The American dream is "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" but, in practice, it has always been about ownership. Sadly, the dream of ownership is slowly slipping away for many people. Harvard University's 2025 Youth Poll found that three-quarters say they want to own a home, but barely half think they ever will. Ownership feels increasingly out of reach.
When Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin to the world in 2008, the pseudonymous coder envisioned his decentralized currency as a reaction to the financial crisis that had paralyzed the global economy. But nearly two decades later, the once renegade crypto industry has become increasingly intertwined with Wall Street. On the latest episode of Fortune's Crypto Playbook (which you can find on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube), Citi's head of enterprise digital assets, Artem Korenyuk, says that there's increasing "synergy" between the two sectors.
In 2018, Christie's catapulted AI artwork into the mainstream when they sold the Paris-based collective Obvious's GANS inkprint Portrait of Le Comte de Belamy (2018) for $432,500, dwarfing the work's high estimate of $10,000. And, few could forget the March 2021 sale of Beeple's digital work Everyday: The First 5000 Days (2021), which hammered at $69.3m (the house applied no estimate) and put NFTs on the art world map.
Nasdaq Inc. is asking regulators to let investors trade tokenized versions of stocks on its exchange, a move that could mark the first big test of blockchain technology inside the core of America's equity markets. The exchange operator is seeking approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission to amend certain rules, including the definition of a security, that would allow stocks to be tokenized and traded on regulated venues like Nasdaq, according to a filing Monday.
Before going to college, I lived in the Bay Area. I was surrounded by entrepreneurs and founders, so building a company didn't seem incredibly novel to me. But in 2018, I started a company of my own called Injective. We're a blockchain network that provides infrastructure for finance applications. We've raised over $50 million in funding and got Mark Cuban to invest in our vision.
I'm very proud of where Midnight is at. It's remarkable to see that the Glacier Drop is off to a good start, with strong participation across the cryptocurrency space as a whole.
Henry McPhee has established a reputation for anticipating macroeconomic turning points and building compliant, investor-ready platforms to address them.
Mavryk Network is partnering with Fireblocks and MultiBank.io to create a robust infrastructure for tokenizing real estate, focusing on premium assets like The Ritz-Carlton Residences.
This past year alone, I launched a mobile app on Google Play, expanded into 15 languages, got to know the leaders of the on-ramp and off-ramp markets, and now work with a network of 42 trusted partners.
The introduction of the xU3O8 token marks a significant shift in uranium investment access, allowing fractional ownership and lower minimum investments to engage retail investors.
