A bank that survived the Opium Wars just bet $150 million that crypto market-making is infrastructure, not speculation. SC Ventures, Standard Chartered's VC arm, took a $150 million stake in crypto trading firm GSR at a valuation exceeding $1 billion
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The largest U.S. crypto exchange just picked its horse in the tokenization race, and it's not building the infrastructure itself. Coinbase made a seven-figure equity investment in Centrifuge and named it the preferred tokenization platform for Base, its Ethereum Layer 2 network
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Wall Street just made its biggest bet that AI belongs in-house, not in the cloud—and they're betting against Big Tech owning the distribution.
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Australia's trillion-dollar retirement savings pool just got a door into crypto — and Coinbase is betting most fund managers won't walk through it.
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The world's oldest custodian bank just decided blockchain isn't a side bet anymore. State Street and Galaxy Digital launched a tokenized money market fund that lets institutions earn yield on stablecoins with 24/7 access
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When Big Tech comes for your margin, Wall Street doesn't compete—it joins forces, then brings the entire portfolio along for the ride.
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The gap between traditional finance and crypto rails just got a bridge built by two institutions that actually hold licenses. FalconX and Sygnum are launching a tokenized credit product that lets institutions borrow against digital assets through regulated infrastructure
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A crypto exchange just bought the plumbing that keeps 37 million shareholders on the books at companies like British Petroleum and Vodafone. Peter Thiel-backed Bullish agreed to acquire Equiniti, a global transfer agent managing shareholder records, for $4.2 billion in stock
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The rails for moving stock certificates are about to merge with the rails for moving tokens, and the $4.25 billion price tag says Wall Street's plumbing upgrade is no longer theoretical.
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The token went up, then down, all while volume spiked—which means someone with real capital is making a decision, and the rest of the market is about to find out what it was.
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The playbook just changed: instead of hoarding security intel like trade secrets, Ripple's handing it out like vaccine data during an outbreak.
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The people building the world's most advanced AI just decided they need collective bargaining rights to control what it does. Google DeepMind workers in the UK voted to unionize, requesting joint representation by the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union
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Congress is about to do something it almost never does for crypto: give it a legal definition that doesn't involve the word "security." Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott says the CLARITY Act is "in the red zone" and expects it to reach the President's desk this summer, with markup scheduled for May
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A bank-backed venture arm just became the first external shareholder of a crypto market maker that already owned a piece of one of its portfolio companies.
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The smart money isn't betting on AI models anymore — it's betting on the concrete and copper that keeps them running.
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The IPO machinery just got ported to the blockchain, and it happened through regulatory approval, not a hack around it.
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While the rest of enterprise software panics about AI eating their margins, ServiceNow just put a number on how much they plan to make from it. ServiceNow targets $30 billion in subscription revenue by 2030, doubling from $15.7 billion expected in 2026, with upside potential to $32 billion.
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The man who co-founded OpenAI to save humanity from rogue AI is now threatening to turn its leaders into public villains, and the timing couldn't be worse for their IPO runway.
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The chip company OpenAI can't stop talking about just priced its IPO at a valuation that dwarfs most of the AI infrastructure stack — and barely anyone outside the Valley knows what they make. Cerebras, an AI chip maker with deep OpenAI ties, is targeting a $26.6B+ valuation in its upcoming IPO
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The meme stock that refused to die just made a bid that's either brilliant or delusional—and Wall Street can't tell which. GameStop offers $56 billion to acquire eBay, a company four times its market cap, in what would be the most audacious retail acquisition in tech history
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