Franklin Templeton maps a wallet-native future where tokenized stocks, bonds, and funds sit in digital wallets, cutting costs and speeding collateral and settlement. Summary Franklin Templeton executives told the Ondo Summit that digital wallets will hold the totality of an individual’s financial life in a wallet-native ecosystem. The firm’s Benji platform tokenizes stocks, bonds, and private funds,…
Elon Musk’s xAI is hiring a crypto finance expert to train frontier AI trading models across DeFi, derivatives and MEV — but offers just $45–$100 per hour. Summary xAI’s new “Finance Expert – Crypto” role focuses on annotating and critiquing AI trading models rather than executing trades. Candidates must handle on-chain analysis, DeFi, derivatives, arbitrage,…
Cboe is in talks to relaunch binary options contracts for retail investors, positioning regulated alternatives to compete with crypto prediction markets like Polymarket. Summary Cboe Global Markets is in early-stage discussions with retail brokerages to relaunch all-or-nothing binary options contracts that would compete with on-chain prediction markets like Polymarket The exchange aims to offer regulated,…
Hyperliquid price prediction HIP-4 expands outcome trading as HYPE trades far below its high, with rich valuations, heavy turnover, and skewed upside-downside risk. Summary HIP-4 adds “outcome” contracts for prediction markets and bounded options-like trades, expanding HyperCore’s non-linear derivatives toolkit. HYPE sits near $32–$33 with ~$860m 24h volume, up over 300% in a year yet…
Crypto VC deals fell in January, but funding exploded as big checks flowed into BitGo, Fireblocks, Ripple’s RLUSD push, DeFi bets, and SOL‑backed credit. Summary Crypto VC deals dropped 15% MoM and 42% YoY, while funding jumped 61% MoM and 497% YoY to $14.57b. Flagship deals included BitGo’s $212m IPO, Fireblocks’ $130m TRES buyout, and…
Trump says he knew nothing of a $500M Abu Dhabi-linked deal for World Liberty Financial, as critics probe conflicts of interest and ethics risks. Summary Trump says World Liberty Financial is run by his sons and he has no role in its $500M Abu Dhabi-linked funding deal. A Wall Street Journal report says Aryam Investment…
ING Germany now lets retail clients trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and XRP crypto ETPs via securities accounts, partnering with 21Shares, VanEck and others. Summary ING Deutschland launched crypto ETP trading for retail investors via its securities accounts platform. Clients can buy physically backed ETPs tracking Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and crypto index products without managing…
Musk’s SpaceX and xAI are exploring a $1.25T merger to fuse Starlink’s satellite network with advanced AI, creating space-based data and compute infrastructure. Summary SpaceX and xAI are in early merger talks that could value the combined entity at $1.25 trillion. The deal would marry Starlink’s global satellite network with xAI’s language models for defense,…
PEPE trades at $0.0000043, down 29% monthly. Whales fade rallies but price holds 21-day EMA. Upside targets $0.000007–$0.000012 if liquidity returns. Summary Pepe trades at $0.0000043, down 29% over the past month and 64% year-over-year, with $600M daily volume showing bruised but active speculation Whales continue fading short-term rallies while price reclaims the 21-day EMA,…
XRP’s derivatives market just snapped back to life — and that usually means the next leg is coming, one way or another. Summary XRP plunged over 21% from $1.93 to $1.52 before a textbook deleveraging cleared late long positions. Net XRP futures inflows spiked 749% in four hours as price reclaimed the $1.60 area, with…
