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Stripe Buys Parafin, Robinhood Ships Trading Agents, and 23-Hour Equities Arrive
Stripe has agreed to acquire embedded lending infrastructure provider Parafin to bring programmatic credit directly to its 18,000 platform clients. Robinhood …
Clarity Act dies, Base deploys Cobalt, and Stripe picks Open USD
The Senate's failure to pass the Clarity Act cleared the way for sudden regulatory relief, including a five-year SEC exemption for tokenized equities and …
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 …
Kalshi cuts liquidity perks over wash trading, Robinhood rolls out US perps
Kalshi informed the CFTC it will shut down its Volume Incentive Program no earlier than October 13 following allegations that repeated $5,500 prints …
GPT-6 Luna Cuts AI Prices in Half as Agent Economics Turn Ugly
OpenAI and Anthropic both shipped flagship models within an hour of each other, and OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna undercuts its predecessor by 50% per token - good news …
SEC Greenlights Tokenized Stocks as Stripe Shows the SaaS-Pocalypse Never Came
The SEC is preparing to allow public companies to issue tokenized shares, a first for US capital markets, with dividends and voting rights traveling on-chain. …
Stripe and Advent walk away from a $53B PayPal bid; Walmart flips on Apple Pay
Stripe and Advent International have abandoned their pursuit of a $50B+ acquisition of PayPal after the board rejected their $60.50-per-share offer, sending …
Anthropic teaches agents to drive lab gear, Cloudflare sheds 100TB of DNS bloat
Anthropic shipped the Model Hardware Standard, a driver layer that lets AI agents control microscopes, cameras and lasers over a common interface, aiming to …
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 …
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 …