Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm to secure a U.S. banking charter, said Wednesday that its holding perpetual preferred stock in bitcoin treasury firm Strategy on its balance sheet. Anchorage’s CEO Nathan McCauley called it “conviction compounding.” “Institutions don’t just talk about Bitcoin, they structure around it. When the company that operationalizes Bitcoin infrastructure puts
PayPal jumped nearly 7% on Tuesday after Bloomberg reported that Stripe is weighing a possible acquisition of the payments company. The report cited people familiar with the matter and said talks are still in early stages. Stripe is considering buying all of PayPal or only certain parts of the business. The market reacted fast with
Market expectations for the Fed’s interest rate decision in March have been updated. Pricing on the forecasting platform Polymarket revealed that investors are largely focused on the scenario where interest rates will remain unchanged. According to platform data, the probability of no change in interest rates at the March meeting is priced at 96 percent.
Mastercard is hiring a Director of Crypto Flows to lead stablecoin-linked card issuance, scale DeFi payment flows, and rewrite network rules for Web3 transactions. The job posting, first surfaced by crypto journalist Frank Chaparro on Feb. 24, signals a structural push beyond the pilot-stage experiments the payments giant has run so far. The Timing That
Stripe, which processed $1.9 trillion in transactions last year and was recently valued at $159 billion, is considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal (PYPL), according to a Bloomberg report. Deliberations are in early stages, the report continued. If completed, the deal would bring together two major payment firms that have both moved
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – As artificial intelligence races ahead, some crypto executives believe it could become the force that finally pushes blockchain infrastructure into widespread use. Others aren’t convinced the leap is so straightforward. In a recent panel discussion at NEARCON 2026, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley described AI as “an unstoppable freight train,” arguing that
Bitwise Asset Management, a crypto asset manager overseeing more than $15 billion in client holdings, announced today it has acquired Chorus One, a staking infrastructure provider founded in 2018. The transaction adds over $2.2 billion in staked assets to the firm’s portfolio. Chorus One will be folded into Bitwise Onchain Solutions, the company’s institutional staking
NEW YORK, March 2025 – JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has issued a stark caution to global markets, stating he perceives troubling similarities between current economic conditions and the period preceding the 2008 financial crisis. This warning, reported via the financial news account Watcher.Guru, comes from one of the world’s most influential banking leaders and