Month: October 2025

Bitcoin’s Key Trends Suggest Price Still Has Plenty of Room to Run

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Many investors are currently viewing bitcoin through an end-of-cycle lens, suggesting that Q4 could mark the close of the current market cycle. However, two key metrics point to the possibility that the bull market may actually be in its early stages. Glassnode data shows that the 200-week moving average (200WMA), which smooths bitcoin’s price over … Read more

The Founder Risk: Why CEOS, Not Markets, Can Make or Break Tech Startups

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Ninety percent of startups fail. The statistic is as familiar as it is grim, but the more revealing number is buried beneath it. Research shows that 65 percent of high-potential startup failures are driven by founder conflict (Wasserman, 2012). Not markets. Not regulators. Not competitors. Founders. That reality is easy to overlook in a world … Read more

‘Solana Is the New Wall Street,’ Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan Explains

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Solana’s role in the race to capture tokenized markets won new attention this week when Bitwise CIO Matthew Hougan called it “the new Wall Street.” Speaking with Solana Labs’ Akshay Rajan on Oct. 2, Hougan said global financial leaders increasingly recognize the disruptive potential of stablecoins and tokenization. He noted that the heads of the … Read more

Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for Spotify

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Spotify has found itself the target of artists’ ire for many reasons over the years: poor audio quality, terrible payouts, giving Joe Rogan millions of dollars… the list goes on. But recently it’s been CEO and founder Daniel Ek’s extracurricular activities that have been cause for consternation. Over the past few months his funding of … Read more

State of Crypto: What Happens to Crypto if Government Shutdown Lingers

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The U.S. government shut down this past Wednesday, furloughing any federal employees deemed non-essential and forcing the rest to work without pay (though they should receive backpay when the government is formally funded again). If the government reopens within the next few weeks, it shouldn’t have too much of an effect on D.C.’s crypto policymaking. … Read more

Scalable, Compliant, Cloud-Native: The FINRA CAT Reinvention by Saravanan Thirumazhisai Prabhagaran

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Saravanan Thirumazhisai Prabhagaran led the reinvention of FINRA’s CAT system, transforming it into a scalable, cloud-native platform. By shifting from costly proprietary tech to open-source Presto and AWS-native infrastructure, he cut $2.1M annually in costs, boosted query performance 300%, and set new standards for regulatory technology modernization.

Investing in ‘Uptober’? Brazil’s Largest Investment Bank’s Crypto Arm Names 5 Token Picks

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Brazil’s largest investment bank, BTG Pactual’s crypto platform Mynt, has flagged five cryptocurrencies it believes are well-positioned for gains in October: bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), solana (SOL), avalanche (AVAX), and sky (SKY). The picks, outlined in a report authored by Matheus Parizotto and João Galhardo, reflect a broader optimism in the crypto market as U.S. … Read more