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First came the digital-asset treasuries—public companies that raised equity, bought crypto and watched their stock prices soar. It was a kind of financial alchemy: tap the stock market to buy…
Read article →The hottest technology in crypto right now is the stablecoin, a type of cryptocurrency that is typically pegged to the U.S. dollar. While Tether and Circle’s USDC are the clear…
Read article →“My neighbors think I’m under house arrest,” observes Arjun Sethi. It’s not hard to see why. On the driveway of Sethi’s comfortable Menlo Park home, located a few miles from…
Read article →Google has helped strike another deal with a Bitcoin miner. On Thursday, Cipher Mining announced that it was leasing a data warehouse it owns in Colorado City, Texas, to an…
Read article →There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear. With apologies to Buffalo Springfield (and later Public Enemy), those lines neatly sum up the latest crypto trend: companies building…
Read article →For more than a century, the United States and the United Kingdom have been amongst the most influential nations in finance, working together to create the playbook for global trade…
Read article →As the superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services, Adrienne Harris carved out a name for herself as a forward-thinking regulator who created a national presence for her small…
Read article →Does it matter if the stock you buy comes in the form of a token on a blockchain? We could soon find out as the Securities and Exchange Commission is…
Read article →Another heavy hitter from Wall Street is diving into the crypto treasury craze. On Wednesday, a group of investors announced that it plans to establish a $671 million company dedicated…
Read article →Last October, the payments giant Stripe announced a blockbuster $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge, a little-known startup focused on the dollar-backed cryptocurrencies known as stablecoins. Long a feature of the…
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