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Today’s crypto market stands in striking contrast to last year’s. One year ago, crypto assets were recovering from March’s sell-off as they set up the “DeFi summer” of 2020, a period of rapid growth for many DeFi protocols.

Fidelity Investments has opined that governments, and even a central bank, could buy bitcoin in 2022.

Over the past decade, cryptocurrencies and digital assets as a whole emerged from some deep shadows to become both useful tools and a widely embraced investible asset class.

After last week's report, we had some concern that the fintech VC sector was starting to lose it's luster. For the first time, we saw a Top 5 deal come in under $100M, and it's been some time since we've seen that. Not to fear. Apparently last week was a temporary "seasonally adjusted" blip, and here we are back in $200M+ territory again.

Like the wallet in your pant pocket, digital wallets have several subaccounts—like the various credit cards, debit cards, membership cards, ID’s—for each asset type.

In the midst of a stock market correction, the advisor community is hiring more talent, revamping products, raising capital, partnering with portfolio management solutions, and accessing more tools to increase their value proposition to clients. 

Robert Grant, CEO of Crown Sterling, Grant describes data as the most valuable asset in the world, but today it’s an asset that renders little or no value to most of its creators.

Earnings season is underway, and banks are obsessed with their chief rivals — fintechs. VCs can’t get enough of fintechs either, but in a good way as funding levels continue to rise. Meanwhile, neither cryptocurrencies nor fintech stocks have been able to win over investors so far in 2022, except for one meme coin. Amazon and Visa have found a way to coexist in the U.K. 

Invest. Save. Invest. From a young age, individuals are encouraged to plan their futures in order to grow and manage their wealth over the course of their life. In today’s day and age, we are exposed to a whole new asset class: digital assets.

Capital Brokerage, a national life insurance and annuity distribution company, announced this week that it is acquiring Quotacy, an insurtech firm.  The transaction also includes the acquisition of Hallett Financial Group, a life insurance brokerage general agency owned by the same family that launched Quotacy.