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As Wall Street looks to recover from a miserable past few trading days, investors continued their retreat from Bitcoin and silver on Thursday. In the early morning hours, Bitcoin briefly fell below the $70,000 price point, a level which it hasn’t seen since November 2024. At the same time, silver investors were dumping the precious metal with prices falling as much as 16% following two days of gains. Bitcoin enthusiasts had hoped the $70,000 level was a floor for the digital currency – and prices did begin to rebound after hitting that price for a bit, but by 7:30 a.m.…

“Before you ask, there is nothing extreme about 5% of my ‘alternative’ assets.”

On January 29, 2026, Casder Institute of Wealth (Casder) reported further progress in the practical deployment of its AI-driven financial education and trading practice framework, as it continues to develop its AI systems and supporting ecosystem tools. At this stage, the focus is not on short-term trading training itself, but on the gradual construction of a sustainable practical framework built around AI-assisted decision-making, systematic trading structures, and long-term risk management capabilities. The design emphasizes forming a closed-loop process from cognition and execution to review within real market environments, helping participants establish stable and verifiable trading logic. Vanguard AI System Enters…

ProShares unveiled the first U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to target the performance of the CoinDesk 20 Index, expanding options for investors seeking broad exposure to crypto markets.The CoinDesk 20 Crypto ETF (KRYP) is the first ETF tied to the benchmark of 20 of the largest and most liquid digital assets, ProShares said in a Wednesday email.The index is market-capitalization weighted, subject to caps, and rebalanced quarterly, aiming to provide diversified exposure while limiting concentration in any single cryptocurrency.“As the cryptocurrency market has matured, investors have increasingly looked beyond single-asset exposure,” CEO Michael Sapir said in a statement, describing KRYP…

Artificial Labs, a provider of digital broking and underwriting technology, has completed a Series B round, securing $45m (£32.79m) in financing. The investment round was led by CommerzVentures, with participation from Move Capital Fund I, a European B2B technology investor. Existing investors including Augmentum Fintech, 6 Degrees Capital, FOM and TrueSight Ventures also contributed to the funding round. CommerzVentures managing partner Heiko Schwender said: “We have been backing next-generation technology businesses for more than a decade. Artificial’s platform addresses a real, structural problem that has constrained efficiency in commercial and specialty insurance for decades. “The team’s combination of deep insurance…

Billiton Diamond and tokenization firm Ctrl Alt said Tuesday they had moved more than $280 million worth of certified polished diamonds on-chain in the UAE, using Ripple’s custody technology to secure the assets and the XRP Ledger to mint tokens tied to physical inventory.The initiative — framed as an institutional-grade tokenization pipeline for polished stones held in the UAE — has already tokenized over AED 1 billion ($280 million) in diamond inventory, the firms said. While the companies are positioning the project as a route to faster settlement and clearer provenance data, the next phase hinges on regulatory clearance: a…

Analyst Report: Valero Energy Corp.

The company, which makes equipment for testing semiconductors, gave profit guidance that was about 60% above what analysts were expecting.

 Nivex, a global AI-driven digital asset trading platform, marks its second anniversary by launching the NXT trading airdrop, the NXB platform token mechanism, and the Quant-Mind Global Partner Program. These initiatives aim to build a sustainable ecosystem through trading contribution mapping, performance-driven collaboration, and long-term value return. Amid an industry driven by short-term incentives, Simon Hardy has taken a different approach—focusing on aligning real trading activity, institutional collaboration, and platform value into a sustainable system rather than relying on campaigns or temporary liquidity. This philosophy is increasingly visible as Nivex enters its third year. A Different View on Exchange Tokens:…

India’s Union Budget for 2026-27 has left the country’s crypto tax regime unchanged, retaining the existing transaction tax and withholding rules, while proposing a new penalty framework aimed at tightening compliance around crypto-asset reporting.Under amendments proposed in the Finance Bill, 2026, entities required to report crypto-asset transactions to tax authorities would face monetary penalties for lapses, including daily fines for non-filing and a fixed charge for inaccurate disclosures. The provisions are set to take effect from April 1, 2026.The proposal applies to reporting entities covered under Section 509 of the Income-tax Act, which mandates the furnishing of statements related to…