During the first congressional public hearing on a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve proposal in Brazil, Luís Guilherme Siciliano, head of the International Reserves Department at the central bank, said that adopting the bill would increase risks to the nation’s reserve portfolio. Central Bank of Brazil Argues Holding Bitcoin Would Increase Foreign Reserve Risks The Central Bank
Speaking to Bloomberg during the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, Boston Fed President Susan Collins stated that the interest rate decision to be taken at the next Fed meeting is not yet clear. Collins emphasized that while labor market growth has slowed, economic fundamentals remain solid, adding, “This is a complex picture. We need to balance
Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech on Friday at this year’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium balanced rising inflation risk against a fragile labor market, and the political calendar now raises the odds that his eventual successor will be less cautious on rates. Powell’s message was deliberately sober. He said the “effects of tariffs on consumer
Blazpay, a well-known Web3 payment platform, has collaborated with Gmatrix, an on-chain game publisher. The partnership focuses on combining the AI-driven DeFi solutions and omni-chain game publishing infrastructure to redefine the Web3 landscape. As the platform disclosed in its official X announcement, the collaboration seeks to expedite the integration of DeFi, immersive gameplay, and NFTs
Shares of Tesla and American Airlines are among the new high-profile purges by billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller. New U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings for the second quarter show Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office has dumped its entire stake in electric carmaker Tesla (TSLA) and American Airlines Group (AAL), the second-largest US airline by domestic market
The surge in social media chatter around the highly anticipated US Federal Reserve September interest rate decision could be a warning sign for crypto, says sentiment platform Santiment. It comes after the crypto market rallied on Friday and market sentiment returned to greed following Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s dovish remarks at the annual Jackson Hole
BlackRock, the world’s biggest crypto asset manager, now has more Bitcoin it its spot ETF than the combined reserves of the biggest crypto giants; Coinbase and Binance. This is a paradigm shift in the crypto landscape, which so far, has been ruled by a decentralized community of non-institutional traders. Now, the institutional capital is flexing
APAC economies, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and Japan, are accelerating real-world asset (RWA) tokenization through regulatory reforms and live-market adoption. Regulatory Transformation and Market Dynamics Why Important: Tokenization connects issuance, settlement, and custody on a shared digital infrastructure, improving settlement finality and auditability. It lowers capital costs, enhances custody transparency, and enables 24/7 secondary
Institutional investors from the traditional finance world lack the updated risk tolerance models to deal with crypto and may face trouble during the next bear market, according to Custodia Bank CEO Caitlin Long. “Big Finance is here in a big way, and that seems to be driving this cycle. I suspect it will continue to