Aave Pulls $100M to Monad in 48 Hours
When DeFi's biggest lending protocol can pull $100 million in two days on a brand new chain, you're watching liquidity vote with its feet.
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Bitcoin Falls While Stocks Soar Because AI Stole Its Narrative
While the S&P hits new peaks, bitcoin sits 15% off its highs, and the reason isn't what the permabulls want to hear. Bitcoin has decoupled from equities as AI hype pulls capital away from crypto, according to research from Schwab and Hashdex
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Trump Token Holders Lost $3.8 Billion in 48 Hours
When the face of American populism launches a token, you get the purest case study yet on whether celebrity can substitute for utility in crypto markets. Trump's TRUMP token has fallen 96% from its peak, with buyers collectively down $3.8 billion according to blockchain analytics
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Fanfiction Writers Purging Their Own Over AI Accusations
The same community that invented transformative works is now tearing itself apart trying to define what counts as "real" writing.
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Securitize Tokenizes Itself on Solana Before Going Public
The company that tokenizes everyone else's assets just became the first to tokenize its own on the way to a public listing. Securitize launched on the NYSE with a $266-300 million tokenized stock offering, simultaneously issuing shares on Solana and Avalanche blockchains
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Robinhood Pulls $50M in Week One With 24/7 Stock Tokens
The retail brokerage that democratized stock trading just turned equities into ERC-20 tokens tradeable 24/7, and it pulled $50M in capital in less than a week.
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Moonbeam Abandons Polkadot for Base After Betting Wrong Horse
When a multi-chain future loses to actually shipping, sometimes the smartest move is admitting you bet on the wrong horse. Moonbeam is fully migrating its GLMR token from Polkadot to Base, abandoning its parachain position to relaunch as an AI agent-focused network
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German Banks to Offer Crypto Trading Without Leaving Your Account
Germany just solved crypto's biggest UX problem: the part where you have to leave your bank. German banks are preparing to offer direct crypto trading to customers, eliminating the need for third-party exchanges like Coinbase or Kraken
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Bitcoin Hits $94K as Terrified Investors Flood Back Into ETFs
The money came back, but the conviction didn't. Bitcoin and Ether bounced off multi-year lows with spot BTC ETFs recording $221 million in inflows on July 2, ending a brutal selloff period
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Securitize Tokenizes $295M of Its Own IPO Stock on Day One
The tokenization company just proved its own business model works by eating its own lunch on day one of public trading.
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Google Just Open-Sourced the Agent Builder Engineers Have Been Paying For
Google just made every coding assistant smarter at building agents than most engineers who've been doing it for years. Google released agents-cli, an open-source toolkit that teaches any AI coding assistant how to build, evaluate, and deploy production-grade agents on Google Cloud
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Open USD's "149 Partners" Include Companies That Say They Never Agreed
The stablecoin wars just got messy: Open USD launched claiming 149 partners, but some of the biggest names on that list say they never signed up.
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B Corps Discover Their Own Values Don't Apply to AI
The most mission-driven companies in America are realizing their values don't fit neatly into a checklist anymore. Beneficial State Bank, a certified B Corp, piloted Stratyfy's AI credit decisioning tool and increased loan approvals in BIPOC communities by 21% through BetterFi, a partner CDFI
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New York Wants 39,069 Bitcoin Wallets Because Their Owners Went Quiet
When the state decides your silence equals surrender, every dormant wallet becomes a test case for whether "not your keys, not your coins" still means anything. New York filed a lawsuit seeking ownership of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallets worth approximately $229 billion under abandoned property law
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IMF to Crypto's $600B Tokenization Boom: You Don't Know Who Owns What
The world's most powerful financial institution just told crypto's biggest grown-up use case that it needs to grow up faster. The IMF warned that tokenized assets will stay niche until markets answer two basic questions: who legally owns the token, and where does settlement become final.
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AI Chip Rally Built on Fantasy Demand, Top Investor Warns
Two experts watch the same semiconductor selloff and see opposite futures—one says the AI gold rush is built on sand, the other says it's just getting started.
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Securitize Goes Public, Tokenizes Its Own Stock on Solana—Not Ethereum
Traditional finance just put its money where its mouth is, tokenizing its own stock on the blockchain it chose to trust. Securitize made its NYSE debut and immediately tokenized its own stock (SECZ) on Solana, signaling institutional confidence in the network
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JPMorgan Says MicroStrategy Bitcoin Sales Could Crash the Market
The bank that called Bitcoin a fraud now says Saylor's company is making the crypto market too risky by threatening to sell some.
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Securitize Lists Its Own Stock Onchain While Going Public on NYSE
The company that tokenizes other people's assets just proved the model by tokenizing its own. Securitize launched shares simultaneously on the NYSE and onchain, making it the first dual-format IPO in history
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