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Kalshi was ordered to open borders Tuesday and close them on Thursday

CFTC says fed regulated markets shouldn't block Americans. Well Judge Johnson's ordered Kalshi, Polymarket & Robinhood to block Louisiana 100%

Now the DOJ's taking their gloves off & suing states for control

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@Polymarket A) North Korea social engineers just went super saiyan
B) Aliens are preparing to land

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We've talked about ICE (NYSE owner) before. They're back, trying to fork their own stock market. OKX and ICE together are launching 24/7 US stock trading via Uni v4

Lil' hiccup: 90% of the 60 targeted mega corps rejected the tokenization, so ICE's fallback is leveraged ETFs

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@open_is_free The delay is to try to fix the rules first so that most already-deployed contracts don’t need rewrites 🤞

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ETH's next big upgrade, Glamsterdam, is going to break DeFi

It wants to scale Ethereum w/o killing decentralized node ops. BUT every test found its new gas rules would break 20% of Socket bridge batches, 7% of CoWSwap settlements, among hundreds of others!

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The problem: some DApps were built around gas costs Ethereum now wants to altar. Contracts can't be edited, and simply paying higher fees won't fix it

Thankfully Ethereum just postponed the next testnet upgrade and new proposals are already hitting the 'researchoors' inboxes 🙈

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Hollywood has a new insider problem. Studios are banning staff from prediction markets and opening snitch hotlines. We think of politicians trading on insider info, but imagine assistants who know final casting while the public's betting

Spoilers are filling retirement accounts

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@ballsyalchemist 100%

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Big banks like TD & BMO just started blocking agents from online banking. Meanwhile mega fintechs like Ant are launching agents that handle tokenized assets and bank transfers with new KYA (Know Your Agent) infra

First they want to KYC you, now they want to do it all over again

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Pretty cool breakthrough just hit with x401 + x402 combo. Agents finally have a more realistic path to spend in the physical world without heavy KYC!!!

For any merchant or store, an agent customer can easily show who sent it at checkout, prove the order's legit, and pay in USDC

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A few months ago SEC warned DeFi lending dApps that doing "headstands and backflips" to dodge securities laws could end in a "painful fall"

Welp, this invited builders to make a public, legal case, and Aave, Kamino, & Veda just took them up on it.

They just sent the SEC a framework: DeFi loans don't create legal debt. No creditor can demand repayment. Code handles collateral and liquidations and that DAO rules aren't the same as fund management.

DeFi doesn't want to play hide and seek. It wants to lock in and win

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AI, hacks, and quantum boogeymen. The fears matter less than the time decay

We've said it before, we'll say it again: our modeling thinks in multi year cycles, and it's still saying there's about 90 days left for BTC's long-term accumulation window 🫡

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Uber bypassed TradFi's Friday cutoff to farm the weekend with the power of tokenization

Need cash Sunday? Normally TradFi sells on Friday. But Uber just tapped tokenized money-markets to earn an extra 1.5 days of interest. Insane tbh. Idle corporate cash is smartening up

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Wall Street went DeFi shopping this week

Monday: S&P bought OpenZeppelin
Wednesday: S&P's vault risk assessments onchain
Thursday: NYSE / ICE bought into TradeXYZ and pushing into US perps with Hyperliquid

They're coming for your infra before they come for your bags.

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NBA made BOTH @Polymarket and @Kalshi preferred exchanges in the last 24 hrs. Official NBA data will help settle contracts, and the NBA gets a say in which markets will be created

NBA:
- hosts the games
- license the scores
- and now controls the predictoor listings

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@HyperliquidX Hyperliquid

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We've barely figured out how to run DAOs, and now Delaware is considering letting AI agents run full on corporations

Real world contracts, legal decisions and asset management, all controlled by agents

"Corporations are people" is about to get a philosophical twist.

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Uniswap just rambo'd into the competitive aggregator wars! v4 router now taps Curve, Fluid, PancakeSwap, & more DEXs when you're looking to swap

tl;dr: Uniswap now searches most of DeFi instead of just its own liquidity, aggregatoooring, and collects new fees on these swaps too

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@getcompi On the HL chain side, a lot of up and comer 3rd party dApps. HyperLend has been operating solidly

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DeFi stat of the day: HyperEVM only made $12k in gas yesterday, while Core brought in ~$2.4M revenue

The killer rev products aren't just leaders in their lanes, but vertically integrating their orderflow

Compare across L1s, should L1s try to build more DeFi products directly?

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@tradfi Hyperliquid