Happy Thursday, advisors! Happy New Year!. As we enter 2026, the question for wealth management has fundamentally shifted. It is no longer “will digital assets matter?” but rather “can your firm afford to be the one that says no?” Andreessen Horowitz declared 2025 as the year crypto went mainstream, and for good reason. Traditional finance
Key Takeaways Coincheck Group is acquiring 3iQ, a Canadian digital asset manager, for $112 million. This acquisition involves a stock purchase agreement, granting Coincheck 97% ownership of 3iQ. Nasdaq-listed Coincheck Group NV, which operates one of Japan’s leading crypto exchanges, has entered into an agreement to acquire 97% of Toronto-based digital asset investment manager 3iQ,
Brazilian merchants, who are used to waiting months for credit card payments, could soon receive cash instantly through an initiative that allows them to sell the debt, tokenizes it and rewards the purchasers with double-digit returns in a $100 billion market for merchants desperate for working capital. Onchain asset management and payments platform BlackOpal said
The digital assets advocacy group Stand With Crypto grew by 675,000 online signups last year, reaching about 2.6 million in the U.S. as the country heads toward its 2026 congressional elections. The group has been deploying its members into political letter-writing campaigns to support U.S. crypto legislation, totaling 925,000 in 2025 and more than a
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2872.95, down 2.1% (-61.11) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. One of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: POL (+1.0%) and BCH (-0.9%). Laggards: APT (-5.0%) and XRP (-4.5%).
The technology underlying digital assets will evolve into a “foundational infrastructure layer” for the financial services industry in 2026, according to a new report from rating agency Moody’s. Writing in its 2026 Digital Finance Outlook, Moody’s predicts that blockchain-based tech will have a growing impact this year on the capital allocation and market operations of
Digital assets are set to cross a critical threshold in 2026, shifting from largely speculative instruments into practical financial infrastructure as regulation matures and traditional institutions deploy blockchain technology at scale, investment bank B. Riley said in a Thursday report. “In 2026, we expect the digital asset market to transition from speculation to practical utility
Though it can hardly be said that Wall Street experts are optimistic about Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock going into 2026, few are as bearish as Gordon Johnson of GJL Research. Specifically, the analyst – and, arguably, TSLA stock’s biggest bear – issued a new price target for the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s equity on January