Crypto and blockchain companies disclosed $184.1 million across eight funding rounds between Aug. 22 and Aug. 28, led by RQD* Clearing’s $74 million growth investment. Summary Eight crypto and blockchain projects disclosed a combined $184.1 million in new financing. RQD* Clearing secured a $74 million minority growth investment led by Bain Capital. Fasset raised $68…
Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia’s AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft, Bloomberg reports. The terms of the deal, which Bloomberg says was arranged by JP Morgan Chase, signal that Lambda is betting…
Key Takeaways Armstrong and CZ remain broadly bullish, but their forecasts often follow bitcoin’s price action. Long-term price calls offer entertainment value but little certainty in a highly unpredictable market. Treat exchange founders’ predictions as input for research, not as signals to buy, sell or hold. In general, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, and Changpeng…
Another Trump-themed digital asset delivered an expensive and painful lesson to traders chasing quick gains through meme coins. A newly launched meme coin on Solana briefly attracted millions in trading activity after it appeared on a Trump-linked X account. Trump Digital Gold (GOLD) was published and promoted on the X account @realtrumpcoins1, which is…
Nvidia is reportedly buying one of AI’s biggest model-sharing platforms, potentially extending its reach beyond chips and deeper into the software ecosystem. The company has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the deal. The companies have not publicly confirmed the transaction, and reports indicate…
Tokenized gold has moved deeper into crypto lending after Aave’s XAUT-backed debt reached a $25 million ceiling and Arch Lending added loans against the two largest gold tokens. Summary Aave’s $25 million XAUT debt ceiling was fully used before additional capacity filled within 24 hours. Arch’s Himanshu Sahay said investors increasingly want to use tokenized…
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Key Takeaways Bitcoin’s 90-day correlation with gold has climbed above 50%. Its Nasdaq 100 correlation has fallen from above 60% to about 33%. U.S. debt above $40 trillion is strengthening the debasement narrative. Bitcoin’s Correlation Shifts From Nasdaq Toward Gold Bitcoin’s relationship with traditional assets is changing as investors increasingly treat the cryptocurrency as a…
Is XRP heading for a market cap nearly 2x higher than ETH’s current one? Ripple’s native token is among the most popular cryptocurrencies, often being the object of massive price predictions. Impressive rallies like the one that took place in the past 10 days or so only fuel such forecasts. Popular analyst EGRAG CRYPTO…
On Chinese social media, people have also reported experiencing variations of the scam involving other corporate software apps, including Webex, a video conferencing platform owned by Cisco, and Cliq, a workplace communication app owned by the Indian software giant Zoho. Since February 2025, 71 percent of the over 150 reviews of Webex on Apple’s Chinese…
