Stablecoin infrastructure company HIFI has raised $37 million in a Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital as the use of stablecoins for payments and cross-border transfers continues to grow despite weakness in the broader crypto market. Cross-border stablecoin flows rose 77.5% to $220.3 billion in the 12 months ending June 2026, even
Goldman Sachs says markets are pricing in more Fed rate hikes than anticipated and denies claims that a pause is off the table. Increasing expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates are sending Treasury yields and the US dollar higher. This is putting more pressure on Bitcoin and other risk assets.
Key points Bitcoin fell below $84,000 as the US 10-year Treasury yield reached its highest level since 2007. An analyst put the odds of an October Fed hike above 70% as the Treasury prepared a bond buyback of up to $6 billion. Bitcoin has closed September higher for three straight years, while October has averaged
Bitcoin BTC$84,120.99 has long made investors pay for its bull markets with brutal crashes, but that trade-off may finally be changing. The crypto asset fell roughly 55% from its October 2025 peak during its most recent bear cycle. That would qualify as a historic collapse in most markets, but for bitcoin, it was relatively tame
Happy Thursday, advisors! In today’s newsletter, Dovile Silenskyte from WisdomTree on the two questions investors keep bundling together when they buy bitcoin. Then, in “Ask an Expert,” Bryan Courchesne from DAiM answers questions about how the failure of the CLARITY Act vote could impact bitcoin as an investment. Happy reading. – Sarah Morton Bitcoin exposure
Trade finance, the cash flow that supports businesses carrying out global trade, has long been seen as a ripe area for digital ledger-based upgrades. That’s now coming to fruition as the sector currently undergoes a stablecoin-driven transformation, according to euro-pegged token issuer Qivalis. The steady seismic impact stablecoins have had on cross-border payments is well
The U.K.’s largest banks executed the world’s first customer transaction using tokenized British pound deposits on a share platform. The money movement included remortgage payments and a test of a consumer purchase, according to an announcement on Thursday. The project is testing whether regulated bank money can move in tokenized form between institutions and in
The Bank of Japan drew attention by raising its interest rate to its highest level in 31 years. The decision, made at a meeting on September 18th, increased the rate to 1.25%. This increase is seen as a result of pressure exerted on Japan by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who argued that Japan needed
Cathie Wood’s $ARK Invest is putting its venture fund on blockchain rails, bringing a portfolio that includes stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks onto blockchain rails. The $ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) will issue tokenized interests using infrastructure from Securitize (SECZ), with the tokenization firm handling onchain issuance and the investor experience. ARKVX will be