An experimental AI stock portfolio managed by Grok has outperformed the S&P 500, turning a $100,000 starting investment into $148,485 in less than nine months. In this line, data from the Rallies Arena competition show that the portfolio has generated a total return of 48.48% since late November 2025. Over the same period, an equivalent
$SRX Global reported a 4.3% EMJX gain that the company labels hypothetical, but its first post-acquisition disclosures still leave the central investor question unanswered: whether the strategy performs with company capital. $SRX completed the acquisition on June 16, two weeks before its fiscal third quarter ended. In its Aug. 13 results release, the company described
Ondo Stocks has crossed $1 billion in total value, a threshold that carries more weight for on-chain market structure than for the round number itself. The update was included in the original report from Ondo Finance, which also pointed to additional ecosystem milestones tied to its recently launched perpetual products. The move puts tokenized equities
The synchronized selloff has shoved major long-term yields to levels unseen for years, and in some cases decades. U.S. 30-year Treasury yields hit about 5.25%, their highest since 2001, while Germany’s 30-year Bund yield neared 3.73%, its highest since 2011. “Good Morning from Germany, where the bond market is sending an unmistakable message: 30y Bund
The number of tokenized stock holders has more than doubled over the past month to 1.31 million, according to RWA.xyz data. Monthly transfer volume surged nearly 180% over the same period to $23.13 billion, while monthly active addresses increased 34.62% to nearly 572,000. The total distributed value of tokenized stocks also rose 5.9% to $2.38
Banking giant UBS, with over $7 trillion in assets under management, has reported a more than 24-fold quarterly increase in call option exposure tied to BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) in the second quarter. That increase, which gives it the right to acquire IBIT shares at a later date at a set price, came as
In the first six months of 2026, the crypto industry raised $11.2 billion. Not one dollar of it went to the permissionless, ungoverned experiments that digital assets were supposed to be built on. “There is an irony at the heart of crypto, and it took an $11.2 billion dataset to make it obvious,” said Dubai-based
Tudor Investment reported 18.9% more direct shares in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF at June 30 than it held three months earlier, even as its reported call-equivalent quantity fell 85.2%. Together, those moves complicate a straightforward reading that the manager simply increased its Bitcoin ETF exposure. Tudor Investment listed 688,529 direct IBIT shares in its
US stocks have been charging higher with remarkably little resistance in 2026, repeatedly shrugging off inflation worries, geopolitical risks and elevated borrowing costs. The benchmark S&P 500 index climbed above 7,800 for the first time intraday on Thursday before finishing at a record 7,798.99, extending a rally that has pushed the benchmark roughly 14% higher
Jane Street has reportedly suffered a $15 billion loss in July, driven by its exposure to the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness and other stocks. While this fall has caught the attention of Wall Street, it has also raised equal concerns in the crypto market. As Jane Street is one of the major liquidity providers