Pope's AI Warning Written by AI, Vatican Sources Confirm
The Vatican just published a major statement on artificial intelligence that might have been written by artificial intelligence.
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Solana Projects Can Now Hide $97B in Token Dumps From Investors
Every token unlock is a loaded gun pointed at the market, and now projects can hide when they pull the trigger. Umbra partners with Streamflow to launch confidential token vesting on Solana, targeting the $97B token unlock market
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Private Credit Just Captured $51B in Tokenized Assets Without Wall Street
Private credit is eating the RWA stack, and the old guard isn't invited to the table. The tokenized real-world asset market has reached $51 billion, with private credit leading the charge, according to Bernstein Research data.
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SharpLink Becomes First Ethereum Treasury Firm to Enter Russell Indexes
The same indexes that made MicroStrategy's Bitcoin bet institutional are about to do it for Ethereum, just as the stock is down 95% from peak.
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Vivek's Anti-Woke Fund Now Holds More Bitcoin Than Coinbase
Vivek Ramaswamy's anti-woke investing thesis now includes 900 bitcoin, putting Strive ahead of crypto-native companies that should know better. Strive acquired 900 BTC for $85.4 million, bringing total holdings to 2,100 BTC worth roughly $200 million
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Kaiko Builds the Picks-and-Shovels for Prediction Markets Eating Wall Street
Prediction markets are eating every information vertical they touch, but the infrastructure supplying them isn't built for what comes next. Kaiko CEO Ambre Soubiran discusses prediction markets' rapid expansion and the data infrastructure requirements driving the sector
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Base Just Gave AI Agents Permission to Trade Your Crypto
The gap between "AI agents can read your wallet" and "AI agents can trade your wallet" just closed on the second-largest Ethereum Layer 2.
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Bitget Goes After Wall Street With Dividend-Paying Stock Tokens
The race to tokenize Wall Street just got a new heavyweight: a top-ten crypto exchange is going live with 1:1 stock-backed tokens and dividend payments baked in. Bitget launched Reality, a real-world asset platform offering tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs backed 1:1 by actual shares held in custody
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SEC Blocks Prediction Market ETFs Days After Kalshi's $450M Bet Payout
The SEC just discovered what crypto degens learned years ago: putting prediction markets in a regulatory wrapper is harder than it looks. SEC Chair Atkins is delaying approval of ETFs that would let investors bet on elections and economic data, pausing a wave of novel fund applications
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Bitcoin Crashes While Tech Soars in $80B Divergence Nobody Saw Coming
While tech stocks rip on Middle East peace hopes, Bitcoin sits out the party—a divergence that reveals crypto's identity crisis between safe haven and risk asset.
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Vatican Hires Pentagon Whistleblower to Build Case Against AI Training Data
The Vatican just published 245 paragraphs arguing that your training data isn't yours to sell, and brought a man currently suing the Pentagon to help make the case.
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SEC Kills Tokenized Stock Trading Just as Wall Street Was Ready to Flip
The SEC just blinked on the biggest structural shift in capital markets since dematerialization—and Wall Street's legacy plumbing just bought itself a few more years.
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OpenAI's New "Deployment Company" Admits AI Still Needs Human Hand-Holding
The world's smartest AI companies are quietly admitting something their pitch decks don't: intelligence isn't plug-and-play yet. OpenAI launched a "Deployment Company" to embed engineers inside customer organizations. Anthropic and Google are hiring similar roles. This is not a coincidence.
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Strategy Pauses While Smaller Firms Snap Up Bitcoin Under $80K
The corporate Bitcoin treasury playbook just forked: giants pause while minnows feast below $80K. Smaller Bitcoin treasury companies bought 603 BTC worth ~$46 million last week while prices dipped below $80,000
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Bitget Launches Stock Trading Without Brokers Using Blockchain Tokens
The exchange that moves $50B a day just decided your brokerage account is obsolete. Bitget launched Reality, a platform bringing tokenized stocks directly into DeFi markets, aiming to merge traditional finance liquidity with crypto infrastructure
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Bitcoin ETFs Hemorrhage $1.4B as Treasuries Expose the Fantasy
The financial plumbing that was supposed to make bitcoin boring just made it a lot more honest about what it actually is. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs bled $1.26 billion in their worst week since late January, with two-week outflows hitting $2.26 billion as institutions de-risk
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Quantinuum Files for $1.05B IPO as AI Giants Hit Compute Limits
Quantum computing just got its first billion-dollar public market test — and the timing says more about AI's limits than quantum's readiness. Quantinuum is raising $1.05 billion in its US IPO, backed by Honeywell International, betting on investor appetite for quantum computing technology
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XRP Ledger Deletes 500,000 Zombie NFTs in Stealth Upgrade
While everyone's watching price action, XRP Ledger just did the unglamorous work that separates real infrastructure from vaporware. XRP Ledger deployed the fixCleanup3_1_3 upgrade on Wednesday to purge expired NFTs and patch critical bugs
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XRP Whales Go Silent as Price Crashes Through $1.35
When the whales stop moving, retail holders should pay attention. XRP broke below $1.35 support after another failed breakout attempt, putting $1.30 in focus as the next key level Whale transaction volume dropped 57% in recent days, signaling either accumulation silence or pre-dump positioning
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JPMorgan Now Predicts $130B Crypto Inflows After Years of Skepticism
Wall Street's most crypto-skeptical bank just put a $130 billion price tag on institutional conviction. JPMorgan projects over $130B in Bitcoin and crypto inflows this year, driven by institutional interest and regulatory clarity
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