Longtime Bitcoiner and Block Inc. CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey has very reluctantly gotten onboard with the idea that the company’s customers are embracing stablecoins. “I don’t like that we’re going to support stablecoins, but our customers want to use them,” he told Wired. “I don’t think it’s wise to go from one gatekeeper to
US President Donald Trump’s statements on the war with Iran, oil prices, and global energy security attracted attention in global markets. In particular, messages suggesting that the ongoing conflict with Iran was nearing its end, and potential interventions in oil prices, were the focus of investors. In an interview with CBS, Trump stated that the
The largest digital asset treasury (DAT) companies for Bitcoin ($BTC) and Ethereum ($ETH) added more crypto than usual to their stockpiles last week. Michael Saylor’s Strategy announced on Monday, March 9, that its latest weekly Bitcoin purchase totaled 17,994 $BTC at an average price of about $70,946 per coin. Last week’s buy is nearly 6x
Since the onset of the Iran war, Dubai real estate has crashed worse than bitcoin ($BTC). The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) Real Estate Index closed trading at 13,353 on Monday, down 18.1% from 16,306 on February 27, the most recent trading session before Operation Epic Fury’s opening airstrikes at 1:15am New York time on February
As real-world assets migrate on-chain, tokenized stocks are rapidly emerging as the most aggressive growth vertical of the current RWA cycle, fusing traditional equities with programmable liquidity. Summary The silent boom in tokenized equity markets Strategic value drivers and TradFi friction Competing architectures for tokenized stock issuance Market structure and leading players Bridging TradFi settlement
The Japanese stock market experienced historic volatility on March 9, with the Nikkei 225 plunging over 4,200 points at its lowest, ultimately closing down 2,892.12 points (or 5.2%), marking the third-largest point drop in history. Historic Point Drop The Japanese stock market endured a day of historic volatility on Monday as the Nikkei 225 suffered
Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), a new development group formed by the former core team of the Electric Coin Company (ECC), has raised more than $25 million in seed funding to continue building the privacy-focused cryptocurrency ecosystem. The round drew support from Paradigm, a16z crypto, Winklevoss Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Cypherpunk Technologies, Chapter One, Balaji Srinivasan
Aon (AON), which advises on $5 trillion in assets as one of the world’s largest insurance brokers, said it carried out a proof-of-concept using stablecoins to settle insurance premium payments, an early sign that dollar-pegged tokens may start moving deeper into corporate finance. The London-based company worked with crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) and blockchain infrastructure
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1948.46, up 0.1% (+2.05) since 4 p.m. ET on Friday. Nine of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: AVAX (+2.0%) and ICP (+1.4%). Laggards: AAVE (-4.5%) and HBAR
Tech investor Imran Khan says cryptocurrency does not play a meaningful role in his AI investment strategy, arguing the asset class operates on a fundamentally different thesis than the AI-driven productivity boom. Despite the growing narrative that AI and crypto will converge, Khan said he largely views them as separate investment themes. “Crypto is a