The era of raising on PowerPoint and pedigree just jumped to absurd new heights—or exposed how broken early-stage AI funding has become. Former DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised a $300M pre-seed valuation before shipping a product, betting on visual AI as the next frontier
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The boring brokerage your parents use just made it easier to buy Solana than to buy a municipal bond.
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The pipes just got programmable, and 200 million merchants didn't even know they were waiting.
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While the rest of crypto was nursing losses and watching volumes contract, prediction markets just recorded the biggest quarter in their history.
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Japan just made the strongest institutional bet yet that tokenized stocks will replace brokerage accounts. SBI Group partnered with Ondo Finance to tokenize Japanese equities, with settlement running through SBI's JPYSC yen stablecoin instead of traditional rails
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The gap between institutional capital and DeFi yield just got a Fireblocks-sized bridge. Galaxy launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform giving Fireblocks' 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain stablecoin yield strategies
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The companies building the rails for Web2 just showed up to build the payment layer for Web4. Visa, Stripe, and Google have joined the x402 Foundation, a new open-source standards body designed to let AI agents transact with each other without human intervention
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The world's largest stablecoin issuer is buying stakes in banks, not replacing them. Tether invested $20 million in Ualá's $197 million funding round, joining the Argentine neobank's March capital raise
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Someone knew, and they put $300K where their mouth is. Stripe and Advent International jointly bid $53 billion to acquire PayPal at $60.50 per share, a 28% premium, but PayPal has been reluctant to engage
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The man who built Coinbase's hottest L2 just admitted he bet the farm on the wrong crops. Base creator Jesse Pollak handed the Base app back to Coinbase and admitted his onchain social strategy—built around Farcaster, Zora, and creator coins—failed to gain traction in Q1 2026
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SoftBank is selling at a discount what it once saw as the future of robotics—because the future arrived faster than their timeline. Hyundai is buying SoftBank's remaining stake in Boston Dynamics, giving the automaker full control of the robotics company as it commercializes the Atlas humanoid robot
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The biggest payment processors in the world might finally stop treating blockchain like a side project. Stripe's potential acquisition of PayPal has Polygon executives arguing it could accelerate the shift to blockchain-based payment rails
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Stablecoins just became the most visible front in 21st-century economic warfare, and the centralized choke point everyone worried about just got used exactly as designed. OFAC sanctioned crypto wallets tied to Iran's central bank and armed forces, freezing $131 million, mostly Tether's USDT on Tron
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When your oracle lies, your entire vault becomes someone else's ATM. Ostium DEX halted trading after an oracle manipulation exploit drained between $18M and $23.7M in USDC from its OLP vault
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The crypto wallet that brought DeFi to the masses just built a checking account that pays better than most banks, no Chase branch required. MetaMask launched Money Account, a self-custodial product offering up to 4% APY while users maintain full control of their keys
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The attacker didn't break into the oracle. They just grabbed the keys and walked through the front door. Hackers drained $18 million from Ostium, an Arbitrum-based perpetual exchange, by compromising an oracle signer key and submitting fake future-dated price data
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The card networks just admitted that moving money in two days is too slow. Cyclops, a Miami-based startup, raised $20 million Series A led by Nava Ventures to help payment companies settle transactions using stablecoins
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The infrastructure crypto was built to disintermediate just posted a $49 billion quarter, and it's not even their best year.
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Corporate treasurers are about to get a reason to care about crypto that has nothing to do with speculation. Velocity closed a $38M funding round led by Dragonfly, FirstMark, and Coinbase Ventures to build software that integrates stablecoins into enterprise treasury and payment workflows.
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The two biggest financial powers just agreed on what stablecoins should look like — but forgot to make anyone actually do it. US and UK released a 10-point roadmap for tokenized asset oversight, with a core requirement that stablecoins be fully backed by liquid assets
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