The world's second-largest crypto exchange just built stock market plumbing that sidesteps US and EU regulators entirely. OKX launched a unified order book for tokenized US stocks, routing multiple issuers' versions of the same equity into one liquid market backed by Backed Assets' xStocks
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When your billion-user product becomes unusable and your fix is just "we made it slightly less unusable," that's not iteration—that's a company that doesn't know what it built.
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Wall Street's index funds are now collateral in DeFi lending pools, but $23 million is barely enough to buy a penthouse in Miami.
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The infrastructure layer for tokenized stocks just got $435 million in combined firepower, and the headline investor is a firm that knows what happens when markets move to APIs.
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The last mile went vertical — and now it's a race to own the air between your phone and space. Spanish satellite startup Sateliot is expanding its funding round from €100M to €150M ($172M) to accelerate direct-to-phone satellite connectivity
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A Chinese hedge fund spin-off just proved you can build a $52B AI company without Nvidia's permission slip, and Silicon Valley is still trying to figure out what broke.
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Robinhood wanted to bring tokenized stocks and bonds to the masses, but their users showed up for dog coins instead. Robinhood is betting on bringing 10 million retail users onchain, positioning itself as the bridge between casual investors and decentralized finance
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The polite internet is dead — and Patreon just wrote its obituary. Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to actively block AI scrapers, abandoning the robots.txt honor system that AI companies have been ignoring for years
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Ethereum's monopoly on real-world asset tokenization just cracked, and the chain doing it runs on the exchange everyone loves to hate. BNB Chain's total value locked in tokenized real-world assets hit $5.2 billion, marking an all-time high and a 32.26% increase in just one month
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Google's DeepMind just learned what every veteran data scientist already knows: when you can't measure intelligence, you measure who's best at gaming your metrics.
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When your stock market becomes more volatile than Bitcoin, you've either broken something fundamental or discovered what the future looks like.
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The world's most valuable company changed hands twice before lunch, and the most interesting part happened on a blockchain most people don't know exists.
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Robinhood just proved you can launch a Layer 2 without a token airdrop or VC hype cycle and still pull half a billion in value. Robinhood Chain hit $400M in total value locked within two weeks of its July 1 launch, with $170M in ETH bridged from Ethereum in just the first week
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Coinbase just handed the keys to its consumer app to a pseudonymous trader after its bet on creator coins and social features collapsed, pivoting hard to trading, payments, and AI agents instead.
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Japan just proved that real-world asset tokenization isn't vaporware—it's happening at billion-dollar scale, with yen-backed rails, and the infrastructure is already live.
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The first TradFi giant to admit Bitcoin spot ETFs were just the opening act. T. Rowe Price launched the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, breaking from the single-asset Bitcoin and Ethereum products that dominated 2024's ETF wave
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OpenAI just spent "low hundreds of millions" buying a YouTube show and now they're hawking a $230 keypad for an AI tool that got demoted to a tab in their super app.
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The company that made digital payments boring just became the most interesting asset in fintech. Stripe and private equity firm Advent International bid over $53 billion to take PayPal private, sending PYPL shares up sharply
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OpenAI just made the case that keeping AI away from teenagers is more dangerous than teaching them to use it—and they're betting their product roadmap on being right.
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The first real test of liability in the agent economy isn't about copyright or deepfakes — it's about whether AI companies will actively police their platforms or hide behind terms of service.
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