Tag: crypto market

Robinhood’s planned acquisition of Bitstamp is one of those deals that makes immediate strategic sense. Robinhood gets a much more established global crypto footprint, while Bitstamp offers a brand and institutional reach that can help fill gaps in Robinhood’s current profile. The market has spent years thinking about Robinhood as a retail-first platform. This deal…

Tokenization becomes much more interesting when it stops sounding like a crypto slogan and starts appearing inside the rails traditional finance already trusts. That is what makes the Swift and Chainlink trial work worth paying attention to. The story here is not that tokenization suddenly arrived. It is that established financial messaging infrastructure is continuing…

Uniswap is not just defending itself. It is defending a version of what DeFi is supposed to be. That is the real significance of its Wells Notice response, which takes aim at the SEC’s attempt to fit decentralized protocols into old regulatory boxes. For markets, legal documents like this can look dry. For the industry,…

Bitcoin miners have spent the last year trying to answer a tough question: what else can all this infrastructure do? Core Scientific’s long-term hosting agreement with CoreWeave is one of the clearest answers yet. The headline is about AI compute, but the deeper story is about business model evolution in a post-halving environment. For more…

Lithium carbonate is trading around 164,500 CNY/T after pulling back from its recent highs and exhibiting some consolidation after a solid recovery. Lithium rallied from its lows and came into the market before losing steam around higher resistance levels, according to data from TradingEconomics. Especially, lithium assets are also sending mixed signals, as spot prices…