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From "Western Learning Ants" to the Korean Pension Fund, Why Does Korean Money Keep Flowing to the U.S.?
Whether it's retail investors pursuing personal wealth growth, or the NPS bearing the responsibility of national pension, these two types of funds have vastly different investment horizons, risk tolerances, and institutional constraints, but they are increasingly crossing the Pacific.
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Ex-CFTC Chairman and Circle President Tarbert: While Urging Long-termism, He Cashed Out $30 Million
When Tarbert completed the identity switch between regulatory and financial institutions and realized gains at an opportune moment, it was not he who bore the long-term risks, but the investors who believed his public narrative.
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Russia's Crypto Regulatory Shift: Compliance Market Opens, Ordinary Investors Face 'High Walls' Again
Yesterday, the Russian State Duma passed the second and third readings of the 'Digital Currency and Digital Rights' bill, establishing the basic framework for a legal domestic crypto trading market. Russia has finally opened a door for domestic cryptocurrency trading, but behind it is not a free market, but a compliance channel with multiple checkpoints.
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Toyota Spins Out a Robot Unicorn: How Walden Brings 'Large Behavior Models' into Factories?
From its founding to securing $300 million in seed funding and a valuation of $1.1 billion, Walden took only half a year. It also possesses conditions that many robot startups dream of — a mature research team, ample capital, Toyota's open production system, and potential cooperation channels from investors in manufacturing, aerospace, electronics, and logistics industries.
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JPYSC Launch, Heavy Bets on DeFi: Dissecting the On-Chain Financial System of Japanese Financial Giant SBI
With the launch of JPYSC and consecutive investments in DeFi projects like Gauntlet, Japanese financial giant SBI is accelerating the integration of stablecoins, RWA, on-chain lending, and asset management capabilities, attempting to migrate settlement, trading, and capital allocation from traditional finance to on-chain.
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Raking in $18.8 billion in financing, AI talent flocks to the 'new gamble' of embodied intelligence
Capital pours in like a tide, talent migrates like migratory birds, and embodied intelligence undoubtedly stands at the forefront of the AI industrialization wave. But beneath the surface, diverging paths, engineering challenges, and commercialization delays lurk like hidden reefs. Humanoid vs. non-humanoid, general vs. specialized, software flywheel vs. hardware toil—all forces are still fiercely battling.
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In the MiCA Era, New Landscape of European Crypto, Why Is Germany Taking Center Stage?
In the future, competition in the European crypto industry will increasingly focus on licensing, banking cooperation, custody, settlement, tax transparency, and cross-border service capabilities, and Germany happens to be at the intersection of these capabilities.
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From MIRAIMA's Popularity in Japan to Meta's Interest, Prediction Markets are 'Reskinning'
MIRAIMA demonstrates another business path: platforms can first wrap prediction behavior with points, advertising, and reward systems, transforming prediction markets from financial trading products into content interaction products. This 'light compliance, heavy growth' route will gain increasing attention and imitators worldwide.
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Capital's New Bet: Physical AI is Rewriting the AI Narrative
AI moving from screens to the real world has become an increasingly clear direction in the next round of technological competition.
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a16z Bets on New Track of AI Computing Power Financialization: Ornn Raises $33 Million to Build a Trading Market for GPU Computing Power
The rise of Ornn symbolizes a microcosm of the shift in the underlying logic of the AI industry: computing power is undergoing a transformation from 'heavy asset hardware' to 'financializable assets'.
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Beyond the Pitch: The Profit-Seeking Game Surrounding the World Cup
As more and more capital seeks opportunities from the World Cup, the world's largest football event has also become a weeks-long speculative experiment.
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Do robots need crypto wallets too? Stablecoin giant Tether bets on German company NEURA Robotics.
NEURA Robotics has completed a $1.4 billion Series C funding round. This funding, touted as the "largest ever" in the full-stack robotics industry, is enough to make NEURA one of the most watched robotics companies in Europe and even globally. However, one easily overlooked but noteworthy aspect of this round is that Tether is also attempting to embed self-custodied wallets, stablecoin payments, and edge AI into its robotic systems.
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Buy NFTs before buying tickets? The largest ever World Cup ticket sales slump.
Fans' enthusiasm does not equate to an unlimited willingness to pay; there is still a boundary that cannot be easily crossed regarding ticket prices and ticketing mechanisms.
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Fundraising is like a strange dance: the absurd drama of fundraising for Silicon Valley founders.
Respect and trust that transcend capital and valuation are the most enduring foundation of Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial stories.
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From Madison Square Garden to Kalshi: Prediction Markets Make Their Way to the NBA Finals
When the Knicks brought the NBA championship dream back to New York, the city's excitement and frenzy were ignited. And amidst this celebration, the prediction market quietly got involved.
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