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Snow falls soft on legacy rails,Paper checks stuck in the mail.We gather round the dashboard glow,Watching how payments flow.AI agents take the stand,Walking in a payments wonderland.
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The number and value of acquisitions and initial public offerings (IPOs) in the cryptocurrency sector surged in 2025, driven by the Trump administrations favorable stance toward the industry.The numbοΏ½...
If 2025 felt like the year the future stopped arriving and started showing up in production, you are not imagining it. In payments and commerce, the most important shifts rarely announce themselves wοΏ½...
For cryptocurrency markets, 2025 was a year that went full circle.Digital assets are ending the year with nearly all of their gains over the past 12 months having been erased by market volatility.
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An investment scam allegedly took $14 million from retail investors by connecting with them on social media and convincing them to fund accounts on fake crypto asset trading platforms.The Securities οΏ½...
These novel platforms, which let participants trade contracts tied to the outcomes of real-world events, entered a decisive phase of commercial and regulatory expansion over the past year. Formerly fοΏ½...
Ex-FTX executive Brett Harrison raised $35 million for his perpetual futures exchange startup, The Information reported Tuesday (Dec. 23).The new funding round values Architect Financial TechnologiesοΏ½...
Silicon Valley-focused banking startup Erebor Bank is expected to raise $350 million, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Dec. 23).The funding round would value Erebor at $4.35 billion, according to the repoοΏ½...
The total market capitalization for cryptocurrency has climbed above $3 trillion.However, this rebound reflects exhaustion and not a reinvigorated conviction in the crypto space, CoinDesk reported TuοΏ½...
The acquisition, announced Monday (Dec. 22), comes days after Coinbase said it would begin offering access to prediction markets in the U.S.
Prediction markets let people trade on real-world events οΏ½...
