KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Dec. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Building on the swift sell-out of its previous stage, GeeFi Tech LLC announced today that Phase 3 of its token presale has already secured $180,000 in funding. This rapid influx of capital shortly after the phase transition highlights sustained investor interest and strong market confidence in the project's utility-focused vision. With this latest achievement, the total funds raised have now surpassed $1.6 million, with more than 26 m ...

“This can be seen as a new dawn for financial nihilists,” Dr. Amin Samman, senior academic in international political economy at City, University of London, and the author of “Currency of Nihilism,” told Decrypt . “What we're dealing with is a kind of rolling bubble, which is like a simulated carnival mounted from within the financial void—the emptiness, the groundlessness of finance itself, which cannot be avoided.”For its critics, Hyperliquid, whose representatives declined to comment for this story, is t ...

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 18, 2025) - Pioneer AI Foundry Inc. (Cboe CA: JPEG) (FSE: 6NU0) ("Pioneer" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce the voting results from its annual general meeting (the "Meeting") held on December 18, 2025. The total number of shares represented by shareholders present in person and by proxy at the Meeting was 44,455,773 shares representing 47.36% of Pioneer's issued and outstanding common shares.All of the matters put forward before shareholders ...

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the company behind the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is negotiating an investment in crypto payments firm MoonPay as part of a funding round that could value the company at approximately $5 billion, according to a recent Bloomberg report. The potential valuation marks a 47% increase from MoonPay’s previous $3.4 billion valuation, which comes just a month after the company secured approval from the New York Department of Financial Services to position it alongside Coinbas ...

Park City, Utah, Dec. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ClearUnited, Inc. and Sundance Strategies, Inc. (OTCQB: SUND) today announced an agreement leading to the launch of a landmark $250 million LIFE Bond issuance, supported by approximately $600 million in life insurance policies. The issuance is designed to establish one of the most advanced asset-backed digital bond structures in the global decentralized financial ecosystem. A Breakthrough in Insurance-Backed Digital Finance Under a letter of intent signed t ...

Kraken exchange announced that xStocks, the gold standard for tokenized equities, has launched on TON , the open network linked to Telegram. This means that users of the social media platform will have access to tokenized versions of US stocks and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) through the app’s wallet. No Broker Account, No Complex Onboarding With xStocks With xStocks now live on the TON network, users have exposure to permissionless, onchain U.S. equity. As a result of this integration, users can buy, ...

Chinese companies are tokenizing rare Huanghuali trees and other commodities in an effort to address liquidity issues facing various industries.Digital Tokens For Scarce ResourcesFirms located on Hainan, a tropical island in China, are capturing images of Huanghuali trees, a scarce species of rosewood, to transform them into digital assets, as reported by Reuters.Zhao Xiaobao, the Hainan representative for Geely Technology Group, a subsidiary of Chinese automaker Geely Automobile Holdings (OTC:GELYF), expre ...

Coinbase signaled on Wednesday that its platform is expanding beyond digital assets, with U.S. customers gaining access to traditional stock trading as part of a sweeping update. In a livestreamed event, the exchange detailed changes to over a dozen new and existing products, ranging from prediction markets to decentralized finance on Solana, as well as an end-to-end platform for creating digital representations of real-world assets. As a commission-free brokerage, Coinbase said it will support thousands o ...

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the industry-owned clearing and settlement market infrastructure, has selected the privacy-focused Canton Network as a tokenization partner, the companies said on Tuesday. The partnership, which will enable a subset of U.S. Treasury securities custodied at DTC to be minted on the Canton Network, follows DTCC’s recent receipt of a No-Action Letter from the SEC to implement and operate a new service to tokenize real-world, DTC-custodied assets. The organ ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN) today announced that Dr. Xi Chen, Professor and Andre Meyer Faculty Fellow at the Department of Technology, Operations and Statistics at the New York University Stern School of Business, has affiliated with its subsidiary Compass Lexecon. Dr. Chen, who is based in New York, is an award-winning expert in machine learning, artificial intelligence, quantitative economics and digital platforms. He has collaborated on major AI and pla ...