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Until recently, gaining exposure to SpaceX equity required being an accredited investor, accessing secondary platforms through a broker (Forge, EquityZen, Hiive), or investing through fund vehicles such as Destiny Tech100 (DXYZ) or ARK Venture. A second wave then emerged with tokenized wrappers and pre-IPO tokens on Solana-based platforms,
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Everyone's talking about AI. Where does BNP Paribas actually stand? The hype dates back to ChatGPT in late 2022, but the bank started around fifteen years ago, with credit scoring and fraud detection. Today three families of projects coexist: classic, generative, and now agentic. The Evident AI Index,
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Standard Chartered just announced the acquisition of Zodia Custody. We hear about Zodia Custody, Zodia Markets, Zodia Solutions. Can you walk us through what each of these entities actually does? Zodia Custody was the first entity created by SC Ventures. Zodia Markets is a separate business with different shareholders, focused
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In the aftermath of last week’s $1.5 billion+ liquidation cascade, the digital asset market stabilized over the weekend. Bitcoin consolidated in the $62,000–$63,000 range, while the broader market (TOTAL2) held near $600 billion. Digital assets once again led the move lower, preceding Friday’s equity
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The digital asset market faced one of its sharpest weekly corrections in months. Bitcoin declined approximately 14% over seven days, briefly testing the 200-week moving average near $61,800, while altcoins fell over 15%. This move occurred against a backdrop of traditional equities at all-time highs, with the
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The U.S. is advancing two major pieces of legislation — the CLARITY Act and the GENIUS Act. What should we take away from them? Two big themes stand out from the CLARITY Act. First, yield: everything points to some form of remuneration being authorized in the U.S., though not
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Strategy disclosed the sale of 32 BTC between May 26 and May 31 for $2.5 million, earmarked to fund the dividends on its preferred shares. Thirteen days earlier, it had bought 24,869 BTC for $2.01 billion. Two opposite moves — and a balance that leaves the company a
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Jeff Sprecher said something quite remarkable this week. The founder and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, and therefore the head of the NYSE, publicly stated that Hyperliquid was "bigger than NASDAQ" even though it's a platform run by just "11 people." It's probably
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The Big Whale: What's the difference between an agentic workflow and regular AI? Ferdinand : Where you want to go with AI inside a financial institution is to make processes either faster or less error-prone, and to take over the manual work humans used to do, executing it
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Standard Chartered opened its Luxembourg office in December 2024. Why did you pick this country as your gateway into Europe for digital assets? We received our VASP registration on December 16, 2024 — the very same day I started my role and we officially launched the entity. Several factors guided the
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You launched FILQ on May 6th with a Moody's AAA-mf assessment from day one. Was that assessment a precondition for the launch? At the genesis of this product, we identified what was missing in the market: institutional-grade credit assessment to establish high-quality collateral on-chain.
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Bitcoin is trading in the $77,000–$77,300 range after three bruising sessions. Following the May 18 liquidation event, BTC had drifted down to the $74,500–$75,000 zone over the weekend (May 23–24), battered by roughly $917 million in liquidations, before staging a sharp Monday rebound