AI
Coinbase expands AI access to stocks and crypto
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the exchange is building financial accounts for AI agents, with isolated portfolios and controlled trading access.
stocks
acquisition
Circle buys Tazapay in $400M all-stock deal
Circle agreed to acquire Tazapay for $400 million in stock, adding payment volume exceeding $25 billion and payout rails across 100 markets.
Bitcoin
Strategy pauses Bitcoin buys, doubles buyback plan
Strategy spent $176.3 million repurchasing STRC, doubled its preferred securities buyback authorization and kept 845,050 BTC.
Bitcoin
Castle lets users convert STRC dividends into Bitcoin
Castle has opened its automated financial platform to individual users, allowing customers to convert any portion of the 12% annual dividend paid by Strategy’s STRC preferred…
AMC
Robinhood AMC tokens expose limits of short squeezes
Robinhood’s AMC stock token gained an onchain premium, but dynamic issuance and arbitrage limited its ability to squeeze the real stock.
Lawsuit
Robinhood-AMC clash may speed US stock token rules
Robinhood has rejected AMC Entertainment’s demand to halt an AMC-linked token, turning a dispute over one of its 189 stock products into a test of how…
Binance
Binance launches U.S. stock, ETF options
Binance has launched long-only options on selected U.S. stocks and ETFs, with physical settlement and custody provided through Alpaca.
News
DeFi Development prices $19.8M CHAD stock offering
DeFi Development priced 2.2 million CHAD preferred shares at $9 each, with proceeds potentially supporting additional Solana purchases.
Coinbase
Tokenized stocks hit $29.5B as Coinbase joins Base
Tokenized stock transfers jumped 415% to $29.5 billion as Coinbase launched four share-backed equity tokens on Base for non-U.S. users.
Bitcoin
Strive’s SATA may fund 1,192 BTC purchases this week
Strive’s SATA preferred stock has generated an estimated amount of funding sufficient to purchase 1,192 Bitcoin this week, according to live market monitoring. SATA has reopened…