Risk assets rallied across the globe and oil crashed during Monday’s European hours as reports of progress in U.S.–Iran peace talks boosted risk sentiment. Bitcoin extended Asian gains to trade close to $82,000 during the European hours, as futures tied to Wall Street’s tech heavy index Nasdaq rose over 1%. Futures tied to WTI crude
Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, used the Milken Institute Global Conference stage on Tuesday to dispel concerns about an AI bubble. He maintained that a new tradable asset class, computing power futures, will emerge due to growing demand for computing capacity. Fink said that there is no AI bubble and emphasized that the
Oracle integrity is one of the weakest aspects of decentralized prediction markets, and Vitalik Buterin has brought it to light. A prediction market is only as good as its oracle, Buterin said in a recent statement applauding the industry’s steady transition to less centralized and financially motivated oracle systems. The comment directly addresses the fundamental
Intel (INTC) is back in Wall Street’s face after a brutal rally that pushed the stock above 17% in one day. Shares gained 13% on Tuesday and reached a record $110 before another 4.76% jump after regular trading ended. The reason was simple: traders saw a new chance that Intel could land deeper work with
In a Tuesday press conference, Spain’s Banco Sabadell announced that it will join Qivalis, the European banking consortium developing a regulated euro-pegged stablecoin. The release comes from outgoing CEO Cesar Gonzalez-Bueno. Bankinter is also in advanced talks to follow, alongside unlisted Spanish institutions Abanca, Kutxabank, and Cecabank. “It is primarily designed to make transactions more
Solana Foundation president Lily Liu said growing adoption of stablecoins by major corporations is validating blockchain’s evolution into global financial infrastructure, while also laying the groundwork for AI-driven “machine economies.” Speaking at Consensus Miami 2026 on Tuesday, Liu pointed to recent announcements involving Meta and Western Union integrating stablecoin payments on Solana as evidence that
Cryptocurrency custody firm Taurus has been granted a MiFID II investment license in Cyprus under the regulatory ambit of Mediterranean island’s regulator, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). The license enables Taurus to offer MiFID-regulated investment services for tokenized financial instruments to banks and asset managers across the European Union (EU), as well as
The line separating crypto derivatives from traditional finance has all but dissolved, and the two markets are now so intertwined that perpetuals, once a purely crypto instrument, could soon be as much a stock trading product as a crypto one. That’s the core takeaway from the panel “Digital Asset Derivatives: Building Ecosystems and Establishing Opportunities”
Nik Bhatia, a well-known figure in the financial world, appeared on Michaël van de Poppe’s program and made important statements about Bitcoin’s current market cycle, global liquidity conditions, and long-term future. Bhatia argued that despite short-term fluctuations, Bitcoin’s status as “digital gold” is being reinforced day by day. Nik Bhatia believes the worst is over
Bitcoin ($BTC) is currently on a roll, surging past the $80,000 mark and touching base above $81,000. While this rally could be a reason for positive sentiment, market experts believe otherwise. In a weekly report from the crypto exchange Bitfinex, analysts warned that bitcoin’s rally to $80,000 is misleading because the market is not positioned