Frozen $71M in Terror Case—Judge Just Let DAO Vote Anyway
A Manhattan judge just gave DAOs legal permission to govern, even when the assets they're voting on are frozen in a terrorism lawsuit.
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LMAX Group Lets Wall Street Use Crypto Like Real Money
The gap between owning crypto and using it like a real financial instrument just got narrower for institutions that have been watching from the sidelines.
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DraftKings Chases $22B Kalshi After Missing the Prediction Market Gold Rush
Prediction markets just got their first unicorn-times-twenty moment, and the old guard is scrambling to catch up. Kalshi closed a funding round at a $22 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable private fintech companies in the US
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Michael Saylor Built a $62B Bitcoin War Chest Using Other People's Money
The world's most aggressive corporate Bitcoin buyer just admitted he might sell some, and the market yawned. Strategy's Michael Saylor revealed in a CoinDesk interview plans to potentially sell 0.2% of holdings while buying 5-10x more, calling any sale concerns "a big nothing burger"
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Circle Builds $3B Blockchain, Makes Competitors Pay to Use It
The stablecoin king just built its own highway and charged everyone else for an on-ramp. Circle launched Arc, a new blockchain valued at $3B, backed by a $222M token presale that positions USDC's issuer as infrastructure owner, not just tenant.
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You can now buy SpaceX stock for $100 before Elon takes it public
The door to Silicon Valley's most coveted private companies just opened to anyone with $100 and a crypto wallet. Injective has launched tokenized pre-IPO equity access to OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic, with Bitget offering similar products on Solana starting at $100 minimum investment.
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Anthropic Just Told Speculators Their AI Stock Tokens Are Worthless
The AI company building the models that might replace knowledge work just told speculators they don't own what they think they own.
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Wall Street Just Made Perpetuals Trading a Ticker Symbol
Wall Street just gave perpetuals trading a ticker symbol. 21Shares launched THYP, the first Hyperliquid ETF, on Nasdaq May 12, giving traditional investors exposure to HYPE without touching crypto wallets.
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Anthropic Legal Threat Crashes $500M Tokenized Share Market in Hours
The company building one of the world's most sophisticated AI systems just reminded everyone that code isn't law when lawyers have something to say about it.
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JPMorgan Files Second Tokenized Fund in a Week After BlackRock's Launch
JPMorgan just filed for its second tokenized fund in a week when BlackRock beat them to the headline. JPMorgan filed to launch JLTXX, a new tokenized Treasury-backed money market fund on Ethereum, using its Kinexys platform for token balance management
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JPMorgan and BlackRock Race to Replace Stablecoins With Tokenized Funds
Wall Street's two largest asset managers just filed to tokenize money market funds on the same week—not as experiments, but as competing products aimed directly at the $200 billion stablecoin economy they spent years dismissing.
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Arthur Hayes: Bitcoin Hits $1M as Governments Print Trillions for AI
When nation-states start printing money to win the AI race, the hardest money on earth becomes the obvious escape hatch. Arthur Hayes predicts Bitcoin could surge past $126K as governments flood markets with liquidity to fund AI infrastructure and compete for technological supremacy
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Bhutan Dumps $230M in Bitcoin and No One Knows Why
A tiny Himalayan kingdom is unwinding its Bitcoin position at $50 million a month, and nobody's asking why now. Bhutan moved another 100 BTC worth approximately $8.1 million in its latest transaction, according to Arkham Intelligence data
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Anthropic Tells Crypto Traders Their AI Tokens Are Worthless
The company building one of the world's most valuable AI models just told crypto traders their tokens are worthless. Anthropic updated its terms of service to explicitly void any third-party sale or transfer of its private equity shares
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Poland Debates Four Crypto Bills While Ruling Party Pushes Total Ban
While Brussels writes rules for digital assets, Warsaw is writing rules *and* a ban bill at the same time. Polish lawmakers are debating four separate cryptocurrency bills, including one from the opposition PiS party that would ban crypto activity nationwide.
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Sky Ecosystem Bets $13.5M That Stablecoin Yields Will Go Mainstream
The Sky Ecosystem just wrote a $13.5 million check to prove that stablecoin yield isn't just for crypto natives anymore. Osero raised $13.5 million in a round led by Sky Ecosystem, with the startup incubated by Stablewatch
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Franklin Templeton's $1.6 Trillion Bets on Kraken After BlackRock Miss
The $1.6 trillion asset manager that beat BlackRock to onchain funds just picked the exchange that survived FTX as its distribution partner.
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JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank Just Funded Crypto's Top Cop
When Deutsche Bank and Nasdaq cut checks to a blockchain surveillance company, they're not betting on crypto — they're betting on being the gatekeepers. Elliptic raised $120 million in Series D funding at a $670 million valuation, with Deutsche Bank, Nasdaq Ventures, and JPMorgan backing the round.
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Exodus Dumps 63% of Its Bitcoin While Users Flee Platform
When a crypto wallet company sells 63% of its Bitcoin to fund acquisitions while losing users, you're watching the difference between balance sheet optimism and product reality.
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BlackRock Tokenizes $6.1B Treasury Fund After BUIDL Success
The world's largest asset manager just proved BUIDL wasn't a test run. BlackRock filed with the SEC to tokenize a $6.1B Treasury fund, selecting Securitize infrastructure for the second time after BUIDL crossed $2.3B.
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