Visa (NYSE: V), a global digital payments leader, has expanded its advisory capabilities as demand for stablecoins grows across global payments. The company announced the launch of its Stablecoins Advisory Practice on Dec. 15 to help banks, fintechs, merchants, and enterprises develop strategies and implement stablecoin-based solutions. 🤷♂️
Rodriguez and his chum William Lonergan Hill, both of whom seem to have landed themselves in a spot of bother over their crypto mixing protocol, were handed sentences of five and four years respectively. Quite the holiday camp, what? 🏖️⚖️
The FSCA, that bastion of financial order, has decided to update everyone on their progress. Apparently, regulating digital funny money is a thing now. On December 12th, they revealed the dizzying details. It’s enough to make your head spin, frankly. Prepare yourselves.
Bitcoin, ever the resilient martyr, clawed its way upward. But ZCash? Ah, no such redemption. The losses clung to it like a Soviet winter coat-heavy, unshakable, and entirely predictable.
Behold, the acquisitive frenzy! Anchorage, with its eyes fixed on the gilded prize of regulated stablecoins and custody, while Securitize, ever the alchemist, seeks to transmute real-world assets into blockchain gold. A dance of ambition, where the line between innovation and madness blurs like a candle in the wind. 🕯️🌪️
The crypto slump arrived as traditional markets yawned their way to modest declines-Nasdaq down 0.6%, S&P 500 a mere 0.15%. Yet AI stocks, like Broadcom and Oracle, continued to wince from last week’s earnings debacle. Bitcoin miners, who’d recently pivoted to AI infrastructure like a bad first date, now faced double-digit drops. Hut 8 (HUT), CleanSpark (CLSK), and others joined the freefall, proving that even tech’s darlings can’t avoid gravity. 💻🔥
On the fateful 14th of December, as the clock struck its final hours, Canton rallied by 5.2%. But alas, the $0.077 resistance proved too formidable, a wall of hubris it could not breach. 🧱 Why? The partnership with RedStone [RED], of course! A modular blockchain oracle, they claim, powering Canton’s RWA ecosystem with its “customizable data feed.” How quaint. 🧙♂️
More than three years past, a catastrophe unfolded-TerraUSD, Luna, and the money, a staggering $40 billion, vanished like a ghost in the fog. Yet, the figure at the center, Kwon-look at him, the ‘genius’ behind the grand scheme-stands not merely accused, but branded in court as the architect of a colossal deception, “a fraud on an epic, generational scale,” they say, with the zest of a playwright describing tragedy.
Imagine, if you will, a multi-signature wallet, a fortress of digital security, breached not by code but by the treacherous whims of the heart. For even the most fortified vaults cannot guard against the wiles of a scammer masquerading as a trader, a lover, a savior. 🕵️♀️💘
So, Strategy’s (MSTR) junior preferred stock Stride (STRD) is tightening its credit spread like a belt after Thanksgiving dinner. Looks like everyone’s lining up for the highest-yielding treat on the block! 🍗💸