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Morgan Stanley is bringing cryptocurrency trading to ETrade, letting eligible customers buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana through a partnership with Zero Hash. It's a significant mainstream moment for digital assets, signaling that Wall Street is no longer treating crypto as a fringe conversation.
Shifting from finance to robotics, 1X Technologies has released a demo of its Neo Beta robot hands that's genuinely hard to dismiss. The hands use tendon-like controls rather than in-hand motors, making them waterproof and capable of building LEGOs, unzipping jackets, and yes, opening a bag of Funyuns. Human-level dexterity in a machine is no longer purely theoretical.
And in a story that blurs politics and market infrastructure, Truth Social is launching a premium data feed selling financial institutions what it's calling the fastest access to Donald Trump's posts. For banks and trading desks trying to anticipate market-moving statements, that's not a novelty product — that's a tool with real money behind it.
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