Brazil’s largest banks have expanded their crypto offerings to as many as 28 assets after transactions across the country reached R$505.5 billion or about $98.7 billion in 2025. Summary Itaú now offers 15 crypto assets, while Nubank has listed 28 tokens for customers. Banco do Brasil has processed more than R$11 million in crypto transactions…
Carrying culinary adventures into the unknown comes the Le Creuset x Star Trek: Galileo shuttlecraft casserole dish ($150), which has a roomy 1.6 liters of space inside. Vulcan votaries are well catered for with the $35 Spock ear mug (perfect for Vulcan spice tea), complete with gold detailing along the rim as a nod to…
Key Takeaways Capital B bought 376 BTC for $29.4M, lifting its bitcoin treasury to 3,521 BTC. Adam Back and TOBAM-backed funding show firms still using equity markets to expand bitcoin treasuries. Investors will watch whether bitcoin gains can close Capital B’s roughly $80M cost-basis gap. Capital B Adds Bitcoin After $33.3M Private Placement Capital B…
ETF demand is surging, but Bitcoin faces a simple question: can buyers turn institutional inflows into a clean break above $82,000? Bitcoin is trading above $79,000 after US spot ETFs pulled in a reported $730.9 million in a single day last week, their second-largest daily inflows of the year after the $843.6 million they…
AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF — and, as of last week, terms like “opaque recurrence,” the reasoning technique in…
The Ethereum Foundation has published ratings for 62 Hegotá proposals after collecting 397 assessments from about 60 protocol specialists across nine teams. Summary 62 Ethereum Improvement Proposals received ratings ahead of the planned Hegotá network upgrade. 397 assessments came from researchers, engineers, and specialists across nine Protocol Cluster teams. Ethereum’s Protocol Cluster wants the Layer…
New payment companies could face a one-year wait to enter the Philippines’ regulated payment-system market. The proposed pause would give the country’s central bank time to reassess how payment operators are classified and regulated. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is proposing a 12-month suspension of new operator of payment systems (OPS) registrations. The draft pairs…
Key Takeaways DBS and Citi basically pulled off a USD payment in just minutes this weekend using Swift’s ledger. Pretty quick compared to how TradFi cross-border payments usually work. Swift’s 17-bank pilot is pushing tokenized deposits closer to becoming an actual 24/7 banking option, instead of something that’s mostly talked about in theory. Citi thinks…
Three tokenized stocks generated $7.1 billion in DEX volume, accounting for nearly 45% of the category’s total activity. Tokenized versions of SPY, Google, and Robinhood’s own stock led a burst of on-chain trading activity over the past month, with Token Terminal data showing SPY on Robinhood Chain up by more than 1,300% in 30…
JPMorgan Chase is now reviewing whether to launch its own stablecoin. The bank is doing that work on a separate track from a group of 21 banks and financial firms that plan to build a dollar stablecoin for business payments across borders, reports The Wall Street Journal. That group includes Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup,…
