Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has been using its X marketing budget to advertise STRC, its quasi-pegged, 11.25% dividend-yielding preferred share. Unfortunately, that expensive, direct response ad campaign didn’t yield any results for shareholders last week. For the week of February 2-8, Strategy didn’t sell any new shares of STRC nor any other preferred shares. It only
Alphabet Inc. is raising $15 billion in the US corporate bond market this week, part of a sweeping financing strategy to support its record-breaking $185 billion capital expenditure plan for artificial intelligence. According to a Bloomberg report, the offering includes seven tranches and has attracted more than $100 billion in demand. The longest tranche, maturing in
As of December 2025, American companies Visa and Mastercard are processing nearly two-thirds of card payments in the Eurozone, and Europe is finally sick of it. If things ever get ugly(ier) between the U.S. and Europe, the people here could find themselves locked out of their own money. Martina Weimert, who runs the European Payments
China’s tech stocks are flying today because traders are reacting to real news. TikTok maker ByteDance had dropped its new video-making app called Seedance 2.0 and it’s not some half-baked beta. The videos it generates apparently look so good, it got everyone’s attention fast. By the time markets closed, COL Group had maxed out at
Dubai Land Department (DLD), the government’s department for real estate in the UAE, has moved forward with its tokenization initiative by launching the secondary market starting February 20, 2026. The launch will allow the resale of approximately 7.8 million real estate tokens within a controlled pilot framework aimed at assessing market efficiency, testing operational readiness,
Japan’s stablecoin market is heating up, with a number of new partnerships forming around the country’s first yen-backed stablecoin. Banks and major businesses are now piloting both yen- and dollar-backed stablecoins for real world payments. But a clear split is taking shape. While USD stablecoins dominate global transactions, yen-backed coins are being positioned as a
Institutional demand for secure digital asset services is rising fast, and Ripple custody is being upgraded to capture this growing segment with new capabilities. Summary Ripple strengthens institutional custody with new partners New HSM-based security options through Securosys Figment partnership brings integrated staking to Ripple Regulatory-grade infrastructure and expanded capabilities Ripple strengthens institutional custody with
Jump Trading, a Chicago-based firm specializing in algorithmic and high-frequency strategies, has reached agreements to take small ownership stakes in prediction market operators Kalshi and Polymarket, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing people with knowledge of the arrangements. The investment would deepen the proprietary trading giant’s exposure to event-based wagering after it began providing market-making liquidity on
President Donald Trump’s U.S. bitcoin BTC$70,151.59 reserve doesn’t exist yet, and there is no mechanism in the federal government for the wholesale purchase of crypto. Keep that in mind when considering this weekend’s speculation about the price point that would cause the White House to push a buy button, thanks in large part to CNBC
MegaETH, a high-performance blockchain built to make Ethereum applications feel nearly instant, debuted its public mainnet Monday, entering an ecosystem mired in a fundamental debate over how Ethereum should scale. The project, which had pitched itself as a layer-2 “real-time blockchain” targeting more than 100,000 transactions per second (tps), would make onchain interactions feel closer