Someone just built a production AI agent that runs on a server cheaper than a Netflix subscription and uses IRC, a chat protocol from 1988. Developer George Larson deployed two AI agents on a $7/month VPS using IRC as the transport layer, with the public-facing binary weighing just 678 KB
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The New York Stock Exchange's parent company just bet $2 billion that the future of markets isn't stocks, it's events. Intercontinental Exchange deployed another $600 million into Polymarket, bringing their total commitment to nearly $2 billion in the onchain prediction market
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The New York Stock Exchange's parent company just put $600 million into a crypto prediction market that the feds are actively investigating.
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Armenia just became the newest front in the global AI infrastructure land grab, and it's not who you'd expect writing the check. Armenian banks formed their first-ever $300M syndicated loan to finance Firebird AI's data center construction
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SoftBank just borrowed more money than most countries see in a year to buy a piece of OpenAI. SoftBank secured a $40 billion bridge loan to finance its OpenAI stake, the largest such loan on record
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The U.S. Navy just bet $2.4 billion that AI can solve a 70-million-man-hour labor deficit in submarine production.
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Tether just hired the auditors it's spent years avoiding. Tether has hired KPMG for its first full independent audit of USDT reserves, ending years of opaque attestations that never qualified as real audits
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Cathie Wood is making portfolio calls with betting market data. ARK Invest is using Kalshi's prediction markets to inform investment decisions Specific markets include non-farm payroll and deficit-to-GDP ratio, economic indicators that move markets
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Bitcoin dropped below $68,500 as Trump kicked the Iran can down the road, but the smart money is doing the opposite of panic selling. Bitcoin fell under $68,500 as Trump extended the Iran deadline with war risks still unresolved in week five
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Someone who bought ETH for 31 cents in 2014 just dumped $23 million worth, and the timing tells you everything about smart money sentiment. An Ethereum ICO wallet from 2014 sold $23 million in ETH, according to onchain analyst Lookonchain
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David Sacks just finished his 130-day sprint as Trump's crypto and AI czar, and instead of going home, he's now running a tech advisory council with Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg.
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Joshua Kushner's Thrive Holdings is raising at least $2 billion, and the timing says more about where institutional money is flowing than any pitch deck ever could. Thrive Holdings, the offshoot of Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital, is in talks to raise at least $2 billion
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A federal regulator just said the quiet part out loud: blockchain might be the only way to prove reality in an AI-generated world. CFTC Chairman Mike Selig proposed using blockchain timestamps and onchain identifiers to verify whether content is AI-generated or human-created
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GameStop didn't sell its Bitcoin stash. It weaponized it. GameStop pledged 4,710 BTC ($325M) as collateral on Coinbase for a covered-call strategy, not a panic sale This is a legacy company using crypto-native financial engineering to generate yield without liquidating its treasury position
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GameStop just turned its bitcoin treasury into a covered call machine, and it's a bigger deal for corporate crypto strategy than the headline suggests.
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Coinbase's political arm just drew the midterm battlefield map, and it's not about left versus right. Stand With Crypto endorses six candidates across both parties for November 2026 midterms, including Republicans Zach Nunn (Iowa) and Mike Lawler (New York)
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BlackRock just added a verification layer to the world's largest tokenized fund, and it's not about making numbers prettier. BlackRock's $1.7 billion BUIDL fund integrated Chronicle as a verification layer, signaling infrastructure maturation for tokenized real-world assets
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The government just legitimized your Bitcoin as a down payment, and nobody seems to realize what door just opened. Coinbase and Better are launching crypto-backed mortgages with Fannie Mae backing, letting borrowers use Bitcoin or USDC as down payment collateral without selling
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Anthropic might IPO by Q4 2025 at a $60B+ valuation, and the timing tells you everything about where we are in the AI race. Anthropic executives are discussing a potential IPO as soon as Q4 2025, with bankers expecting a raise north of $60 billion
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OKX just told the entire crypto industry that valuation theater is over. OKX won't rush its IPO despite hitting a $25 billion valuation through its NYSE parent company deal. An exec warned that poorly timed public listings damage the entire crypto industry's credibility.
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