Key Takeaways A Bank of Montreal-controlled investment adviser managed about $3,000 worth of XRP fund shares. The filing does not identify the beneficial owner or investment strategy. One fund seeks to follow XRP, while the other targets twice its daily move. Two Line Items Inside a 14,271-Position Filing Bank of Montreal (NYSE: BMO) filed a…
Ether.fi has upgraded its non-custodial neobank with tokenized stocks and metals, portfolio-backed loans near 4%, payments in over 30 currencies, and programmatic ETHFI buybacks. Summary Ether.fi users can trade tokenized assets and hold them inside self-custodial vaults. An Aave market on Optimism supports loans against portfolios at rates currently near 4%. Cash card users receive…
Surveillance technology startup Flock announced a series of new policies and tools on Thursday, claiming they will help curb abuse of its automated license plate camera reader systems and help keep its law enforcement customers accountable. Flock is now recommending police departments retain data for seven days rather than the previous 30 days. Along with…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Investing in physical gold has long been a go-to strategy for preserving wealth, but holding the actual metal comes with significant hurdles: security vaults, expensive minimum purchases, and cumbersome authenticity checks. That friction may soon…
The stablecoin giant’s reserves exceeded liabilities by $6.81 billion. The entity behind the world’s largest stablecoin has announced that KPMG U.S. issued an unqualified audit opinion on the financial statements of Tether International, S.A. de C.V. for the year ended December 31, 2025. This is the first full financial statement audit in the history of…
Video games were supposed to be entertainment. For more than 2,000 people, they may now be a path toward controlling America’s skies. The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) say they have added more than 2,000 candidates after deliberately targeting gamers in their latest air traffic controller recruitment campaign, helping…
Key Takeaways Saylor assigns separate purposes to bitcoin, credit, and payments. STRC supplies the existing income-producing layer of the model. Solstice’s SR-strcUSX targets a 7% annual yield, with junior capital absorbing losses first. Saylor Extends Bitcoin Beyond Direct Ownership Bitcoin can support several financial products rather than only function as a standalone asset, according to…
Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman Robert Kaplan has backed the Federal Reserve’s 9–3 decision to keep interest rates at 3.50%–3.75% in July, arguing that policymakers needed more time to assess inflation before acting. Summary The Fed held rates at 3.50%–3.75% in July despite three votes for an increase. Kaplan said incoming data should determine whether policymakers…
OpenAI’s Chief Revenue Officer announced today that she is leaving the AI giant. “I wanted to let you know that I made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI in the coming weeks to pursue other opportunities,” said Denise Dresser, the now-former OpenAI CRO, in a post shared to her LinkedIn. “I’m incredibly proud of all…
A new group of veteran Bitcoiners will take over operations after supplying fresh capital and engineering resources. Boltz has suspended its Bitcoin swap service after a series of AI-assisted attacks caused losses for the bootstrapped five-person company, with the shutdown announced on August 3 and a new group of veteran Bitcoiners now preparing to…
