One of the more fascinating shifts unfolding in global politics is not the growing rivalry between East and West, nor the debate over economic nationalism and globalization. It is the increasingly visible reality that many European nations appear to be strengthening strategic alignment with the United States at the very moment the European Union […]

For more than a decade, the public conversation around cryptocurrency security has often followed a familiar pattern. A major theft occurs, hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars disappear, headlines declare that “crypto was hacked”, and the broader public is left with the impression that blockchain technology itself has failed. Yet […]

One of the most persistent misconceptions within decentralised finance is that advanced trading functionality and self-custody are somehow incompatible. For years, traders seeking sophisticated order management tools often found themselves choosing between centralised exchanges that offered precision and convenience, or decentralised platforms […]

On this episode of Money Never Sleeps Radio with Louis Velazquez we are focusing on digital assets, defi and tradfi, the $6.3B Binance hack, the parent company of the NYSE, ICE, striking a deal with Hyperliquid, and Trade XYZ to bring their tech to the US markets, we go over HootDex, the decentralized exchange that is built on the Pecu Novus […]

For years, the perpetual futures market existed largely on the fringes of traditional finance. While crypto-native traders embraced perpetual contracts as one of the most efficient ways to gain leveraged exposure to digital assets, the world’s largest financial institutions largely remained observers, watching from a distance as a parallel […]

When news broke of the massive security breach impacting Binance, the immediate focus was understandably on the exchange itself. Headlines centred on the billions of dollars involved, questions regarding security infrastructure, and whether the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange could absorb the damage. But the real story extends far […]

The cryptocurrency industry has endured exchange collapses, regulatory crackdowns, market crashes and some of the largest cyber thefts in financial history. Yet the reported $6.3 billion security breach affecting Binance may ultimately be remembered as one of the most significant tests the industry has ever faced. According to Binance, the […]

For years, digital asset trading has been defined by a compromise. Market participants could choose the speed, liquidity and polished user experience of a centralised exchange, or they could choose the transparency and self-custody offered by decentralised finance. Rarely could they enjoy both in a single platform. Centralised exchanges rose to […]

Sometimes a market warning resonates not because it introduces a new idea, but because it confirms a fear investors were already beginning to sense. That is what happened when Elon Musk recently warned that “200+ neoclouds” could face what he described as “guppy-level death and consolidation,” arguing that debt markets have largely closed […]

A quiet but profound debate is unfolding inside the United Kingdom’s financial system. While much of the public conversation around artificial intelligence has focused on chatbots, image generators and workplace automation, regulators are increasingly confronting a more consequential question: what happens when AI stops merely assisting humans […]