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BlackRock's Chief Executive Larry Fink told shareholders this year that digital assets, alongside private markets, insurance, and active ETFs, could each become $500 million revenue generators for the firm within five years.
According to him:
“Private markets to insurance, private markets to wealth, digital assets, and active ETFs, we think these can all be $500 million revenue generators in the...
The Bitcoin network experienced a rare two-block reorg on Mar. 23, at block height 941,880. Foundry mined six consecutive blocks, AntPool and ViaBTC briefly extended a competing branch.
The chain resolved the fork as designed, following the path with the most hash rate. Bitcoin performed exactly as designed and validated its assumptions.
A fork visualization shows Foundry USA's chain winning over...
On Mar. 24, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) launched its Innovation Task Force, tasked with developing frameworks for crypto assets, blockchain technologies, AI systems, and prediction markets.
Alongside everything else Washington has done in the past three months, it reads as the moment when a provisional, enforcement-heavy posture toward crypto began to harden into something...
For years, the shortest line of attack against Tether was the demand for a full independent audit.
The audit never came, and the company absorbed the reputational cost without visible damage to its position. USDT crossed $184 billion in market capitalization, reached more than 550 million users, and became the dominant liquidity layer across global crypto markets.
On Mar. 24, Tether announced it...
US business activity slowed in March, and the new PMI data delivered a warning that markets are starting to price in: growth is losing momentum just as price pressures pick up again.
That creates a pretty tough backdrop for Bitcoin to trade in. When the economy cools while inflation stays elevated, traders expect the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates higher for longer, which is a setup that...
Bitcoin is starting to trade like the market’s real-time geopolitical switch
After Bitcoin moved back above $70,000, following President Trump's five-day delay of planned strikes on Iranian infrastructure, the useful question is whether Bitcoin is now functioning as one of the fastest live markets for repricing geopolitical risk.
The evidence increasingly supports this interpretation. Bitcoin is...
BlackRock's 2026 chairman's letter positions the digital wallet as asset management's next major distribution frontier.
In the letter, Larry Fink writes that “today, there's very little access to traditional investment products in digital wallets” and that BlackRock plans to “lead the charge” in changing that.
Numbers back the statement: BlackRock says it already has nearly $150 billion in AUM...
A new chart from Jameson Lopp has reopened one of Bitcoin's oldest internal debates: whether visible node counts reflect real support for a rule change.
The immediate flashpoint is BIP-110, a draft proposal that would temporarily impose much tighter consensus-level limits on non-monetary data, following Bitcoin Core 30's loosening of the default OP_RETURN policy.
Lopp says the node surge behind...
Bitcoin continued its upward momentum above $71,000 on Tuesday as investors continued to weigh the market impact of President Donald Trump’s decision to pause planned US attacks on Iranian power and energy infrastructure for five days.
Data from CryptoSlate showed that the top cryptocurrency was trading at around $71,185 as of press time, rising 4% during the session.
The price broke through a...
This month, Kentucky lawmakers advanced another bill that critics say could make self-custody impossible for hardware wallet manufacturers to deliver without building a backdoor into their products. It comes after passing a bill last year protecting residents' right to use crypto wallets.
The vehicle is HB 380, a consumer-protection measure aimed at cryptocurrency kiosks. Its core provisions are...