IPO Watch - The Wire by FourthWeb - AI, RWA, & Web3 / Web4 Intelligence (Page 91)

Real World Assets Apr 26, 2026

Kraken Bets Its Future on Making Crypto Irrelevant

The exchange that survived everything crypto could throw at it is now betting it can make crypto irrelevant to its own business model.

Real World Assets Apr 26, 2026

Solana Now Hosts Tokenized SpaceX Stock Alongside Meme Coins

The line between owning a meme coin and owning a piece of SpaceX just got thinner, and it's all happening on the same blockchain. Tokenized SpaceX shares launched on Solana, letting retail investors buy fractions of private equity that was previously locked behind accredited investor gates

AI Agent Economy Apr 26, 2026

Anthropic's AI Agents Just Bought and Sold From Each Other With Zero Humans

The first marketplace where no human touched a "buy" button just processed real transactions. Anthropic built an experimental classified marketplace where AI agents negotiated purchases on behalf of human buyers and sellers, completing transactions with actual money changing hands

AI Agent Economy Apr 25, 2026

Karpathy-Style LLM Wiki That Agents Write and Git Tracks Themselves

The Wikipedia your agents write, hosted on your laptop, versioned in git—this is what institutional memory looks like when you build it for machines first.

AI Agent Economy Apr 25, 2026

X Kills Communities, Charges Users for AI Feed Access

X is killing Communities to make room for AI-curated feeds, and charging you rent to use them. X rolled out custom timelines powered by Grok AI, replacing the Communities feature while adding new ad inventory to the platform

Real World Assets Apr 25, 2026

Bitcoin Has a 0.13% Chance of Hitting $40K, Analysts Calculate

The same analysts calling for Bitcoin to hit $1 million by 2030 just put a statistical probability on the $40K dip everyone's been whispering about—and the math says it's basically a market unicorn.

Real World Assets Apr 25, 2026

Federal Agency Declares War on New York to Legalize Debate Betting

The federal government is in a cage match with states over who gets to decide if betting on presidential debates counts as gambling or just really specific financial contracts.

Real World Assets Apr 25, 2026

Bitcoin Hits Best Month in a Year on $5B Stablecoin Surge

While headlines scream about geopolitical chaos, the crypto market just shrugged and followed the money pouring into stablecoins instead. Bitcoin is tracking toward its strongest monthly performance in a year, driven by $5 billion in new USDT liquidity entering the market

AI Agent Economy Apr 25, 2026

Sequoia Just Gave Mac Minis to AI Agents, Not Founders

Silicon Valley just invented a flex for the agent economy: hardware you can't buy, engraved by people you can't reach, running software that's rewriting what work means.

AI Agent Economy Apr 25, 2026

Google's AI Closet Organizer Reveals Where Consumer Tech Is Really Going

Google wants Gemini to help you clean your closet, which tells you everything about where consumer AI is actually heading. Google published a list of 8 ways to use Gemini for spring cleaning — from organizing physical spaces to decluttering inboxes

Real World Assets Apr 25, 2026

Grayscale Bets $237M on Ethereum Staking While Retail Exits

Institutions are finally staking Ethereum at scale, just as retail holders are walking away from staking rewards altogether. Grayscale staked 102,400 ETH worth $237 million through its Ethereum Staking ETF, marking a significant institutional commitment to network validation

AI Agent Economy Apr 25, 2026

Victory Giant Raises $2.6B While You Chased Nvidia

The picks-and-shovels play on the AI boom just raised $2.6 billion in Hong Kong, and nobody outside the supply chain is paying attention yet.

AI Agent Economy Apr 25, 2026

Claude Code Templates Hit 2.3K Stars in 48 Hours

The template economy for AI coding assistants just got its first serious infrastructure play. Claude Code Templates launches as a CLI tool and web dashboard for installing pre-built AI agent configurations, custom commands, and integrations for Anthropic's Claude Code.

AI Agent Economy Apr 25, 2026

Google Just Turned Every Enterprise Into an AI Agent Assembly Line

Google just turned its entire cloud platform into a factory floor for AI agents, and the enterprise customers writing the checks don't care about models anymore.

AI Agent Economy Apr 25, 2026

MrBeast Hiring for AI-Native Shows, Not Human Ones

YouTube's biggest creator just posted a job that could redefine what "production company" means in the agent economy. Beast Industries is hiring for a new production capability where AI is "not a tool but the foundation" — aiming to conceive, produce, and scale content with AI at the core

AI Agent Economy Apr 25, 2026

Stanford Professor Builds AI to Replace Lab Mice, Eyes $1B Valuation

A Stanford AI researcher is about to raise a billion-dollar round for AI that models human physiology — not to diagnose you, but to replace the mice. Stanford professor James Zou is raising funds at a ~$1 billion valuation to build AI models for human physiology research

AI Agent Economy Apr 25, 2026

Gay AI Influencers Rake in Real Cash While Actual Gay Creators Struggle

The creators are real, the abs are fake, and the engagement numbers say nobody cares about the difference. A group of AI-generated gay Instagram influencers went to a real red carpet event, making the synthetic-human divide newly visible and awkward

Real World Assets Apr 25, 2026

Morgan Stanley Just Copied BlackRock's $2 Trillion Stablecoin Playbook

BlackRock built the rails for stablecoin reserves, and now Morgan Stanley just showed up with a competing train. Morgan Stanley launched a money market fund specifically designed for stablecoin issuers to manage their dollar-backed reserves.

Real World Assets Apr 24, 2026

USD.AI Hits $300M Before Most Traders Even Heard Of It

A token proved its own prediction market right, then nearly tripled in value before most people noticed what was happening. CHIP token's market cap exploded from $300M to $830M in 48 hours, confirming its own prediction market resolution about USD.AI's fully diluted valuation

AI Agent Economy Apr 24, 2026

Amazon's Nuclear Bet Surges 31% as Big Tech Goes All In on AI Power

Big Tech just proved it'll pay a premium to power its AI dreams — and Wall Street is betting nuclear is the only grid that scales. X-Energy raised $1.02 billion in an upsized IPO and shares jumped 31% on opening, signaling renewed appetite for public markets and energy infrastructure bets.