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Mastercard gears up for a big move in the stablecoin sector as it forges a “definitive agreement” to acquire BVNK for $1.8 billion. BVNK’s valuation comes at a significant premium over its $750 million assessment in December 2024. Mastercard, one of the world’s largest payment networks, is gearing up to increase its presence in the digital assets space. On Tuesday, it announced that it had forged a “definitive agreement” to acquire BVNK, a stablecoin infrastructure provider. Mastercard’s Acquisition of BVNK According to the company’s press release, the buyout comes at a tune of $1.8 billion. The figures include $300 million…

Bitcoin’s rise from an obscure digital asset to a global financial instrument is again in focus this St. Patrick’s Day. On March 17, 2012, Bitcoin traded near $5. Thirteen years later, it has reached roughly $75,000.  This is a massive expansion driven by increasing demand and a fixed supply model. Bitcoin’s early years were defined by sharp price swings and thin liquidity. In 2013, the asset surged from under $50 to more than $600 before retracing below $300 by 2015.  These cycles repeated over time, with each rally followed by a correction. In 2017, Bitcoin crossed $1,000 and later accelerated…

📊No votes yet – Be the first to vote VersaBank rolled out something big. The Canadian bank just added USD-CAD conversion to its tokenized deposits, letting customers swap currencies in real-time without the usual banking headaches that drag on for days. The March 17 announcement caught attention across North American financial circles. VersaBank CEO David Taylor said the move puts his institution at the front of cross-border blockchain banking. “We’re pretty much rewriting how people think about currency exchange,” Taylor told reporters during the press release. The bank’s blockchain platform now handles instant conversions between US dollars and Canadian dollars,…

Gold-silver ratio: The gold-silver ratio, a key metric tracked by bullion investors, is trending higher amid the geopolitical tensions, given investors’ inclination to park money in gold rather than silver during periods of acute stress.The Middle East conflict, though, has challenged the traditional status that gold and silver enjoy. Both precious metals have remained in the red despite the conflict, but the fall in gold remains capped as against silver, giving the yellow metal an upper edge and driving the gold-silver ratio.US spot gold prices, currently at $5000, have lost 5% in March so far amid the US-Iran war that…

BitMart, a global cryptocurrency trading platform, today officially launched BitMart Skills—an open marketplace specifically engineered for AI Agents. Designed to eliminate technical barriers, BitMart Skills allows users to configure professional trading strategy modules (Skills) for their AI Agents without writing a single line of code. By providing one-click access to BitMart’s spot trading, perpetual contracts, market analysis, and wallet management, users can now navigate the entire process—from deep research to live execution—through simple natural language conversations. Under the BitMart Skills framework, “Zero-Code” is no longer just a vision; it is a real-time interactive experience. Users no longer need to write…

Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) is one of the best multibagger stocks to invest in according to billionaires. On March 11, Corning Incorporated announced a collaboration with US Conec to become a licensee of PRIZM TMT optical ferrule technology. This move expands Corning’s portfolio of high-density optical connectivity solutions specifically designed for next-gen AI networks. The integration of this lens-based tech aims to support the development of larger and more efficient AI clusters by enabling higher fiber counts within the increasingly confined spaces of modern data centers. The transition from traditional short-reach copper links to optical connections is driving a surge in…

The recent price movement of most assets on the market exists with almost no volatility. Momentum has disappeared, as assets are currently trading in a tight consolidation range near local resistances after months of violent swings and abrupt directional changes.After a protracted downtrend that started after its peak above $3 earlier in the cycle, the larger chart structure shows XRP stabilizing. Price has been progressively forming higher lows along an ascending support line since the dramatic decline in early February, indicating that sellers are losing some of their dominance.XRP’s volatility compressionBut the compression in volatility is what really sticks out.…

In our recent article, , we explained that in the recent rotation from growth to “value”, passive investors, in actuality, are selling value stocks to buy expensive stocks. Confused? In this follow-up, we take our three-tier earnings valuation framework introduced in the article a step further to uncover true value stocks. First, though, it’s vital to provide context for why the passive investment landscape skews stock valuations.Passive Investing Drives The CurrentA passive investment environment is oftentimes agnostic to valuations, blurring the lines between traditional investment styles like value and growth. Oftentimes, we associate passive investors with investing in broad market…

The US Senate’s newly passed Housing Act does not clearly distinguish between retail and wholesale versions of a CBDC. The definition of the act, though, implies that the CBDC prohibition applies only to the retail version, which is designed to be widely available to the public. The US Senate effectively banned Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) when it passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on Thursday. The bipartisan bill sponsored by House Representative French Hill breezed through the upper chamber of Congress by a wide margin at 89 to 10. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Senator…

Authorities pulled the plug on the Socksescort proxy empire, freezing $3.5 million in crypto and exposing a global router botnet. U.S. and European authorities have dismantled Socksescort, a residential proxy network powered by AVRecon malware that quietly hijacked more than 369,000 devices across 163 countries. Operating since 2020, the service sold access to infected home […]