Helene Braun

Articles by Helene Braun

Bitcoin tops $72,000, but Circle and Bullish drop sharply after downgrades

Crypto April 10, 2026

Crypto prices and U.S. stocks rallied Thursday on diminishing Middle East worries, but Circle (CRCL), Bullish (BLSH) and Coinbase (COIN) all posted sizable declines. Circle tumbled 9.9% to $85.10 afοΏ½...

Strategy posts Q4 loss of $12.4 billion on tumbling bitcoin price

Crypto February 6, 2026

Strategy (MSTR) reported a net loss of $12.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025 as the price of bitcoin BTC $71,091.27 tumbled from about $120,000 on October 1 to roughly $89,000 to close the yeaοΏ½...

Visa and Mastercard aren’t buying the stablecoin hype for everyday payments

Crypto January 31, 2026

Wall Streets payments giants are not sold on cryptos usefulness in everyday transactions at least not yet. In earnings calls this week, both Visa and Mastercard executives offered cautious assessmenοΏ½...

Circle shares rise 4% as Polymarket-driven USDC growth prompts analyst upgrade

Crypto January 29, 2026

Shares of Circle (CRCL) rose 4% Wednesday after Japanese finance giant Mizuho upgraded the stock to neutral, pointing to a surge in activity on crypto prediction platform Polymarket as a new driver oοΏ½...

Coinbase rolls out prediction markets to all U.S. customers

Crypto January 29, 2026

Coinbase (COIN) has rolled out its new prediction market platform to U.S. users, enabling them to trade on the outcomes of real-world events including elections, sports, collectibles, and economic inοΏ½...

Fidelity Investments Starts its own stablecoin in a massive bet that future of banking is on blockchain

Crypto January 29, 2026

Fidelity Investments is launching its first stablecoin, the Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD), in early February, marking a major move by one of the largest traditional financial institutions into onchaοΏ½...

Bitcoin miners surge higher as Anthropic's fundraising efforts boost AI spirits

Crypto January 28, 2026

AI powerhouse Anthropic, the creator of AI chatbot Claude, is about to raise $20 billion in fresh investment from venture capitalists and other investors, the Financial Times reported, in a deal thatοΏ½...

Here are the winners and losers (so far) in bitcoin mining from Nvidia's $2B CoreWeave investment

Crypto January 27, 2026

As if continuing declines in the bitcoin price werent enough, shares of bitcoin miners who have shifted their business plan to focus on AI infrastructure were mostly sharply lower Monday following NvοΏ½...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest files for two crypto index ETFs tied to CoinDesk 20

Crypto January 27, 2026

ARK Invest, the asset management firm led by Cathie Wood, has filed with U.S. regulators to launch two new cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that would track the CoinDesk 20 a benchmark of οΏ½...

Coreweave stock gains 9% on fresh $2 billion Nvidia investment

Crypto January 27, 2026

Shares of Coreweave (CRWV) rose 9% during pre-market trading on Monday after AI powerhouse Nvidia (NVDA) invested another $2 billion in an effort to accelerate the company's buildout of next-generatiοΏ½...