Nasdaq-listed chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA), the bellwether for everything AI, is pushing Wall Street banks to treat its AI computing power like commercial real estate, toll roads or power plants: as an investable infrastructure asset. Nvidia said Monday it has signed memorandums of understanding with six Wall Street heavyweights – Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield
Bitwise Research Head Ryan Rasmussen said the stablecoin market could grow many times larger than its current size in the coming years. In a recent interview, Rasmussen predicted that the stablecoin market, currently at around $300 billion, could reach between $3 trillion and $5 trillion. Rasmussen argued that investors, in particular, have not adequately priced
Exodus Movement, the crypto wallet provider, reported a net loss of $18.6 million for the second quarter of 2025, a sharp reversal from the $37.7 million net income it posted in the same period last year. The company’s revenue rose 2% year over year to $26.2 million, according to a report by The Block. Acquisitions
In brief Wall Street lenders are factoring community opposition into credit-risk assessments for data center projects. At least 75 projects worth roughly $130 billion faced local opposition in the first quarter of 2026. Banks remain interested in AI infrastructure but are paying closer attention to permitting and community resistance. Wall Street banks financing the AI
Avalanche Treasury Corporation (AVAT) has until Feb. 2, 2027, to clear two Nasdaq listing deficiencies after its share price and market value fell below required thresholds. Last week, Nasdaq notified the company that AVAT’s closing bid price had remained below $1 and its market value of listed securities had stayed below $35 million for 33
The leading crypto asset by market cap, bitcoin ($BTC), reached climbed over the $126,000 mark in early October before entering a prolonged decline. By August, it was trading mostly between $63,000 and $65,400, leaving buyers near the peak with heavy losses but producing a bear market that remains unusually shallow by bitcoin’s historical standards. Previous
Bitcoin Policy Institute and more than 40 digital-asset organizations have called on leading AI laboratories to give qualified open-source security researchers controlled access to frontier models as AI-assisted cyberattacks grow more capable. Bitcoin coalition asks AI labs for controlled access Bitcoin Policy Institute announced the initiative in an Aug. 10 X post, saying the coalition
When BlackRock’s infrastructure arm sat down with North America’s largest construction union coalition this month, the message was blunt: the AI boom is running out of hands to build it. The BlackRock NABTU partnership, formalized through a memorandum of understanding signed on August 10, 2026, is one of the clearest signals yet that Wall Street’s
BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes said that potential steps by the US and Japan to support the yen could increase global dollar liquidity, potentially leading to a strong rally in Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market. Hayes, in his assessment via X, pointed out three different scenarios that could be implemented to support the Japanese yen. The