Inxy's $4M Stablecoin Bet: Fuel for the Fire or Fizzle?
Flashpoint just dropped $4 million on stablecoin newbie Inxy. Total seed now hits $7M — but can it dodge the pitfalls that sank others?
Flashpoint just dropped $4 million on stablecoin newbie Inxy. Total seed now hits $7M — but can it dodge the pitfalls that sank others?
Forget the hype about crypto's anonymity. Indonesian courts just convicted three terrorism financiers using cold, hard onchain evidence. TRM Labs is cheering, but let's peek behind the curtain.
Your retirement portfolio dipping into crypto ETFs? Last week's $224M inflows—led by XRP's monster $120M—might feel like a breather. But don't pop the champagne yet.
Last week, global crypto ETPs clawed back $224 million. Dig deeper: 70% from Switzerland alone, XRP taking over half — a stark reminder that recoveries aren't uniform.
Grayscale flips the script: Bitcoin's quantum crisis isn't engineering—it's politics. With 6.9 million BTC exposed, consensus on fixes could take years.
Your proxy ballot just went blockchain. Broadridge, the trillion-dollar fintech beast, flipped the switch on Avalanche for Galaxy shareholders—but who's cashing in on this 'next step' for tokenized stocks?
Your DeFi deposits? Now fair game for North Korean spies schmoozing at conferences. Drift's $270M loss shows the crypto dream's cracking under real-world tradecraft.
Markets banked on staked ETH ETFs delivering easy yields. Lido's top exec flips the script: treasuries must wield liquid staking and DeFi tricks to justify their premium promises.
Circle couldn't move faster to stop the Drift hack without legal risk. Here's why the stablecoin issuer's caution—not negligence—is the real story.
Nium just collapsed months of engineering work into days. By connecting stablecoin balances directly to Visa and Mastercard through a single API, the payments platform is answering the question that's been quietly haunting enterprise crypto: how do you actually spend this stuff at scale?
Cambodia just passed draconian penalties for crypto scammers—up to five years in prison and $125,000 fines. The catch? The government has historically ignored these operations entirely.
The Ethereum Foundation just dumped $92 million into staking—and it's not just about earning yield. This move could reshape how crypto's most important infrastructure gets funded, but it's also forcing a reckoning with decentralization itself.
Charles Schwab is finally entering the spot crypto market. After years of hedging and regulatory hand-wringing, the brokerage giant is about to make buying Bitcoin and Ethereum as easy as ordering a sandwich.
An experienced macro investor just dropped a sobering take: Bitcoin traders are betting on a quick Iran resolution. If that's wrong, crypto could face a brutal 20% correction—and it might be the least of our problems.
Charles Schwab is finally getting serious about crypto. In 2026, the brokerage giant will let customers buy bitcoin and ether directly—and that's either smart diversification or a sign the crypto casino is going mainstream.
Forget siloed services—SoFi's new Big Business Banking mashes fiat and crypto into one smoothly, regulated beast. It's the platform shift enterprise has craved.
Imagine Circle — USDC's daddy — wrapping your Bitcoin in their shiny new cirBTC. Sounds convenient, until you remember they killed their last Bitcoin experiment.
Coinbase just got the OCC's nod for a national trust charter — holding over $250 billion in crypto custody assets. Skeptical vets like me wonder: does federal uniformity really help users, or just Coinbase's bottom line?
Binance processed $4.9 trillion in derivatives last quarter—35% of the top pack. Yet Hyperliquid, a perp DEX, just muscled into the top 10, hinting at fractures in the old guard.
SoFi just made a bold bet: what if a regulated bank could move money like a crypto exchange, 24/7, without leaving the banking system? Big Business Banking is that gamble.