The S&P 500 does not stay the same. It never has. Companies enter, companies leave. Some grow fast and earn a spot, while others shrink, merge, go private, or collapse. Stability is not how this index works. So perhaps this churn helps explain how the market behaves over time. Prices can rise while the lineup
More than 100 community bank leaders are urging U.S. senators to close what they describe as dangerous loopholes in stablecoin legislation, warning that trillions of dollars could migrate out of traditional bank deposits and undermine local lending across the country. But JPMorgan does not share the ABA’s fears. In a Jan. 5 letter sent to
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that there is a need for stronger and more sustainable decentralized stablecoins in the cryptocurrency sector, and highlighted three key issues that still need to be resolved in this area. According to Buterin, current stablecoin models fall short in terms of long-term durability and true decentralization. Issues such as dollar-centric
Inquiries about whether pensions can be paid in crypto have become one of the most frequent non-standard requests received by the Social Fund of Russia, a state-run institution responsible for managing Russia’s public pension system. In 2025, the Social Fund’s call center handled roughly 37 million calls, the vast majority related to routine matters such
We all just watched PayPal’ stock PYPL sit out the entirety of 2025’s bull run, even as its fellow tech stocks went utterly parabolic taking unprecedented control of the entire stock market, crypto pumped Bitcoin to an astounding $126,000, and AI took off too. But PayPal just kept crashing. On January 9, it dropped another
With $763.5 million in cryptocurrency funding spread across six projects, the first full week of 2026 got off to a great start thanks to Rain’s $250 million Series C round. Summary Rain led the week with a $250M Series C, valuing the stablecoin firm at $1.95B. BlackOpal and Tres Finance together added $330M via funding
Tokenized real-world assets reached $19.72 billion on Jan. 9, the closest the market has come to the $20 billion threshold. That figure measures distributed assets, which are tokens that circulate on-chain and can be transferred between user wallets. As a result, it excludes another $19.78 billion in active private credit loans, which are tracked as
Russians have started inquiring about pension payments using cryptocurrency, the country’s state-run social security fund has admitted. The agency reported this week on the requests for information received throughout the past year, and crypto was among the main topics listed. Russian citizens want to know if they can have a crypto pension People in the
Key Takeaways Exodus reported a year-end update showing a debt-free balance sheet alongside adjustments to its corporate digital asset holdings. The company now holds 1,704 Bitcoins after a significant reduction in digital asset reserves. Self-custodial crypto platform Exodus has updated its digital asset holdings, revealing a year-end balance of 1,704 Bitcoin, a reduction from the
São Paulo-based cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin (MB), one of Latin America’s largest trading platforms, released a report outlining six major trends it expects to define the crypto market in 2026. The report identifies a major expansion in stablecoins, tokenization, altcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and AI-driven trading as key forces shaping the next phase of the