The White House just decided which companies get to build with the best AI and which ones don't. The Commerce Department cleared Anthropic's Mythos 5 for use by "trusted partners" after weeks of restrictions and negotiations with the administration.
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A $44 billion blockchain company just picked its competitor's rails to win Japan. Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin launched in Japan after approval from the Financial Services Agency, becoming the first foreign-issued stablecoin under Japan's revised Payment Services Act as a "Type 4 instrument."
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The money stopped growing, but the people kept showing up—a sure sign something structural is shifting in who wants tokenized assets and why. Tokenized real-world asset value declined 1.4% to $31.5 billion, the first monthly drop in the institutional-led rally, while holder count jumped 14%
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While Bitcoin treads water and the macro picture darkens, two narratives are pulling real money: Solana's tokenized stock trading and Aave's self-aware treasury management.
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The AI industry just learned that "launch when ready" is over—Uncle Sam now decides who gets to build with the next generation of models.
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The company that tokenized BlackRock's money market fund is about to become a public company itself, and Wall Street just wrote a $400 million check to make it happen. Securitize goes public on NYSE July 2 under ticker SECZ via SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, raising over $400M total
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OpenAI just made the capability ceiling meaningless by adding a permission layer at the door. OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model that will require U.S. government vetting for access
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Wall Street's 9:30-to-4 tyranny just got its first real challenge from a blockchain that never sleeps. Ondo Finance launched 24/7 minting and redemption for tokenized US stocks and ETFs on Ethereum and BNB Chain, eliminating the weekday-only constraint tied to US market hours.
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A housing bill with veto-proof support is being held hostage over voting rules, and the crypto industry just learned that legislative layering cuts both ways.
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The Valley's frontier narrative just hit a European wall—and it's lined with €1.7 billion in fresh capital. Mistral AI went from zero to €400M ARR in under three years, building frontier models from Paris with a fraction of Silicon Valley's compute budget
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The tokenization wave just got its first real ticker symbol, and BlackRock's already in the cap table. Securitize is raising $400 million and expects to close its SPAC merger next week, pending shareholder approval, with NYSE trading to follow.
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When a company doubles its valuation in under two months, it's either capturing lightning or chasing vapor. Kalshi is in talks to raise capital at a $40 billion valuation, nearly double the $22 billion price tag from a $1 billion round that closed just seven weeks ago
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The White House is now in the loop before you get the next ChatGPT upgrade. OpenAI is staging the release of GPT 5.6 after a request from the Trump administration, limiting initial access to select partners rather than a public launch
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Eight years of discipline just ended with a $123 million lesson in what human psychology costs when you're sitting on digital assets. Four Ethereum wallets that bought 37,602 ETH in 2018 finally sold, banking $27M after watching their stack hit $150M at peak.
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The question isn't whether AI agents will control your crypto wallet — it's who proves you told them to. World Network is expanding access to AgentKit, a framework that ties AI agents to verified World ID credentials, positioning itself as the trust infrastructure for the agent economy.
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The gambling giant just brought prediction markets in from the cold, and crypto's favorite bet-on-anything platforms are about to learn what real regulation looks like. DraftKings launched DKeX, a proprietary prediction markets exchange leveraging federal regulation for broader U.S. reach
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While most crypto VCs are playing defense, Framework just wrote a $400 million check to blur the lines between digital assets, AI agents, and physical robots.
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When the crypto VC intelligentsia starts raising nine-figure funds labeled "frontier tech" instead of "Web3," it's not a rebrand—it's a map to where the money thinks value actually accrues in the agent economy.
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The agents aren't just helping engineers write code anymore — they're the engineering team. AI now writes nearly 100% of code at multiple surveyed startups, with Anthropic's Claude Code as the dominant tool — a shift that happened in just 4-6 months
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A company with $890 million just went public betting almost entirely on a stablecoin protocol whose market cap has collapsed 70% in eight months. StablecoinX debuted on Nasdaq Friday after merging with TLGY, bringing an $890M war chest aimed squarely at Ethena's DeFi ecosystem
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