Tom Lee isn't just watching the agent economy from the sidelines anymore. Eightco doubled its OpenAI equity stake to $40 million, with Fundstrat's Tom Lee now on the board A crypto-native treasury holder is betting bigger on foundation models, not just infrastructure
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Kalshi just doubled its valuation to $22 billion while the crypto prediction markets that inspired it are getting regulatory strangled. Kalshi raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation, doubling from $11 billion in its previous round
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Morgan Stanley just moved from spectator to player in the Bitcoin ETF game. Morgan Stanley filed a second amended S-1 for its MSBT spot Bitcoin ETF, detailing seed capital, listing plans, and Wall Street partnerships
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Ledger hiring a CFO from Circle and opening a New York office isn't about an IPO, it's about survival in a market where hardware wallets are becoming infrastructure. Ledger hired John Andrews, former Circle CFO, as it preps for a potential IPO and opens a New York office
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Gemini just got sued for pivoting to prediction markets after going public, and it's a warning shot about what happens when crypto companies try to tell two different stories at once.
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Corporate treasurers aren't experimenting with stablecoins anymore—they're making them standard equipment. Ripple surveyed 1,000+ global finance leaders who now view digital assets as strategic infrastructure, not optional pilots
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The SEC just admitted it's writing the rules while waiting for Congress to actually write the rules. SEC Chair Paul Atkins signaled the agency will defer to a market structure bill if Congress passes one, but needs a regulatory "bridge" in the meantime
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A publicly traded company just turned its Solana holdings into a loan to buy back its own stock. Forward Industries borrowed against its SOL treasury to fund a share buyback, using crypto-backed debt instead of cash reserves
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Animoca Brands just put money and muscle behind Avalanche's push into Asia and the Middle East, and the bet is on tokenized real-world assets, not another NFT marketplace. Animoca Brands is investing in Ava Labs and partnering to expand Avalanche's footprint across Asia and the Middle East.
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Bitcoin hit $70,800 this morning while oil prices slumped, and the divergence between BTC and the rest of crypto tells you everything about where capital is actually flowing right now.
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Morgan Stanley just filed for a spot Bitcoin ETF, which would have been front-page news in 2023 but in 2026 reads more like a quiet admission they're late to the party. Morgan Stanley filed for a spot Bitcoin ETF with ticker MSBT and $1 million in seed capital
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Gold just got a job. Bybit launched a yield product on tokenized gold (Tether Gold/XAUT), turning a 5,000-year-old store of value into an income instrument First major exchange to offer native yield on tokenized precious metals, not just custody or trading
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A company you've never heard of is about to go public holding $685 million in XRP, and it tells you everything about where institutional crypto is actually headed.
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India's biggest Nvidia GPU cluster just priced itself at $4 billion, and the number tells you everything about where AI infrastructure value is flowing.
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EtherFi just put $25M into Plume's RWA vaults, and it's the clearest signal yet that DeFi protocols are done pretending crypto yields are sustainable on their own. EtherFi allocated $25M to Plume Network's Nest vaults, starting with a Superstate-backed fund and planning a dedicated RWA vault
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Privacy tech just stopped being a crypto purist's dream and became the only viable path for putting AI agents and real-world assets on rails together.
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When $380 million walks out the door in DeFi, most platforms panic—Gauntlet just shrugged. Gauntlet, a major DeFi risk management platform, saw $380 million in deposits exit as an OKX crypto incentive campaign ended
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Prediction markets just got a $22 billion vote of confidence. Kalshi raised more than $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation, one of the largest rounds for a fintech platform built on letting people bet on real-world outcomes.
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Get hacked once, stay broke forever. Crypto tokens lose 61% of their value on average after a security breach, according to Immunefi's new security report, and most never recover.
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Europe's largest asset manager just put its second fund on public blockchains, and the infrastructure choice tells you everything about where institutional money is actually going. Amundi, Europe's largest asset manager with €2.2 trillion AUM, launched a tokenized swap fund on Ethereum and Stellar
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