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- For many investors, the dream of quitting the 9-to-5 early on the back of crypto gains is irresistible. Stories of Bitcoin millionaires and Ethereum early adopters fuel the fantasy that financial freedom is just one bull run away with the right coin at the right time. But as anyone who has lived through multiple cycles knows, reality is much messier. While cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have delivered life-changing returns over the past decade, the extreme volatility, uncertain regulation, and lack of steady income make them a risky foundation for retirement. Still, with discipline and foresight, crypto can play a role in a broader financial strategy. The Allure and the Risks On paper, crypto looks like the...

- Capital is migrating to Solana In crypto, capital goes where it is treated best, and that shows up as value moving from one blockchain to another. During the past month, two meaningful slices of value have been heading to one place in particular: Solana (CRYPTO: SOL). Two green flags indicate the network's growing strength and deeper liquidity, and also better odds that the next wave of on-chain activity accrues to the benefit of Solana holders. When investors choose a base chain for storing their crypto assets, they effectively end up voting with their dollars, as capital parked on one chain is capital that can't be parked somewhere else. During the 30 days ended on Sept. 23, Solana saw roughly $2 billion in net inflows from...

- Why Bitcoin sites are emerging as key AI infrastructure Bitcoin mining facilities are poised to become crucial players in artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to Morgan Stanley. The bank said it has begun to see “large compute/data center deals” and expects 2026 to mark “a surge in demand for compute, escalating ‘time to power’ deal velocity, and a potential step change in LLM intelligence.” In its latest research, Morgan Stanley argued that Bitcoin miners are in a prime position to repurpose their assets. “We provide more depth around our assessment of the opportunity for Bitcoin miners to repurpose their sites to host HPC data centers,” the analysts wrote. The report noted that U.S. Bitcoin players collectively...

- Key Points So far, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been the biggest winner of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, but investors should not forget how quickly hardware leadership can shift when a market matures. The cryptocurrency mining industry is a great example. Graphics processing units (GPUs) were once the workhorse of crypto mining, at least until application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) were developed to take mining to the next level. These ASICs did only one thing, but they did it faster and cheaper, and in short order, GPU-based mining for currencies like Bitcoin fell far out of vogue. The economics were simply too compelling to ignore. If a crypto miner wanted to stay competitive, they had to switch to ASICs or get...

- Debt vs. Crypto: How Millennials and Gen Z Define Financial Priorities Key Takeaways When it comes to money, Millennials and Gen Z live in the same economy but play by very different rules. For Millennials, financial stability is a marathon: slow and steady, with a focus on paying down debt brick by brick. Gen Z, on the other hand, grew up in the age of the sprint, chasing high-risk bets in crypto and meme stocks, and constantly looking for the next big win. Millennial Investing Millennials came of age in a world where investing felt distant and exclusive. Before the rise of commission-free apps and crypto exchanges, putting money into markets required an overwhelming sense of confidence and connections many people simply...

- Key Points Twice this year, XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) has made a run at the $4 price level. And twice the rally has fallen just short. In July, for example, XRP topped out at $3.65, a new 52-week high. So investors are understandably awaiting another breakout for XRP, as well as a new all-time high. But will it come in 2025, as many expected earlier in the year? Good News on the Regulatory Front For much of the past five years, a dark regulatory cloud has hung over XRP, which is designed to make institutional money transfers faster and cheaper than legacy systems now in use. Back in December 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claimed that XRP was actually a security, and that the sale of XRP tokens to the public was...

- 3 Signs That Leading Cryptocurrencies Could Be Overvalued Key Points Volatility is nothing new to the crypto market, but when it appears, it can still be jarring. On Sept. 22, the crypto market saw a steep sell-off in nearly every top cryptocurrency. Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) sank by 3%, while Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) fell by 9%, the fall triggered by a liquidation of $1.5 billion in leveraged crypto positions. Is the recent crypto pullback a healthy correction? Or is it yet another sign that the top cryptocurrencies could be wildly overvalued? Let's take a closer look. The implosion of the DAT trade In the crypto market, the one trade that captivated investors during the summer was the so-called DAT trade. DAT stands for digital...

- Mizuho Lifts PT on Coinbase Global (COIN) to $300 From $267 Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) is one of the best stocks to invest in right now. On September 18, Mizuho analyst Dan Dolev raised the firm’s price target on Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) to $300 from $267 while keeping a Neutral rating on the shares. The firm told investors in a research note that, according to its analysis, consumer lenders, bank processors, and exchanges are in the best position to benefit from interest rate cuts. Dolev added that exchanges like Coinbase rely on trading commissions, with the trading activity tending to rise when rates are lower. The firm believes that shares of Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) deserve credit for the...

- Vanguard is finally starting to take crypto seriously. The company is considering a move that would let its customers trade crypto ETFs directly from its platform. This is a big deal for a firm that’s always been cautious about digital assets. While other major players have already embraced crypto ETFs, Vanguard has held off until now. That hesitation might be coming to an end. Why Vanguard Might Be Reconsidering The pressure has been building. Spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs have pulled in over 70 billion dollars, and a lot of that interest is coming from everyday investors. People are no longer waiting around for approval from traditional institutions. They want access now, and they’re getting it through competitors like Fidelity...

- First Digital ID: Is the British Pound Going Digital? Tokenized Sterling Explained British Prime Minister Keir Starmer triggered fury today as he revealed plans for UK digital ID, but are major banks planning to take the British pound (GBP) digital too? Britain’s biggest banks have launched live tests of “tokenized” sterling, digital versions of bank deposits designed for faster and more controlled payments. Six lenders, Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest, Nationwide, and Santander, are taking part in the pilot, which is being coordinated by UK Finance. The project began on September 26 and will run until mid-2026. The tests focus on three use cases: marketplace payments, remortgaging, and digital-asset settlement...

- Stablecoins are like digital savings accounts, says Ava Labs VP Morgan Krupetsky, vice president of on-chain finance at Ava Labs, said ULTRA — Avalanche’s tokenized U.S. Treasury fund — springs from how people already use digital dollars. ULTRA takes traditional U.S. Treasury securities and issues them on blockchain so they can trade and settle digitally. Tokenization of Treasuries simply means converting government bonds into digital tokens, making them easier to move, pledge, and use in on-chain finance. “To date, the quintessential tokenized asset or the quintessential RWA has been stablecoins,” Krupetsky said in an interview with TheStreet Roundtable. She cited “about $280 billion in collective stablecoin market cap on chain...

- Smartest man alive has a shocking Bitcoin prediction YoungHoon Kim, the world's highest IQ holder, has predicted that Bitcoin will grow at least 100 times in the next 10 years. Not only that, Bitcoin will also be universally adopted as the "ultimate reserve asset," he added. Kim bets on Trump family's Bitcoin firm Kim recently shared a pic on X in which he is seen meeting American Bitcoin president Matt Prusak. Co-founded by President Donald Trump's sons Donald Jr. and Eric, American Bitcoin is a Bitcoin mining firm. Majority owned by Hut 8, the Trump family is the minority holder of the firm's stake. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, billionaire co-founders of the Gemini crypto exchange, have also reportedly backed the firm. A...

- Coinbase’s chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, has defended the company’s Ethereum Layer-2 network, Base, against suggestions that it should be regulated as a securities exchange. Speaking in an interview with Bankless, Grewal argued that Base functions as blockchain infrastructure rather than a platform for matching securities trades. “Base is just a normal blockchain,” Grewal said. “Yes, it’s a Layer-2. But that doesn’t change its relationship to securities laws. We are not matching buyers and sellers of securities. We are just a blockchain layer.” He stressed that transaction matching occurs within applications built on top of Base, such as automated market makers or centralized limit order book protocols, not at the Layer-2...

Meme Coin Modeled on Baby Shark Creator Collapses A meme coin touting Pinkfong’s name collapsed on Thursday after the entertainment company behind YouTube hit "Baby Shark" stated that it was unaffiliated with the token. The meme coin, created using Story Protocol’s network for managing intellectual property rights and creating derivative works, was issued "without authorization," Pinkfong said in a post on X, promising "grave legal consequences" for those violating the law. Although Story Protocol is designed to remove rent-seeking intermediaries from the IP industry, a purported misunderstanding between two of its users has potentially created more work for lawyers than projects that secured the rights to Pinkfong’s IP...

Will Bitcoin Finish the Month Above $105K? Traders Are Losing Faith The recent weakness in Bitcoin’s price has predictors on Myriad feeling bearish about the asset’s next major price milestone—now predicting a dip to $105,000 before it makes a new all-time high at $125,000. Odds of the next stop being $105,000 have increased to 68% in the last week, a gain of more than 25% in that timeframe. The bulk of that move has taken place in the last two days, with odds swinging more than 20% in favor of $105,000 since Wednesday night. Myriad is a unit of Dastan, the parent company of an editorially independent Decrypt. The market’s volatility has been aided by Bitcoin’s gradual decline, now down 5% in the last week and changing hands below...

- Shares of Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) fell this week, finishing down 11.9%. The drop comes as the S&P 500 fell 0.3% and the Nasdaq-100 fell 0.5%. U.K. banks opt for tokenization A consortium of Britain's largest banks announced on Friday that they are moving forward with blockchain-based deposit tokens, following encouragement from Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey. Tokenization is the process of creating one-of-a-kind digital representations of assets, like deposits and bonds, that are recorded on a blockchain and can be stored by customers in their digital wallets. This approach offers many of the benefits of blockchain technology, such as faster transactions, increased transparency, and better security, without some...

- Theta Capital Management Launches $200M Blockchain Fund Targeting 10-15 Investments Amsterdam-based Theta Capital Management is seeking $200 million for its latest blockchain fund-of-funds targeting specialized crypto venture firms. The new vehicle, called Theta Blockchain Ventures V, will allocate capital to between 10 and 15 venture firms specializing in digital assets while targeting a 25% net internal rate of return, according to an investor deck obtained by Bloomberg. Founded in 2001, Theta shifted its focus to digital assets in 2018 and now manages approximately $1.2 billion. The fundraising effort comes despite challenging market conditions, with just $1.7 billion allocated to 21 crypto-focused venture funds in Q2 2025...

The crypto market is nursing a nasty hangover after a major panic episode earlier this week, with the total market cap of crypto sliding 1.8% to $3.75 trillion as the infamous Red September curse threatens to claim another victim. Yet in this sea of red, there’s at least one token staying afloat: Hyperliquid's HYPE is up a defiant 9.26% and standing as the only cryptocurrency in the top 11 showing green on the day. Meanwhile, traditional markets are playing a different tune entirely—the S&P 500 edged up 0.22% to 6,619 points while gold climbed 0.33% to $3,762 per ounce, showing investors still have appetite for some risk assets, just not crypto risk—at least not right now. What’s more, President Donald Trump announced a package of...

- SoftBank Group and ARK Invest could be potential investors in a major funding round at the largest stablecoin issuer, Tether, Bloomberg Law reported on Sep. 26. The tech-focused investors are among several high-profile financiers who are eyeing an investment in the stablecoin giant, the publication cited sources familiar with the matter to report. Tether seeks $15B-$20B Founded in 2014, Tether is one of the world's largest crypto companies. In 2017, it launched a stablecoin called USDT. A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency that tries to keep its price stable by being pegged to a fiat currency like the U.S. dollar or a commodity like gold. USDT, for instance, is pegged 1:1 to the dollar, which means that each USDT is backed by...

- Crypto exchange Kraken is in advanced talks to secure fresh funding that could value the company at about $20 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. This article has been published in Bloomberg via Yahoo News. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kraken-talks-raise-funds-20-195203969.html