Mirae Asset Tells Staff It's Building a $109B Crypto Empire
South Korea's largest asset manager just told employees it's building a nine-figure digital empire on the bones of a crypto exchange most people forgot existed.
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JPMorgan's Bond Chief Warns AI Companies Are Burning Cash Faster Than Revenue
The bond market is learning what venture capitalists already know: AI infrastructure costs real money, and someone has to believe in the payoff before it arrives.
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Coinbase Lets Americans Buy Homes Without Selling Their Bitcoin
The home you buy today might be the first time Bitcoin gets a FICO score. Coinbase and Better have launched Bitcoin-backed mortgages for US homebuyers, letting them pledge crypto as collateral for down payments without selling
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Wall Street Drops $74M on the Plumbing for Tokenized Everything
Wall Street is finally spending real money on the pipes that will carry tokenized stocks, bonds, and real estate—not pilot programs, but actual clearing infrastructure. RQD* Clearing raised $74 million led by Bain Capital to expand digital asset clearing and custody infrastructure
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Hyperliquid Raises $647M Without Selling a Single Share to VCs
A decentralized exchange just raised more money than most crypto protocols see in their entire lifecycle — without selling equity or taking VC meetings.
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MicroStrategy Lost $5.5B While Bitcoin Hit Records—Here's What Went Wrong
The $80B wipeout in Bitcoin treasury stocks just wrote the playbook for what NOT to do next time BTC runs. Top 50 Bitcoin treasury companies shed $80B in market cap as the naked long strategy implodes, with Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) accounting for $79B of the loss alone
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Bitcoin ETFs Just Absorbed $3 Billion in Eight Days Straight
The TradFi pipes finally opened, and $2.8 billion rushed into bitcoin in eight days flat. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs logged eight consecutive days of net inflows, pulling in $2.8 billion since the streak began — the longest run since April
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Bitcoin ETFs Erase Seven Months of Outflows in One Week
Institutional money just erased seven months of Bitcoin ETF skepticism in seven days. Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2.8 billion over eight consecutive trading days, the strongest sustained inflow since October 2025
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Bitfinex Bets $50M That Wall Street Will Trade Nickel as Tokens
The commodity markets just got their first real test of whether institutions will actually buy tokens backed by metal sitting in warehouses, not just talk about it.
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Nvidia Beat Earnings and $280 Billion in AI Bets Just Exhaled
The entire AI infrastructure bet just survived its first real earnings stress test—and $280 billion in market cap hung in the balance. Nvidia shares surged 8% after beating earnings expectations, lifting not just tech stocks but bitcoin and AI infrastructure companies across the board
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StarkWare Just Quantum-Proofed Bitcoin With a $200 Transaction Fee
Bitcoin just proved it can survive quantum computers, but the $200 transaction fee and miner dependency reveal the real problem hasn't been solved yet.
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Sam Altman Admits Nobody Wants What AI Actually Needs
The man building AI's future just admitted nobody wants the infrastructure required to power it. Sam Altman told Time Magazine that "people hate data centers—right now, at least" and acknowledged widespread negativity toward AI
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Nvidia's Biggest AI Customers Are No Longer Google or Microsoft
Nvidia just told us who's really building the agent economy—and it's not the usual suspects. Nvidia's non-hyperscale cloud customers now account for roughly half of data center revenue, marking a major shift from the company's traditional hyperscaler dependency (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
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Bitcoin adds $15,000 in a week while ETFs quietly double down
The rally paused, but the institutions didn't leave. Bitcoin climbed 23% in seven days before pulling back to $79,000, while spot ETF inflows slowed to $232 million on the eighth consecutive day of institutional buying
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$208M SOL Holder Builds Dashboard to Watch Its Own Bet in Real Time
A public company with $208 million in SOL just built the dashboard its shareholders desperately need — and handed Solana a credibility tool in the process.
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Galaxy Lets You Spend Crypto Without Selling It
The tax code just became crypto's best friend — now you can spend your stack without triggering a taxable event. Galaxy's GalaxyOne platform now lets retail clients borrow cash against Bitcoin, Ethereum, and staked Solana at 8.99% APR without selling holdings
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Bitcoin Stalls at $80K as Wall Street Questions Whether It Still Believes
The $80,000 level isn't just psychological resistance—it's a referendum on whether institutions actually believe in digital assets when interest rates stay stubborn and Washington stays unpredictable.
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Bitcoin's $100B Leverage Wipeout Just Cleared the Path for New Highs
When the leveraged bets collapse this hard, the survivors inherit the rally. Bitcoin futures open interest cratered from near-total dominance to just 12%, triggering what analysts are calling a historic short squeeze
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Institution Stacks Bitcoin for Yield Without Giving Up Custody
Bitcoin is about to become a yield-generating asset without leaving self-custody, and institutions are already lining up. Stacks is rolling out Bitcoin staking for institutions through its PoX-5 hardfork, enabling BTC holders to earn yield while maintaining self-custody
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Bitcoin and Gold Both See $7B Inflows as Investors Brace for Fiscal Crisis
The same investors who used to argue about gold versus Bitcoin are now buying both, which tells you everything about what they expect from governments next.
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