The economists who told you not to worry about AI and jobs might be using the wrong playbook. Economist Alex Imas argues AI may disrupt labor markets in ways fundamentally different from past technologies like the steam engine
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XRP is outperforming Bitcoin and Ethereum by 8% this week, but the low volume tells you everything you need to know about who's actually buying. XRP posted 8% weekly gains over Bitcoin and Ethereum, leading major tokens in the latest price movement
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The smart money isn't betting on AI broadly anymore, it's betting on the handful of companies that will actually win. AI-focused ETFs continue to dominate flows even as investors become more selective about which AI plays matter
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Google just published the math on how long it takes a quantum computer to crack your Bitcoin wallet, and derivatives traders are already pricing in the panic.
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China's central bank just told the IMF that AI is reshaping the global economy faster than institutions can adapt. China's central bank governor Pan Gongsheng addressed the IMF, framing AI as a driver of "technological and industrial transformation" with dual-edged implications for global finance
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Tokenization won't rescue your illiquid real estate fund, and the people building this infrastructure finally said it out loud.
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Australia is staring at $17 billion in tokenized finance opportunity, and the only thing standing between vision and reality is whether regulators can write clear rules before the capital flows somewhere else.
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The White House just granted federal agencies access to Anthropic's most powerful AI model while the Pentagon is simultaneously suing the company as a national security threat.
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Morgan Stanley just added $17 million to its Bitcoin position through a new trust vehicle that's already pulled in $34 million total, and it's happening right as JP Morgan says the market structure bill is about to pass.
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Florida's second-largest school district is using AI to solve a $100 million budget hole caused by disappearing students. Broward County Public Schools faces a $100 million deficit driven by annual enrollment declines
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The fintech conference circuit just admitted crypto has grown up—Money20/20 Asia is dedicating an entire stage to watching TradFi and DeFi stop pretending they're not dating.
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Reed Hastings just walked away from Netflix after three decades, and the stock is sliding on a weak Q2 forecast—right as streaming turns into an AI battleground he helped avoid.
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Bitcoin just crossed $77K while traders yawn at the idea of it ever dipping below $62K again. Bitcoin surged past $77,000 during US-Iran tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, with the rally triggering $283M in futures liquidations as shorts got squeezed
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Bitcoin just hit $78K and immediately wiped out $820 million in leveraged bets, a violent reminder that in crypto, gravity works both ways. Nearly $1 billion in leveraged crypto positions liquidated as Bitcoin rallied above $78,000, catching over-extended traders on both sides
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France just flipped the script on stablecoins, and the euro's digital future hinges on whether banks can move faster than their regulators used to.
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Kraken just bought a CFTC license for half a billion dollars, and it tells you everything about where the real money in crypto is moving. Payward, Kraken's parent company, is acquiring Bitnomial for up to $550 million in cash and stock, securing a fully CFTC-licensed U.S. crypto derivatives platform
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When your money launderer gets a babysitter, someone should probably check if the babysitter showed up.
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Kraken just bought the regulatory moat it couldn't build fast enough. Payward, Kraken's parent company, is acquiring derivatives exchange Bitnomial for $550 million in cash and stock
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Traditional finance just picked its blockchain, and it's not Ethereum. Visa partnered with Cross River and Lead Bank to settle transactions in USDC on Solana, marking the first major payment network to choose Solana for institutional settlement infrastructure.
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Hong Kong's Flow Capital is tokenizing $150 million in private credit—real money, real borrowers, real blockchain rails. Flow Capital plans to tokenize a $150 million private credit fund, marking one of the largest moves yet to bring institutional lending infrastructure onchain
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