Tokenized Gold Market Nears $3B as Bullion Blasts to Fresh Record Highs

Gold’s historic rally accelerated on Monday, with spot prices punching through $3,800 per ounce to set fresh all-time record, extending a torrid year in which bullion is up roughly almost 47% year-to-date. That surge is echoing on across crypto rails, with gold-backed tokens climbing to an all-time high market capitalization of $2.88 billion, CoinGecko data … Read more

This French VC went from posting on YouTube to raising a $12M fund for Y Combinator startups

Venture capital is filled with investors who claim they’ve got inside access to the next big thing. Meanwhile, Gabriel Jarrosson, a French engineer-turned-YouTuber-turned-investor, has built his VC firm around a single filter: if it isn’t a Y Combinator company, he won’t invest in it. That discipline pushed Jarrosson from filming scrappy venture explainers in Paris … Read more

Crypto is ‘Job One’ as U.S. SEC, CFTC Move Into Harmony on Policies: Chairman Atkins

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins said that “crypto is job one” as his agency hosted a Monday roundtable focused on harmonizing policy work with its sister regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Both agencies are set to have central roles in overseeing the digital assets markets in the U.S., … Read more