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Morning Minute: Citadel Cautions Against the AI Trade Ahead of SpaceX IPO

Citadel says the AI boom may be running into a cost wall, and Tether just led a $1.4B round into…
Infrastructure

Why is Solana falling despite ETF inflows and booming activity?

Solana spot ETF AUM crossed $1 billion by month-end, following $115.3 million in net inflows in May, the best monthly…
AI

Tether Leads Up to $1.4 Billion Round in Robotics Firm Neura, Plans to Embed Crypto Wallets in Machines

Tether is leading a round of up to $1.4 billion in German robotics firm Neura Robotics, one of the largest…
AI

Tether, Nvidia and Amazon Back Humanoid Robotics Firm NEURA in $1.4 Billion Funding Round

Stablecoin giant Tether led a massive Series C round for German robotics firm NEURA, which will embed crypto payment tools…
AI

Netomi CEO says $5 trillion AI customer experience market could boost stablecoin demand

Puneet Mehta, a former high-level Wall Street engineer and data scientist, said the rapid expansion of AI enterprise software will…
DeFi

Morpho Raises $175 Million Co-Led by Paradigm, a16z Crypto, and Ribbit Capital to Build ‘Open Credit Network’

Morpho raised $175 million co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital, with Apollo Funds, Circle Ventures, and VanEck participating,…
Institutional

Japan's Largest Banks Plan Joint Stablecoin Launch by March 2027

Megabanks MUFG Bank, Mizuho Bank and SMBC have formed a council to develop frameworks for jointly issuing a stablecoin in…
Payments

Japan's three largest banks aim for joint stablecoin issue by March

MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho will establish a council to explore operational frameworks and prepare for the issuance of stablecoins. Read…
Institutional

Hyperliquid, Paradigm urge revision of GENIUS money-laundering rule

The Hyperliquid Policy Center and Paradigm say the Treasury’s money-laundering rules for the GENIUS Act are too onerous for stablecoin…
DeFi

Circle wants wrapped Bitcoin to look bank grade before institutions trust it as collateral

cirBTC gives Circle a BTC wrapper, but the harder test is whether custody, reserves, liquidity, and redemption controls can win…