Standard Chartered Joins ESMA MiCA Register: Traditional Finance Enters European Crypto Framework
MiCA Day+2: ESMA Publishes First CASP Register Update. Standard Chartered Listed. Binance Still Absent. Regulatory Divide Widens.
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AI Infrastructure: $638 Billion Order Book, 18-Month Low Prices - The Cycle Discount
The AI paradox: the companies building tomorrow's data centers see their stocks decline while their order books overflow.
Jul 2, 2026 at 16:36 9 9
Arjun Mehta
Robinhood Launches AI Trading Agents and Credit Card: From Retail Broker to Financial Super-App
Autonomous AI agents, credit card, in-house blockchain: Robinhood no longer wants to be just a broker. This full-stack vertical integration is redrawing the boundaries between TradFi, FinTech, and DeFi.
Jul 2, 2026 at 16:36 10 10
Aisha Bello
Starwood Invests $10 Billion in Real Estate in the AI Era: PE and REITs Accelerate the Pivot
The largest independent real estate PE fund redirects $10B toward data centers and compute infrastructure. After the Digital Realty/Blackstone deal, all institutional capital is shifting.
Jul 2, 2026 at 10:19 9 11
Mei-Ling Chen
The Major Blind Spot of CBDCs: The Korean White Paper Overlooks Privacy
South Korea Releases Its Unified Ledger Plan – And Overlooks Privacy. A Wake-Up Call for Central Banks Flying Blind.
Jul 2, 2026 at 10:19 8 8
Elena Fischer
Visa, BlackRock and 138 Others: The Coalition Aiming to Dethrone Circle
A stablecoin network with 140 players has just been launched, Circle collapses on the stock market. The digital dollar infrastructure war has been declared.
Jul 2, 2026 at 10:17 8 9
Elena Fischer
Robinhood Launches a Public Blockchain: The Retail Broker Enters the Crypto Infrastructure Era
Robinhood no longer just wants to provide access to crypto—it wants to become its infrastructure. A proprietary public blockchain is a category shift.
Jul 1, 2026 at 22:49 7 8
Lars Eriksson
Together AI Raises $800M at $8.3B Valuation: The Race for GPU Neoclouds Enters a New Phase
When compute is scarce, whoever controls it sets the rules. Together AI has just proven this with an $800 million funding round.
Jul 1, 2026 at 22:49 8 8
Arjun Mehta
BlackRock Integrates USDe into Aladdin, Spiko Ties Its T-Bills to Coinbase Rails: The DeFi/TradFi Boundary Dissolves
In 48 hours, two signals confirm the same trend: tokenized data and instruments are entering the traditional institutional infrastructure.
Jul 1, 2026 at 09:38 9 9
Elena Fischer
Securitize crosses the stock market threshold: asset tokenization enters the era of public transparency
The shareholder vote that changes the equation: Securitize will be the first tokenization platform listed on the stock market – and the sector will now have to justify its promises to the markets.
Jun 30, 2026 at 23:30 11 12
Elena Fischer
Nasdaq Brings Its Market Data On-Chain via Pyth: Institutional Data Enters the DeFi Layer
For the first time, Nasdaq's proprietary data feeds are circulating natively on public blockchains—a further piece in the infrastructure of a hybrid TradFi/DeFi finance system.
Jun 30, 2026 at 23:26 5 9
Elena Fischer
ASML outperforms in tech sell-off: memory supercycle confirms resilience of upstream AI chain
While the Mag7 lose $2.3 trillion in June, ASML shows notable relative outperformance and Micron confirms the HBM memory supercycle. The contrarian angle of the tech sell-off: upstream infrastructure holds up better than platforms.
Jun 30, 2026 at 16:48 9 10