Fundraising isn’t one thing; it spans institutional capital formation, community grants, and charitable giving. In 2024–2025, three shifts made blockchain funding practical at scale: (1) real institutional products like tokenized money-market funds, (2) clearer rulebooks and sandboxes that let regulated players issue and settle digital securities, and (3) maturing crypto-philanthropy and public-goods mechanisms that prove out transparency and global reach.…
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In 2025, boards rank cyber and operational resilience among the top systemic risks. Permissioned blockchains and tokenization give banks a way to harden the transaction layer, shrink settlement and counterparty risk through atomic settlement, automate compliance data sharing, and modernize custody and identity controls. Recent work by the BIS, SWIFT, MAS/Project Guardian, and leading banks shows how these capabilities…
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Reason 1: Enforcement or licensing shocks
Reason 2: Loss of fiat rails and banking partners
Reason 3: Security breaches and supply-chain compromises
Reason 4: Liquidity crunch and market contagion
Reason 5: Governance failures, fraud, and key-person risk
Warning signs your startup might be next
How to build shutdown resilience
FAQs
Reason 1: Enforcement or licensing shocks
Regulatory action can halt a product or a whole business effectively…
Across 2024–2025, a surprisingly consistent expert view has emerged: tokenized money and assets are moving from pilots to production, but scaling depends on interoperability with today’s rails and clearer rules. Central banks and supervisors now publish roadmaps, global networks are testing cross-system bridges, and large financial institutions are shipping real products—while security incidents remind everyone why controls matter.
What central…
Crypto investigations matured fast in 2024–2025. Investigators now combine open blockchain data, purpose-built analytics, and regulator advisories to produce reports that withstand legal and editorial scrutiny. Mid-2025 numbers show why better reporting matters: more than $2.17 billion was stolen from crypto services in H1 2025 alone—already above all of 2024—driven in part by a record exchange breach. Meanwhile, industry-law-enforcement task…
Bank blockchain isn’t a hype cycle anymore. In 2024–2025 we’ve seen production-grade rails for tokenized cash, collateral, and funds, alongside CBDC pilots for wholesale settlement and cross-border payments. Central banks, market infrastructures, and the world’s largest asset managers are converging on the same thesis: tokenized money + tokenized assets on shared ledgers reduce settlement frictions and unlock new products.
The strategic…
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Why traders repeat the same mistakes
Regulator portals you should bookmark
Verify people and platforms before you trade
Research companies and funds the right way
Rules that trip up new traders
Order types that protect you from bad fills
Risk management and options risk documents
Academic evidence that keeps your ego in check
Fee tools that save you real money
A quick, printable checklist
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
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What “war” are miners fighting?
Miners constantly battle three moving fronts: protocol economics (halvings), market competition (difficulty/ASIC arms race), and real-world inputs (power, policy). “Hashprice”—revenue per unit of hashrate—captures the pressure: it moves with BTC price, fees, and difficulty. Luxor’s Hashprice Index is the industry reference.
Halving 2024: a fee-driven ceasefire that didn’t last
On April 20, 2024, the block subsidy fell…
No major platform has a blanket ban on all cryptocurrency content in 2025. What’s restricted is mainly advertising and paid/branded content. Google allows crypto ads with certification and country-specific rules; Meta requires written permission and licensing; TikTok tightly gates branded and financial ads; YouTube follows Google’s ad policy and separate monetization rules; X (Twitter) permits some crypto/NFT ads under its…
No South Asian flag carrier has switched on on-chain ticket payments yet, but the pieces are falling into place: Air India just adopted a blockchain-powered loyalty integration, regional neighbors like Emirates are moving to enable crypto checkout, and multiple OTAs already let you book South Asian carriers with crypto via payment processors. What’s missing is country-by-country compliance clarity and a…
“Global coin offerings” (ICOs/STOs/IEOs/IDOs and similar sales) sit in a fast-shifting regulatory map. In 2025, the EU’s MiCA regime is coming fully online, the UK is enforcing strict marketing rules, Hong Kong and Singapore have formal frameworks (including new stablecoin regimes), Dubai updated its VA rulebooks, and the U.S. SEC—despite softening its posture—still treats many tokens as securities. Meanwhile, hacks…
Initial coin offering (ICO) enforcement has reshaped crypto since 2017. Below is a concise, factual status check on the most consequential cases—what’s still active in 2025, what recently wrapped, and the practical takeaways for founders and investors. Citations appear after each relevant section so you can verify details quickly.
What’s still active in 2025
Justin Sun / Tron (SEC v. Sun et…
“Promotion” for ICOs in 2025 is not about blasting ads—it’s about earning trust within strict legal and platform constraints. Major ad networks flat-out prohibit ICO advertising, while securities regulators expect compliant offers, fair disclosures, and proper use of influencers (if any). The issuers that still break through do so by combining compliant offering structures, credible documentation, community operations, and verifiable…
If you own a high-end apartment in Britain, the right price depends on today’s market, your building’s fundamentals, and your likely buyer’s tax profile. This guide shows how to calculate a defensible asking price in 2025 using official data and prime-market research. For context, new listings’ average asking prices dipped by 1.3% in August 2025 (typical for the season), while…
“State security frauds” in crypto generally fall into two buckets: (1) state-linked threat actors that operate or compromise online “services” (exchanges, wallets, DeFi front-ends) to steal funds, and (2) criminal rings that impersonate government or law-enforcement agencies to push fake recovery, compliance, or investment “services.” 2025 data shows both are active: analysts attribute record-scale thefts to DPRK-linked groups, while FBI…