Digital assets are increasingly becoming a mainstream part of global football, with crypto sponsorship spending in the sport reaching $565 million in the 2024/25 season, according to a recent report by B2Binpay. That figure represents a 20% year-on-year increase and mirrors the broader adoption of decentralized finance (DeFi) and digital assets, with DeFi’s total value
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Investors seemed to be looking for direction during Monday’s session. Major indexes traded sideways all morning and into the early afternoon, flipping between the mildest of gains and losses ahead of what may turn into a volatile week. First, geopolitical tensions
On July 31, MicroStrategy (MSTR) published explicit forward guidance, “We will not issue MSTR below 2.5x mNAV except to pay interest and dividends.” Fast forward to this morning, and founder Michael Saylor has modified that guidance entirely, allowing dilution of MicroStrategy shareholders “when otherwise deemed advantageous to the company.” That remarkable about-face leaned heavily on
U.S. stocks opened the week on a muted note as momentum from the recent market rally appeared to pause ahead of the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole symposium. Summary Stocks opened little changed on Monday, with major indices showing potential to pare recent gains. Investors will be watching retail earnings and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell’s
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), the organization supporting the Stellar XLM$0.4129 blockchain, invested in UK-based digital asset exchange and tokenization firm Archax as part of a broader partnership to boost tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), the firms said in a press release shared with CoinDesk. Archax has already started using Stellar, integrating the network into its
A recent Bank of America survey shows that most global fund managers are still hesitant to invest in crypto despite the recent bullish momentum observed in the sector. The study, which included 211 fund managers overseeing $504 billion in assets, found that about three-quarters of respondents have no crypto holdings at all. Meanwhile, crypto allocations
On-chain inflows continue to surge, and traditional rails are experiencing mass inflows. The trend is well illustrated by exchange-traded product (ETP) provider WisdomTree’s real-world asset (RWA) fund — the WisdomTree Government Money Market Digital Fund (WTGXX) has exploded in value over the last three months, reaching new highs last week. WTGXX, which represents tokenized U.S.
Over the past few days, investors have been re-engaging with the most simple criticism of Michael Saylor’s massive bitcoin treasury company, MicroStrategy (MSTR). On Reddit, YouTube, Nostr, and X, fans and skeptics are fighting over whether MicroStrategy is a Ponzi scheme. Andy Constan triggered the latest round of this multi-year debate when he earned hundreds
The most important event this week for Bitcoin (BTC), cryptocurrencies and global markets will be the Jackson Hole meeting. The meeting, held every year in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, is closely followed by the banking industry. The meeting, attended by representatives of central banks from developed and developing countries around the world, will be held
The digital ruble is expected to bring Russia’s economy some $3 billion or more annually in the first five years of its introduction, according to a new estimate presented in Moscow. While banks are set to initially lose billions of rubles due to the digital cash, businesses will benefit right off the bat, claim Russian