Elon Musk just hired someone who helped build Base and Aave to design X Money, and that tells you exactly what kind of payments product is coming. X hired Benji Taylor, former Chief Product Officer at Aave Labs and design lead at Coinbase's Base, to lead design for X Money
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BitGo and ZKsync are building the rails for banks to issue tokenized deposits, which means your checking account is about to get programmable. BitGo is partnering with ZKsync to build tokenized deposit infrastructure currently in testing, designed to bring traditional banks onchain
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Visa just did something it's never done before: its legal team said yes to running blockchain infrastructure. Visa is now a Super Validator on Canton Network, the first blockchain governance proposal approved by its legal and compliance divisions
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Blackstone is buying the infrastructure that powers the AI economy, and you should be paying attention to who controls the real estate your agents will live on.
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Ethereum's dominance isn't guaranteed anymore, and the threats aren't hypothetical. Ethereum faces simultaneous pressure from scaling bottlenecks, quantum computing advances, and AI-driven chain optimization, marking what developers are calling a "make-or-break moment" for the network
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SpaceX is reportedly filing IPO paperwork this week, and the timing tells you everything about how fast the agent economy infrastructure is moving from R&D to revenue. SpaceX aims to file its IPO prospectus before end of March, marking one of the largest tech offerings in history
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Sony and SBI just bet $63 million that Japan will lead the institutional RWA buildout, and they're using a Layer 1 most people have never heard of.
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Japan's biggest financial institutions just wrote a $63 million check to tokenize their own industry. Startale Group closed a $63 million Series A, combining $50 million from SBI Group with $13 million from Sony Innovation Fund
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Kleiner Perkins just raised $3.5 billion for AI, and the sector breakdown tells you exactly where smart money thinks agents will matter most. Kleiner Perkins closed a $3.5 billion fund targeting AI startups across autonomy, transportation, professional services, and space
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Japan's biggest financial institution just dropped $50M on blockchain infrastructure—not for speculation, but for real securities moving on-chain. Startale closed a $63M Series A with $50M from SBI Holdings, one of Japan's largest financial services conglomerates
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A stablecoin startup just raised $6 million to build something the rest of crypto seems allergic to: financial privacy that doesn't require a PhD in cryptography. Payy raised $6 million in seed funding led by FirstMark Capital, with Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto joining the round
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Europe's first crypto company to get a full banking license just launched a tokenization platform built specifically for traditional banks. Bitpanda launched Vision Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 designed for European banks and fintechs to issue tokenized assets under MiCA and MiFID II regulations
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Kelp just turned payment float into a tradable DeFi asset, and the implications for stablecoin velocity are bigger than most people realize. Kelp launched KUSD, a stablecoin backed by trade receivables and cross-border payment flows, not treasuries or overcollateralized crypto
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Cipher Digital just locked a 15-year hyperscale data center lease and $200 million in financing, and the stock jumped 9% because the market finally gets it: AI infrastructure is the new gold rush.
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A British bank just turned customer deposits into blockchain tokens, and regulators said yes. Monument Bank is tokenizing £250 million in retail deposits, making them programmable while keeping FSCS protection and interest payments intact.
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Institutional crypto infrastructure just got a lot more serious. STS Digital launched a structured products platform covering 400 tokens, with Kraken handling distribution to banks, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals
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Singapore just opened a sandbox for programmable money in trade finance, and Ripple walked in with a live stablecoin ready to settle cross-border payments. Ripple joined Singapore's Monetary Authority BLOOM initiative to test RLUSD and XRP Ledger for automated trade settlement
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Europe's crypto infrastructure is being rebuilt by the firms that survived the last cycle, and Bitpanda just made the most EU move possible: building blockchain rails that banks might actually use.
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Australia's central bank just said the quiet part out loud: stablecoins and bank tokens aren't competitors, they're infrastructure layers for a $17 billion tokenization push.
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Meta bought Manus for $2 billion last year. Now China won't let the founders leave. Chinese authorities have barred two Manus co-founders from leaving the country, escalating scrutiny over Meta's $2 billion acquisition of the agentic AI startup
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