David Christopher

Robinhood Chain Hidden Gems? 5 Tokens We're Watching

Highlighting a handful of Robinhood Chain tokens on our radar right now.

Pump.fun Launches Custom Pairs for Tokenized Stocks

Pump.fun launches Custom Pairs, letting creators launch tokens against stocks, crypto, metals, and more while earning fees in the paired asset.

trade[XYZ] Launches HIP-4 Event Markets

trade[XYZ] launches Events on Hyperliquid via HIP-4, bringing outcome markets for finance, sports, politics, and more into one unified account.

Fearing Frontier Labs, Longing Inference Markets

A suspicious OpenAI encounter highlights growing distrust around AI data, and why Venice and onchain inference markets may benefit.

Visa Taps Onchain Credit for Stablecoin Card Settlement

Visa is bringing onchain credit into card settlement as stablecoin-linked programs scale and settlement volume tops a $20B annualized run rate.

Robinhood Takes Stakes in Crypto.com, OG.com

Robinhood will add OG.com prediction markets and take minority stakes in both OG and Crypto.com as it expands its event-contract business.

Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP Memecoin Hits Base Sept. 9

Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP launches on Base Sept. 9 with Trump-loss airdrops, prediction-linked burns, and immediate online backlash.

AMC CEO Blasts Robinhood Stock Tokens as AMC Shares Rally

AMC’s fight with Robinhood Stock Tokens sent CINEMA soaring, alongside the actual AMC stock, showing how tokenized stocks can be guerrilla marketing machines for public companies.

The Stock-Paired Memecoin Squeeze Is a Lie

Why cornering a tokenized stock's supply doesn't corner the real stock.

World Open-Sources ProveKit for Private Identity Proofs

World open-sources ProveKit, letting users prove identity claims like age or nationality without exposing their personal data.

HyperStrat Expands HYPE Buying Power to $2.5B

HyperStrat expands its equity facility from $1B to $2.5B, giving the HYPE treasury company more firepower to keep accumulating tokens.

Ethena Launches Neobank App on Avalanche

Ethena launches Ethena Pay, offering USDe yields, card rewards, global transfers, and new utility for ENA.

Permissionless Prediction Markets Go Live on Hyperliquid

Anyone with 500K HYPE can now launch their own prediction markets on Hyperliquid.

Trump Crypto Investors Are $4.7B Underwater

Public Citizen estimates Trump-linked crypto investors are down at least $4.7B across TRUMP, WLFI, NFTs and Trump Media’s treasury.

Solana Narrowly Passes Double-Disinflation Proposal

Solana narrowly passed SGP-0002, accelerating its path to 1.5% inflation by 2029, while its sister fee-burn proposal failed.

Ethena Adds Equities to Basis Trade, Shutters HIP-3 Market

Ethena is expanding USDe into equity perps as it overhauls ENA tokenomics and looks to reignite ecosystem growth.

Why Solana Wants Less Inflation, Faster

Solana's SGP-0002, which looks set to pass, would double the SOL disinflation rate and cut the path to 1.5% terminal inflation to under 3 years.

JPMorgan Weighs Stablecoin as Bank Push Accelerates

JPMorgan weighs its own stablecoin as major banks explore a global consortium and thousands of smaller banks launch BankChain Alliance.

Hyperliquid Gets Pumpfun Support, Energy Perps Push

Pumpfun adds HyperEVM trading as HPC pushes U.S. energy perps and AQA v2 begins generating USDC yield for HYPE buybacks.

Roman Storm Retrial Delayed to April 2027

Roman Storm’s retrial moves to April 2027 as a judge weighs throwing out his conviction and questions grow over Chainalysis’s role.

What to Expect from Kinetiq's Upcoming Hyperliquid L2

Hyperliquid’s first L2 is nearing launch. Here’s what Elysium could mean for DeFi, spot markets, and Kinetiq’s growing role in the ecosystem.

Kinetiq Unveils Elysium L2 for Hyperliquid

Kinetiq unveiled Elysium, a Hyperliquid L2 built to improve HyperEVM performance, revive spot trading, and create a new KNTQ buyback engine.

Phantom to Drop Sui in Second Chain Exit

Phantom will drop Sui support come Sept. 24, following its Monad exit as Sui TVL remains roughly 82% below its peak.

Strategy Creates $1.6B Flexible Cash Pool

Strategy created a $1.59B cash pool for Bitcoin, buybacks, debt, and preferreds as it builds more flexibility into its capital stack.

Recapping the Week in AiFi

Stripe, AWS, and Alipay all just made major moves in agentic payments.

Ramp Adds x402 Payments for AI Agents

Ramp adds x402 payments for AI agents, extending its agent finance push as AWS and Stripe accelerate the agentic payments race.

X Explores Stablecoin Payments for Creators

X is exploring stablecoin creator payouts as social platforms increasingly add payments and adopt crypto rails.

Trump Says CFTC Working to Bring Hyperliquid to U.S.

Trump says CFTC Chair Mike Selig is working on a compliant U.S. path for Hyperliquid after months of regulatory engagement.

The Debasement Trade Returns

Bitcoin’s breakout revives the debasement trade as Treasury buybacks, AI spending and Japan fuel bets on looser policy ahead.

Centrifuge Proposes Converting Token Into Equity

Centrifuge proposes letting eligible CFG holders subscribe for company shares at one CFG per share as it explores a token-to-equity conversion.

Kaito Launches Pulse Social Layer for X

Kaito launches Pulse and Aura, bringing verified reputation and activity to "social trading" via the X timeline.

South Korea Blocks Polymarket Over Gambling Concerns

South Korea blocked Polymarket over illegal gambling concerns, joining more than 30 jurisdictions restricting the prediction market.

Why Stripe Wants OpenRouter

Stripe’s OpenRouter deal reveals a bigger bet on inference markets, agentic payments, and stablecoins as the rails for machine commerce.

JPMorgan Dropped Polymarket Banking Over Regulatory Risk

Last October, JPMorgan ended Polymarket’s banking relationship over regulatory concerns but still maintains significant ties to the platform.

SEC Delays Vote on Crypto Fundraising Rules

The SEC postponed a vote on rules that could give crypto projects new fundraising exemptions as the CLARITY Act stalls in Congress.

Kalshi Eyes $40B Valuation in Yet Another New Raise

Kalshi is reportedly raising $750M+ at a $40B valuation, seeing its valuation 20x in a year as it considers for a 2027 IPO.

CFTC Walks the Prediction Market Tightrope

This week, the CFTC defended prediction markets from state intervention while tightening oversight as the industry scales.

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Eigen Labs Launches Yukon for Open AI Research

Eigen Labs launched Yukon, an open, autoresearch platform where humans and AI agents can compete to solve any technical research challenge.