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When Wall Street Wants 24/7 Trading But Won't Share Their Toys The SEC is reportedly developing a plan to let tokenized stocks trade on blockchain, and the reason is both predictable and slightly absurd: traditional financial institutions want to trade around the clock . They've been pushing the regulator to greenlight always-open markets, because apparently waiting for market hours is so 2019. But here's where it gets interesting: While everyone assumed tokenized stocks would be a massive windfall for the digital assets industry— particularly for networks like Ethereum — Dragonfly partner Rob Hadick is pouring cold water on that narrative. According to him, this whole thing might benefit traditional finance far more than it benefits cryptocurrency. The institutions want 24/7 trading and better economics, sure, but they don't actually want to play in the blockchain sandbox. The Great Leakage Problem Here's the part that should make any...

The NFL Goes to Ireland ( Because Apparently We're Exporting America's Concussion Problem Now) So the NFL went to Ireland this past Sunday. Yeah, Ireland. Land of Guinness, leprechauns, and now the Pittsburgh Steelers beating the Minnesota Vikings 24-21 at Croke Park in Dublin . First regular-season NFL game ever played in Ireland, and naturally, the Steelers won. Of course they did.  Now look, I'm not saying the Rooneys are running some kind of international goodwill tour to expand the NFL empire across Europe or anything. Okay, yeah, that's exactly what they're doing. But it's the nice kind of empire-building, alright? The kind where you bring football to people who actually call it " American football " because they already got a perfectly good football over there. Which is our soccer . (Which we were supposed to switch to because of all the head injuries.) But instead, we're going the other way. We're bringing the head in...