Robinhood CEO: Real-World Assets Will Outshine Memecoins
Vlad Tenev frames the trade as TradFi and digital assets merging: tokenized funds and onchain treasuries are the wedge, and memecoins are the noise he says doesn't deserve attention.
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Vlad Tenev frames the trade as TradFi and digital assets merging: tokenized funds and onchain treasuries are the wedge, and memecoins are the noise he says doesn't deserve attention.
The listing marks a rare public-market debut for a core piece of the RWA tokenization stack, giving institutional investors direct equity exposure to the infrastructure layer underpinning on-chain…
With recovery odds described as low, the project is stepping away from its identity-and-blockchain roots, a strategic retreat that signals how deep the damage runs.
Bitget becomes the first major crypto exchange to bundle options on US-listed equities alongside its crypto perps and CFD books, signalling a continued push to be a single venue for retail…
The chipmaker joins a small group of corporates funding a federal program that seeds investment accounts for US children, a structure that pairs public policy with private capital and locks in early…
The deal would put Anthropic in the same custom-silicon lane as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, and signals just how compute-bound frontier labs have become.
The listing gives public-market investors direct exposure to the infrastructure layer of real-world asset tokenization for the first time, a sector that has drawn billions in institutional capital.
The Japanese financial group's exit pulls roughly 2% of network hashrate off the table with a month to migrate, layering fresh pool-concentration risk onto a sector already squeezed on margins.
The 80% threshold is the hard part of the XRPL amendment process; crossing it on first contact would unlock pooled vaults and fixed-term loans as native primitives rather than bolt-ons.
Launched with Broadridge and transfer agent Oasis Pro, the deployment is the production test of the SEC's January tokenization framework, and the first time tokenized U.S.
A six-month disclosure delay on a $100K–$250K MSTR position puts STOCK Act compliance back in focus, with crypto-policy lines crossing into personal holdings.
CACEIS would inherit a MiCA CASP license, 150,000 users, and roughly €350M in AUM, the first time one of France's systemic banks has bought a domestic crypto retail venue outright.
A near-doubling in seven months, anchored by an OCC national bank charter and a defense-tech founder with Pentagon ties, signals that the crypto-banking thesis is graduating from sandbox to balance…
The launch lands as the SEC's January tokenization guidance finally gets a real-world test, with Ondo bringing BlackRock's $IVV and Micron equity on-chain in one move.
The seller profile is rotating in real time: spot ETFs keep bleeding while long-term holders flip from distribution to accumulation and smaller wallets absorb the other side of the trade.
The Ripple CEO argued Strategy's leveraged buy loop distracts from Bitcoin's real institutional story, which he says is now about volatility income, not price direction.
Long calls and long puts land on the crypto-native exchange's Stock+ product for eligible users, the latest step in a multi-asset expansion beyond derivatives.
Palmer Luckey's crypto- and defense-focused neobank has roughly doubled its December mark to $8B while deposits hit $4.05B, with profitability targeted by year-end.
The bank argues Strategy should hold 24–36 months of dividend coverage, not 17, and finance any buffer with equity, not BTC sales, as the policy adds avoidable supply-side uncertainty at the market's…
The Korean media company liquidated every bitcoin and is redirecting roughly $485M of once-bitcoin-bound financing into AI infrastructure, joining miners that rotated out of crypto and into compute…