Senate Banking Chair Caves on DeFi to Save Crypto Bill
A bill that almost died on the table just passed committee, and the only reason it survived is because the Senate Banking Committee chairman blinked first on DeFi.
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Bitwise CEO Tells Laid-Off AI Workers Crypto Is Their Second Act
The people building the agents that killed their jobs are being told there's a second act, and it runs on blockchains. Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley is telling AI-displaced tech workers to pivot to crypto, framing it as today's equivalent of the pre-OpenAI moment.
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Abu Dhabi's Sovereign Fund Buys $500M Bitcoin While Harvard Bails on Crypto
While Harvard's endowment runs from crypto, one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds just doubled down with half a billion reasons why institutions still believe.
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XRP surged while Bitcoin stalled, but the rally dies without Congress action
The market wanted a regulatory silver bullet, and got a reminder that clarity without liquidity still trades at a discount. XRP jumped 5% after the Senate committee advanced the CLARITY Act, outperforming bitcoin as traders bet on legal clarity unlocking institutional capital into XRP products.
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Wall Street Tokenized $2B in Assets Nobody Can Actually Trade
Wall Street just proved it can put anything on a blockchain, but nobody's figured out what to do with it once it's there. JPMorgan filed for JLTXX, its second tokenized money market fund in a week, using Ethereum and its Kinexys platform to track token balances
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Ledger and Consensys Abandon IPOs as Crypto Valuations Collapse
When the IPO music stops, you find out who built a real business and who was just riding the hype cycle. Ledger paused its U.S. IPO plans and is now exploring private funding rounds instead as crypto market conditions weaken
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JPMorgan Files to Tokenize Treasuries After Years of Crypto Skepticism
When the bank that once called Bitcoin a fraud files to tokenize Treasuries on Ethereum, it's not capitulation—it's institutionalization. JPMorgan filed with the SEC to launch JLTXX, a tokenized Treasury fund on Ethereum, targeting the $32 billion tokenized Treasury market
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Bitcoin Goes Dark on Starknet Without Breaking the Law
Bitcoin finally gets a privacy toggle that regulators might actually tolerate. Starknet launched strkBTC, a shielded Bitcoin wrapper on its Layer 2 network that lets holders toggle between public and private states using zero-knowledge proofs.
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FalconX Moves $100M Credit Line to Monad Before Most Know It Exists
Institutional crypto lenders just figured out how to make their balance sheets work harder on a chain most retail traders haven't heard of yet. FalconX expanded its tokenized credit vaults to Monad, letting institutions use these vaults as DeFi collateral on the high-performance network.
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Figure Brings $19 Billion in Real Assets to Ethereum Through New NUVA Bridge
The tokenization dream just got its first Wall Street translator, and he brought $19 billion to the conversation. NUVA, backed by Animoca Brands, launched to bridge Figure's $19 billion in tokenized real-world assets to Ethereum, starting with home equity lines of credit and U.S. Treasuries.
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UK Treasury Declares Programmable Money Will Replace Traditional Finance
The British government just said the quiet part out loud: programmable money isn't a threat to financial infrastructure, it's the replacement.
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Wall Street's $15B Bet: Tokenized Treasuries Surge as Bitcoin Freezes
The flight to safety is happening on-chain now. Tokenized U.S. Treasury products crossed $15.35 billion as macro uncertainty drives capital toward yield-bearing stablecoins and Treasury tokens instead of bitcoin
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Ethereum Hits $2.3K While Wall Street Puts Billions on Its Rails
The same week JPMorgan and BlackRock put tokenized funds on Ethereum rails, the asset itself can't break $2,400. ETH touched $2,300 before sliding back to $2,250, with resistance at $2,400 holding firm despite multiple attempts
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Ethereum Just Matched Solana's $45B Trading Volume War
The horse race is dead even, which means the real competition is just starting. Ethereum and Solana DEX volumes have converged near $45 billion, erasing Solana's previous dominance in decentralized exchange trading activity.
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Japan's Enterprise Blockchain Just Weaponized Boring to Beat Crypto
Japan just made stablecoins boring on purpose, and that's exactly the point. Japan Open Chain is launching a yen-backed stablecoin designed exclusively for B2B settlements, not retail speculation.
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TON Just Gave AI Agents Permission to Build Their Own Apps Without Humans
TON just made smart contract development a sprint instead of a marathon—and handed AI agents the tools to build on it without asking permission. Pavel Durov launched Acton, a unified toolchain for TON that promises 10x faster smart contract development with AI-ready workflows
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Wall Street Just Bet $1B That Public Blockchains Are Dead
Wall Street wants blockchain, just not your blockchain. Three institutional blockchain platforms — Arc, Canton, and Tempo — have collectively raised over $1 billion, signaling that privacy infrastructure is becoming the primary institutional on-ramp to crypto
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XRP Becomes South Korea's Most-Traded Crypto, Beating Bitcoin and Ethereum
When Korean retail shows up in force for a single token, you're either looking at the start of a run or the end of one. XRP/KRW became the most traded pair on Upbit and second on Bithumb, surpassing both bitcoin and ether volumes on South Korea's largest exchanges
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Ethereum Just Fixed the $1.7B Problem That's Been Draining Crypto Wallets
The billion-dollar UX problem of Web3 just got its first real fix, and every major wallet is already on board.
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SocGen's Dollar Stablecoin Just Hit Millions of Retail Wallets
A top-five European bank just put its dollar stablecoin in front of millions of retail wallets—this isn't a pilot anymore. Societe Generale is expanding its USD stablecoin to millions of crypto wallet users, marking one of the largest bank-led pushes to bring institutional digital money to retail
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