Washington wants to defend the dollar with the same tech it spent years trying to regulate into submission. Circle President Heath Tarbert testified before Congress advocating stablecoin regulation as a tool to maintain US dollar dominance in digital finance
Continue reading ›
The institutions that spent a decade calling crypto a scam just committed to shipping their own dollar token in 18 months.
Continue reading ›
The inventor of proof-of-work is doubling down on corporate Bitcoin hoarding, and he's using a French company most people have never heard of to do it. Adam Back invested €7.6M ($8.8M) into Capital B, a French bitcoin treasury firm, through a private placement to fund more BTC purchases
Continue reading ›
Coinbase just turned its own stock into a DEX product and watched traders pump $228M through it — proof that the line between TradFi equity and DeFi liquidity is blurring faster than regulators can define it.
Continue reading ›
The digital currency that was supposed to trade like tech stocks is now moving like the oldest store of value in human history, and the Fed just reminded everyone why that might be a problem.
Continue reading ›
The index now covers the instruments that are supposed to bring crypto to Wall Street, except they're already bringing Wall Street to the chain.
Continue reading ›
The same rails moving money to abuela in Guatemala are now being repurposed to compete with Chase and Goldman. Félix (also called Felix Pago) closed a $200M Series B led by a16z to expand beyond WhatsApp-based remittances into lending and savings products
Continue reading ›
Blockstream's Adam Back just wrote a check for nearly $9 million to fund someone else's Bitcoin buying spree. Capital B raised $8.8-$9M through a share issuance on Euronext Growth Paris, with backing from Blockstream CEO Adam Back
Continue reading ›
The biggest names in crypto just told the SEC how to approve products faster without writing new rules.
Continue reading ›
The largest crypto ETF in the world just whipsawed from $217 million in inflows to $236 million in outflows in 24 hours, and nobody's talking about what that says about institutional conviction.
Continue reading ›
Institutions aren't just betting on XRP anymore — they're taking it off the table. 500 million XRP pulled from Binance, draining sell-side liquidity as the token rallied 40% in a week
Continue reading ›
The monthly billion-token unlock that used to send traders scrambling now barely registers, because Ripple figured out how to flood the market without crashing it. Ripple released 1 billion XRP from escrow in three transactions (500M, 400M, 100M), continuing its predictable monthly cycle
Continue reading ›
The infrastructure to own Bitcoin is finally working, but price discovery still runs on vibes and Federal Reserve tea leaves. US spot Bitcoin ETFs cut year-to-date outflows by 66% as BTC climbed 25% in August, while Ether ETFs flipped to $732M positive YTD and XRP ETFs hit $502M
Continue reading ›
Wall Street's most conservative firms are now backing the token the SEC spent years trying to kill. Spot XRP ETFs have logged nine consecutive days of inflows, with $1.6 billion in cumulative net inflows since launch
Continue reading ›
Banks are now lending against computational horsepower the way they used to lend against oil wells and cargo ships. GMI Cloud, an Nvidia partner, secured 2x oversubscribed commitments on Asia's first GPU-backed loan, with lenders treating computing power as collateral
Continue reading ›
While everyone else was watching oil prices climb and betting on Fed rate hikes, Bitcoin just posted its best August in seven years. Bitcoin delivered its third-best August performance ever, breaking the historical summer slump pattern that typically drags crypto prices down
Continue reading ›
The AI that writes your emails can now read your medical chart. ChatGPT now integrates directly with Epic, the EHR system used by most major U.S. hospitals, giving clinicians read-only access to patient records inside the AI interface.
Continue reading ›
The world's largest crypto exchange just became a serious threat to TD Ameritrade. Binance's traditional asset perpetual futures volume hit $433-445 billion in July/August, a 15x jump since January, while simultaneously launching options on 1,000 US stocks and ETFs.
Continue reading ›
Cathie Wood is doubling down on the thesis that payments infrastructure eating the world is a bet on Bitcoin eating payments infrastructure. Ark Invest purchased 456,059 shares of Block Inc across three ETFs, totaling $37 million, plus $3.4 million in Circle stock
Continue reading ›
Russia's largest bank is about to turn $46 billion in crypto trading volume into a collateral machine, while a U.S. lender just made tokenized gold borrowable.
Continue reading ›