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The agentic CFO in your pocket

Chalom explains that retail investors have never had the opportunity to access and manage their own digital treasury desk. Until now.

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The U.S. can’t lose the bitcoin race to China

The next global power competition is not being fought over missiles alone. It’s being fought over money, and right now, China is moving aggressively to shape the future of it, argues Gooden.

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Wall Street won’t buy ‘trustless’ security promises

Chen argues that crypto exchange security is still mostly theater, and that stricter enforcement is essential.

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Stablecoins Will Be Bigger Than Bitcoin

The success of stablecoins isn’t about speculation but about efficient utility — they are quietly becoming the most-used form of digital currency around the world, writes CoinFund’s David Pakman.

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Hollywood’s Next Financier: You

Tokenization is giving fans the power to greenlight films, writes Republic’s Marc Iserlis.

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The Fortunes of Tomorrow Will Be Built on Compute Power

In the 20th century, investors who understood energy shaped industries and built massive fortunes. This century, the commodity that matters most is compute, whether you’re mining bitcoin or training AI models, writes HIVE Blockchain Technologies’ Frank Holmes.

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Crypto’s Black Friday

What began as a macro-driven unwind on crypto Black Friday rapidly evolved into a market-wide stress event — underscoring how tightly coupled liquidity, collateral and oracle systems have become, writes CoinDesk Data’s Joshua de Vos.

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Stablecoins: The Revolution in Global Money Transfers

Stablecoins are no longer just a bridge between crypto and fiat — they are becoming the rails of global commerce, writes Nonco CEO Fernando Martinez.

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The State of DeFi Exploit Risk

DeFi protocols can rival or surpass traditional financial security standards and introduce frameworks to better assess risks in real-world asset applications for smarter capital allocation, says Cicada Partners Co-Founder Christian Lantzsch.

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The Future of Financial Settlement Isn't Faster, It's Fundamentally Different

Outdated financial systems only appear fast but are inefficient, while blockchain and smart contracts create truly automated, real-time processes that enable new business models, says Polygon Labs’ Aishwary Gupta.

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