Senate Already Killing the Bill That Could Legalize Crypto Trading
The bill that could finally separate crypto from securities law is losing votes before it even hits the Senate floor.
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Trump Jr. Bets $21B on Platform That Predicted His Father's Win
The prediction market that called the 2024 election now has a valuation bigger than most Fortune 500 companies, and the Trump family is helping write the checks. Polymarket just closed a funding round at a $21 billion post-money valuation, led by 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner
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SEC Greenlights Tokenized Wall Street After 50-Year Freeze
The SEC just cracked open the door for Wall Street to move onchain, and the NYSE's parent company was already standing in the doorway with a bag packed.
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Robinhood's Crypto Chain Hit $1.6B While Banks Still Debate Blockchain
Traditional finance companies spent years pretending crypto didn't exist, then they built the fastest-growing corner of it.
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Robinhood's New Blockchain Just Beat Ethereum in Daily Revenue
A memecoin just proved that tokenized stocks aren't ready for DeFi degeneracy, and Robinhood's Layer-2 is printing more daily revenue than the entire Ethereum mainnet while it happens.
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London Stock Exchange Admits 300 Years of Paper Was the Beta Test
The exchange that wrote the rulebook for equities just decided the rulebook needs blockchain. The London Stock Exchange is launching tokenized stocks backed by shares of London-listed companies, marking a major traditional finance institution's direct entry into digital asset infrastructure
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Ripple and Coincheck Race to Lock Down Asia's $16 Trillion Tokenization Wave
The tokenized asset market has a plumbing problem, and Asia is where it's getting fixed first.
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Strategy and Metaplanet Just Became Tradeable Securities on Blockchain
The same regulatory arbitrage that built offshore finance just went on-chain, and it's starting with the most Bitcoin-obsessed public companies on Earth.
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London Stock Exchange Picks Kraken Over Banks to Tokenize Stocks
The London Stock Exchange just chose a crypto exchange's parent company to tokenize its blue chips, not a bank or fintech incumbent. Payward, Kraken's parent company, will tokenize 100 London-listed stocks using its xStocks framework, with trading planned on LSE's new blockchain platform
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Felix Pago's $200M Bet Says Remittances Were Just the Trojan Horse
The remittance corridor just became a full-service financial rails play, and the stakes are $200 million big. Felix Pago raised $200 million to move beyond money transfers into lending and savings for Latin American immigrants in the US
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Robinhood Built a Billion Dollar DeFi Chain in Two Months
Robinhood just proved you can build a billion-dollar DeFi chain in two months if you already own the on-ramp. Robinhood Chain recorded between $874.8M and $989M in DEX volume on August 30, its highest single day since launching July 1
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Anthropic locks down 5 gigawatts of power with Nvidia's backing while rivals scramble
The company that built Claude just locked in enough electricity to power a small city, and its biggest investor might be the reason why.
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Polymarket Hits $20B Valuation One Year After FBI Raid
A year ago, Polymarket was a crypto curiosity. Today, it's raising a billion dollars at a valuation that puts it in the same league as billion-dollar fintech giants—while lawyers sharpen their knives.
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Bitcoin Rockets Through Iran Strike Chaos While Stocks Crater
While traditional markets flinch at geopolitical chaos, Bitcoin just logged its best month in nearly a decade without breaking a sweat. Bitcoin held above $78,000 as U.S. strikes on Iran triggered a classic risk-off move in stocks and sent oil prices climbing
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Bitmine Now Controls 5% of All Ethereum After $131M Buy
When a single entity controls nearly 5% of all Ethereum in existence, that's not a bet—that's a thesis about the infrastructure layer of Web4.
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MicroStrategy Breaks Silence With $370M Bitcoin Bet Against Doubters
The world's most committed Bitcoin treasury just proved that conviction, not volatility, drives accumulation strategy. MicroStrategy purchased 4,603 BTC for $369.7 million at an average price of $80,318 per coin, ending a 10-week buying pause that began in late June
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Build American AI Drops $50M on Politicians Who'll Approve Data Centers
The data center wars just got a campaign finance arm. Build American AI is deploying $50M to back local and state candidates who support data center construction in battleground states The initiative faces significant public resistance despite its focus on economic development and infrastructure
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Russia's Largest Bank Chooses Tether Over Kremlin's Digital Ruble
While the Kremlin pushes its digital ruble, the country's biggest bank is quietly building the opposite: a stablecoin-collateralized loan market pegged to the dollar. Sber plans to accept USDT and Ether alongside Bitcoin as loan collateral under Russia's new regulated crypto trading law
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Singapore Bets $173M That Traditional Banks Are Already Dead
While Western regulators play defense, Singapore just put $173 million on the table to build the financial rails everyone else will use in five years.
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Bank of England Governor Warns G20: AI Could Crash Global Finance Before Regulators React
The central bankers finally caught up to what crypto builders already knew: code moves faster than committees can contain it. Andrew Bailey, head of the world's financial stability watchdog, urged G20 countries to coordinate on controlling frontier AI model releases
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