The Dollar and Oil are Bid north The dollar and oil remain firm. The market has a had muted reaction to President Trump’s announcement late yesterday that it will extend its pledge not to strike Iran’s energy infrastructure for ten days (April 6). At the same time, reports indicate the US is considering sending more troops to [...]
Celo’s First Year as an L2: Scaling the Programmable Rails for Global Finance north One year ago today, Celo returned home to Ethereum.On March 26, 2025 at 3am UTC, Celo’s core engineers successfully migrated the network from an EVM-compatible, standalone Layer 1 blockchain to an Ethereum Layer 2 leveraging the OP Stack. This milestone migration was supported by more than 100 [...]
Hope Wanes, USD Little Changed while Bonds and Stocks Weaken north The US dollar is trading in narrow trading ranges against the G10 currencies today, but the calm in the foreign exchange market belies stress in other parts of the capital markets. Equities and bonds have been sold. The hope that an end to the Middle East conflict has faltered amid the [...]
Hope Lifts Stocks and Bonds north There continues to be hope in the capital and commodity markets that a US-Israel war on Iran can be brought to a conclusion soon. While news reports indicate that the US had drafted a 15-point peace plan that has been delivered to Iran via Pakistan, other reports indicate that US is sending [...]
Introducing Celo’s Agent Visa: The World’s First Work Visa for AI Agents north AI agents are taking over the timeline, dashboards, and crypto mindshare at large. Thousands are being built, launched, and hyped, but what are these agents actually doing?For most chains, the answer is purely trading tokens. Agents launch coins, degens speculate, prices dump, and the cycle [...]