As majors sell off, Tether quietly doubles down on turning Bitcoin into a $-settlement backbone via Lightning-native $USDT rails. Summary Tether co-leads a $7.5M round in Utexo to enable native $USDT settlement on Bitcoin and Lightning. Utexo promises fixed, pre-confirmable fees, atomic settlement and stronger privacy anchored to Bitcoin’s security. Move comes as $BTC trades
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that nonfarm payrolls fell by 92,000 jobs in February. The market had expected a gain of about 58,000 jobs, while unemployment rose to 4.4%, above forecasts of 4.3%. The miss immediately pushed Fed rate cut expectations higher as investors reacted to clear weakness in the labor market.
At a certain point, Strategy investors might start asking themselves what the difference is between STRC and just buying bitcoin ($BTC) on a credit card. Michael Saylor has called STRC his company’s “greatest feat of financial engineering to date,” but its costs keep getting worse. Indeed, its dividend obligations have increased 27% since July,worsening every
AI is infiltrating every layer of society, finance included. What began as asking ChatGPT about your deepest money worries has rapidly evolved into agents capable of reasoning, executing and coordinating across markets with minimal human intervention. The pace of change at the intersection of AI and finance is daily, not weekly. Goldman Sachs has warned
Federal Reserve Board member Stephen Miran, in his statements regarding monetary policy, argued that the current policy is too tight and called for interest rate cuts. Miran stated that the Fed’s current approach is too tight for the economy and that the policy interest rate should be lowered to a neutral level. Miran stated that
Bitcoin dropped from above $70,000 to about $68,700 on Friday on disappointing US labour market data. Nonfarm payrolls fell by 92,000 in February, markedly undershooting economists’ expectations for roughly 50,000 new jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The decline erased much of January’s 126,000 job gain and pushed the unemployment rate up to
Risk markets are taking new legs lower on Friday morning after U.S. President Donald Trump seemingly quashed any chance of some sort of negotiated settlement with Iran. “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER,” said the president in a Truth Social post. The news sent WTI crude oil to a multi-year high
Trading volumes in tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) routed through 1inch’s integration with Ondo have passed $2.5 billion since the partnership went live in September 2025. According to data published on Dune Analytics and a release shared with Cointelegraph, real-world assets (RWAs) are now the fastest-growing volume category on 1inch. While they still account
Bank of Canada, together with RBC Capital Markets, TD Bank Group (TD) and Export Development Canada (EDC), has completed Project Samara, a trial of tokenized bond issuance on distributed ledger infrastructure, according to a recent press release. During the pilot, ECD issued a $100 million tokenized bond that was traded and settled on the Samara