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Two Seas Capital, the third largest shareholder in Core Scientific (CORZ) with a 6.3% stake, has come out against the bitcoin miner’s proposed all-stock acquisition by AI cloud provider CoreWeave (CRWV). In a letter published Thursday, Two Seas said it intends to vote against the deal, which was announced July 7, and plans to rally other shareholders to do the same unless significant changes are made. The opposition centers on the all-stock, uncollared nature of the transaction, which Two Seas argues unfairly favors CoreWeave and fails to reflect Core Scientific’s strategic position in high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. “The proposed sale…

Major financial industry associations are demanding that global banking regulators pause sweeping crypto rules they warn will effectively bar banks from the $2.8 trillion digital asset market. Eight prominent trade groups, including the Global Financial Markets Association and the Institute of International Finance, sent a letter on Tuesday to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision demanding it “temporarily pause” implementation of crypto standards set to take effect in January 2026. The coalition warns the rules’ “punitive capital treatments” will make crypto activities “uneconomical” for banks, forcing the sector to operate outside regulated financial institutions.  The Basel standards, while non-binding,…

The Real Lifestyle (TRL), a Malaysian real estate company that tokenizes residential properties, today announced a strategic collaboration with GoHome Token, a meme coin cryptocurrency built on the Solana network. This partnership is proof that things are changing as meme coins, which traditionally lacked intrinsic value, are now being integrated into real-world assets (RWAs). Through this synergy, the two firms are powering advanced, seamless, and international access to superior real estate opportunities. By working together, TRL and GoHome Token are introducing a new approach in the decentralized finance environment by offering RWA-backed lending, concentrating on using real estate as collateral.…

The mysterious Ethereum whale collective known as “7 Siblings” has offloaded $88.2 million worth of Ether over the past 15 hours. Holding an estimated 1.21 million Ether (ETH), valued at roughly $5.6 billion, the group sold 19,461 ETH at an average price of $4,532, blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain revealed in a Wednesday post on X. Between Feb. 3 and April 7, 7 Siblings acquired 103,543 ETH for $229.7 million at an average price of $2,219. The haul included a $42.2 million purchase of 24,817 ETH at $1,700 in early April, according to data accumulated by Lookonchain. Transaction records show the…

The derivatives arm of trading platform Robinhood has sued regulators in Nevada and New Jersey in a bid to head off any potential enforcement action from the states over its sports event contracts. In a pair of complaints on Tuesday against Nevada and New Jersey gaming regulators and their attorneys general, Robinhood Derivatives said it started offering the event contracts in the states after federal courts earlier this year allowed prediction market Kalshi to offer the contracts. Robinhood claimed in separate lawsuits that after those rulings, Nevada and New Jersey continued trying to stop the company from offering the contracts…

Tradefi.bot, the AI-powered decentralized trading infrastructure, has successfully closed a $20 million funding round led by Rollman Management, marking an important milestone in its global expansion. Tradefi.bot is a non-custodial AI-powered ecosystem that allows anyone to deploy AI Trading Agents (decentralized bots) capable of executing automated strategies 24/7 on major CEXs and DEXs (including OKX, Binance, Bybit, and Bitget). The project, which is preparing its Token Generation Event (TGE) for late August or September, aims to revolutionize the way investors participate in crypto markets by merging AI, DeFi, and Web3, creating a new era of secure, automated, and scalable passive…

Ethereum (ETH), the leading altcoin, has now surpassed leading streaming behemoth Netflix (NFLX) and payments giant Mastercard (MA) by market capitalization. It is now on the cusp of topping American multinational pharmaceutical juggernaut Eli Lilly. Ethereum’s relentless rally On Tuesday, the price of ETH topped the $4,600 level for the first time since December 2021. It has now extended its rally, reaching an intraday high of $4,682 on Wednesday. The altcoin is now just inches away from reaching a new record high for the first time since November 2021. It would need to rally by roughly 5% in order to…

A federal judge has ordered Eddy Alexandre and his company EminiFX to pay $228.5 million in restitution to investors who lost money in what authorities called a ‘brazen’ crypto Ponzi scheme that bilked over 25,000 people out of more than $248 million. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni granted summary judgment Tuesday in favor of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in its civil enforcement action against Alexandre.  The ruling comes after Alexandre was already sentenced to nine years in federal prison last July for his role in operating the fraudulent EminiFX trading platform. Alexandre, who represented himself, opposed the CFTC’s motion…

Blazpay, an advanced Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platform offering next-gen financial services with AI, has announced its strategic partnership with CodexField, a decentralized content storage and sharing platform. The partnership’s main purpose is to combine Blazpay’s AI-driven DeFi expertise with CodexField’s infrastructure to create an ecosystem where code is owned, transparent, and financially useful. We’re excited to announce our partnership with @CodexField -the full-stack infrastructure for ownership confirmation, permission management, and financialization of content assets in Web3. 🤝Together, Blazpay x CodexField are enabling a new era of developer empowerment… pic.twitter.com/eiwXpya2BO — Blazpay (@blazpaylabs) August 19, 2025 The primary focus of this…

This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Last week’s macro super bowl, as we called it in our most recent Forward Guidance roundup, certainly lived up to expectations of fireworks. Just look at how much the market’s odds for a September rate cut have whipsawed: Source: CME Group That initial dip was caused by some pretty nasty PCE data that put into question the path of monetary policy. As seen in the chart below, inflation seems to be heading above the Fed’s 2% target: Source: MacroMicro.me More importantly, goods are now driving the…