Latest from Jamie Crawley
Commodity traders are getting debanked due to Iran war, pushing them to rely on stablecoins
As banks retreat from trade finance amid Iran-linked risk fears, non-bank lenders and traders are increasingly turning to stablecoins for settlement, according to Haycen’s Luke Sully.
HSBC and Standard Chartered-led group land Hong Kong’s first stablecoin licenses
The approvals by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the territory's central bank, mark the first batch under the Stablecoins Ordinance, which took effect in August 2025.
Stablecoin volumes to reach $719T by 2035 as generational wealth shift speeds up crypto adoption
Massive transfer of wealth to younger, crypto-native users and rising payment volumes challenge dominance of Visa and Mastercard
BitMEX co-founder donates $5 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party
Delo did not specify whether he made the donation in fiat currency or crypto, but he expressed support for a proposed U.K. government moratorium on political donations made in cryptoassets
Binance adds prediction market to its app for millions of users
The integration covers gas costs to lower barriers for retail users. Binance doesn't operate the markets directly, instead providing access to a third-party application.
The $21 billion AI bet: Meta and CoreWeave ink deal for NVIDIA’s next-gen superchips
Long-term agreement between Meta and CoreWeave signals growing demand for scalable AI compute and inference capacity.
Strategy’s STRC sees one of its highest volume days, with just one penny of volatility
High yield structure keeps STRC pinned at par while enabling large scale bitcoin purchases.
Everyone’s awaiting U.S. inflation figures, but bitcoin traders couldn’t care less
There’s a wide gap between how experts are viewing Friday’s inflation data and how the bitcoin market is pricing in the impending figures.
The ‘bottom is in’: Why Tom Lee says the Iran ceasefire is the starting gun for a massive bitcoin rally
The Fundstrat co-founder and largest corporate ether buyer on earth said the ceasefire means the worst is over. His company bought 71,252 ETH last week.
RWA network Pharos lands a $1 billion valuation in $44M funding round ahead of mainnet debut
The company is building an "asset-native" network designed to handle regulated financial activity at scale, targeting a market it values at $50 trillion.
