finance
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Solana Foundation has released an open-source delivery-versus-payment program designed to settle tokenized assets and payments atomically on Solana.
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Bain & Company says the AI industry may need to generate roughly $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to support the infrastructure now being built for AI. That does not mean Bain is saying today’s spending is automatically wasteful. Its 2026 Global Technology Report argues that the buildout can work economically—but only if AI…
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Banking regulators in the United States and Europe are increasing scrutiny of how financial institutions use advanced and agentic artificial intelligence, focusing on cybersecurity, outside technology providers and whether increasingly autonomous systems can be controlled when something goes wrong. Reuters reported October 13, citing six people familiar with the matter, that U.S. regulators including the…
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The IMF says an AI-related market correction, rising sovereign bond yields and major cyber incidents are three near-term risks that could amplify stress across global financial markets.
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BitcoinVersus.Tech reported in April 2025 that Nasdaq planned to move toward nearly round-the-clock stock trading in 2026. That plan now has a launch date. Nasdaq says its new overnight session will begin on December 6, 2026, running from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. ET. Combined with existing pre-market, regular and after-hours sessions, that will create…
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Standard Chartered has launched institutional custody for Ripple USD, or RLUSD, on the XRP Ledger through its Dubai International Financial Centre branch, giving eligible institutional clients a bank-operated place to hold the dollar-pegged stablecoin. The bank said on October 12 that the custody service is now live through its DFSA-regulated DIFC branch. The announcement is…
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Explore the earliest recorded debt crises, clay-tablet loans, grain and silver accounting, and royal debt forgiveness in ancient Mesopotamia.
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A neutral history lesson on inflation, money supply, CPI, purchasing power, nominal versus real wages, and the causes of rising prices.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala tells Bloomberg that trade shocks, tariffs and geopolitics are straining the global system, but argues for diversifying—not abandoning—globalization.
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Learn what happened on August 15, 1971: why Nixon suspended dollar-gold convertibility, how the Smithsonian Agreement tried to save Bretton Woods, why fixed exchange rates collapsed by 1973, and what changed in the modern monetary system.
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FireFly Robotics says its AMP-L100 autonomous mower fleet has passed 150,000 acres, doubling its May total as the company pursues a Nasdaq direct listing.
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From tobacco notes and whiskey to cacao beans, wampum and beaver pelts, people have repeatedly turned useful commodities into money. Here are five of the wildest examples—and what they reveal about why Bitcoin appeals as a modern monetary asset.
