CRYPTO
Record $14B Bitcoin Options Expiry Looms as Market Looks Highly Levered-Up
CoinDesk by Omkar Godbole Just when you thought the year-end couldn’t get any more intriguing, a significant options expiry is set to shake things up in this highly levered-up market. Options are derivative contracts that give the purchaser the right to buy or sell the underlying asset at a preset price […]
Russia Imposes 6-Year Ban on Crypto Mining in 10 Regions, Citing Energy Use: Tass
Temporary bans may be imposed in other regions during peak energy demand, Tass reported. By Sheldon Reback|Edited by Omkar Godbole What to know: The Russian government imposed a six-year ban on crypto mining in 10 regions due to the industry’s high power consumption, Tass reported. The ban, which includes participation in a mining pool […]
2025 Will Be the Year That AI Agents Transform Crypto
An AI agent helped drive a memecoin to a billion-dollar market cap this year, but the real crypto x AI innovations are coming in 2025. By Jack Purdy|Edited by Nelson Wang One of the most significant emerging trends of 2024 has been the interplay between artificial intelligence (AI) and the […]
Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock’s Plan To Own The Fractionalized World
In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock’s Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be “ETF’d” and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to be traded on a single, universal […]
“Sustainably” Surveilling and Tokenizing Nature: The Case of O.N.E. Amazon
The architect of BlackRock’s ETFs has teamed up with a group of companies tied to US intelligence and US government debt trading to tokenize the Amazon rainforest and borgify it with a large-scale sensor network in order to create a new form of “digital gold.” A satellite surveillance company with […]
