Crypto wallet meets brokerage meets blockchain, and suddenly 200 stocks don't need Wall Street's plumbing anymore. Exodus partnered with Ondo to launch tokenized trading of over 200 stocks and ETFs directly on Solana through a new platform called Exodus Markets
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Stablecoins just figured out what to do with the other $249 billion sitting in their reserves. Ethena Labs is putting $250 million into Securitize's tokenized AAA CLO fund, marking one of the largest DeFi-to-TradFi crossovers to date.
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Japan just watched a bitcoin treasury company buy itself a securities license, and now traditional finance's moat around yield products just got a lot narrower.
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The UK is trying to fix its AI funding problem by forcing pension funds to stop acting like pension funds. UK Technology Secretary Liz Kendall announced plans to push institutional capital into British AI and tech startups through legal reforms to pension fund regulations
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When Goldman's president points to a rocket company's IPO as proof of AI infrastructure demand, you're watching capital markets reshape themselves in real time.
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The biggest banking shift isn't about crypto going mainstream, it's about private markets becoming liquid. Citi has launched a blockchain marketplace offering tokenized depositary receipts of private company shares, marking Wall Street's most direct bet yet on tokenized equity markets.
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When a $25 billion pension fund calls your valuation shaky, it's not about Elon's tweets—it's about whether private market investors are pricing in governance risk at all.
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The move-fast-and-break-things ethos just collided with the guy who wanted to make sure the things didn't break humanity. Devin Kim, a former xAI engineer who now runs an AI safety thinktank, filed a lawsuit claiming he was illegally fired for trying to implement safety guardrails on Grok
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Geopolitical volatility just became the most reliable trading signal in crypto, whether you like it or not. Bitcoin climbed above $63,000 Thursday after Trump canceled planned U.S. military strikes against Iran and signaled a multi-nation peace deal was imminent
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The infrastructure for AI agents to hold money and spend it just went from theory to live production in 48 hours. Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents, connecting AI agents directly to user accounts to trade crypto and execute financial workflows within user-defined limits
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Japan's retail investors just reminded Silicon Valley that the future of space infrastructure won't be funded by Sand Hill Road alone. SpaceX raised $2.2 billion from Japanese investors as part of what's being called the world's largest-ever IPO
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The first crypto treasury company to go public just showed Wall Street exactly how much it doesn't understand tokenomics. Avalanche Treasury Co. (AVAT) fell as much as 38% on its Nasdaq debut following a $675 million merger, with shares closing down 16%
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The wallet knows when to buy the dip now, and it doesn't need to ask you first. Coinbase launched "Coinbase for Agents", letting AI agents autonomously manage crypto holdings and execute trades without manual oversight
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Private markets just gave us a preview of what happens when the world's most capital-efficient space company meets public market FOMO. Shadow markets are pricing SpaceX shares 35%+ above their last private valuation, signaling massive demand ahead of a potential public debut
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The rule that kept tokenized stocks out of DeFi wasn't about crypto at all—it was a 20-year-old equity market speed bump the SEC just decided to remove. The SEC proposed scrapping Rules 611 and 610(e) of Regulation NMS, the trade-through rule that's governed US equity markets since 2005
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Risk-on assets just got a geopolitical tailwind, but the institutional money tap is still shut. Trump cancelled planned military strikes on Iran and announced a memorandum of understanding could be signed this weekend in Europe, sending Bitcoin up 3% from $61,100 to above $63,400 on June 11.
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While crypto VCs chase consumer apps that nobody uses, a16z just wrote a $355 million check for the plumbing. Digital Asset closed $355M at a $2B valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, to build blockchain rails for banks and asset managers
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Private equity just called AI's bluff with the biggest check it's ever written to a tech-focused fund. Francisco Partners raised $18 billion across two PE funds, its largest fundraise ever, during what's supposed to be a tough period for buyouts
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The bank is eating its own dog food, and the dog food company is eating the bank's dog food. Citi tokenized stock in Kaleido, a tokenization infrastructure firm that builds the rails banks use for this exact kind of deal
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The plumbing of finance just got an upgrade that Wall Street didn't see coming. Archax, a UK-regulated digital asset platform, launched real-time streaming yield payments for tokenized securities on Hedera, with continuous payouts distributed in USDC instead of traditional quarterly dividends
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