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- Spotify vs. MARA Holdings: Which Stock Has More Upside Ahead? Both Spotify Technology S.A. SPOT and MARA Holdings MARA are companies that are leveraging groundbreaking technologies to transform how users access value, whether via media or digital assets. Spotify Technology is one of the leading audio streaming and media services providers, operating a freemium business model. MARA Holdings is a digital asset technology, primarily engaging with Bitcoin mining and other related services. Our comparative analysis will assist investors in figuring out which stock has more upside in the upcoming years. The Case for SPOT Spotify Technology has maintained a firm hold on the audio streaming domain globally, with total monthly active...

- Hemi Labs Raises $15M to Expand Bitcoin Programmability Hemi Labs, the Bitcoin programmability network founded by Jeff Garzik, has raised $15 million in funding to accelerate development and expand its ecosystem. The round included YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), Republic Digital, HyperChain Capital, Breyer Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Crypto.com, and others, according to an emailed announcement on Tuesday. The company said the funds will support applications for borrowing, lending, and trading on Bitcoin while further developing its Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM), a layer that embeds a Bitcoin node inside an Ethereum VM—a decentralized system that can execute smart contracts and process transactions. “Bitcoin doesn’t need to be...

- Arthur Hayes: How $34tn flowing into stablecoins will boost three DeFi protocols Arthur Hayes says he expects dollar-pegged stablecoins to become the conduits for tens of trillions of onchain capital, which will boost the DeFi market. In a blog post on Tuesday, the chief investment officer at Maelstrom identified three protocols in particular: Ether.fi, Ethena, and Hyperliquid. Their token prices will soar as $34 trillion in capital inflows from eurodollar and Global South deposits flood the stablecoin market, he argued. For Ether.fi, Hayes predicted a 34-fold price increase for the DeFi yield protocol, driven by user appetite for its debit card product. Demand for interest-bearing stablecoins offered by Ethena and decentralised...

- Crypto Game Crashouts: The Biggest Shutdowns So Far in 2025 While crypto gaming has long been seen as a key use for blockchain, letting gamers really own and freely trade their unique items and perhaps profit from a game's success, developers are struggling to sustain their games and digital economies. Some games, like Gunzilla Games’ Off the Grid, have punched through to a broader audience, gaining adoption from top streamers and gamers alike—albeit ahead of full blockchain integration. But many other games and studios building with tokens are struggling to find players and maintain funding. In 2025, a number of once-promising crypto games have already closed up shop, and the list has been growing recently with each new week...

- CFTC to Surveil Crypto, Prediction Markets Using Nasdaq Platform The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is stepping up efforts to surveil financial markets, tapping technology from Nasdaq to gain a more granular view of crypto transactions, according to a press release published by the regulator on Wednesday. Nasdaq’s Market Surveillance platform, which covers a dozen asset classes, including digital assets and prediction markets, represents a significant upgrade, the CFTC said, as it moves to replace its “‘90s-era legacy system” for detecting illicit behavior among market participants. A Nasdaq spokesperson said that while prediction markets are buzzy, they closely mirror derivatives that the CFTC has regulated since the...

- Rex-Osprey Submits Filing to List BNB Staking ETF REX Shares and Osprey Funds have filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to list a BNB staking exchange-traded fund, according to an N-1A form submitted yesterday. The fund, which would be listed on the Cboe BZX Exchange, will seek to “stake all its Reference Asset [BNB] holdings,” although the filing also states that “no more than 15% of the Fund’s net assets” will be “illiquid.” It notes that the current unbonding period for staked BNB is seven days, with REX Advisers adding that it therefore expects that “a significant amount of the Fund’s assets” will ultimately be staked. In addition to direct staking, the REX-Osprey BNB + Staking ETF will also seek staking...

- Why Bitcoin miners say times are ‘grim’ as fee drought poses existential threat to network What was once a bustling network is quickly turning into a graveyard of onchain activity. Daily transaction fees on Bitcoin have plunged more than 80% since April 2024, according to an August 20 report from Galaxy Digital. Meanwhile, Bitcoin miners, the specialized computers that dedicate themselves to securing the network, are watching their revenue plummet as transaction fees dwindle. “It is grim for miners right now and there are no real catalysts on the horizon,” Nick Hansen, CEO of mining outlet Luxor, told DL News. “In fact, I’d say there’s mostly the opposite.” The collapse comes more than a year after Bitcoin’s 2024 halving slashed...

- Imagine waking up to find your bank account closed, not because of fraud or missed payments, but because you used it to buy or sell cryptocurrency. This practice, known as “debanking,” happens when banks cut ties with crypto users and businesses, often without warning. Many crypto holders hoped President Donald Trump’s administration and its pro-crypto stance would end debanking, but it’s still happening. Even large companies like Unicoin say multiple major banks have shut down their accounts. Everyday investors also face hurdles, from higher fees on transfers to stricter limits, that make it harder to move money in and out of crypto platforms. What Is Debanking and Why Does It Happen? Debanking isn’t a new phenomenon, it’s just...

- Aave attracts tokenisation titans in revival of institutional product Aave, DeFi’s largest lending platform, is relaunching its institutional platform under a new name amid growing interest by Wall Street. Formerly known as Arc, Horizon will enable select companies to use their tokenised funds as collateral to borrow against stablecoin loans. The first cohort of companies includes Circle, VanEck, and WisdomTree. Stani Kulechov, the co-founder and CEO of Aave Labs, mentioned that the company put its Arc plans on hold after the blowback from the collapse of crypto exchange FTX in 2022. These days, institutions are as eager as ever to absorb the industry. Tokenisation on the horizon There is more than $26 billion circulating in...

- Key Points Approximately one-half of the top 100 cryptocurrencies (as ranked by market cap) have outperformed Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) over the past 90 days. During that time period, Bitcoin is up an unremarkable 2%. In comparison, a number of top altcoins have soared 75% or more. Which cryptocurrencies are outperforming Bitcoin? Right now, 45 altcoins are beating Bitcoin soundly. The list of top performers includes a few meme coins, such as Pudgy Penguins (CRYPTO: PENGU), up 148% over the past 90 days on August 26. The good news is that investors can safely ignore these meme coins due to their mercurial, volatile nature. The name that really jumps off the list of top performers is Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), up 75% over the past 90...

- Think It's Too Late to Buy This Leading Cryptocurrency? Here's the Biggest Reason Why There's Still Time. Key Points When Bitcoin was created in 2009, it was seen as nothing more than a niche internet experiment. There are plenty of stories about people using the cryptocurrency to buy items like pizza, gift cards, or coffee (a decision they likely rue now). But as Bitcoin became more popular, many other cryptocurrencies emerged. Some of these have legitimate use cases, and some can be viewed as nothing but a quick cash grab from their creators and early insiders. One cryptocurrency that falls into the former category is XRP (CRYPTO: XRP). XRP is a cryptocurrency that enables fast and cheap cross-border payments, and it has had a...

- Two weeks on from setting a new all-time high above $124,000, Bitcoin has slipped into a funk that has some analysts fretting over its price prospects this year. Analysts at 10x Research warn that Bitcoin reaching $200,000 this year is “extremely unlikely,” despite it being a popular price target given by the likes of Arthur Hayes, and analysts at Bernstein, Bitwise, and Standard Chartered. Price Forecasts Instead, the 10x Research analysts say the chances that Bitcoin will reach $140,000 are barely better than a coin toss. They’ve calculated a 54% chance of the price reaching that target before the end of the year. That’s only a 27% uptick from the current $110,000 price. What’s behind the muted expectations? The analysts blamed...

- End in sight for Czech government’s $45m Bitcoin snafu as lawyer offers ‘extremely favourable terms’ The Czech government’s chaotic sale of $45 million in Bitcoin donated by a convicted criminal could soon be at an end. That’s according to Kirill Juran, a lawyer representing two of the four investors who bought Bitcoin from the state in May. The buyers have found their assets in limbo after it was discovered that the Bitcoin was donated by Tomáš Jiříkovský, the man behind a dark web marketplace that allowed users to buy and sell illegal drugs. The revelation raised numerous legal questions regarding the validity of the donation and the government’s right to sell the Bitcoin. Yet, Juran remains optimistic, he told DL News. “We...

- Investors pour $1.3bn in Ethereum after Fed Chair hints at policy shift Investors are pouring into Ethereum en masse on the back of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s dovish Jackson Hole speech. Over the last five days, Ethereum exchange-traded funds saw almost $1.3 billion in inflows, kicking off a rebound in the cryptocurrency’s recent price performance. Stepping back further, the enthusiasm is marked. Investors spent $3.7 billion on Ether funds, far outperforming their Bitcoin counterparts, which saw $900 million in outflows, data from the research platform SoSoValue shows. Ether is also breaking price records. Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, surged to a new all-time high of $4,955 on...

- A smart beta exchange traded fund, the VanEck Morningstar SMID Moat ETF (SMOT) debuted on 10/04/2022, and offers broad exposure to the Style Box - All Cap Blend category of the market. What Are Smart Beta ETFs? For a long time now, the ETF industry has been flooded with products based on market capitalization weighted indexes, which are designed to represent the broader market or a particular market segment. Investors who believe in market efficiency should consider market cap indexes, as they replicate market returns in a low-cost, convenient, and transparent way. On the other hand, some investors who believe that it is possible to beat the market by superior stock selection opt to invest in another class of funds that track...

- Much like the stock market, the crypto market goes through a few different seasons. Crypto winter is a particularly painful type of bear market when prices drop for months on end and confidence in the entire asset class seems to evaporate. The good news is that winters end. The bad news is that they always come back eventually. So, should investors expect hard times in crypto to be right around the corner? Winter is (probably) coming A crypto winter is best thought of as a long stretch of falling flat prices in major coins, alongside persistently pessimistic market sentiment that, on average, appears to be fully justified. These periods tend to also be characterized by a large reduction in the amount of chatter related to...

- 1 Reason Now Is the Time to Buy Bitcoin Now is a special moment in the history of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), and it probably won't ever happen at this scale ever again. Funds, banks, and even governments are accumulating the coin with gusto, and they're even competing with each other to secure a position, sending prices higher and higher. Put differently, there is only one first wave of large-scale, regulated allocation. Buying this asset during this wave is more likely to pay off than waiting until it's over in the hopes of getting a lower price on your purchases. Let's explore this concept a bit further and appreciate why now is the time to buy Bitcoin. The great allocation is underway Financial institutions and institutional...

- Crypto Industry Unites Against Senate Bill Over Protections for Software Devs A massive coalition of tech lobbying groups and crypto companies jointly issued a letter to the Senate Banking Committee Wednesday, warning they will collectively protest an upcoming crypto market structure bill unless it features key legal protections for software developers. “We […] speak to Congress with one voice: provide robust, nationwide protections for software developers and non-custodial service providers in market structure legislation,” the letter reads. “Without such protections, we cannot support a market structure bill.” A total of 114 parties signed the letter, including Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase, DCG, Grayscale, Kraken, Paradigm...

- Trump Family Business Partners with Crypto.com Trump Media and Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social platform, announced on Tuesday that it was partnering with the cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com to form a company that holds CRO, a token created by Crypto.com. A blank-check company tied to Yorkville Advisors is another co-founder of the new firm, called Trump Media CRO Strategy. Trump Media said it plans to purchase $105 million (€90.5mn) worth of CRO. Yorkville said the total expected funding for the company's treasury will be $1 billion (€860m) worth of CRO, or about 19% of the token's market cap, plus $420m (€362m) in cash and equivalents and a $5bn (€4.3bn) line of credit. The announcement is part of the...

- What has provided the biggest tailwind for the stock market over the last three years? Anyone who has paid attention can easily answer that question. It's artificial intelligence (AI). One investor who has definitely noticed how AI has buoyed the stock market is David Tepper. But the billionaire hedge fund manager hasn't just watched from the sidelines; he has invested heavily in AI stocks. Tepper bought five AI stocks in the second quarter of 2025. And Wall Street thinks one of them could soar the most. Tepper's big AI buys in Q2 Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) ranks as the third-largest holding in the portfolio of Tepper's Appaloosa hedge fund. Appaloosa added another 7.57% to its stake in the e-commerce and cloud services giant in Q2. At...