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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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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Bitmine Burns $86M on Stock While Hoarding 5% of All Ethereum
A public company just spent $86 million buying back its own stock while sitting on nearly 5% of Ethereum's entire supply — the clearest signal yet that corporate treasuries see ETH as a balance sheet asset, not just a speculative trade.
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Tom Lee Halts Ethereum Buying Spree to Buy $86M of His Own Stock
When a company trying to own 5% of Ethereum's total supply hits pause to buy its own stock instead, you're watching capital allocation theory collide with crypto maximalism in real time.
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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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Vitalik Buterin Codes Anonymous Blockchain Billboard to Prove Privacy Works
The man who could move markets with a tweet instead spent his weekend proving you can post anonymously on-chain without anyone knowing who paid for it.
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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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Franklin Templeton Now Controls $750M in Tokenized Treasuries—More Than All Crypto Natives Combined
Wall Street's blockchain bet just quadrupled in seven months, and the money manager doing it isn't some crypto startup — it's a 77-year-old mutual fund giant.
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Robinhood Stock Now Trades 24/7 Before Robinhood Launches Tokenization
Robinhood's stock is now trading 24/7 on Solana before Robinhood itself has launched its own tokenization platform.
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BNB Chain Just Stole Ethereum's $5.2B Real-World Asset Crown
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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Visa Just Gave 15,000 Banks Crypto Rails Without the Crypto Headaches
The payments giant just handed 15,000 banks the keys to onchain rails without forcing them to hire a single Solidity developer. Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform, letting its network of 15,000 banks and 200 million merchants mint and move stablecoins starting with Open Standard's OUSD
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Robinhood Chain Hits $400M TVL Without Token or VC Money
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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Bitcoin's Spam War Gets Its First Fork—DOG Mode Removes Block Size Limits
Bitcoin's culture war over what counts as "spam" just got a client fork with teeth. Runestone co-founder launches DOG Mode, an alternative Bitcoin client that removes Bitcoin Core's transaction size limits to enable Ordinals and Runes activity
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Bitcoin Developers Fork Over Dog Memes in Blockchain War
The fight over what belongs on Bitcoin's blockchain just went from committee meeting to code fork. BIP 110 proposes restricting arbitrary data on Bitcoin through a consensus change, but has almost no miner support
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BlackRock Breaks Eight-Week Bitcoin Bleeding with $79M Reversal
Eight weeks of bleeding $8 billion just stopped, and the biggest money manager on Earth turned the faucet back on. BlackRock's IBIT brought in $79.15M on July 16, leading U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs to snap an eight-week outflow streak that drained over $8 billion from the category
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Japan Tokenizes $1.3 Billion Fund Using Stablecoin Infrastructure
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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T. Rowe Price Launches First Actively Managed Multi-Token Crypto ETF
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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Morgan Stanley Gives 6.7 Million Clients Direct Crypto Custody
The last time a Wall Street giant put crypto in front of millions of retail clients, it was ETFs that custody your coins for you. This time, you hold the keys.
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E*TRADE Now Lets Boomers Buy Solana Faster Than Bonds
The boring brokerage your parents use just made it easier to buy Solana than to buy a municipal bond.
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