For decades, venture capital has operated as one of finance’s most exclusive asset classes. Participation typically requires large minimum investments, extensive paperwork, and years long lockups that prevent investors from accessing their capital. According to Carl Vogel, general partner at 6th Man Ventures, blockchain is on course to change that. Democratizing access to gatekept strategies
Already on a tear ahead of the war in Iran, Circle (CRCL) might be an unlikely beneficiary of the conflict. The stock rose 10% on Monday, outperforming other crypto-linked equities, with the shares now up by 86% over the past month, though they remain sharply lower since their peak post-IPO frenzy last summer. Japanese bank
Longtime Bitcoiner and Block Inc. CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey has very reluctantly gotten onboard with the idea that the company’s customers are embracing stablecoins. “I don’t like that we’re going to support stablecoins, but our customers want to use them,” he told Wired. “I don’t think it’s wise to go from one gatekeeper to
US President Donald Trump’s statements on the war with Iran, oil prices, and global energy security attracted attention in global markets. In particular, messages suggesting that the ongoing conflict with Iran was nearing its end, and potential interventions in oil prices, were the focus of investors. In an interview with CBS, Trump stated that the
Mastercard has unveiled Verifiable Intent, a new open, standards-based trust framework co-developed with Google, designed specifically for “agentic commerce” — a world where artificial intelligence (AI) systems don’t just assist shoppers, but actively plan, decide, and complete purchases autonomously. The core problem Verifiable Intent aims to solve is visibility: when a consumer delegates a purchase
The largest digital asset treasury (DAT) companies for Bitcoin ($BTC) and Ethereum ($ETH) added more crypto than usual to their stockpiles last week. Michael Saylor’s Strategy announced on Monday, March 9, that its latest weekly Bitcoin purchase totaled 17,994 $BTC at an average price of about $70,946 per coin. Last week’s buy is nearly 6x
Since the onset of the Iran war, Dubai real estate has crashed worse than bitcoin ($BTC). The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) Real Estate Index closed trading at 13,353 on Monday, down 18.1% from 16,306 on February 27, the most recent trading session before Operation Epic Fury’s opening airstrikes at 1:15am New York time on February
Anthropic is suing the US Department of Defense and other federal bodies after being designated as “supply chain risk” by the Trump administration, effectively restricting its business with defense contractors. The designation came after talks collapsed over Anthropic’s refusal to allow its AI systems to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or autonomous weapons,
Bitcoin spent the weekend mostly within a familiar price channel, then slipped lower before recovering as traders reacted to the developing impact of the Iran war. However, while real-world macro events now dictate Bitcoin’s movements more than fundamentals or adoption levels, where on the chart it stops to test the waters has not changed. Bitcoin