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Matthew Sigel revealed that VanEck opted out of Strategy because it didn’t find any sense in its leveraged Bitcoin proposition. VanEck’s Head of Digital Asset Research warns that adding leverage to BTC’s volatility is a sure way to bankruptcy. He also highlighted that people still need Bitcoin despite the rising prominence of stablecoins. Matthew Sigel, Head of Digital Asset Research at VanEck, sat down for a Q&A at CNBC’s Squawk Box on Friday, discussing his thoughts on the state of the (BTC) market. His interview follows the comments of Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy (MSTR), which one of the…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has raised concerns about the current direction of prediction markets, arguing that the sector risks narrowing itself to short-term speculation rather than building long-term financial utility.In a recent post on X, Buterin acknowledged that prediction markets have achieved measurable traction. Trading volumes are now large enough to sustain professional participants, and the platforms often complement traditional media by aggregating forward-looking information. However, he warned that much of the activity is increasingly concentrated in short-duration crypto price bets and sports-style wagering — areas he described as offering short-lived engagement but limited informational or societal value. Crypto Market Review:…

Defence stocks to buy: The Q3 results 2026 season is about to end, and most of the market majors have declared their Q3 earnings for the financial year 2025-26. Amid rising geopolitical tensions and the emergence of new war zones worldwide, various countries are expected to increase defence spending. The Indian government also raised its defence budget for the financial year 2026-27 by 15.20% to ₹7.85 lakh crore.So, long-term investors may think of deploying their money in defence stocks like Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, especially when these defence companies…

Robinhood (HOOD) has dreams of being the “financial super app,” but Wall Street isn’t buying into the vision. Shares of the trading platform plunged 9% shortly after it reported Q4 earnings that missed analysts’ expectations for both total net revenue and crypto-specific revenue. “First, we want to win with active traders,” Robinhood CFO Shiv Verma told Yahoo Finance following the company’s results on Wednesday. “Second, we want to win in the wallet share. Third, we want to be global and we want to be institutional. We’re making progress on all of those and … it looks very different than five…

An Israeli duo has been indicted for allegedly using classified information to place bets on Polymarket. Security Risks Israel has indicted a civilian and an army reservist on charges of using classified military information to place bets on the prediction platform Polymarket. According to a report from the Jerusalem Post, the individuals used the classified […]

Investors looking for high dividend yields often turn to real estate investment trusts, or REITs. REITs exist virtually entirely to generate income that is then substantially completely returned to shareholders via dividends. In this way, REITs can be an excellent way to generate passive streams of income. This article will discuss 3 high-yield REITs that have yields above 4% and sustainable dividends for the long run, making them attractive for income investors. STAG Industrial (STAG) STAG Industrial is an owner and operator of industrial real estate. It is focused on single-tenant industrial properties and has 563 buildings across 41 states…

Hibachi, a decentralized exchange for perpetual futures and a Circle Ventures portfolio company, announced today that it is developing a new FX exchange on Arc, an open Layer-1 blockchain network developed by Circle. Arc is designed to meet the needs of developers and companies bringing more economic activity onchain and is currently in public testnet. Hibachi is a participant in the Arc Builders Fund, a Circle Ventures initiative supporting teams building applications enabled by Arc’s unique architecture. As stablecoins gain traction as tokenized cash for cross-border money movement, Hibachi is building the exchange needed for stablecoin FX conversion and hedging. The…

The United States National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) has proposed its first rules under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, sketching out how subsidiaries of federally insured credit unions could apply to become federally supervised payment stablecoin issuers. The NCUA, which oversees more than 4,000 federally insured credit unions serving roughly 144 million members and about $2.38 trillion in assets as of mid-2025, is using this proposal to set out the process and standards for licensing such issuers. Under the proposal, any payment stablecoin issuer that is a “subsidiary of an insured credit union” would need to…

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📊No votes yet – Be the first to vote Ethereum’s co-founder dropped bombs. Vitalik Buterin went after the DeFi sector on February 8, calling out platforms that pretend they’re decentralized when they’re basically controlled by insiders. Buterin said most DeFi projects are run by small groups of people who make all the decisions. That’s not what decentralization means, he argued. Real decentralization means power gets spread around, not just slapping a “decentralized” label on something that’s pretty much centralized. The guy didn’t hold back – he called these platforms fake and warned they’re creating the same problems traditional finance has.…