India is racing toward becoming a $10 trillion economy. But one missing piece, according to CoinDCX CEO Sumit Gupta, is the absence of an INR-backed stablecoin. In a series of posts on X, Gupta argued that the opportunity is too big to ignore. Globally, the stablecoin market has already crossed $150 billion. Yet India, despite
The Federal Reserve’s Reverse Repo Facility (RRP) dropped to its lowest level in 1,596 days, suggesting a crack in the liquidity backbone of global markets. This turnout, which points to tightening financial conditions, raises alarm bells across Wall Street and crypto circles. Experts Warn as Federal Reserve Reverse Repo Drops to a 5-Year Low Malone
This is a segment from The Breakdown newsletter. To read more editions, subscribe “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.” — Alfred North Whitehead Investors love the pricing power of “last mile” businesses. Comcast charges $75 a month for internet access because it buried the
Fed Chair Jerome Powell is expected to hold his own against making a clear commitment to cut interest rates in September during his speech at the Jackson Hole meeting on Friday. While markets are strongly pricing in a rate cut, Powell may avoid giving definitive signals, highlighting the uncertainty surrounding the process. Research firm LHMeyer
Windtree Therapeutics, a biotech company that established a BNB treasury strategy last month, fell 77% on Wednesday after the Nasdaq informed the firm it would be delisted from the stock exchange for failing to meet compliance requirements. The noncompliance concerned Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) that requires a company’s stock to maintain a minimum bid price
Crypto companies that dumped coins into their balance sheets earlier this year are now watching their stocks bleed. August crushed the rally these firms enjoyed just weeks ago, slamming names that had become investor magnets during the sideways bitcoin market. The sell-off arrives just before the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole symposium, where whatever the hell
The privately held company has made adjustments to the ETFs it manages, both reducing and adding to specific positions. Falling Prices Ark Invest, the investment management firm with more than $6 billion in assets under management (AUM), reduced the size of its ARKB (ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF) by 559.85 BTC, or approximately $64.4 million, as
Singapore’s largest bank is extending its blockchain strategy by offering tokenized structured notes on the Ethereum public blockchain, in a move that broadens access to complex financial products once reserved for its private clients. DBS said Thursday in a release that it will distribute the instruments through local Singapore exchanges ADDX, DigiFT and HydraX, marking
Backed by a multimillion-dollar bitcoin donation from the Winklevoss twins, the Digital Freedom Fund political action committee is mobilizing to cement pro-crypto dominance across U.S. policy and elections. Winklevoss Twins Power Digital Freedom Fund to Back Pro-Crypto US Agenda Crypto exchange Gemini co-founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss disclosed on social media platform X on Aug.
Windtree Therapeutics, a Pennsylvania-based drug developer, is being delisted from Nasdaq, just over a month after its $700 million pivot into a digital treasury firm focused on Binance’s BNB token failed to boost its stock above the exchange’s requirements. In an SEC filing published Tuesday, Windtree confirmed trading of its stock on Nasdaq would be