Franklin Templeton just launched Franklin Crypto as its new digital asset investment division after acquiring 250 Digital.

Baillie Gifford, a 118 year old asset manager just launched BAGEY; a tokenized bond fund issued on Solana and Ethereum, regulated under UK.

ICE futures and NYSE tokenized equities are coming to OKX users, under its joint venture with ICE.

Morgan Stanley has set its proposed Solana and Ethereum ETF fees to 0.14% only, undercutting its rivals.

South Korea’s Toss Bank is ready to use Solana for its Global remittance and settlement proof of concept. Its 15 million customer base will now get access to faster, cheaper cross border transactions.

Taiko Protocol just got exploited for $1.7 million, confirmed by them is a compromise of its chain state verification mechanism.

Tech and Crypto is merging. Companies like Google, Meta, Chainalysis, PayPal has committed to fight illegal wildlife trade by using AI detection and blockchain analytics. Bullish !

SpaceX shares are down 10% in last 24 hours; they also disclosed a $100.8 billion in cash and launched their first bond offering. Meanwhile they have just signed a computing power deal worth 46.3 billion with a AI startup named Reflection.

A strategic infrastructure agreement was announced by Micron and Anthropic which will cover memory and storage supply.

Halos, a full stack safety system for physical AI and real world robots was just introduced by NVIDIA.

China is testing a new AI assistant called Xiaowei on WeChat. Currently only allowing selected users to interact via voice and text.

South Korea’s, SK Hynix just flipped Samsung to become the most valuable company in SK, driven by its surging demand for high bandwidth memory chips.

Microsoft is reportedly exploring a major structural change for its Xbox division, including a spin-off, joint venture or conversion into wholly owned subsidiary, read more here.

Citi Bank now has a target of 8,100 this year 2026, for its S&P 500.