The Bitcoin treasury playbook that made MicroStrategy a Wall Street darling just claimed its first high-profile casualty. Riot Platforms, a Nasdaq-listed company that once secured $1 billion in financing to buy 10,000 Bitcoin, now holds zero BTC as it pivots entirely to AI infrastructure
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When politicians sell get-rich-quick schemes, someone usually gets poor — and it's rarely the politician. Stack BTC, a bitcoin treasury company promoted by UK politician Nigel Farage, lost over 15% of its asset value, triggering warnings from finance experts about these investment vehicles
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While traders watch Bitcoin's price crater, the real story is written in blockchain data showing who's still standing and who just tapped out. Bitcoin ETFs hemorrhaged $8.95 billion over two months, with June 2024 marking Bitcoin's worst month since June 2022 with a 20.48% drop
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Solana just became the blockchain equivalent of a too-big-to-ignore trade — institutions are pouring real assets and stablecoins onto the network faster than anyone expected.
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Solana just proved you can build a multi-billion dollar real-world asset empire on a blockchain people still call unreliable. Solana's RWA ecosystem hit $3.4 billion in total value, a new all-time high that positions it as a serious competitor in tokenized asset infrastructure
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Self-custody is supposed to be the freedom dream of Web3, but in France it's becoming a ransom note.
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The brokerage that made stocks feel like a game just made DeFi feel like a real product. Robinhood is partnering with dYdX Labs to launch Arcus, a new decentralized exchange that will run on Robinhood's blockchain
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The global race for AI compute is colliding with one of Africa's most resource-rich, governance-poor economies, and the result is a capital markets experiment that could either unlock billions or become a masterclass in how not to tokenize real assets.
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The most visible face of the AI boom just left the building to build his own bank. Dan Ives is leaving Wedbush Securities after eight years to launch a merchant bank focused on tech, energy, infrastructure, and financials serving corporations and high-net-worth clients.
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Wall Street's automation problem just got a $22 million bid from someone who lived it. LinqAlpha Inc., an AI investment research startup founded by a former Goldman Sachs analyst, is closing a $22 million Series A
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Scientists lose more hours to grant paperwork and lab admin than to actual discovery—Bio Protocol just automated the bureaucracy. Bio Protocol is deploying AI agents to handle operations in decentralized science (DeSci), targeting the administrative overhead that bogs down biotech research
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The sitting president now holds more crypto than most venture funds, and almost none of it came from believing in the technology. Trump's crypto portfolio is worth $1.4 billion, primarily from his memecoin and World Liberty Financial, his family's crypto company
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A crypto OG just put a billion-dollar price tag on the idea that your AI conversations should stay yours. Venice AI hit a $1 billion valuation with founder Erik Voorhees pitching privacy-first AI as the alternative to surveillance-model platforms like ChatGPT.
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The real story isn't that Robinhood set a record for automated trading volume — it's that they launched a blockchain specifically to capture it. Robinhood launched its Arbitrum-based Layer-2 mainnet and claimed a Guinness World Record for AI agent purchases, with HOOD stock jumping 8%
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A major bank just bet that a DeFi protocol will outperform bitcoin and ether over the next six years, and Robinhood immediately validated the thesis by building on top of it.
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The SEC just admitted its rulebook might not work for the future, and it's asking you to help write the new one.
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The bridge between Wall Street and Web3 just showed its first major crack, and the damage is measured in hundreds of thousands. An attacker manipulated the price of a tokenized Google share to 78 times its actual value, then borrowed against the inflated collateral in a DeFi lending protocol
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Ethereum just hired a translator for the language Wall Street actually speaks. Ethereum Institutional launched as an independent nonprofit backed by BitMine, SharpLink, and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin to serve as a dedicated liaison between Ethereum and traditional financial institutions.
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The 9-to-5 stock market just got a night shift, and your crypto exchange is the new trading floor. Pionex now offers 280+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, and commodities for 24/7 trading, collapsing the wall between traditional finance and crypto venues
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The robots are eating the ladder we used to climb — and nobody's building a new one. Agentic AI is automating the junior-level security and IT work that traditionally trained experts, eliminating the apprenticeship loop that built institutional knowledge
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