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Robinhood Chain crossed $250M in Uniswap volume in its first week, signaling rapid adoption for the new L2.
Tether is investing $20M in Brazil-based Mercado Bitcoin to expand tokenization and payments across Latin America.
KOR Protocol closed a $7.5M Series A at a $100M valuation, backed by Bankless Capital, 1kx, Sfermion, Republic, SevenX, and Alumni Ventures.
EDX Markets raises $76M in a Series C funding round led by SBI Holdings.
Ondo Perps now allows tokenized stocks as collateral for perpetual futures on commodities and stocks, pushing RWA into leveraged derivatives.
June saw RWA perpetual trading volume surpass $100B for the first time, driven by tokenized equities, commodities, and indices.
Broadridge's DLR processes $7.5T in monthly repo volume on Canton, averaging $357B per day. Bloomberg Terminal subscribers can now monitor that activity through Kaiko's Data Off-Ramp alongside existing fixed income market data.
Strike’s new Bitcoin-backed loans allow borrowing against BTC without margin calls or forced liquidations, as long as payments are current.
Secret Network announced a move to Arbitrum to scale privacy-preserving smart contracts, citing the need for broader reach.
Aave Labs posted a proposal to add Maple Finance’s syrupUSDG to the Global Dollar Hub on Aave V4, expanding yield-bearing stablecoin integrations.
Ondo Perps is live, allowing tokenized stocks as collateral for up to 20x leverage on equity perps.
Lazy Summer Protocol lost $6M to a NAV manipulation exploit three months in the making.
Chronicle CEO argues RWAs and tokenized assets will drive the next crypto bull market, with institutional adoption as the key catalyst. The episode dives into oracle infrastructure, DeFi scaling constraints, and the role of transparency in unlocking trillions in tokenized assets.
The episode covers institutional crypto adoption, tokenization of equities and RWAs, Ethereum's roadmap, AI-agent financial rails, and the rise of Hyperliquid/Paragon for onchain perpetuals and tokenized assets. Bullish theses dominate, with specific focus on Robinhood Chain, Near, Zcash, and AI-driven agentic finance.
The episode analyzes the US national debt crisis at $39.3T in mid-2026, with rising interest costs outpacing defense spending, and explores Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish stance amid constrained policy tools, highlighting systemic risks to markets and households.
Bankless 200th episode reflects on 14 months of AI-focused discussions, tracking explosive growth in AI valuations, compute as national security, and shifts in narrative trends (e.g., superintelligence mentions down 90% YoY), while forecasting IPOs for SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI by year-end and recursive self-improvement in AI by early 2027.
Brent Donnelly discusses trading psychology, edge via divergent thinking, and macro themes like USD/JPY intervention risks, Fed policy shifts, and Bitcoin's narrative fatigue, while highlighting LLM use for consensus gap detection.
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