens hit the market this week, and the smart money is watching who's selling, not just what's unlocking. LayerZero unlocks 25.71 million ZRO tokens worth ~$20M on July 20, leading a week where the crypto market releases over $704.5 million in previously locked supply
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Solana's Stablecoin Battlefield Just Hit $5B Without Tether or Circle
The stablecoin war is no longer just Tether versus Circle, and Solana is the battlefield where the next generation is proving it. Solana's non-USDC/USDT stablecoin supply hit $4.81 billion, driving total stablecoin market cap on the chain to $15 billion
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Allbridge Loses $1M to Flash Loan Attack, Goes Dark
Flash loans just turned liquidity pools into ATMs again, and the bridges keep falling down. Allbridge Core halted operations after an attacker drained $1.65 million from stablecoin liquidity pools using flash loan manipulation and rapid swaps to exploit exchange rates
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Tokenized Treasuries Hit $15B But No One's Actually Using Them
The tokenized treasury market just crossed $15 billion, but the real story is what companies are doing with it once it's onchain. Tokenized money market funds hit $15B, with total tokenized markets reaching $2.3B in active utility beyond just holding
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Smartphone-Sized AI Model Hits 1200 Tokens Per Second
Someone just trained a function-calling model smaller than a smartphone app that runs at 1200 tokens per second. Cactus Compute released Needle, a 26 million parameter model distilled from Gemini 3.1 that runs function calls on consumer devices at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode
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Genius Act Passed a Year Ago—Regulators Still Haven't Written the Rules
The U.S. passed its first major stablecoin law, and a year later regulators still haven't written the actual rules. The GENIUS Act became law one year ago, creating the first federal framework for stablecoin regulation in the U.S.
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Injective Registers With SEC After Years of Crypto Crackdowns
A DeFi protocol just asked permission from the same regulator that spent years calling everything a security. Injective filed for SEC transfer agent registration and launched Injective Mint, a platform for tokenizing real-world assets on-chain
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