Peter Schiff, a well-known Bitcoin critic and gold advocate, has raised concerns about MicroStrategy’s ongoing Bitcoin acquisition strategy. The company has continued to expand its holdings through a mix of debt and equity issuance. Schiff stated that MicroStrategy’s approach is becoming harder to sustain under current market conditions. He said “the company is shifting toward
Institutional investors are warming to digital assets, with improving sentiment and broader use cases emerging as key drivers of adoption, according to a new survey from Tokyo-based bank Nomura and its crypto unit Laser Digital. The study, based on responses from more than 500 investment professionals in Japan, found that 31% of respondents now hold
In brief GalaxyOne Head Zac Prince said he’s “not particularly excited” about prediction markets when it comes to enabling customers to build long-term wealth. The executive highlighted the retail investment platform’s recent support of Solana staking and associated lending products in the firm’s pipeline. Staking has enabled competitors like Coinbase to diversify revenue, while others
Has crypto become a part of your everyday? A recent report by Binance Research has laid out greater changes about how digital assets are being used and built. More than just trading-only use cases Source: Binance Research Monthly crypto card volume has reportedly gone up 223.5% YOY. Tokenized publicly traded stocks grew from about $38
Meta is eliminating roughly 8,000 positions starting May 20, while OpenAI plans to nearly double its staff by year’s end, highlighting a widening divide in the technology sector between companies cutting workers and those building the AI systems driving those cuts. The Meta layoffs, affecting about 10 percent of its 79,000 employees, come as more
Forty cents of every venture capital dollar invested in crypto companies in 2025 went to firms building products that combine artificial intelligence and crypto, more than double the 18 cents a year earlier. “AI is increasingly entering crypto not as a parallel narrative, but as part of crypto’s own product and infrastructure stack,” Binance Research
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is warning that global markets could be heading toward a chain reaction in which tighter funding, war-driven volatility, and deepening cracks in non-bank finance converge into what its chair calls a possible “double or triple whammy” for financial stability. In a letter sent ahead of the April 16 G20 meeting,
Global payments giant Stripe is building what it calls the “AWS for money,” and crypto tech is at the center of that plan. Speaking at the RWA Summit in Cannes, France, Adrien Duchâteau, Stripe’s head of crypto go-to-market, said the company is now integrating stablecoins and blockchain across its core payment stack as it looks
Liz Truss, the U.K.’s shortest-serving prime minister, said the country’s economy has been stagnating for decades and many of the problems result from a lack of sound money and the debasement of the currency, an erosion in the value of sterling caused by inflation and the printing of new banknotes. Truss, who led a Conservative
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump, accusing him of making “seven false claims in one hour” and warning that the Strait of Hormuz may not remain open if the U.S. blockade continues. The statement comes just a day after Iran’s announcement to complete the opening of the Strait of