Bitcoin-real estate strategy could outperform REITs, says Grant Cardone. Adds more BTC to treasury.

Grant Cardone, a multibillionaire real estate investor, said Wednesday he added another $100 million in bitcoin as part of a strategy combining the asset with income-producing real estate, during a Fireside chat at Consensus Miami 2026. “We just simply added another $100 million of bitcoin,” Cardone said, describing a recent property deal where BTC was…

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AI agents becoming more relevant than humans by 2035 has Big Tech ‘terrified’, says Hoskinson

AI agents will become more relevant than humans on the internet within the next decade, a shift already already forcing Google, Facebook and Amazon to react, said Charles Hoskinson. In his keynote at Consensus Miami 2026 on Wednesday, Hoskinson also said that “by 2035, the majority of searches, commerce and activity on the internet will…

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White House targets July 4 for Clarity Act passage, says crypto adviser Patrick Witt

The White House is aiming for July 4 for Congress to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, told CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference on Wednesday. “We’re targeting July 4th. I think that would be a tremendous birthday present for America, celebrating our…

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Eric Trump takes shot at JPMorgan rethinking bitcoin after ‘crapping’ on asset

MIAMI — Eric Trump, the son of President Donald Trump and the co-founder of American Bitcoin (ABTC), said that bitcoin BTC$81,665.51 has reached a sharp influx of traditional financial giants, name-checking Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill division, Charles Schwab Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. “JPMorgan, who was crapping all over bitcoin 18 months ago,…

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the Senate must act on crypto market structure legislation

Nine months ago, Congress passed the GENIUS Act, establishing the first federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins. The results have been demonstrative: the stablecoin market grew 49% in 2025, reaching $306 billion by year’s end. Circle, Ripple and other digital asset companies received provisional national banking charters from the OCC. Institutional capital that had been…

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Kevin O’Leary says Wall Street’s tokenization boom is all talk without crypto rules

Miami Beach, FL — Kevin O’Leary says Wall Street’s tokenization boom is mostly hype until Congress finally gives the crypto industry the rules it has been waiting for. “Tokenization will never be adopted by institutional indexers, ever. Neither will bitcoin, which is still a fringe asset to the big guys,” O’Leary said at Consensus in…

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AI Agents form their own firm

Network News AI AGENTS FORMS THEIR OWN COMPANY: ClawBank, an agent-economy infrastructure project, said its Manfred AI agent became the first such entity to autonomously set up a company, filing with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for its own Employer Identification Number (EIN), a unique code that allows it to legally operate as a…

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NYSE tokenization partners warn synthetic stock tokens could mislead retail traders

Executives from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), OKX and Securitize warned that synthetic tokenized stocks are creating market and retail risks, as ICE moves ahead with a regulated platform for tokenized U.S. equities. Michael Blaugrund, who works on strategic initiatives at ICE, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), said during a panel at Consensus…

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