United State Representative Cleo Fields of Louisiana is in the spotlight after a July stock trade in Bitcoin (BTC) miner IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) turned into one of his most lucrative moves. Filings indicate that on July 10, 2025, Fields purchased between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of IREN shares. The transaction, disclosed in early August,
CoinDCX co-founder and CEO Sumit Gupta has called for India to embrace stablecoins. He says the technology could save the country billions in remittance fees. His comments came after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned stablecoins during her address at the 4th Kautilya Economic Conclave 2025 in New Delhi. Glad to see our Hon’ble Finance Minister,
In its latest report, blockchain analysis company Chainalysis estimates that the Brazilian economy moved $318.8 billion in cryptocurrency assets from July 2024 to June 2025. The numbers highlight the growing adoption of cryptocurrency in one of the largest and most consolidated economies of Latam. Crypto Adoption Overheats in Brazil: Over $300 Billion Moved Using Crypto
The next wave of stablecoin adoption may not be led by people at all. Paxos Labs’ co-founder says AI agents could become the “X-factor,” instantly shifting liquidity to the most efficient issuers and turning market fragmentation into an advantage. With clearer regulations around stablecoins passing in the United States, the stablecoin market has surged past
Coinbase is riding a wave of positive momentum, with a Rothschild upgrade validating its financial evolution as a massive Samsung deal simultaneously places its services directly in the hands of tens of millions of new users. Summary Coinbase stock rose 2.59% to $381.80 after a Rothschild upgrade to Buy. Rothschild says Coinbase’s business is shifting
Tether, the company behind the USDT stablecoin USDT$1.0006, is working with crypto miner financing firm Antalpha to raise at least $200 million for a new digital asset treasury for tokenized gold, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The planned vehicle would stockpile XAUT$3,753.81, a blockchain-based token backed by physical gold bars under
Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. In this week’s roundup, we’ve got the latest on CME, Walmart’s crypto play (for real this time), and Robinhood flying high: All-time highs for HOOD Stock and crypto trading app Robinhood saw a new all-time high this week on
Fed officials continue to emphasize the need for cautious monetary policy. Fed Vice Chairman Philip Jefferson said today that the economy is facing two challenging challenges simultaneously: a weakening labor market and above-target inflation. Jefferson stated that the current outlook is characterized by high uncertainty, but that this uncertainty will diminish as the White House’s
The State Bank of Vietnam, the country’s central bank, anticipates credit growth of about 20% in 2025, a move that could see liquidity flow into global crypto markets amid rising adoption in the region. Pham Thanh Ha, deputy governor of the central bank, said Friday that interest rates need to be slashed further to encourage
Although digital assets continue to attract record interest from institutional investors, traditional banks and corporations, venture capital activity in the sector has slowed notably since the first quarter. Galaxy Research’s latest VC report showed that crypto and blockchain startups raised a total of $1.97 billion across 378 deals in the second quarter. That represents a