Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Bitcoin would reach $150,000 by year end, according to Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) Chair Michael Saylor. “Our expectation right now is end of the year, it [Bitcoin] should be about $150,000,” Saylor told CNBC on Monday on the sidelines of the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas. He added that he expected the leading digital asset to “grind up” to $1 million in the next four to eight years and eventually $20 mil ...

Key Points Ethereum has all the ingredients it needs to keep winning through 2030. Cardano is still hunting for a niche in which it can excel. 10 stocks we like better than Ethereum › Cardano (CRYPTO: ADA) was launched by one of Ethereum's (CRYPTO: ETH) co-founders, who was seeking to create something that fixed the problems of his former chain. But it hasn't been able to outgrow its older brother so far, and by 2030, I believe it will be lagging even further behind. Here's why. Image source: Gett ...

Asia is currently leading the global crypto charge, with countries like Vietnam, India, Japan and South Korea becoming regional crypto hubs. Some of these countries are witnessing an explosion in retail crypto trading, while other are charting frameworks to better govern crypto, providing the broader Asian crypto landscape with roadmaps that they can adapt to their own specific needs. A lot has happened since the last update on crypto in Asia. Here’s a rundown of the big headlines. Indian Court Rules Cry ...

This story was originally published on Payments Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Payments Dive newsletter. LAS VEGAS — Competing national priorities and disparate regulatory regimes have stymied real-time cross-border payments for the time being, according to an executive with The Clearing House. Moving money instantaneously between countries requires regulatory certainty on both sides of the border and infrastructure in both nations capable of sending and receiving mon ...

DeFi is set for a $2 trillion boom. That’s according to Geoffrey Kendrick, head of digital assets research at UK bank Standard Chartered, who expects Wall Street’s surging adoption of blockchain technology will drive the tokenised real-world asset market to increase by over 5,600% by 2028. That number is excluding the stablecoin market, which has ballooned to be worth just under $308 billion in 2025, fuelled by a friendlier US government. “Stablecoins are creating a platform for DeFi to continue its exp ...

香港数字资产中心地位 - 香港在吸引科技驱动型公司方面已超越新加坡 这些公司利用加密货币进行资金管理等应用 巩固了其作为亚洲领先数字资产中心的地位 [1] - 过去两年 尤其是今年上半年 Web3生态系统中的许多专业人士和公司已将总部从新加坡迁至香港 [2] - 这一转变反映了香港为重振其加密货币生态系统所做的协同努力 [2] 香港的监管与发展举措 - 香港已为稳定币引入银行级别的监管 并向虚拟资产交易平台发放牌照 [3] - 香港为合格机构最早于明年发行首批稳定币铺平了道路 [3] - 公司计划明年在香港扩大业务和员工规模 并已在数码港运营 [4] 企业采用数字资产的趋势 - 越来越多科技驱动型公司 特别是拥有混合数字资产资金管理模式的生物技术和数据公司 将落户香港 [5] - 在混合资金管理模式下 公司既运营常规的现金生成业务 也持有数字资产 这为它们在管理流动性和投资方面提供了更大灵活性 [5] - 全球范围内上市公司使用数字代币进行资金管理已日益普及 [7] - 根据研究 全球企业持有的加密货币资产今年已超过1300亿美元 主要包括比特币和与法币等资产挂钩的稳定币 [8] 具体公司案例 - 复星支持的香港上市以色列医美公司 Sisram Medical 市值约3.28亿美元 已将其股份代币化以实现全球交易 [6] - 阿里巴巴支持的云锋金融集团宣布 9月为其资产负债表储备购买了价值4400万美元的以太币 [7]

Coinbase Global (COIN) on Thursday posted higher-than-expected profit and revenue for the third quarter, as crypto markets boosted revenue and trading activity during the period. In its third quarter, net revenue at the crypto exchange tallied $1.79 billion, up from $1.13 billion in the same quarter last year. Its trading volume during the quarter totaled $295 billion, up from $185 billion last year. Profits totaled $433 million, or $1.50 per share, up from $75.5 million in the same quarter last year. Th ...

I always say that the robots are going to need programmable internet money — is that time here? In today’s "Crypto for Advisors" newsletter, Peter Gaffney from Inveniam explains how AI agents will be able to interact with cryptocurrencies and stablecoins and manage investments. Then, in "Ask an Expert", Bryan Courchesne from DAiM provides insights into the trends he’s seeing with investors in the market. Thank you to our sponsor of this week's newsletter, Grayscale. – Sarah Morton Unknown block type " ...

US Crypto News Standard chartered Stablecoin. Photo by BeInCrypto Welcome to the US Crypto News Morning Briefing—your essential rundown of the most important developments in crypto for the day ahead. Grab a coffee for Standard Chartered’s latest outlook, suggesting stablecoins have done more than disrupt TradFi, quietly setting the stage for a $2 trillion DeFi revolution. Crypto News of the Day: Stablecoins Pave the Way for DeFi’s Next Trillion-Dollar Era, Standard Chartered Says According to Geoff Kend ...

Investment bank Standard Chartered (STAN) says decentralized finance (DeFi) is emerging as a powerful alternative to traditional finance, which relies on centralized systems run by trusted authorities like central banks. The bank forecasted that by the end of 2028, non-stablecoin tokenized assets will reach a market capitalization of $2 trillion, up from $35 billion today, matching the expected size of the stablecoin market. Tokenized money-market funds and listed equities could each account for roughly ...