The $90M bet isn't just that tokenized funds work—it's that BlackRock's dominance in cash management is about to get unbundled. Spiko raised $90M Series B to scale its $2.7B tokenized cash fund business and push into new markets
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The most interesting thing about this crypto winter isn't how far Bitcoin fell—it's how much less it fell than every time before.
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The money is rotating, not leaving — and that tells you more about institutional conviction than any single fund's daily number. Bitcoin spot ETFs logged $241M in net inflows for their third consecutive week, while Ethereum ETFs swung to $138M in outflows during the same period
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While the rest of East Asia's crypto economy contracted, South Korean retail traders turned AI tokens into a $7.41 billion bet that Web3 and Web4 are the same story.
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Ethereum's staking queues are behaving like rush hour traffic in both directions — and that tells you more about institutional positioning than any press release ever could.
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Bitcoin's second rally in a week hits the same ceiling, and this time macro headwinds have names: France's fiscal crisis and Spain's political chaos. Bitcoin surged toward $87,000, coming within $500 of its late-September peak before reversing below $86,000
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J.P. Morgan just helped Solana build the plumbing that makes Wall Street's T+1 settlement look like dial-up internet.
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A payment infrastructure company just asked the federal government for permission to hold your stablecoins, and if approved, it changes who controls the on-ramp between dollars and crypto.
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The company's NAV doubled while its buying slowed to a crawl—a sign treasury strategy is shifting from accumulation to leverage. DeFi Development Corp now holds 2.56 million SOL, but added just 1% this week—half the prior week's pace and well below September's momentum
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The government just admitted it can't track your crypto without destroying the reason people use it in the first place.
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The company that convinced the world AI was worth trillions now has to convince sovereign wealth funds it's worth $300 billion. OpenAI is negotiating a $30 billion funding round with UAE investment funds including Abu Dhabi's MGX and BlackRock as potential anchor investors
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The AI chip stack just validated itself with real money—the kind that trades on exchanges, not pitch decks. Nvidia hit a new all-time high at $237.83 on October 2, pushing its market cap toward $5.7 trillion, while TSMC's stock also reached record levels as Taiwan's semiconductor market surged
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The U.S. just drew the clearest line yet between crypto casinos and crypto exchanges that might actually survive regulatory scrutiny.
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Tokenized Treasuries were the safe play — now someone's moving onchain fixed income into the deeper water of actively managed credit risk. Plume launched the nBND vault, a tokenized product backed by shares of Fidelity's actively managed Total Bond ETF (FBND), not short-dated Treasuries
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The stock market never closes anymore—at least not if you're trading on Solana. Tokenized stocks hit $12.4 billion in DEX volume on Solana this year, capturing 35% of the tokenized equity market
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The company formerly known as MicroStrategy just crossed 848,000 BTC while simultaneously buying back $176 million of its own stock—a dual bet that says Bitcoin is the future and STRC is undervalued right now.
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The New York Stock Exchange's owner just filed to make traditional equity markets look like a hobby that only runs during business hours. OKX and ICE (owner of NYSE) filed a notice under the SEC's new Innovation Exemption to launch 24/7 tokenized trading of 60+ major stocks
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The chief investor at Asia's biggest bank is buying Nvidia, not selling it — and the math behind his conviction is sharper than the bubble warnings coming from the sidelines.
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The AI tools you use to research crypto can now query the same data vaults the institutions use—no login, no subscription wall, just ask. Blockworks deployed a new server that lets ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI assistants query its combined Blockworks and Messari datasets directly
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Privacy coins just went from fringe radical to boardroom conversation. Zcash Community Grants is hiring its first Washington lobbyist, marking a strategic shift from cypherpunk ideals to policy engagement
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