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Kalshi Eyes $40B Valuation, Stripe Preps Tempo, and Apple Pay Lands in India
Kalshi is in talks to raise $1 billion at a staggering $40 billion valuation as prediction markets transition into full-scale financial exchanges. Apple Pay …
SEC Says Decentralized Buybacks Aren't Securities, Coinbase Gets Clearing License
The SEC ruled that decentralized token buybacks don't trigger Howey classification, a direct response to a16z's Miles Jennings and a green light for on-chain …
Ramp's AR Push, Muse Buys on Shopify, and the CLARITY Act's Death
Ramp launched Accounts Receivable to close the contract-to-cash loop, going head-to-head with the ERP integrations that slow down collections. Shopify will let …
Nasdaq Puts $100M Into Kraken at $21B - and Sells It Tokenized Stocks
Nasdaq Ventures dropped $100 million into Kraken parent Payward at a $21 billion valuation, then agreed to let Kraken distribute Nasdaq-tokenized stocks with …
MetaMask Goes Independent, Hunter Biden's LAPTOP Token Crashes 99%
MetaMask spun out as an independent company and launched Transaction Shield, an opt-in feature covering up to $10,000 per month for deemed-safe transactions, …
Liquid Network Freezes After $320M Hack; Solana's Agent Micropayment Test Hits 1M/sec
The Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network went dark over the weekend after roughly 4,000 BTC ($320M) was withdrawn by purported white-hat hackers using the SideSwap …
Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B, Anthropic shops a $10B revolver, and Klarna loses a quarter of its value
Klarna shares fell nearly 25% after a Germany warning highlighted how thin US trading liquidity can punish foreign fintechs. Stripe closed its largest-ever …
Coinbase puts Apple, NVIDIA and Google onchain, and five L2s admit their fees
Coinbase went live with tokenized NVDA, AAPL, META and GOOGL on Base under the B20 standard, posting $4.55M in day-one onchain value and $10.8M in 24-hour …
Bitcoin tags $71K on $517M ETF day, Clarity Act gets an Oval Office push
Bitcoin broke $71,000 after spot ETFs pulled in $517 million on August 19, the largest single-day haul in months, and a separate $189 million flooded into …