Visa Locks Down Two of Korea's Three Biggest Banks in 72 Hours
Visa just signed two of Korea's three biggest banks to stablecoin deals in 72 hours — the rails for programmable money are being built by incumbents, not insurgents.
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Hugging Face's $99 Robot Duck Outsold Most Hardware Startups in 24 Hours
The GitHub of AI just proved consumer robotics isn't a Tesla problem or a Form Factor problem, it's an openness problem. Hugging Face's Microduck preorders hit $2.6 million in 24 hours at $399 per unit—that's roughly 6,500 robot ducks ordered before a single one ships
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Circle Pays Premier League Wages to Put USDC on 40 Million Chests
The most visible real estate in English football just got its first stablecoin tenant, and the price tag suggests crypto isn't renting anymore.
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Zoomex Lets You Trade Apple Stock at 3 AM Like Bitcoin
The crypto exchange that lets you trade BTC at 3 AM just decided you should be able to trade Apple stock then too. Zoomex launched a TradFi hub consolidating Stock Contracts, Commodity Contracts, and Stock Tokens into one platform destination
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UK Officially Confirms 240 Crypto Millionaires After Years of Denial
The British taxman just started counting, and now we know how many seven-figure crypto exits happened on the books. HMRC recorded 240 taxpayers who each declared over £1 million in crypto gains during the 2024-2025 tax year, the first official breakdown of its kind
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Visa Bets on Dunamu Stablecoin Tech Over Tether and Circle
The world's largest payments network just told you which stablecoin infrastructure it thinks will scale. Visa partnered with Dunamu, the operator of South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, to explore stablecoin payments, remittances, and AI-driven commerce
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Bullish Bets $100M That GPUs Are the New Gold
The machines need money, and crypto just figured out how to lend it to them. Bullish is providing a $100 million debt facility to USD.AI specifically for GPU-backed loans targeting AI infrastructure
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Ethena Pays VCs $52M to Exit and Cancels 2 Billion Token Unlocks
A DeFi protocol just did what most can't: it paid VCs to leave and never come back. Ethena Foundation executed a buyout of early investors and eliminated all future VC token unlocks, ending the monthly selling pressure that haunts most crypto projects
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US Declares Financial War on Iran, Forces Allies to Choose Sides
The US just declared financial war on Iran and told the world to pick a side — with crypto compliance as the new battlefield.
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Stripe Walked Away From a $50B PayPal Deal Nobody Saw Coming
The alliance that could have created the most powerful payments empire in Web3 just walked away from the table. Advent and Stripe abandoned their pursuit of PayPal, walking away from what would have been one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history at roughly $50 billion
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Mirae Asset Tells Staff It's Building a $109B Crypto Empire
South Korea's largest asset manager just told employees it's building a nine-figure digital empire on the bones of a crypto exchange most people forgot existed.
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Coinbase Lets Americans Buy Homes Without Selling Their Bitcoin
The home you buy today might be the first time Bitcoin gets a FICO score. Coinbase and Better have launched Bitcoin-backed mortgages for US homebuyers, letting them pledge crypto as collateral for down payments without selling
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Plaud Bets $169 Earbuds Succeed Where Humane's Pin Failed
The AI wearable graveyard is full of pins and pendants people forgot they were wearing — now someone's betting you'll actually use earbuds. Plaud launched the One Explorer Edition, earbuds that record, transcribe, and summarize conversations with built-in 4G so they don't need your phone
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Plaud's 4G Earbuds Bet You'll Wear AI Hardware Daily
The real test of AI hardware isn't whether it works—it's whether you'll actually wear it. Plaud Inc. launched 4G-connected wireless earbuds that record conversations and run AI assistant tasks without needing a paired phone
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Revolut Just Made Crypto Boring for 45 Million Europeans
The neobank with 45 million users just made stablecoins boring, and that's exactly the point. Revolut launched EURR, its euro-pegged stablecoin, to select customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal as part of a phased rollout
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Abu Dhabi Lets Coinbase Turn Stocks Into 24/7 Tradeable Tokens
Coinbase just turned the stock market into a 24/7 composable asset class, and Abu Dhabi's regulatory framework is the reason it works.
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Revolut Launches Euro Stablecoin While Crypto Giants Still Fight Regulators
The neobank that told crypto bros to hold their beer in 2018 just entered the stablecoin Olympics, and it brought euros. Revolut launched a euro-backed stablecoin, joining the growing queue of traditional financial institutions betting on digital money infrastructure
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US Banks Lobbied Against Stablecoins While Secretly Building Their Own Blockchain
The same banking groups that just finished lobbying Congress to restrict crypto stablecoins are now building their own blockchain to issue them.
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Visa Can't Crack AI Agent Payments. This Blockchain Startup Just Did.
While Visa admits it can't solve the trust problem in agent payments, a blockchain platform and a fintech startup just paired the missing pieces. Payouts.com partnered with Casper to combine spending controls with stablecoin settlement for AI agent transactions
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Washington Eyes $1T Treasury Buyback to Bury the One Signal That Tells the Truth
When the Treasury starts buying its own bonds to keep rates down, it's not stabilizing markets — it's removing the last honest signal that government spending has consequences.
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