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SEC Green-Lights Franklin Templeton's Onchain Cash Management System for Traditional Funds
Franklin Templeton just cleared a major regulatory hurdle. The SEC issued a no-action letter approving the firm's registered funds to deploy capital ...
Goldman Sachs Snaps Up NEOS for $2.25B, Bulking Up Crypto ETF Arsenal
Goldman Sachs is making a major play in the crypto ETF space. The investment banking giant is acquiring NEOS, an ETF manager, in a $2.
Security Nightmare: Researchers Crack AI Encryption, Expose Hidden Reasoning Across All Major Models
A critical vulnerability has surfaced in how the world's leading AI providers handle encrypted reasoning tokens—and it's worse than most security expe...
New York City Targets Prediction Market Platforms Over Aggressive Marketing Tactics
Council Speaker Julie Menin has launched a formal investigation into prediction market companies operating in New York, firing off letters to four maj...
DeepSeek's V4 Pro Redraws AI Benchmarks: Why Claude Fable's Performance Premium Comes With a Price Tag
China's DeepSeek just dropped numbers that challenge everything we thought we knew about the performance-to-cost equation in AI models. Their latest ...
Can Grok's AI Agents Handle Your Job? SpaceX's Ambitious Crypto-Age Worker Replacement Faces Real Obstacles
SpaceXAI's vision for an AI workforce is ambitious: deploy intelligent agents that can autonomously handle workplace tasks, navigate software stacks, ...
Ethereum Staking Hits 34% as New Proposal Reshapes Validator Economics
Ethereum's staking ecosystem just crossed a critical threshold—34% of all ETH is now locked in staking contracts. But here's what matters: researcher...
Goldman Sachs Acquires $2.25B NEOS: Instant Bitcoin ETF Scale Through Strategic Buy
Goldman Sachs is making a calculated move into crypto ETF territory through its $2. 25 billion acquisition of NEOS, an options-income specialist.
Kraken Expands Funded Trading Beyond Crypto Into US Equities and Commodities
Kraken is making a serious move into traditional markets. The crypto exchange has officially launched S&P 500 access through its funded trading progr...
Trump Faces Legal Challenge Over Truth Social's Premium Feed Model
A lawsuit is taking aim at Trump's Truth Social platform, alleging that its paid early-access feed mechanism violates constitutional rights by gatekee...
Bitcoin's $15B Exodus Reveals Self-Custody Strength, Not Weakness
Casa CEO Nick Neuman is making a provocative case: the massive Bitcoin migration following the $130 million Coldcard exploit doesn't expose self-custo...
Bitwise Slashes 14% of Workforce While Doubling Down on Growth Strategy
Bitwise has joined the wave of crypto industry layoffs, announcing a 14% workforce reduction despite maintaining bullish long-term projections. The m...
Polymarket Brings on Travis VanderZanden as CGO to Accelerate Market Expansion
Polymarket, the prediction markets platform operating on Polygon, has appointed Travis VanderZanden as chief growth officer—a strategic hire signaling...
AI Powers Rapid Exploitation of Critical Zoom Vulnerability — What Traders Need to Know
Security researchers just demonstrated something that should make every crypto exchange and custodian sweat: artificial intelligence can weaponize cri...
Fidelity's Ethereum ETF Could Revolutionize Staking for Institutional Investors
Fidelity Investments has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch an innovative Ethereum ETF that would fundamentally change how tr...
Goldman Sachs Snatches Income-Focused Crypto ETF Platform in $2.25B Neos Deal
Goldman Sachs is making a calculated move into the yield-generating crypto ETF space. The investment banking giant is acquiring Neos Investments in a...
FlightAware Quietly Withdraws Legal Challenge Against Kalshi Over Flight Data Contracts
FlightAware has dropped its lawsuit against Kalshi just 24 hours after filing it, signaling a quick resolution to what could have been a messy dispute...
Bank of England's Digital Pound Lab Pushes Stablecoin-Central Bank Money Integration for Global Trade
The Bank of England is actively stress-testing a critical infrastructure piece that crypto investors should be watching: how stablecoins interact with...
HashKey Steps Into Hong Kong's Regulated Stablecoin Play With HKDAP Distribution
HashKey has secured authorization to distribute Anchorpoint's HKDAP stablecoin, marking another significant move in Hong Kong's evolving regulated cry...
Critical Flaw: XRP Bridge Exploit Exposes Audit Blind Spots
A sophisticated attack on an XRP bridge has exposed a troubling gap in crypto infrastructure security. An attacker exploited a software vulnerability...