The Court of Auditors of the State of São Paulo will hold Brazil’s first public auction in which every document is recorded on a blockchain in an effort to reduce legal disputes and raise the standard of transparency in public auctions. Ten warehouses will be sold off, and every piece of documentation involved in the
The monthly Global Fund Manager Survey from Bank of America has been widely followed for years on Wall Street for its ability to suggest sentiment extremes that often precede sizable market reversals. Indeed, the latest report released Tuesday shows professional investor sentiment is running at its hottest level in years. Among the key data points
Hong Kong-based payments fintech RedotPay has raised a $107 million in a Series B round as it scales stablecoin-powered payments across more than 100 countries, betting that blockchain rails can compete directly with traditional cross-border finance. The oversubscribed round, led by Goodwater Capital with participation from Pantera Capital, Blockchain Capital, and Circle Ventures, brings RedotPay’s
Frontera Labs, a blockchain development and research firm, has raised a $3 million seed round led by Maven 11 Capital, with Lightspeed Faction joining as a major investor, the company said in a press release Tuesday. Halo Capital, Heartcore Capital, Anchorage Digital Ventures, Nayt Technologies, Split Capital and a group of angel investors also participated
The U.S. labor market appears to have continued to soften in recent months as the government caught up to reports that had been delayed due to the shutdown in D.C. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 64,000 in November, according to a Tuesday morning report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economist estimates had been for jobs
Although the longer-than-expected federal government shutdown in the US has ended, its effects are still being felt. This situation led to the cancellation of the October employment report, a key indicator for the Fed’s interest rate decisions, while the November employment report, previously scheduled for release on December 5th, was postponed to December 16th. At
16 December 2025 – Tether, the largest company in the digital assets industry, announced today that it has made a strategic investment in Speed1, Inc. (“Speed”), a payments infrastructure company building instant, global settlement rails using the Bitcoin Lightning Network and stablecoins. Tether led the company’s $8 million funding round together with ego death capital.
The UK just posted its first drop in crypto ownership since 2021, with the share of adults holding crypto crashing by around 8% this year. Record prices earlier in 2025 did not stop the decline, even after Bitcoin surged to $126,251 in early October. Industry groups had spent the better part of 2 years pushing
Orderly Network, a renowned platform offering infrastructure for decentralized finance (DeFi) trading, has shared innovative news: Gold ($XAU) and Silver ($XAG) trading have become fully on-chain real-world assets (RWA). The main purpose of this change is to highlight Gold ($XAU) and Silver ($XAG) as new on-chain assets by bridging traditional commodities with DeFi. Gold and