The guy who wrote "I Gotta Feeling" now has a feeling about AI — and it's not what the doomer crowd expects. will.i.am argues human creativity should be worth more than AI compute output, framing the AI era as a moment to validate "human sweat" in creative work
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The bridge between Wall Street and Web3 just got a structural engineer. Bitwise partnered with Superstate to explore tokenizing shares of its Solana Staking ETF (BSOL), bringing blockchain rails to a regulated financial product
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Nvidia just turned itself into a bank that only lends money to buy its own products, and Wall Street is calling it genius.
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The AI gold rush isn't in the models—it's in the dirt under the data centers, and Wall Street just put a number on it. Bank of America forecasts the data-center market will hit $2.2 trillion by 2030, driven almost entirely by AI compute demand
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Wall Street isn't dipping toes anymore — it's wading in with both feet and a $650 million position. Verition Fund increased its Bitcoin ETF holdings by 19% to $110M, UBS tripled its position to $90M, and JPMorgan added $400M in Q2 alone, bringing its total to $650M
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Treasury yields don't care about diplomacy — they price risk, and right now the risk is that 20% of the world's oil flows through a choke point controlled by a country drafting legislation to block it.
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The protocol handling $1.7 million in tokenized assets just proved that owning your digital money means nothing if you can't actually touch it.
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When inflation data comes in soft, tech stocks party like it's 2021, and the assets no one wants to think about as correlated suddenly move in perfect lockstep.
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When a $516 million fund turns into $3.7 billion in four years, someone saw the future earlier than the rest of us — and it wasn't spread across a hundred companies.
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When cardboard beats code, something interesting is happening at the edge of asset classes. Pokémon cards gained 22.8% over three months while Bitcoin fell and the S&P 500 lagged, showing collectibles moving independent of traditional markets
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The SEC's first actual attempt at crypto rulemaking just got indefinitely shelved, proving that even under a friendly administration, Washington moves slower than Bitcoin block times.
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The SEC just blinked on the biggest tokenization framework in a decade, and Wall Street's fingerprints are all over the delay.
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The timing isn't subtle: one day before the CFTC convenes its new Innovation Advisory Committee, the White House is putting crypto execs in the room where it happens.
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The Federal Reserve's ability to gatekeep the entire banking system for crypto firms now hinges on nine justices.
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Traditional banking analysts don't usually revise crypto price targets upward mid-cycle, but when token burns start running at $90 million annualized, the math changes fast.
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Stablecoin yield is finally escaping the crypto bubble and landing in the workflows where money actually moves. Tempo launched Tempo Earn, an embedded yield product that lets platforms offer stablecoin returns to users, with Deel's contractor wallet as the first deployment
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The platform that let retail traders crash GameStop just packaged venture capital into a publicly traded wrapper with the same fees that VCs charge billionaires. Robinhood Ventures Fund II priced its IPO at $25 per share, raising $200M to invest in early-stage private companies
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DeFi protocols used to want you to know they were DeFi protocols. Now they're hiding the wiring. Ether.fi just launched tokenized stocks, metals, fiat accounts, and Aave-powered portfolio loans, positioning itself as a crypto neobank that deliberately downplays the crypto part.
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When nearly a third of your network's staked tokens vanish in a routing glitch, "technically still running" is cold comfort. A data center routing failure took 29% of Solana's staked tokens offline Wednesday, coming dangerously close to the network's consensus freeze threshold
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A bank-backed stablecoin just got real regulatory approval in Hong Kong, and the strategy is institutional-first, not retail-first like every doomed ICO you remember. Anchorpoint, backed by Standard Chartered, began rolling out HKDAP, a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, following licensing approval
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