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Morgan Stanley Brings Crypto to E*Trade With 50 bps Fee Structure

Morgan Stanley is piloting crypto trading on its E*Trade platform with a 50-basis-point fee — — a move that signals Wall Street's largest wealth managers are finally building direct retail crypto rails, not just ETF wrappers, into their mass-market brokerage infrastructure.

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White House Eyes July 4 Deadline for Landmark Crypto Market Bill

The White House has set a July 4 target to pass landmark crypto market structure legislation — an aggressive timeline that would hand the U.S. its first comprehensive digital-asset regulatory framework and reshape how tokens are classified, traded, and overseen by federal agencies.

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DTCC Taps High-Performance L1s to Put Corporate Actions On-Chain

Wall Street's central clearinghouse, the DTCC, is partnering with layer-1 blockchains to tokenize corporate actions — dividend payments, stock splits, and more — marking a seismic shift in how $10T+ in annual settlement infrastructure could operate on public or permissioned rails.

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AI Agents Could Kill Internet Advertising, Says Coinbase Engineer

A Coinbase engineer's viral argument holds that autonomous AI agents — which browse, buy, and decide without human eyeballs — could structurally dismantle the $600B+ global digital advertising industry, forcing Web3 and legacy platforms alike to rethink how the internet gets paid for.

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Reid Hoffman: NFTs Are AI's Missing Trust Layer

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman argues NFTs could stage a meaningful comeback — not as speculative art, but as cryptographic identity rails for AI agents transacting autonomously online. As bots outnumber humans in digital spaces, blockchain-verified credentials may become the only scalable trus...

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OKX Launches Perpetual Futures for OpenAI, SpaceX & Anthropic Pre-IPO

OKX is rolling out perpetual futures contracts tied to OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic — giving crypto traders leveraged exposure to three of the world's most valuable private companies before any public listing. Here's why the move redraws the line between crypto derivatives and traditional pre-IP...

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Ondo, JPMorgan, Mastercard & Ripple Settle Tokenized Treasuries on XRPL

Four financial heavyweights — Ondo Finance, JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Ripple — have jointly demonstrated cross-border tokenized U.S. Treasury settlement on the XRP Ledger, a proof-of-concept that signals institutional RWA infrastructure is converging on public blockchain rails faster than most an...