“The SEC also alleges that Rari Capital and its co-founders misleadingly touted the high annual percentage yield that investors would earn, but they failed to account for various fees and, ultimately, a significant percentage of Earn pool investors lost money on their investments,” the agency said in a release. Source
So, the question is whether they’re going to do 25 basis points or 50 basis points. I, at a high level, think that they should not be raising rates. I believe that the U.S. economy is quite strong. If you’ve seen the GDP prints over the last eight or nine quarters, it’s been consistent growth. The U.S. government continues to spend an insane amount of money, which is keeping economic growth at a very fast pace. And, obviously, that helps with the re-election chances or election chances of Kamala Harris…
Forget the Federal Reserve. The Bitcoin and crypto project news flow is ample (and fascinating) enough to keep us busy. We’ve got the rundown plus $80M of fundraisings. In CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter on blockchain tech. Source
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was hammered for two hours in a congressional hearing on Wednesday in which the witness list predominantly included agency critics, including former Commissioner Daniel Gallagher, who is now at Robinhood. Source
Fair AI is the amalgamation of technologies and economic incentives that, together, ensures AI evolves in a way that is beneficial to everyone who enables or uses it. There are some core principles to Fair AI — ownership, permission, and fair compensation. Specifically, fair compensation for the contribution of data, compute, and content to datasets. Consider this example — a user could give permission to contribute their data from their social profile – say, Twitter/X. This is not dissimilar from the process that happens when you give certain applications access…
“With increasing interest in tokenized real world assets, WisdomTree Connect opens up additional business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) opportunities for WisdomTree to provide access to digital funds to on-chain firms without leaving the ecosystem,” Will Peck, head of digital assets at WisdomTree, said in a statement. Source
DeFi is poised to create a future where financial services are digital, open, always-on, and borderless, says Bill Barhydt, ceo, Abra. Source
Dragonfly closed its third fund, worth $650 million, in April 2022, shortly before the onset of the crypto bear market. Source
According to Fed funds futures, the market is currently pricing 100 basis points of rate cuts this year, which means the benchmark borrowing cost will drop to 4.5% by the year-end. Still, that is an attractive yield compared to passively holding stablecoins, Deschatres quipped. Source
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