Is DeFi a mature market today, and what is the one factor that convinces you? In the aspects that matter, yes, I see it as a mature market. And I'm not referring to token prices. I think sometimes we wrap two things together. The stronger test of a
Bitcoin ended the week down 2.4%, close to $80,000, after trading below that level on Saturday and again this morning. The weekend low was $79,107 and Monday's dip went just under $79,300, both below the $79,700 low of 15 October. Altcoins, which cover
Bitcoin closed the week near $82,000, down about 2.1% from the previous weekly close of $83,800. It was a fifth consecutive weekly close above the 50-week moving average, which stood near $77,200 a week ago. The range held, but only just. The week's
On October 15, Visa Direct moved its stablecoin capability from pilot to production. Its first enabler, Inyo Global, prefunds cross-border payouts in USDC so they can settle in near real time. The same day, Mastercard-owned BVNK launched a platform connecting stablecoins to Mastercard's rails, with Nuvei
Rather than launching a standalone, in-house tokenized share class, Janus Henderson went through Centrifuge and integrated directly with DeFi protocols. Why prioritize protocol integration? Our long-term vision is that fundamentally everything we do is going to move on-chain, and that extends across financial services. We see a
Bitcoin closed the week at $83,800, down 3.1% from the previous weekly close of $86,501. The decline did not break the trend. It was the fourth consecutive weekly close above the 50-week moving average, which now sits near $77,200. Price remains about 8.6% above
You've just closed a $90 million Series B led by NEA. What do your investors see in Spiko that a traditional asset manager can't offer? Our products are cash funds: money market funds, or equivalents like the fund we launched with Amundi six months ago, where
Bitcoin trades near $86,000, up about 1.75% from the previous weekly open. It did so in a week when the US dollar index (DXY), which tracks the dollar against six major currencies, rose roughly 1% to 102.1. The S&P 500 finished flat at +0.02%
On 30 September, MetaMask disclosed a security incident affecting part of its infrastructure and said it had found no immediate threat to MetaMask wallets. The exploit itself was small. An attacker redirected the tips from 18 blocks produced by MetaMask Staking validators to a wallet funded through Tornado Cash, according
Bitcoin ended last week near $83,000, after printing $87,363 at Tuesday's high. It was up roughly 8% on the week at that high, and finished up 2.38%. The quarter closes around +43.5% from a late-June base near $58,500, still about a third
Morpho Blue carries $10.86bn of TVL against $5.29bn borrowed, a utilisation of roughly 49% across the protocol. DefiLlama's headline TVL for this protocol is supplied liquidity. Adding borrowed amounts produces a deposit-plus-debt stock nearer $16.15bn. That is a different perimeter, not a second
Digital assets finished last week higher and extended the move into Monday. Bitcoin and Ether are both up about 9% week over week. Bitcoin is back above $80,000 and printed through $84,000, last seen in January. The rest of the market, excluding Bitcoin and stablecoins, outran the majors