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Tech

Institutions Are Driving Ethereum's 'Comeback'

ETH's price has more than doubled in value since April aided by institutions betting on stablecoins and tokenization, corporate treasuries and L2s.

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Markets

Coinbase, Robinhood Hit Record Highs as U.S. House Passes Landmark Crypto Legislation

Crypto-linked stocks climbed higher on Thursday bolstered by investor optimism on stablecoin and crypto market structure bills advancing.

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Policy

Robinhood’s OpenAI Tokens Walk a Legal Tightrope, Says Crypto Lawyer

Efforts to tokenize pre-IPO stocks, like what Robinhood is doing with OpenAI, may help unlock liquidity in private markets, but the structure likely qualifies as a security, carries bankruptcy risk and could spark lawsuits over shareholder agreement breaches.

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Markets

Robinhood Says OpenAI Stock Tokens Backed by Special Purpose Vehicle

Vlad Tenev told CNBC that these tokens are technically not equity, but provide similar exposure.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

Markets

OpenAI Warns That Tokenized Equity Sale on Robinhood Is Unauthorized

"Any transfer of OpenAI equity requires our approval — we did not approve any transfer,” the company said in a statement.

OpenAI's Sam Altman, who has proposed Universal Basic Compute as a fix for automation-driven global equality. (Village Global/Flickr)

Markets

Spot Ethereum ETFs Could See Explosive Growth in H2 2025, Says Bitwise CIO

Ether climbs to $2,601 as institutional narratives strengthen following bullish ETF commentary and Robinhood’s L2 blockchain development on Arbitrum.

Ether price chart shows 8% rise to $2,601

Finance

Robinhood Pushes Deeper Into Crypto With Own Blockchain, Tokenized Stock Launch

The tokenized versions of U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs will first be available to EU users and issued on Arbitrum, with future plans to deploy them on on Robinhood's own blockchain.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

Markets

Robinhood Launches Micro Bitcoin, Solana and XRP Futures Contracts

The move expands its existing crypto futures offering to its nearly 26 million funded accounts.

A Macbook Pro opened to Robinhood's website. (PiggyBank/Unsplash)

Markets

Ark Invest Continues to Dump Circle Shares, Buys Robinhood and Coinbase

The firm had earlier sold Circle shares in three tranches.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

North Korean Hackers Are Targeting Top Crypto Firms With Malware Hidden in Job Applications

A DPRK-linked group is using fake job sites and Python malware to infiltrate Windows systems of blockchain professionals — with credential theft and remote access as the endgame.

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