Exchange Traded Concepts and xETFs have launched NECK, an actively managed ETF on NYSE Arca built around one idea: in the AI build-out, whoever controls the scarcest input has the leverage. “The AI buildout can only move as quickly as its scarcest inputs allow,” says Johnny Wu, founder and CEO of xETFs. “Those constraints will not remain fixed.” What it targets NECK is meant to look past the obvious AI names to the pressure points, meaning companies where supply lags demand, pricing power is shifting, or the position is hard to copy.

BNY, the largest bank in the world for safeguarding assets, plans to use blockchain technology for the transfer agency record-keeping systems that service roughly $8.6 trillion in assets. Not a pilot, not a tokenized fund share class, and not a settlement experiment. The record of who owns what. Transfer agency is the least glamorous function in asset servicing and the one where the technology fits best. A transfer agent maintains the official shareholder register for a fund: subscriptions, redemptions, transfers, distributions, and the reconciliation between the fund’s records and every distributor, platform, and nominee holding positions on behalf of end investors.

Moonshot AI closed a $3.5 billion round at a $35 billion valuation, having initially targeted somewhere between $1 billion and $2 billion, and plans a Hong Kong listing as early as this year. CXMT’s IPO prospectus disclosed that Alibaba holds a stake of nearly 5%, now worth more than $20 billion, against a closing market capitalization of roughly $464 billion on July 28. One model developer and one DRAM manufacturer, heading for the same venue, at valuations set almost entirely by domestic capital.

Robinhood reported second-quarter revenue of $1.31 billion, up 32% year over year against a $1.29 billion consensus. Inside that number, event contracts revenue rose more than tenfold to $156 million while crypto revenue fell 38% to $100 million. The prediction market business is now larger than the crypto trading business, and it got there in roughly a year. That crossover is the print. Crypto trading was the growth engine that carried this company through two cycles and it is behaving exactly as a transactional crypto business always behaves, which is to say it tracks retail speculative appetite with no floor underneath it.

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