Every time I come to New York and walk down Canal Street, I’m genuinely baffled by how this is still tolerated. Countless people openly selling counterfeit designer goods, clogging up the sidewalks and hassling pedestrians in broad daylight. Isn’t this literally illegal? Why isn’t it being enforced? It makes one of Manhattan’s most iconic streets look like absolute fucking shit.

Every other tech revolution starts the same way: venture capitalists and institutions get in first, retail catches up later. Bitcoin flipped that order entirely. @GregCipolaro, Head of Research at BitGo, explains why an asset class built from nothing in 2009 by technologists and risk-takers is only now seeing institutions show up, nearly two decades late.

Everything you missed in the stock market on October 20th: 1. Stocks rallied as healthcare names jumped and oil pulled back on hopes for easing US Iran tensions 2. $BRZE soared 51.70% after Salesforce agreed to buy Braze for $5.66 billion, $47.50 per share cash 3. $LLY climbed 3.59% to a record high as large cap drugmakers rallied on healthcare strength 4. $AAPL fell 1% after Loop Capital downgraded the stock to Hold on iPhone demand concerns 5. $MMM surged 5.82% on an earnings beat and a new data center deal with Amazon 6. $GM sank 6.83% as rising cost pressures overshadowed strong truck sales 7. $TSLA climbed 1.54% ahead of Wednesday's earnings with investors watching Optimus and Cybercab 8. The 10 year Treasury yield eased to 5.12%, holding off last week's 24 year highs 9. WTI crude fell 5.35% to $98.11 as traders bet on US Iran diplomacy despite Hormuz tanker attacks 10. Housing starts sank 5.2% in September to the lowest level since May 2020 11. 8 of 11 S&P sectors rose, healthcare led while energy and communication services lagged 12. The S&P 500 rose 0.29%, the Dow climbed 1.02%, and the Nasdaq slipped 0.02% And that's just ONE trading day

Every token format solves one problem and quietly creates another. Fireblocks CSO & Head of Banking, Stephen Richardson (@thoughtsofsteve) is at @Money2020 USA with Debbie Gamble of Interac and Elizabeth St.-Onge of @TDBank_US on what each token is actually good for.

Every institution weighing a stablecoin faces the same question: build it all in-house, or start from infrastructure that already exists? BitGo’s Stablecoin-as-a-Service gives banks, fintechs, and corporations a regulated path to issuance, with qualified custody, reserve management, minting and burning, and compliance tooling included from day one. Institutions should still run their own legal and compliance review, and infrastructure designed around US licensing and frameworks like the GENIUS Act gives that process a stronger footing. Get started: