August 25, 2025 @ 6:47 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The annual Jackson Hole gathering closed with what may well prove to be Jerome Powell’s last major act before the September meeting — and while he resisted committing to a cut, the stage remains set for one, predicts Nigel Green, CEO of global financial advisor… Read More

August 25, 2025 @ 1:45 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

YouHodler’s Chief of Markets, Ruslan Lienkha, discusses recent crypto movements in this Q&A. Bitcoin has corrected only 8% after its latest ATH, compared to 30% in January. Does this signal a more mature, resilient market structure? “I would be cautious about calling this increased resilience. The current… Read More

August 24, 2025 @ 5:37 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Web3 was closely watching this week’s action out of Jackson Hole. Industry figures share their thoughts below. “Powell’s Jackson Hole speech struck a positive tone for markets, with investors now largely pricing in a rate cut as soon as September. He signalled that the Fed’s… Read More

August 21, 2025 @ 8:36 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

As Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) becomes more common and its use spreads to more sectors, it’s attracting more bad actors who are leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) while learning from one another. That makes stopping them more challenging. EverC is at the forefront of the BNPL fraud… Read More

August 19, 2025 @ 4:04 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Web3 community still has plenty to say about President Donald Trump’s recent moves on gold tariffs and 401 (k)s. Read more below. Crypto and 401 (k) retirement accounts “President Trump’s executive order signals a historic shift in how Americans can access digital and tokenized… Read More

August 17, 2025 @ 4:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cyberscope, the Web3 security arm of TAC InfoSec Limited (NSE: TAC), a provider of cybersecurity and vulnerability management, has filed a patent for Cyberscope Cyberscan in the United States, an AI-optimized, multi-domain blockchain trust scoring and fraud detection platform. It is designed to give investors, exchanges, and regulators a real-time, verifiable trust score for every blockchain project, turning fragmented, manual… Read More

August 17, 2025 @ 4:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

BitPay, a cryptocurrency payment processor, announced this week support for the Solana blockchain across its suite of products. Now with full support for Solana-based stablecoins such as USDC and USDT, users can acquire, store, manage, and spend Solana assets, while merchants gain access to one of the largest and most active crypto ecosystems…. Read More

August 17, 2025 @ 4:12 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

According to the J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction Study, 53% of cardholders are currently carrying revolving debt, and 56% are classified as financially unhealthy. While these percentages have risen and fallen during reporting waves of the 2025 study, the result is a bifurcation… Read More

August 17, 2025 @ 4:10 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

DeAgentAI, an AI infrastructure project on the Sui blockchain, has received a strategic investment from Momentum, a decentralized exchange (DEX) in the Sui ecosystem. Through this partnership, the two will jointly build and explore AI-powered DeFi solutions. Momentum has established itself as the TVL leader… Read More

August 17, 2025 @ 2:10 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Refold AI is coming out of stealth today with $6.5 million in funding and a platform that replaces outsourced service work with AI-native infrastructure. The $6.5M round was led by Eniac Ventures and Tidal Ventures, with participation from Better Capital, Ahead VC, Karman Ventures, Z21… Read More

August 16, 2025 @ 5:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Wirex, a Web3 money app, announced that it is supporting EURC settlements through Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of blockchain-based payments in Europe. Following the successful completion of a testing phase, Wirex is now live with EURC… Read More

August 16, 2025 @ 4:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Pi Squared, the team building Web3 infrastructure, announced its FastSet protocol has surpassed 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) with sub-100ms finality, setting a new standard for fast, verifiable, and decentralized settlement.. This performance was achieved on conventional hardware with 24-core CPUs and 256… Read More

August 16, 2025 @ 3:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Prove, a digital identity provider, has launched Unified Authentication, a modern authentication solution that passively and persistently recognizes customers, no matter where they appear or how often their devices or credentials change. This launch reflects a critical market shift: identity is no longer just a… Read More

August 16, 2025 @ 10:24 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitcoin has surged to fresh record highs this week, trading above $123,000 and surpassing July’s peak as momentum from institutional buying, corporate treasury adoption, US policy support, and sovereign-level gains continues to build. The move strengthens global financial advisory giant deVere Group’s projection that Bitcoin… Read More

August 15, 2025 @ 7:35 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Web3 community had plenty to share about Ethereum, Bitcoin and altcoins this week. Bitcoin “The current outlook for Bitcoin and the broader crypto market over the next six to eight weeks is one of range-bound trading, with limited upside expected in the short term…. Read More

August 12, 2025 @ 10:33 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Brightwave, an agentic AI research platform, has introduced background agents, enabling users to control fleets of research autonomous agents from a single, unified control plane. This release enables multi-agent research systems. Inspired by system and user interface design patterns drawn from AI-powered software engineering tools… Read More

August 9, 2025 @ 10:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Capitolis says it has received additional investments from global banks and venture capital firms. New bank investors Barclays and BNP Paribas join J.P. Morgan, an existing Capitolis investor, as well as Citi, Morgan Stanley, State Street, and UBS—all of which previously invested in this round…. Read More

August 9, 2025 @ 10:05 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

From the SEC’s comments on liquid staking to the CFTC spotlighting spot crypto trading on registered exchanges and Trump’s rate cut call, Web3 was busy talking about government affairs this week. And what would a week be without some AI talk? SEC comments on liquid… Read More

August 8, 2025 @ 4:59 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Arcade.dev, a unified agent action platform that makes AI agents production-ready, and Lithic, a card processing platform, are partnering to develop an AI e-commerce application capable of making secure, authenticated payments. The partnership will launch shopping agents that can search, compare products, and check out… Read More

August 8, 2025 @ 4:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Rillet, an AI-native ERP platform built for modern finance teams, this week announced a $70 million Series B co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ with participation from Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, and earlier investors. In conjunction with the new funding, Andreessen Horowitz general partner Alex Rampell… Read More