The CFTC just decided it needs to understand the future before it writes the rules for it. The CFTC launched a new innovation task force targeting crypto, AI, and prediction markets The task force aims to create a clear framework of rules for these emerging technologies
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The company dies, the protocol lives, and we're supposed to call this decentralization working as intended. Balancer Labs shut down its corporate entity four months after a $128 million exploit drained the DeFi protocol
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Wall Street didn't suddenly discover crypto last month, they've been building the plumbing for years while you weren't looking. Morgan Stanley's Amy Oldenburg says banks are moving into crypto after years of infrastructure work, not because of hype cycles
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While crypto VCs tighten their belts, ParaFi just closed $125 million and nobody's talking about what that actually means. ParaFi Capital raised $125 million for a new fund during a crypto downturn, bringing total AUM to $2 billion
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Tether just hired a Big Four firm to audit its reserves, ending a decade-long credibility fight that's haunted the stablecoin that moves more value than Visa. Tether has hired a Big Four accounting firm for its first full audit of USDT reserves after years of regulatory and market scrutiny
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Circle just put USDC on the ground in Africa through Cassava, and this isn't another pilot program, it's infrastructure play in a continent where dollar access is survival, not speculation.
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The New York Stock Exchange just made equities markets a 24/7 affair, and the rails are blockchain. NYSE partnered with Securitize to build a round-the-clock tokenized securities platform
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Solana just gave Wall Street the training wheels it needed to stop talking about blockchain and start building on it.
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Fast Company's 2026 finance innovators list is actually a snapshot of Web4 infrastructure being built in plain sight. Fast Company's 2026 finance innovation honorees reveal AI agents (Ramp's expense approval automation) and tokenization plays (Robinhood's stock tokenization) as the dominant themes
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Michael Saylor just unlocked another $44 billion for Bitcoin purchases, and the playbook that turned MicroStrategy into a crypto treasury is now being copied by companies that actually make money.
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Invesco just bought its way into the tokenized Treasury market with a $900 million acquisition, and the price of admission tells you everything about where this is going.
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Circle just planted its flag in Africa through an Nvidia-backed infrastructure play, and the real story isn't the stablecoin, it's the pipes. Circle partnered with Cassava Technologies, an Nvidia-backed African infrastructure company, to enable USDC transactions across the continent
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The US government just admitted to holding $15 billion in Bitcoin seized from the 2020 hack, and now the lawyers are circling to figure out who actually owns it. The US government revealed it controls $15 billion in Bitcoin originally seized from a 2020 hack worth $3.5 billion, now 4x the value.
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Bitcoin just proved it's not a risk-off asset, and half a billion dollars in short positions learned that the hard way. Bitcoin surged to $71,000, triggering $550 million in short liquidations despite Middle East tensions escalating
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A $4 trillion fund services giant just decided Bitcoin mining cash flows belong on a blockchain. Apex Group, managing $4 trillion in assets, is tokenizing the Omnes Mining Note (OMN) on Coinbase's Base platform, marking traditional finance's deepest move into crypto infrastructure tokenization yet.
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Hyperliquid's tokenized commodities market just hit $1.74 billion in open interest, up 25% in a week, and crude oil is trading alongside silver on-chain.
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Balancer Labs is shuttering the company after a $110M hack turned the corporate wrapper into a lawsuit magnet, but the protocol itself will live on under pure DAO control.
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TRON just put a billion dollars on the table for AI infrastructure while everyone else is still writing Medium posts about what agents might do someday.
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The U.S. just kneecapped stablecoin yields before they could scale, and now we get to watch the real fight over what "money" means in the digital age. The Crypto Clarity Act's latest text prohibits rewards on stablecoin balances, marking a restrictive approach to digital dollar regulation
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ParaFi just closed $125 million for a new venture fund while crypto's supposed to be in a bear market. ParaFi Capital raised $125 million for a new venture fund, adding to $325 million raised for digital asset strategies since early 2025
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