When Sandy Smith’s stepfather lost his job during the Great Recession, she found herself supporting multiple family members and two households. Her family, who emigrated from Jamaica, had always been frugal, but to make her budget work, she became a “crazy personal finance person” to her group of friends. She kept a binder of coupons […]
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A venture capitalist who has spent a decade backing deep-tech and quantum hardware startups says bitcoin BTC$73,473.57 the industry is fixated on the wrong half of the quantum problem, the keys of the wallet instead of the encrypted messages that already move between exchanges, bridges and repositories today. “The most dangerous vulnerability in the financial
S&P 500’s longest weekly winning streak since 2023 and Brent oil settling near $92 on hopes of US-Iran ceasefire have failed to drag bitcoin BTC$73,538.43 and ether (ETH) higher, with the two largest cryptocurrencies ending the week down nearly 3% as cooling bitcoin ETF inflows compounded the pullback. The S&P 500 posted its ninth straight
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Friday once again sharply criticized Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, warning that the latest version of the Clarity Act could ultimately fail if lawmakers don’t address concerns from traditional banks over stablecoin regulation. In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, Dimon seemed frustrated with the direction of the
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A new crypto theft campaign is targeting the developers most likely to have wallet keys, cloud credentials and production access on their machines. Researchers at security firm Socket said earlier this week that they identified a supply chain attack called TrapDoor spread across three major open source programming repositories with more than 34 malicious packages
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Jeffrey Sprecher, founder and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), called decentralized perpetual futures site Hyperliquid “bigger than NASDAQ” at a Bernstein conference this week and revealed that his team has met its founders several times, a sign that US exchanges are no longer treating crypto-native trading platforms as fringe. “This Hyperliquid that we’re talking about,
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This morning, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) took historic action to allow the listing of a genuine bitcoin perpetual contract by a CFTC-registered exchange. In doing so, the Commission charted a path for one of the most liquid segments of the crypto-asset markets to exist within the US regulatory framework. Having true perpetual contracts
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As global trading trends run toward 24-hour markets with no days off, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission argued that may be fine for the new blockchain-native players, but extended hours may not be appropriate for some of the traditional markets, the derivatives watchdog said in a Friday letter issued to the broad waterfront of
Latest developments: Klein argued that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission faces a dramatically larger mandate as lawmakers consider expanding its authority over digital assets. Klein recently joined Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti on CoinDesk’s The Policy Protocol. Klein said the CFTC was originally created to oversee commodity futures markets and was not built for the
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The global rush to deploy autonomous AI agents across the internet, enterprise networks and consumer applications is creating a catastrophic security debt, according to the head of blockchain security auditor Certik. While companies ambitiously market these tools as productivity miracles, the harsh reality is that it can be a very, very risky thing to do.
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