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Robert Kiyosaki, author of the best-selling personal finance book ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’, has long based his investment philosophy on real assets, consistently dismissing fiat currencies as ‘fake money.’ In 2025, his favored assets have delivered mixed results. Gold and silver have maintained their upward momentum, reaching new all-time highs, while Bitcoin (BTC) has faced heightened volatility, trading mostly sideways or trending downward. Despite recent market volatility, Kiyosaki remains committed to the trio, with the author planning to continue building his own ‘standard’ around the assets to weather what he calls the ‘DOGE CHAINSAW MASSACRE’—his term for the Trump administration’s…
At press time on April 10, some 2.74 billion XRP were held on crypto exchanges, according to data retrieved by Finbold from market intelligence platform CryptoQuant. This figure represents a 1-month low in the readily available XRP supply, which stood at 2.82 billion back on March 10. Exchange supply tends to have an inverse correlation with prices. The less tokens held on exchanges, the smaller the selling pressure. XRP was trading at a price of $2 at the time of writing, having reclaimed a crucial level of support in the wake of Donald Trump’s tariff pause, which caused a rally…
Block, Inc. has agreed to a $40 million settlement with the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) for “significant failures” in its anti-money laundering compliance program, the Wall Street regulator announced on Thursday. The company led by Jack Dorsey has agreed to retain an independent monitor after violating the Department’s money transmitter and virtual currency rules, the NYDFS added. The NYDFS found that Block’s company had “inadequate customer due diligence” and failed to implement systems sufficient for preventing money laundering and illicit activity. Block’s services were “vulnerable to criminal exploitation,” the NYDFS said, arguing that Block’s “lax treatment” of…
Bitcoin miners are scrambling to adjust to Trump’s global tariffs, which are poised to increase prices on ASIC miners, electrical gear, network infrastructure and more. “It’s a complete scramble,” Luxor COO Ethan Vera said on last week’s Mining Pod news roundup. “From the ASIC trading front and brokerage, miners have not been very proactive here. They have not necessarily frontrun orders and gotten them into the U.S…they’re operating in a less than a week period here to make sure all shipments that are coming out of SE Asia are picked up and getting delivered.” ASIC prices have trended slightly downward…
Real-world asset tokenization platform Centrifuge has launched its latest upgrade, Centrifuge V3, in partnership with multichain messaging protocol Wormhole. The new system is designed to make it easier for fund managers and investors to manage tokenized assets across multiple blockchains using a single interface. The rollout begins with a $230 million fund from Anemoy, a crypto-native asset manager powered by Centrifuge. The fund invests in U.S. Treasury securities managed by Janus Henderson and marks one of the larger real-world asset tokenizations to date. Centrifuge V3 introduces “full chain abstraction,” which allows users to invest, administer, and issue tokenized assets without…
This is a segment from the Supply Shock newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Bitcoin’s first Ponzi scheme was nothing special — but it was early. After the 1906 inception of the international reply coupon, it took 14 years for Charles Ponzi to come along with his legendary scheme, which he peddled across Boston society to the tune of $20 million at the time ($319 million in today’s money). Meanwhile, it only took Trendon Shavers, aka Pirateat40, less than three years to pull off something similar on the Bitcoin blockchain: Bitcoin Savings & Trust. On This Day – Bitcoin Savings…
This is a segment from the Empire newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. We’re thinking about stablecoin classification all wrong, Agora CEO Nick van Eck told me. It’s easy to lump all of the stablecoins into one single bucket, but the reality is that the offerings are quickly becoming more unique and different as the space matures. A lot of stablecoins are “very different, and have very different user profiles,” which means they “ultimately don’t even end up competing.” “Someone who is looking to use USDe as a form of collateral is 95% of the time probably not the same…
Bitcoin posted one of its worst Q1 returns in 2025, Ethereum performed even worse, with over 45% drawdown in its price. Ethereum’s price has been in a decline since the Dencun upgrade in March 2024. Ethereum’s downfall seems driven by the Layer 2 protocols amassing large transaction volume and passing on the fraction of the revenue to the ETH chain. Ethereum (ETH) leaned into its role as security infrastructure and the underlying blockchain for Layer 2 protocols, scaling the crypto ecosystem and losing its value throughout 2025. Traders and investors holding the largest altcoin ask the question whether Ethereum will…
US President Donald Trump has privately acknowledged that the sweeping tariff proposal he unveiled last week could send the US economy into recession, according to The Wall Street Journal. However, he said his intention was to avoid triggering a widespread depression. Citing people familiar with the matter, the newspaper reported that Trump had told advisers he was prepared to accept the economic “pain” that the tariff strategy could cause, though mounting bond market pressure forced a partial reversal of the policy. The plan, which includes significant tariffs aimed at protecting U.S. industries, has raised fears among economists that disruptions to…
Ripple’s $1.25 billion acquisition of prime broker Hidden Road has sparked renewed speculation around XRP handling trillions in institutional liquidity. Following comments from Ripple CTO David Schwartz regarding the acquisition, XRP community influencer Zach Rector presented an analysis of how the deal could impact XRP’s price and adoption. For context, Ripple’s purchase of Hidden Road is one of the most significant acquisitions in the crypto scene. Schwartz revealed that Hidden Road processes over $10 billion in daily liquidity across traditional financial markets. However, these transactions often take up to 24 hours to settle using legacy financial systems. Ripple’s CTO highlighted…