Tagged: infrastructure

November 6, 2026 @ 1:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ), the infrastructure company once known as one of North America’s largest publicly traded Bitcoin miners, is finalizing a complete departure from cryptocurrency mining. Management indicated on its November 5, 2026, third-quarter earnings call that the remaining self-mining operations will be wound… Read More

November 6, 2026 @ 8:36 am By Saar Dickman  |  

  Infrastructure has never been more popular with investors. Funds run by firms such as Brookfield, Macquarie and KKR raised close to $300 billion in 2025, a record, according to the trade publication Infrastructure Investor. Physical AI startups raised another $47.4 billion in the first… Read More

November 5, 2026 @ 3:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has judged that artificial intelligence-enabled malware is highly likely to feature in a ransomware attack against the country’s critical national infrastructure by the end of 2028. The assessment, released on 3 November 2026 as part of the NCSC’s State… Read More

November 4, 2026 @ 12:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Concerns over potential instability in the artificial intelligence investment landscape have recently unsettled markets, yet Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (NASDAQ: AMD) provided a measure of reassurance through its latest quarterly performance. The semiconductor company delivered third-quarter outcomes that exceeded analyst expectations, underscoring sustained demand for… Read More

October 29, 2026 @ 8:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Google Cloud has publicly outlined a new Multi-party Compute (MPC) platform designed to support institutional custody of digital assets, with a particular focus on Bitcoin. The service, currently available in preview, reportedly enables multiple parties to collaboratively authorize and sign blockchain transactions without any single… Read More

October 29, 2026 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Layer-1 blockchain Injective has brought a new benchmark for artificial intelligence compute costs onchain. On October 26, 2026, the network activated the Super Intelligence Compute Index (SICI), a perpetual futures market that follows the hourly rental rates of five Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) graphics processing units…. Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global asset manager Janus Henderson and real-world asset tokenization firm Centrifuge announced the launch of JQQQ, the first blockchain-native fund designed to deliver exposure to the Nasdaq-100 Index through an issuer-sponsored strategy. Rather than wrapping an existing security, the product was built from the ground… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Seattle-based Luxor Technology, a provider of full-stack infrastructure services originally built around Bitcoin mining, has closed a $16 million strategic funding round led by CMT Digital. The investment, which mixes newly issued preferred equity with secondary sales of existing shares (a combination of preferred and… Read More

October 25, 2026 @ 3:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is extending its utility well past cryptocurrency trading into institutional settlement and machine-driven commerce. Financial institutions are increasingly turning to the network for cross-currency transfers, while autonomous software agents now handle substantial volumes of automated payments. Developments involving tokenized investment vehicles,… Read More

October 24, 2026 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe has introduced Treasury for agents, a new capability that lets startups run key financial tasks through AI agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. Announced on October 21, 2026, from San Francisco and Dublin, the feature builds on Stripe Treasury, which already lets companies manage… Read More

October 22, 2026 @ 3:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple announced on October 15, 2026, that its institutional prime brokerage platform, Ripple Prime, has begun supporting real-world asset perpetual swaps. These contracts give professional clients exposure to more than 100 reference markets covering equities, equity indices, exchange-traded funds, metals, energy products, and foreign exchange…. Read More

October 22, 2026 @ 12:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Analysts on Wall Street are debating whether markets overreacted to CoreWeave’s (NASDAQ: CRWV) substantial borrowing after the AI infrastructure provider’s stock tumbled roughly a quarter of its value last week. The sharp decline reflected mounting worries that the company’s heavy reliance on debt to fund… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

zerohash announced the launch of AUTH by zerohash, an onchain authentication and account-linking product. The tool is designed to improve the usability of moving digital assets—including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and tokenized securities—by allowing transfers between linked accounts without requiring users to copy alphanumeric wallet addresses or… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) shares have come under renewed pressure in early October 2026, sliding roughly 8 percent between the September 30 and October 7 closes and finishing the latter session at $18.54. The stock remains about 46 percent above its year-end 2025 level of… Read More

September 26, 2026 @ 11:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has highlighted an unusual split inside the U.S. stock market that, in the bank’s view, looks uncomfortably close to the late-1990s technology boom. A record share of S&P 500 companies now display negative beta, meaning they have recently tended to fall when… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 11:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) has introduced a dedicated reference data product for privately originated credit instruments, extending work that began earlier this year with unique deal identifiers. The offering, branded ICE Private Credit Reference Data, is intended to give lenders, asset managers and other counterparties… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 6:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ireland’s largest retail lender has taken another step in modernising its technology stack by deepening its relationship with Stripe, the Dublin-founded payments and financial infrastructure company. The newly announced strategic collaboration is being presented internally as a significant marker in Bank of Ireland’s broader digital… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether and Fasanara Capital have unveiled a major new partnership aimed at channeling digital-asset infrastructure into traditional lending markets. On 9 September 2026 the two firms announced StableFund, an evergreen private-credit vehicle jointly sponsored as the Tether-Fasanara Lending Fund. The structure is backed by a… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Router Protocol, a cross-chain interoperability project that spent more than four years building bridges, messaging tools, and related infrastructure, has said it will close remaining operations by September 30, 2026. The team described the move as a planned, orderly wind-down rather than an abrupt collapse,… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 7:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) and Payward, the parent of the Kraken digital asset platform, have agreed to tie SoFi’s banking rails to Kraken’s market infrastructure. The arrangement is meant to tighten the link between regulated dollar settlement and always-on crypto trading.Under the deal, Payward will… Read More