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The stablecoin wars are currently bifurcating into two distinct strategic architectures: the scale-at-all-costs model and the regulatory depth moat. While the Open USD consortium—a coalition of 140-plus members including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, and BNY—bets on massive distribution and a revenue-sharing model to capture market share, Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL) is doubling down […]

BlackRock clients bought $273 million in Bitcoin in two days while the average US spot ETF buyer sits 22% underwater.

Sorry, Gen X, when it comes to saving for retirement, the younger generation views it differently.

On CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol, Renato Mariotti is joined by guest host Ari Redbord, Global Head of Policy at TRM Labs, for a conversation on the politics of the CLARITY Act, the state-vs-federal fight over prediction markets, and Wisconsin's invocation of an 1849 law that could bar prediction-market users from voting. And, they sit down with Rachel Anderica, Head of Global Operations at Anchorage Digital, who walks through Anchorage's agentic banking build inside its OCC trust and a "cashless reserves" model in partnership with JPMorgan. Plus, the hosts name the TradFi endorsers of CLARITY — BlackRock, Fidelity, and Goldman Sachs — as the Person of the Week.

The ongoing race to become the blockchain of choice for institutional finance is increasingly shifting beyond stablecoins to tokenized Treasury products. The latest entrant is Stripe’s blockchain Tempo, which has integrated BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) into its ecosystem. It gives eligible users access to the world’s largest tokenized money market fund and

Below, we share with you three top-ranked BlackRock mutual funds. Each has earned a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank #1.

Microsoft's revenue lead has widened significantly over the past eight quarters, while Meta shows consistent seasonal swings.

JPMorgan analysts said a delayed U.S. crypto market structure bill could weaken public blockchain networks by allowing tokenization to migrate onto traditional financial infrastructure instead. In a Wednesday research note led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, the bank said the longer the Senate delays ...

KKR's Q2 results benefit from strong AUM growth and higher transaction fees, lifting shares nearly 1% despite higher expenses.

In the world of prediction markets, the CLARITY Act was once the golden child. Back in February, the odds of passage sat at a comfortable 82%, a number that suggested the bill was essentially a legislative formality waiting for a signature. Today, that narrative has been dismantled. On July 30, Polymarket odds for the bill’s […]

Blackstone Inc. (NYSE:BX) just posted one of its stronger quarters in years. Profit available to shareholders jumped 26% to $1.52 a share, beating estimates that were clustered around $1.33 to $1.35. Total assets under management grew 11% to $1.35 trillion, and revenue jumped 36% to $5.04 billion. Nine of the firm’s ten best-performing investments right […]

Meta is financing its $14 billion, 1 GW El Paso data center through a sophisticated sale-leaseback variant that converts existing land and construction-in-progress assets into partnership equity. By offloading the immediate capital burden to external partners, the company has established a joint venture where BlackRock-managed funds hold an 80% equity stake, while Meta retains a […]

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In crypto news today (July 30), Bitcoin climbed -0.5% overnight, dropping below $64,000 following yesterday’s FOMC meeting, in which a rate hike wasn’t announced but SEC Chair Paul Atkins hinted at hikes to come, causing a slight sell-off across crypto. However, crypto held up well in comparison to the US ...

(Bloomberg) -- Some global bond investors are looking to shift toward markets like Australia and Europe as doubts grow over the Federal Reserve’s ability to keep inflation under control, adding to pressure on Treasuries. Most Read from BloombergStocks Fall as 30-Year Bond Yields Surge After Fed: Markets WrapWarner Bros. Deal Collapse Would Cost the Ellisons $9.8 BillionTrump Says US Will Strike Iran Hard as War Escalates AgainUS Intercepts Iran Attack on Bases, Puncturing Days of CalmMeta’s Zuck

Investors looked at the chances of a short squeeze, new defense deals, company acquisitions, and Ondas’ growing autonomous technology business.

Meta Platforms and BlackRock announced a partnership to develop a US$14b data center campus in Texas focused on AI infrastructure. The project is structured as Meta's largest external infrastructure collaboration to date and is intended to expand AI compute capacity. The data center campus is designed to support the training and deployment of Meta's AI models for its products and services. Meta Platforms, trading on NasdaqGS:META, is moving ahead with this large AI focused buildout while...

Mark Zuckerberg is treating AI infrastructure like a personal passion project, and one venture capitalist thinks Wall Street may not have enough pull to stop him no matter how loud the complaints get.

Scott Melker breaks down the growing divide on Wall Street over the CLARITY Act, as BlackRock (BLK), Fidelity (FIS), Goldman Sachs (GS), and SoFi (SOFI) publicly back the crypto market structure bill just one week before Congress heads into recess. Melker also discusses Morgan Stanley (MS) offering new ethereum (ETH-USD), Solana (SOL-USD) ETFs aunds, and what the latest developments mean for investors. "The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto. Make sure to also check out Yahoo Finance's new crypto hub to find the latest crypto-related news.

Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs (GS), SoFi (SOFI), and BlackRock (BLK) have all publicly endorsed crypto's CLARITY Act. Scott Melker explains why. "The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto. Make sure to also check out Yahoo Finance's new crypto hub to find the latest crypto-related news.

BNY is bringing its transfer agency business — which services about $8.6 trillion across 7.6 million accounts — onto the blockchain, with Baillie Gifford, BlackRock and Dreyfus lined up to use it. It's one of Wall Street's biggest bets yet on tokenized funds. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

Here is what investors will be looking for when Meta Platforms reports its earnings after markets close today: One big question is whether Meta will increase its capital expenditure estimate for the year, like Alphabet did last week.

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Meta and BlackRock form an 80/20 joint venture to build a planned $14 billion AI data center in El Paso, Texas.

Meta Platforms, Inc. and BlackRock, Inc. recently announced a venture to develop and own a US$14.00 billion, 1‑gigawatt data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with funds managed by BlackRock holding an 80% stake and Meta contributing land and construction‑in‑progress assets valued at about US$2.30 billion. The structure of the deal, including BlackRock’s roughly US$4.90 billion cash contribution and use of a US$12.50 billion debt facility, highlights how large asset managers are increasingly...

Wall Street is taking center stage in financing the AI buildout. On July 28, Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) and asset ‌manager BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) announced a venture to develop and operate a one gigawatt data center campus in El Paso, Texas. The project, costing about $14 billion in development, marks the emergence of […]

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek is engineering what the Financial Times calls an ‘Asian BlackRock’ – and the structural logic of that ambition runs directly through Bitcoin. The vehicle at the center of that push is Seviora, Temasek’s wholly-owned asset management arm, which currently oversees approximately $75Bn in assets across ...

Style Box ETF report for USMV

Ethereum ETFs pulled in 37,959 ETH, roughly $71.17 million, over the seven days ending July 28, while Bitcoin ETFs shed 3,170 BTC worth $200.23 million over the same stretch. That divergence, reported by Lookonchain using CoinGlass data, marks the third consecutive week of net ETH inflows and raises a direct ...

Bitcoin ETFs lost 3,170 BTC in a week as Ethereum funds added 37,959 ETH, extending a third straight inflow streak.