Robinhood CEO Demands Wall Street Lose Control Over Tokenized Stocks
The fight over who controls tokenized versions of public stocks just got a heavyweight: the CEO who made free trading mainstream.
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Zhipu AI Raises $9B in Three Weeks While Silicon Valley Watches
Chinese AI companies are raising money faster than American VCs can write the checks — and they're doing it in Hong Kong, not Silicon Valley. Zhipu AI closed a $4 billion follow-on share placement in Hong Kong, then announced plans for another $5 billion round just weeks later
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Senate Votes Tuesday on $2 Trillion Question: Is Crypto a Commodity or Security
The Senate votes Tuesday on whether crypto is a commodity or a security — the first real attempt to settle the question that's tied up billions in regulatory limbo for seven years.
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Smart Money Bets Against AI Doomsday While Everyone Else Panics
The people who've been racing to build god-level AI just hit the brakes — sort of. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for a frontier AI development slowdown, warning AI swarms could "take over the internet" within a year
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Bitcoin's $81,700 Test Separates Believers From Whales Cashing Out
The number everyone's watching isn't $100k — it's $81,700, and the whales selling into this rally suggest they're watching it too. CryptoQuant identifies $81,700 as the key resistance level bitcoin must clear to confirm a new bull market, with further resistance extending to $88,700
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Anthropic Files for Nasdaq IPO While Warning AI Could End Humanity
The company warning about AI extinction risk is simultaneously preparing to sell shares to the public—because apparently nothing says "prudent risk management" like spreading the liability around.
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$150M Crypto Longs Wiped Out in 24 Hours
Leverage just taught $150 million worth of crypto bulls a very expensive lesson in one day. $150M in long positions got liquidated across crypto markets in 24 hours, with $130M of that carnage happening in a single hour
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Andreessen Horowitz Tells Senate: Pass This Crypto Bill or Watch Capital Flee
The U.S. is about to do something it hasn't managed in crypto's entire 15-year run — write rules that actually make sense. The Senate will vote on the CLARITY Act September 15, 2026, with Coinbase CEO reporting the bill nearing the 60-vote threshold needed to pass
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Jupiter Opens 24/7 Leveraged Stock Trading to Anyone With $10
The complexity that kept retail out of leveraged equities just got Solana-fied, and now anyone with a wallet can trade them 24/7. Jupiter Exchange integrated leveraged tokenized equities from Shift RWA, bringing traditional financial instruments to Solana's DeFi ecosystem
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Crypto Trading Explodes to $510B as Binance Loses Ground
Binance still owns the casino, but the house advantage is slipping while everyone else fights over the scraps. Spot trading volume jumped 19% to $510.4 billion in August, the biggest monthly gain of 2026, reversing July's 32-month low
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AI Did My Boss's Job Better—And Nobody Noticed
The moment a reporter asks an AI to do her manager's job is the moment we stop pretending this is about efficiency and start confronting what leadership actually is.
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Bitcoin Suisse Cuts Half Its Swiss Staff, Moves Crypto Jobs to Vietnam
One of Switzerland's oldest crypto firms is shipping half its headcount to Vietnam and Slovakia, proving that even "Swiss precision" has a price ceiling.
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Wall Street's Crypto Pivot Is Already Bigger Than You Think
Wall Street wants in, Brussels wants guardrails, and nobody's asking if the rails can hold both trains. Coinbase sees traditional finance pivoting hard toward crypto integration, with institutional adoption as the accelerant for Ethereum's next phase
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Community Banks Get Bitcoin-Speed Payments While JPMorgan Still Waits Days
The smallest banks in America just got instant settlement rails that their biggest competitors can't match. Coinbase partnered with Moov to embed stablecoin payment infrastructure into over 1,000 community banks and credit unions using Coinbase's Payments API and custodial wallets
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Base DEX volume hits $100M as tokenized stocks trade 24/7 past market close
Traditional markets close at 4pm. These don't. Base hit $100M in daily DEX volume for tokenized stocks, with Coinbase's SpaceX token (SPCXc) alone doing $6.6M OKX launched pre-IPO markets for OpenAI and Anthropic with up to 10x leverage, alongside 100 tokenized stocks and ETFs for European traders
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Community Banks That Tokenize Will Devour Those That Don't
The smallest banks in America are being told to tokenize or die, which means the real fight isn't crypto versus legacy finance anymore.
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Bitcoin Replaces Bonds as AI Stocks Break the 60/40 Portfolio
The 60/40 portfolio is quietly dying, and Bitcoin is showing up to the funeral with a job application. Bitcoin Suisse argues that Bitcoin could replace bonds in traditional portfolios as stock-bond correlation weakens and AI investment concentrates risk in equity markets
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Crypto Billionaires Drop £72M on Farage's Reform UK Before UK Bans It
Crypto money just bought itself a seat at the table in British politics, and Parliament is scrambling to lock the door after the horse bolted.
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Ripple Bets $13T Corporate Cash Will Flow Through AI Agents
Corporate treasury just became the biggest unannounced battleground in crypto, and Ripple's betting $1 billion that AI agents will be the weapon that wins it.
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Instacart and OpenAI's Former Exec Joins AI Data Center Board Before IPO
The exec who took a grocery app public and then ran OpenAI's business operations is now helping a data center company prepare for Wall Street, which tells you everything about where the infrastructure money is flowing.
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