Robinhood Stock Now Trades 24/7 Before Robinhood Launches Tokenization
Robinhood's stock is now trading 24/7 on Solana before Robinhood itself has launched its own tokenization platform.
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China Built a $52B AI Giant Without Nvidia's Chips
A Chinese hedge fund spin-off just proved you can build a $52B AI company without Nvidia's permission slip, and Silicon Valley is still trying to figure out what broke.
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Robinhood Built a DeFi Bridge for Stocks and Got a Dogecoin Stampede Instead
Robinhood wanted to bring tokenized stocks and bonds to the masses, but their users showed up for dog coins instead. Robinhood is betting on bringing 10 million retail users onchain, positioning itself as the bridge between casual investors and decentralized finance
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CFTC Opens $6 Trillion Collateral Market to Tokenized Assets
The CFTC just cracked open a $6 trillion collateral market to blockchain-based money market funds — without saying the word "blockchain" once.
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SBI Group Spent $60B Building What Crypto Startups Can't Touch
While crypto firms fight regulators, Japan's $60B financial conglomerate is using them as a moat. SBI Group announced the $289M consolidation of Singapore-based exchange Coinhako, building the infrastructure for cross-border digital asset flows across Asia
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China's Kimi Just Outperformed Claude and GPT—Bitcoin Knows What's Next
China just put the world's most capable open-source AI on the internet for free, and crypto markets are pricing in what happens when the infrastructure layer shifts east.
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BNB Chain Just Stole Ethereum's $5.2B Real-World Asset Crown
Ethereum's monopoly on real-world asset tokenization just cracked, and the chain doing it runs on the exchange everyone loves to hate. BNB Chain's total value locked in tokenized real-world assets hit $5.2 billion, marking an all-time high and a 32.26% increase in just one month
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Japan and South Korea Markets Crash Harder Than Bitcoin Ever Did
When your stock market becomes more volatile than Bitcoin, you've either broken something fundamental or discovered what the future looks like.
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Visa Just Gave 15,000 Banks Crypto Rails Without the Crypto Headaches
The payments giant just handed 15,000 banks the keys to onchain rails without forcing them to hire a single Solidity developer. Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform, letting its network of 15,000 banks and 200 million merchants mint and move stablecoins starting with Open Standard's OUSD
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Nvidia's $430B Wipeout Triggers Bitcoin Collapse Below $63K
The AI trade just ate itself, and crypto is learning what it means to be correlated when the music stops. Bitcoin dropped below $63,000 and Ether fell 1.74% as semiconductor stocks shed over $2 trillion since June, triggering a risk-off wave across markets.
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Japan's Second Corporate Bitcoin Treasury Bet: $60M Raised, $4M Allocated
Japan's corporate Bitcoin treasury playbook just got its second draft, and this time the math is more cautious. Bitcoin Japan Corporation plans to raise $60M through bond issuance, reviving its Bitcoin treasury strategy with a measured $4.08M allocated for BTC purchases
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Nvidia Hits $5T While Most Investors Missed the Blockchain Signal
The world's most valuable company changed hands twice before lunch, and the most interesting part happened on a blockchain most people don't know exists.
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Robinhood Chain Hits $400M TVL Without Token or VC Money
Robinhood just proved you can launch a Layer 2 without a token airdrop or VC hype cycle and still pull half a billion in value. Robinhood Chain hit $400M in total value locked within two weeks of its July 1 launch, with $170M in ETH bridged from Ethereum in just the first week
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Bitcoin's Spam War Gets Its First Fork—DOG Mode Removes Block Size Limits
Bitcoin's culture war over what counts as "spam" just got a client fork with teeth. Runestone co-founder launches DOG Mode, an alternative Bitcoin client that removes Bitcoin Core's transaction size limits to enable Ordinals and Runes activity
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Bitcoin Developers Fork Over Dog Memes in Blockchain War
The fight over what belongs on Bitcoin's blockchain just went from committee meeting to code fork. BIP 110 proposes restricting arbitrary data on Bitcoin through a consensus change, but has almost no miner support
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BlackRock Breaks Eight-Week Bitcoin Bleeding with $79M Reversal
Eight weeks of bleeding $8 billion just stopped, and the biggest money manager on Earth turned the faucet back on. BlackRock's IBIT brought in $79.15M on July 16, leading U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs to snap an eight-week outflow streak that drained over $8 billion from the category
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Citadel Securities Bets $400M on Crypto.com at $20B Valuation
The most interesting part isn't the size of the check, it's who wrote it. Citadel Securities invested $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing the exchange at $20 billion Traditional finance's largest market maker is now betting big on crypto infrastructure, signaling institutional capital is back
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Coinbase Hands App Control to Anonymous Trader After Social Feature Collapse
Coinbase just handed the keys to its consumer app to a pseudonymous trader after its bet on creator coins and social features collapsed, pivoting hard to trading, payments, and AI agents instead.
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Japan Tokenizes $1.3 Billion Fund Using Stablecoin Infrastructure
Japan just proved that real-world asset tokenization isn't vaporware—it's happening at billion-dollar scale, with yen-backed rails, and the infrastructure is already live.
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T. Rowe Price Launches First Actively Managed Multi-Token Crypto ETF
The first TradFi giant to admit Bitcoin spot ETFs were just the opening act. T. Rowe Price launched the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, breaking from the single-asset Bitcoin and Ethereum products that dominated 2024's ETF wave
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