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Financiën

Hedge Fund Karatage appoints IMC veteran Shane O’Callaghan as senior partner

O'Callaghan joins from market maker IMC where he was employed as global head of institutional partnerships and digital asset sales.

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Financiën

Michael Saylor's Strategy catches a break from MSCI, but analysts caution fight isn’t over yet

MSCI won’t drop firms like Strategy from indexes yet, but a broader rule change may still be on the table

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (Marco Bello/Getty Images)

Web3

Circle platform promising tokenized gold, silver swaps is 'fake,' company says

The release, distributed on Christmas Eve, used Circle branding and claimed to quote executives, but a Circle spokesperson said it was "not real."

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Financiën

AI trade isn’t dead: An inside look into Wall Street's lucrative data center deals

Megawatts are still trading hands, and the AI trade is very much alive, according to investment banker Joe Nardini, as miners pivot to HPC and buyers chase scarce power.

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Beleid

Crypto exchanges brace for pressure as banks like JPMorgan enter spot trading

The national banks regulator OCC released a statement signaling a shift in rules that will have significant crypto market consequences across the United States.

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Markten

‘DeFi is dead’: Maple Finance’s CEO says onchain markets will swallow Wall Street

The Maple Finance CEO says institutions will stop distinguishing between DeFi and TradFi as private credit moves onchain, and stablecoins process $50 trillion in payments.

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Markten

WhiteFiber signs 10-year, 40 MW colocation deal with Nscale valued at about $865 million

The firm's Enovum unit will deliver 40 megawatts of critical IT load in two phases at a campus in Madison, North Carolina, under a 10-year agreement.

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Technologie

Uniform Labs’ Multiliquid targets structural gap in $35 billion tokenized asset market

The new protocol offers instant swaps between tokenized money market funds and stablecoins as regulators scrutinize yield-bearing stablecoin models.

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Financiën

TradFi giant EquiLend backs Digital Prime to link $40 trillion pool with tokenized markets

The partnership will focus on Tokenet, Digital Prime's institutional lending network, and introduce new features like regulated stablecoin collateral.

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Financiën

Moon Pursuit Capital launches $100 million market-neutral crypto fund

The new quantitative vehicle aims to deliver risk-managed returns across crypto market cycles as the firm readies a global expansion push.

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