Digital Asset, the blockchain firm behind the Canton Network (CC), said Thursday that it has secured strategic investments from four major traditional financial players, as Wall Street’s crypto embrace continues. The investors in this round were BNY, a financial services firm overseeing $57 trillion in client assets, exchange operator Nasdaq, financial intelligence firm S&P Global […]
Bitcoin BTC$85,533.71 is not the only asset taking a beating this quarter. The Japanese yen (JPY) is also down 157.20 per U.S. dollar, a big move for a major fiat currency, prompting FX traders to await intervention from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to stem the decline. But why are we discussing FX? It’s because, […]
T3 Financial Crime Unit, a crypto task force said it froze $300 million in tainted funds in its first year of operation, earning praise from international law enforcement and showing the stablecoin industry is capable of policing itself. Formed in late 2024 by stablecoin issuer Tether, the Tron blockchain and TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence […]
Deutsche Digital Assets, a Germany-regulated provider of exchange-traded products (ETPs), plans to list an ETP bringing investors exposure to TAO$422.51, a cryptocurrency linked to decentralized artificial intelligence, with the help of Nasdaq Nordic-listed broker Safello (SFL), the firms said on Wednesday. The Safello Bittensor Staked TAO ETP will trade on the SIX Swiss Exchange with […]
The REX-Osprey XRP ETF (XRPR) has surpassed $100 million in assets under management (AUM) in just five weeks after its launch, according to issuer REX-Osprey. The ETF has experienced rapid growth since its launch on Sept. 18. It offers investors exposure to the price of XRP, currently the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Loading… With […]
Ripple cryptographer J. Ayo Akinyele says he’s pushing to make the XRP Ledger (XRPL) the “first choice for institutions seeking innovation and trust” — and to do it with privacy-first tooling. Akinyele, a senior director of engineering at Ripple, lays out the case in a blog post published Thursday, arguing that finance can’t function without […]
Japan’s Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Monday that cryptocurrencies can be part of a diversified portfolio. “Crypto assets have risks surrounding high volatility, but through building an appropriate investment environment, they could be part of diversified investments,” Kato said while speaking at an event in Tokyo, according to Bloomberg. The minister added that the […]
Tokyo-listed Metaplanet Inc (3350) has acquired an additional 775 bitcoin for 13.73 billion yen (about $94 million), according to its most recent filing. The purchase, made at an average price of 17.72 million yen ($120,500) per bitcoin, lifts the company’s total holdings to 18,888 BTC, worth roughly 284.1 billion yen ($1.95 billion). This purchase keeps […]
President Donald Trump has directed his administration to establish a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve to hold the assets that have been seized by the government, and he’s additionally called for a crypto stockpile of other types of assets. At this point, all of the assets contemplated by the order would be those seized in civil or […]
For decades, your investment portfolio has revolved around a key academic idea that hasn’t held up very well: efficient markets. There’s a direct line from the efficient markets theory of Eugene Fama in the 1960s to modern portfolio theory. It paved the way for index funds, a strategy that has not only weathered market cycles […]