The Bitcoin treasury playbook just got its first high-profile defector, and the market rewarded the pivot. Empery Digital sold roughly half its Bitcoin holdings to fund an AI data center project and tackle debt, with shares rising on the news.
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The beautiful game just became the tokenized game, and the scoreboard isn't just tracking goals anymore.
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George Hotz just drew a line in the sand between the people building AGI and the people who think they deserve to rule it.
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Wall Street is building on Ethereum now, and retail traders get to play with the same rails as the institutions. Robinhood Chain launched as an Ethereum layer-2 network built on Arbitrum technology, targeting tokenized assets and on-chain financial products
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The platform that taught a generation to YOLO their stimulus checks just handed them a robot that never sleeps. Robinhood is rolling out AI agent trading capabilities to its millions of US users, with crypto trader assistance coming "soon"
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The AI found the needle in the haystack, then buried it under a mountain of fake needles. The Ethereum Foundation used AI agents to find a remotely triggerable crash bug in validator software that could take nodes offline
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When Charles Schwab, Fidelity, and Citadel build a crypto exchange together, then take Japanese banking money, you're watching the blueprint for how TradFi absorbs crypto—not disrupts it.
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The smart money in tokenization just abandoned the category that dominated every conference panel last year. RWA.xyz database analysis reveals tokenization's growth engine has quietly shifted away from the headline-grabbing categories between May 31 and July 9, 2026
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The world's largest memory chip IPO went live on two exchanges at once: one in New York, one on a blockchain that didn't exist four years ago. SK Hynix raised $26.5B in its Nasdaq debut, while tokenized versions launched simultaneously on Solana via xStocks, Backpack Securities, and other platforms
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The protocol formerly known as MakerDAO just posted numbers that make most DeFi platforms look like hobby projects. Sky Protocol hit a $419M annualized revenue run-rate in June 2026, marking its highest monthly performance since the rebrand from MakerDAO
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The first state to try tokenizing public debt just blinked, and the 3-2 vote margin tells you everything about where the real fight is. New Hampshire's Executive Council rejected a $100 million Bitcoin-backed municipal bond 3-2, killing what would have been the world's first such issuance
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The corporate Bitcoin treasury playbook just got its first real stress test, and the answer wasn't "hodl forever." Nasdaq-listed Empery Digital sold 1,400 BTC for roughly $87 million since May, cutting its holdings by 48% to fund debt repayment, legal costs, and an AI data center acquisition.
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The stock market just learned to work weekends, and Wall Street's 9:30am bell is starting to sound like a relic. Backpack launched 24/7 trading for tokenized U.S. equities, joining a growing race among crypto exchanges and traditional finance firms to break the weekday-only trading model
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Japan's Bitcoin treasury poster child just pivoted from hoarding to lending, and a separate firm is already writing $6.2M checks against BTC collateral.
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The stablecoin issuer just became a federally regulated bank, which means USDC now has a seat at the same table as JPMorgan. Circle secured federal trust bank approval, joining a growing list of crypto firms pursuing regulated banking licenses as the industry integrates with traditional finance.
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The suits built a highway for Wall Street, and the apes turned it into a racetrack. Robinhood Chain launched for tokenized stocks and agentic trading, but memecoin CASHCAT is driving the network's first real volume surge
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Wall Street's operating hours just became a suggestion, not a rule. Ondo Finance enabled tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs as collateral for perpetual futures trading, building on their 2025 launch of 24/7 onchain access to over 100 equities
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When a rocket company's shares trade as tokens before the traditional IPO even launches, you're watching the death of legacy capital markets in real time.
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A $100 million valuation for a company that wants to be the plumbing for every song, video, and meme you've ever shared online. KOR Protocol raised $7.5 million in Series A funding at a $100 million valuation, led by 1kx and Blockchain Capital
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The company that prints dollars on blockchain rails is now building the plumbing for Latin America's financial future. Tether invested $20 million in a strategic growth round for Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil's largest crypto exchange, to expand tokenized finance across Latin America
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