Bhutan just moved another 500 bitcoin to exchanges, and the kingdom's crypto treasury is now down two-thirds from its peak. The Royal Government of Bhutan transferred 519.707 BTC to exchanges Wednesday, part of 2026 outflows now exceeding $150 million
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Congress just agreed that tokenized securities are securities, which sounds obvious until you realize this is the first time U.S. lawmakers have said it out loud with cameras rolling.
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A quarter-billion dollars vaporized in orbit, and the only thing that made it to production was the litigation. Theia, a satellite imaging startup, collapsed after raising $250 million, leaving behind federal fraud charges and a cascade of lawsuits
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Elon Musk is trying to disqualify a Delaware judge from his cases by pointing at her LinkedIn activity, which tells you everything about where corporate governance is headed.
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Elon Musk just hired someone who helped build Base and Aave to design X Money, and that tells you exactly what kind of payments product is coming. X hired Benji Taylor, former Chief Product Officer at Aave Labs and design lead at Coinbase's Base, to lead design for X Money
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BitGo and ZKsync are building the rails for banks to issue tokenized deposits, which means your checking account is about to get programmable. BitGo is partnering with ZKsync to build tokenized deposit infrastructure currently in testing, designed to bring traditional banks onchain
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SpaceX is gunning for a $175 billion IPO at a $1.75 trillion valuation, and the math tells you everything about who's building Web4 infrastructure.
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Visa just did something it's never done before: its legal team said yes to running blockchain infrastructure. Visa is now a Super Validator on Canton Network, the first blockchain governance proposal approved by its legal and compliance divisions
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Ethereum's dominance isn't guaranteed anymore, and the threats aren't hypothetical. Ethereum faces simultaneous pressure from scaling bottlenecks, quantum computing advances, and AI-driven chain optimization, marking what developers are calling a "make-or-break moment" for the network
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SpaceX is reportedly filing IPO paperwork this week, and the timing tells you everything about how fast the agent economy infrastructure is moving from R&D to revenue. SpaceX aims to file its IPO prospectus before end of March, marking one of the largest tech offerings in history
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Sony and SBI just bet $63 million that Japan will lead the institutional RWA buildout, and they're using a Layer 1 most people have never heard of.
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Japan's biggest financial institutions just wrote a $63 million check to tokenize their own industry. Startale Group closed a $63 million Series A, combining $50 million from SBI Group with $13 million from Sony Innovation Fund
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Sky's stablecoin incubator just put a billion dollars of USDS to work in the real world, and it's not going where you think. Obex, a Sky-backed stablecoin incubator, is deploying $1B in USDS into eight real-world asset projects spanning mortgages, AI infrastructure, and renewable energy.
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Japan's biggest financial institution just dropped $50M on blockchain infrastructure—not for speculation, but for real securities moving on-chain. Startale closed a $63M Series A with $50M from SBI Holdings, one of Japan's largest financial services conglomerates
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A stablecoin startup just raised $6 million to build something the rest of crypto seems allergic to: financial privacy that doesn't require a PhD in cryptography. Payy raised $6 million in seed funding led by FirstMark Capital, with Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto joining the round
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Sky's stablecoin arm just put a billion dollars into real assets, and it's the clearest sign yet that DeFi is done pretending Treasury bills are the endgame.
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The same CEOs who spent the last decade claiming AI needs regulation are now the ones writing the rules. Meta's Zuckerberg, Nvidia's Huang, Oracle's Ellison, and Google's Brin join Trump's revived President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, focused on AI policy
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Europe's first crypto company to get a full banking license just launched a tokenization platform built specifically for traditional banks. Bitpanda launched Vision Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 designed for European banks and fintechs to issue tokenized assets under MiCA and MiFID II regulations
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Kelp just turned payment float into a tradable DeFi asset, and the implications for stablecoin velocity are bigger than most people realize. Kelp launched KUSD, a stablecoin backed by trade receivables and cross-border payment flows, not treasuries or overcollateralized crypto
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A British bank just turned customer deposits into blockchain tokens, and regulators said yes. Monument Bank is tokenizing £250 million in retail deposits, making them programmable while keeping FSCS protection and interest payments intact.
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