Unchained

The SEC’s next tokenization rule could force platforms to get issuer sign-off for stock tokens first. Securitize’s Brett Redfearn lays out what’s actually at stake for Wall Street.

FOMO co-founder Paul Erlanger joins Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun to answer last week’s unc takes on memecoins: why a fully transparent social graph beats copy trading, how FOMO became the biggest app on Robinhood Chain, Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP token, the three-way launchpad war, AMC’s fight with Robinhood over tokenized stock, and the AI race to solve Navier-Stokes.

The company spent $176.3 million buying STRC below par and bought no bitcoin at all, as defending the preferred takes priority over accumulation.

The brokerage will own a piece of both venues, priced off Crypto.com’s $20 billion valuation, as its prediction markets unit outgrows its crypto business.

Rodrigo Coelho, CEO of Edge & Node and a founding member of Ampersend, says a wallet-level control layer can block an AI agent from overspending or acting on a hallucination. He also notes that banks like BNY Mellon are already testing agentic commerce even though real transaction volume has not caught up to the hype yet.

Para CEO Nitya Subramanian tells Laura Shin how agentic wallet permissions will evolve and the first sectors that will be made obsolete by agentic commerce.

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

An attacker inflated Tectonic’s own governance token roughly 100-fold and borrowed against it, and Cronos validators froze the entire network in response.

The company behind much of Ethereum’s tooling will carry on as MetaMask under Joe Lubin, while its protocol and institutional infrastructure work, including Linea and Besu, moves into a newly formed company that takes the Consensys name.

The EF’s Protocol cluster set a hard date for post-quantum Ethereum and graded 62 proposals for the fork that decides whether it holds.

Ten AI coding agents ran the same 12 Solidity challenges human developers faced at Devcon. Only OpenAI’s Codex cleared the course, and the cheapest near-finisher was an open-weight Chinese model.

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger’s Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

The SEC’s next tokenization rule could force platforms to get issuer sign-off for stock tokens first. Securitize’s Brett Redfearn lays out what’s actually at stake for Wall Street.

The FTX founder wants a new trial, arguing jurors heard about customer losses while his lawyers were barred from showing the assets were there to repay them.

The new text adds CFTC registration for DeFi protocols that are not truly decentralized, but leaves the ethics section Democrats are holding out for untouched.

The disclosure does not separate crypto income from Witkoff’s other businesses, and it lands a week before a Senate vote Democrats have tied to conflict-of-interest rules.

A crowdsourced challenge of more than 100 researchers and AI agents drove a quantum benchmark down 86% in two months, well below Google’s March figure.

BitBox reported a matching campaign the same day, weeks after a shipping provider breach exposed tens of thousands of Trezor customer records.

Albert Castellana and Arthur Hayes walk through how GenLayer resolves an AI agent’s dispute in minutes, for cents, without a single human judge involved.

The exposure could reach more than 80,000 customer records, going back to orders placed in 2019, years after Trezor says it was told those records were gone.