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Behind Sony-Affiliated Public Chain Soneium's Token Issuance: A Layer 2 Tries to Tell a New Entertainment Story
Sony-affiliated Ethereum Layer 2 Soneium has unveiled plans to issue a native token and, around character IP, music royalties and entertainment-business financing, is rolling out a new onchain economic framework. After multiple rounds of exploration and transformation along the IP track, Soneium is trying to find a development path different from conventional public chains through entertainment-industry resources and the tokenization of income-producing assets.
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The NBA Officially Enters the Prediction Market Era
The NBA has decided to formally partner with Kalshi and Polymarket, seeking a new balance between claiming control of the market, safeguarding competitive integrity and developing commercial revenue.
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a16z Takes Down the Crypto Sign: The End of an Era for a Generation of Crypto VCs
Eight years ago, crypto was enough to support a16z in setting up a standalone fund and to subsequently attract nearly $10 billion in capital; eight years later, Dixon has brought this top-tier fund back to the broader frontier technology world, and crypto—which once defined his entire investment career—is now no longer enough on its own to define this fund's future.
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"$8 Million Sold in 30 Seconds" Amid the Blockchain Gaming Winter: A New Speculative Game Unfolds on Robinhood
Amid the blockchain gaming winter, Yield Fields' 3,333 NFTs sold out in 30 seconds, with sales totaling roughly $8.3 million. From Abstract to Robinhood Chain, hot public chains keep rotating, and small blockchain game developers are chasing liquidity and speculative enthusiasm in search of new opportunities.
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Swallowing a European bank and buying aggressively, is Kraken's VC-turned-new chief set to be crypto's disruptor?
From social gaming entrepreneur to Silicon Valley venture capitalist to Kraken co-CEO, Arjun Sethi's career has undergone several transformations. As Payward acquires a derivatives platform, a payments company and a European bank in succession, he is turning the veteran crypto exchange into an infrastructure group spanning multiple financial businesses.
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Interview with Bitget's Xie Jiayin: The Responsibility and Ambition Behind the UEX Layout and Eight Years of Growth
On the occasion of Bitget's eighth anniversary, Xie Jiayin, Head of Greater China, sat down with PANews to reflect on the handling of the platform's recent security incident, the progress of the UEX all-in-one exchange business, and his own eight-year growth journey in the crypto industry.
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从宇树科技到Winverse AI，DeepSeek梁文锋的物理世界新棋局
继斥资上亿元投资宇树科技后，DeepSeek又被曝拟领投机器人AI初创公司Winverse AI。随着梁文锋开始关注具身智能领域，这家以大语言模型闻名的AI公司，正在尝试将技术和资本触角延伸至物理世界。
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Trading Boom, Industrial Shackles: Why Is South Korea's Crypto Sector Stuck in a Structural Deadlock?
With tens of millions of trading accounts and one of East Asia's most active crypto markets, South Korea still ranks low in comprehensive assessments of crypto industry competitiveness. As banks, brokerages and tech giants accelerate their entry into digital assets, South Korea is attempting to change the regulatory model of the past decade...
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"Great Migration" to the Solana Ecosystem: How Will ZetaChain Advance Its New AI Strategy?
ZetaChain is preparing to move ZETA and Anuma to Solana, concentrating resources on its private AI business. Underpinning this transformation is a user memory that can persist across models and applications, along with the product and token economy rebuilt around it.
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Donald Trump Jr.'s Capital Play: A President Father, 1789, and the Business of Politics
When his father returned to the White House, Donald Trump Jr. promptly shifted his focus from the family real estate business to venture capital. Now, 1789 Capital, which he joined, is in talks to raise $3 billion, while he simultaneously serves as an advisor to two major prediction markets. From the campaign stage to the capital markets, just how much commercial value does the political influence of the president's son actually carry?
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The Virtual Worlds Left Behind by the Metaverse Are Now Home to Robot "Residents"
Humans ultimately did not move into the metaverse as originally envisioned. But the roads paved for virtual worlds have not been entirely abandoned—robots are now walking back along them, into reality.
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Web3 Games Begin to Embrace AI, Perhaps Not Just About Chasing Trends or Changing Narratives
For the surviving blockchain gaming companies, riding the wave of AI may also be an opportunity to re-answer the question of 'what problems should technology actually solve for games.'
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Trump accepted '80% of the conditions', why did the Democrats still reject the CLARITY Act?
What the CLARITY Act ultimately contends over is a more fundamental question: when Congress is preparing to rewrite the rules for the entire crypto industry, how far should the economic distance be between those who make and enforce these rules and the industry itself.
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Crypto Nouveau Riche Seek Physical Assets: Coinbase Co-founder's Venezuelan Oil Field Adventure
As the first generation of crypto wealth begins to seek allocation outlets beyond Crypto, the most traditional assets such as oil fields, gold, land, and energy have re-entered their field of vision.
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Agility's Survival Ledger: $300 Million Orders and $1.78 Million Revenue, Where Is the Commercialization of Humanoid Robots Stuck?
The $2.5 billion valuation is not pricing Agility's current revenue, but the ability of Digit v5 to move from pilot to batch deployment in the future. What the capital market will have to bear is to accompany Agility across this unfinished risk.
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