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Donald Trump

2026-10-03 15:01:03

Trump Sets Nov. 22 Gala Dinner for Top TRUMP Meme Coin Holders as Crypto Ethics Debate Lingers

President Donald Trump is planning another dinner for top holders of the TRUMP meme coin, with the event scheduled for Nov. 22 at Trump National in Virginia, near Washington. According to the event page run by Fight Fight Fight LLC, the company behind the token, seats will go to the top 185 registered holders based on a time-weighted ranking that rewards larger and longer-held positions, with a final snapshot set for Nov. 12. The top 29 holders will be invited to a VIP reception with Trump and one guest "legend," while the top four will receive an 18-karat gold Trump watch. The page also states that no attendee will receive a private meet-and-greet with the president. The announcement comes a little more than two weeks after the Clarity Act failed a key procedural vote in the Senate, where restrictions tied to Trump’s crypto holdings became a major point of dispute. Trump’s latest financial disclosure showed more than $635 million in 2025 income from the token, almost all from licensing royalties, while his total crypto income exceeded $1.2 billion.

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Arthur Hayes

2026-10-02 10:38:51

Arthur Hayes says U.S. money creation could lift crypto, while China stimulus may boost scarce assets

Arthur Hayes said U.S. policymakers may support the artificial intelligence sector and government debt financing through monetary expansion, a move he said could push crypto prices higher, according to Cointelegraph. He also said a shift in China from limited tightening to large-scale monetary stimulus could increase demand for scarce assets. Hayes added that he is watching signs of financial stress in France, including credit default swaps tied to BNP Paribas and spreads on French government bonds. The report also gathered views from several industry executives on onchain finance and institutional participation. Portal Ventures general partner Catrina Wang said banks and asset managers hold an advantage in onchain finance because of existing client relationships. R3 co-founder Todd McDonald said public blockchains can help institutions reach customers beyond their own networks, while World Liberty Financial growth EVP Justin Kugel said demand for asset management and investment evaluation still leaves room for intermediaries. Franklin Templeton executive Chetan Karkhanis said the firm does not plan to issue its own stablecoin and prefers tokenized money market funds that offer yield.

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Robinhood

2026-10-01 03:58:50

Robinhood crypto executive says stock tokens are backed by real shares held in custody

Robinhood’s crypto business is presenting its stock-token product as one backed by actual equity holdings rather than a synthetic instrument tied only to price moves. Speaking during Korea Blockchain Week 2026, Robinhood Crypto general manager Johann Kerbrat said the company buys the corresponding shares of the underlying firms and keeps those holdings in custody for the product. He added that when users trade Robinhood’s stock tokens, the tokens represent real stock assets behind the scenes, not merely derivatives based on changes in share prices. The remarks were cited by Cointelegraph and carried by Odaily. The statement addresses how Robinhood structures the product and what stands behind the tokenized exposure offered to users.

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AI

2026-09-28 10:30:41

AI boosts output, but crypto reshapes production relations, Foresight article argues

A Foresight article examines why AI and crypto have produced very different wealth effects, arguing that the gap is less about how much efficiency a tool can unlock and more about whether it changes production relations. Drawing on comments cited from Meng Yan, the piece says modern society operates as a dense collaborative network in which most people only need to meet the productivity threshold required by their role. Once that threshold is met, higher personal output may not create much additional value for the network, nor can that extra value necessarily be distributed to others who would pay for it. That, the article says, helps explain why many workers using AI tools see better efficiency and better work results without seeing higher pay. It also extends the same logic to AI startups that may use new tools but still occupy essentially unchanged positions in existing networks. By contrast, the article describes crypto as a technology that changes production relations more directly. It points to ICO, DeFi, NFT, blockchain gaming, inscriptions and meme sectors as examples of periods in which new relationship networks briefly formed, creating wealth opportunities for participants who entered early, even if many of those waves were later seen as speculative or flawed.

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Bernstein

2026-09-22 08:59:13

Bernstein sees prediction market volume reaching $10 trillion by 2035

Bernstein expects annual trading volume in prediction markets to reach $10 trillion by 2035, according to The Block. The firm also projects that total volume will come in at $410 billion in 2026. In Bernstein’s forecast, crypto, equities and commodities will grow into a larger share of the market over time. Those three segments are expected to overtake sports and account for 49% of total prediction market trading volume by 2035. The projection points to a market structure that would be less dominated by sports-related activity and more weighted toward financial and macro-linked contracts. The figures cited in the report were attributed to Bernstein through The Block.

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Australia

2026-09-22 05:29:31

Australia’s 40-year economic outlook highlights AI but leaves crypto out

Australia’s latest Intergenerational Report puts artificial intelligence at the center of the country’s long-term economic transition, naming it one of five major shifts expected to reshape the economy over the next 40 years. The report, released Monday by the Australian Treasury, says agentic AI systems have become far more capable, autonomous and widely used, even exceeding human-level performance on some benchmarks. Yet it makes no mention of crypto or digital assets. That omission drew criticism from Coinbase Australia country director John O’Loghlen, who said the report focuses heavily on AI while overlooking the financial infrastructure those AI agents may eventually require. He argued that if Australia wants to turn technological adoption into long-term prosperity, it also needs to address the rails that could support digital finance, including tokenized stored-value frameworks for stablecoins and clearer rules for tokenized markets. The omission stands out because Australia’s central bank has increased its attention on tokenized finance and financial infrastructure upgrades this year, while the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre has estimated that digital finance innovation could add 24 billion Australian dollars, or $17.1 billion, in annual economic gains. Treasury’s separate Financial Innovation Strategy, released on Sept. 3, does acknowledge that agentic systems could drive demand for real-time, interoperable and programmable payment systems.

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Robinhood

2026-09-21 03:44:39

Robinhood CEO says crypto-linked prediction contracts are gaining share as sports may become a minority

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said prediction markets are expanding well beyond sports, with crypto-related contracts already taking an outsized share of activity and sports likely to become a minority category within a few years. Speaking on CNBC’s Mad Money, Tenev described sports as an entry point that helps attract users, liquidity, and attention, while the broader business shifts into other verticals. He also said prediction markets, stocks, and crypto serve as customer acquisition channels for Robinhood, with many users later adopting additional products, including retirement accounts. Robinhood’s numbers show how large the segment has become. In the second quarter of 2026, the company reported 13.6 billion event contracts traded and $156 million in revenue from the business, both up more than 10-fold from a year earlier. That revenue topped crypto trading revenue of $100 million and stock trading revenue of $129 million, trailing only options at $342 million. Robinhood also said its in-house exchange, Rothera, launched in June and had processed more than 3.5 billion contracts by the end of July. The platform, built on the former MIAXdx and originally LedgerX, started with sports contracts even as Robinhood points to broader non-sports growth.

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RootData

2026-09-18 09:00:43

RootData launches redesigned homepage to combine TradFi and crypto market data

RootData has rolled out a redesigned homepage that brings traditional finance and crypto market data into a single interface. The update combines nine core sections, including market overview, capital flows, stablecoin liquidity, platform market share, hot assets, public chain market data, protocol revenue, TradFi trading activity, and RootData Research reports. According to the company, the redesign is aimed at improving research and decision-making in a market where tokenized stocks, crypto-native assets, ETFs, and stablecoins increasingly interact across venues and chains. The new layout highlights indicators such as total crypto market capitalization, the Fear and Greed Index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, CEX derivatives volume, crypto ETF inflows and outflows, tokenized asset size, and crypto fundraising data. It also adds tools for tracking stablecoin supply changes, exchange market share across spot, derivatives, prediction markets, and popular stocks, as well as a combined hot-assets list covering both crypto-native and TradFi-linked assets. RootData said the homepage builds on earlier launches including its tokenized assets section and stock business rankings.

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