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Trump Family Crypto Deal Runs Aground

By Michael Roddan · Nov 26, 2025 6:00am PST
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. rang the bell at Nasdaq’s New York headquarters in August to celebrate the announcement of a deal that could have netted the family a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars. The president’s oldest sons were combining their crypto startup, World Liberty Financial, with a publicly traded Canadian company, Alt5... Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. rang the bell at Nasdaq’s New York headquarters in August to...
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Visa and Mastercard Are Moving Fast Into Stablecoins

By Yueqi Yang · Nov 21, 2025 6:00am PST
Visa and Mastercard are moving quickly to embrace cryptocurrencies for payments, to take advantage of the rising popularity of stablecoins in developing countries and fend off competition from merchants trying to circumvent their networks. The companies ramped up their crypto payments business overseas and have been looking for acquisitions or... Visa and Mastercard are moving quickly to embrace cryptocurrencies for payments, to take...
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Coinbase to Launch Prediction Market Powered by Kalshi

By Yueqi Yang · Nov 19, 2025 11:48am PST
Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events such as elections and sports, according to two people familiar with the matter. The market will be powered by prediction market company Kalshi and will put Coinbase in a booming but increasingly crowded field. Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto... Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events...
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SoftBank Values Cryptocurrency Startup Blockdaemon at $1.2 Billion

By Berber Jin and Hannah Miller · Sep 9, 2021 12:42pm PDT
Cryptocurrency startup Blockdaemon is raising new capital that will value the company at $1.2 billion including the investment, said a person familiar with the matter. SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the $30 billion venture fund of SoftBank Group, is leading the investment. Los Angeles–based Blockdaemon manages hardware and software to help... Cryptocurrency startup Blockdaemon is raising new capital that will value the company at $1.2...
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Eight Takeaways From Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency

By Jon Victor and Alex Heath · Jun 18, 2019 5:00am PDT · 9 comments
Inside Facebook, a group has spent the past year developing a cryptocurrency that could have far-reaching implications for the company’s business and the broader digital payments industry if successful. Now the group is finally going public with the details of its plans. Facebook unveiled the plans early Tuesday when it published an... Inside Facebook, a group has spent the past year developing a cryptocurrency that could have...
David Marcus, the head of Facebook's cryptocurrency project. Photo by Bloomberg
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Facebook Plans Outside Foundation to Govern Cryptocurrency

By Alex Heath and Jon Victor · Jun 5, 2019 11:57am PDT · 2 comments
Facebook plans to cede control of its forthcoming cryptocurrency to outside backers, a move meant to encourage trust in the digital payment system and reassure financial regulators, The Information has learned.In recent months, the social network has courted dozens of financial institutions and other tech companies to join an independent... Facebook plans to cede control of its forthcoming cryptocurrency to outside backers, a move meant...