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Best High-Yield Savings Rates in the US — Up to 4.91%
Your Savings Account Is Probably Earning Almost Nothing Here's the Fix If your money is sitting in a regular savings account right now, it's quietly losing value to inflation and the fix takes about 10 minutes. Here's the gap most people don't realize exists: the average traditional savings account pays just 0.22% APY. The best high-yield accounts available right now pay up to 4.91% APY more than 10 times the national average. On a basic savings account, the highest yield today is 5.84%, while the average standard account pays just 0.22% That's not a rounding error. On $10,000 in savings, the difference between 0.22% and 4.91% is roughly $469 a year in free money, just for moving your cash to a better account. Why Rates Are Still This High Savings rates are heavily influenced by the Federal Reserve's moves and after the Fed cut rates at it's September, October, and December 2025 meetings, many savers assumed yields would keep falling. They haven't at lea...
IBM Joins Swift's Blockchain: 17 Banks Already Piloting It
IBM Plugged Into Swift's Banking Blockchain Here's Who's Already On It: The world's biggest bank messaging network just quietly went blockchain and IBM wants in. On September 25 - 2026, IBM connected its Digital Asset Haven platform to Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger, currently in beta. The move lets banks move tokenized deposits across Swift's network using an ISO 20022 messaging adapter meaning banks can tap blockchain rails without ripping out their existing payment systems. Swift isn't a small player here. It connects over 12,500 financial institutions across more than 200 markets, moving the equivalent of world GDP every two to three days. So when Swift adds blockchain to that stack, banks pay attention. The First Live Transaction Already Happened HSBC and Standard Chartered beat everyone to the punch, completing the first live transaction on the ledger back in August proof the system works outside the lab. Meet the 17 Founding Banks Swift's ...
Crypto Funds Just Posted Their Best Week of 2026 — $3.5B in a Single Week
"Bitcoin ETFs Go 5-for-5: Crypto Funds Hit Biggest Inflow Week of the Year" Digital asset investment funds pulled in $3.5 billion last week, according to CoinShares latest Digital Asset Bi-Weekly Digest the largest single-week inflow recorded in 2026. The surge pushed total assets under management across crypto funds to $173 billion globally. Bitcoin Led the Charge US spot Bitcoin ETFs were the standout performer, hauling in $2.39 billion and staying positive on all five trading days of the week. Ethereum products weren't far behind, adding $690 million over the same stretch. Together, these flows pulled year-to-date totals back into positive territory up to $8.6 billion for 2026 so far. What Sparked the Rally? CoinShares attributes the strength to the removal of uncertainty following the Federal Reserve's recent rate decision. Once the outcome became clear, investors who had been sitting on the sidelines started deploying capital again. The US Dominated But Who Else...
Visa Is Shutting Down the Meme Coin Credit Card Loophole
Buying meme coins with a credit card came with an unexpected perk: some users could earn ordinary credit card points and cash back on their crypto purchases. Visa is now moving to close that loophole. The issue centered on how meme coin purchases were classified by payment processors . Some Crossmint-powered checkouts used merchant category code (MCC) 5815 , a category intended for digital media such as movies, music and audiobooks, rather than a crypto-specific category. That meant a meme coin purchase could look to the card network like a normal digital-media purchase. How the loophole worked Users of Robinhood Wallet and Fomo could purchase certain meme coins using credit cards through Apple Pay or Google Pay. According to The Block's testing, transactions made with Visa and Mastercard cards were classified as digital-media purchases and could earn normal card rewards, including points and cash back. The classification mattered because crypto purchases are generally t...
Vitalik Says AI Will Make Crypto More Secure
What if the same AI that helps hackers find vulnerabilities could also make your crypto harder to steal? That is the possibility Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is pointing to. He argues that AI could make software fundamentally harder to break by making formal verification practical at a much larger scale. Formal verification uses mathematical proofs to confirm that code follows specific security rules. Instead of relying only on testing to find bugs, developers can prove that certain parts of a program behave as intended. But Buterin says there is a bigger challenge. The Hardest Part Is Defining Security According to Buterin, defining what “secure” actually means is harder than verifying the code . A security definition needs to account for more than obvious bugs. It may also need to consider compromised servers, leaked keys, network attacks, metadata and hardware vulnerabilities. If an important threat is missing from the definition, a perfect mathematical proof will no...
Kalshi Just Raised $1.12 Billion — And It's Valuation Is Moving Fast
Trade On Anything Kalshi has just raised a staggering amount of money. According to an SEC Form D filing, the prediction-market company has raised $1.12 billion from 71 investors since April . The company confirmed that the money is tied to its Series F , which valued Kalshi at $22 billion . But that valuation might already be looking outdated. Investors are betting big on prediction markets Kalshi's Series F was led by Coatue , with major participation from firms including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), IVP, Paradigm, Morgan Stanley and ARK Invest . That's a notable mix. It's not just traditional venture capital. It's also major financial institutions and investors positioning themselves around a market that has moved from crypto-adjacent experimentation into something much bigger. And another $750 million could be coming Separate reports say Kalshi is in advanced discussions to raise another $750 million at a valuation of approximately $40 b...
PayPal Was Once Worth $280 Billion. Now Stripe Wants to Buy It.
PayPal once looked almost untouchable. In 2021, the payments giant was worth more than $280 billion . Now, one of the world's biggest private fintech companies is discussing buying it. Stripe and private-equity firm Advent International are in talks to acquire PayPal , according to people familiar with the situation. But there is a catch. The first offer wasn't good enough for PayPal. The $53 Billion Offer In July, Stripe and Advent reportedly offered $60.50 per PayPal share . That valued PayPal at roughly $53 billion . PayPal considered the offer too low. The two sides have continued negotiating over a potentially higher price, but there is no deal yet and no guarantee one will happen . PayPal shares closed at about $61.66 on Friday, giving the company a market value of roughly $54 billion . Think about that difference. A company that was once worth more than $280 billion is now being discussed in a deal worth around $53 billion. That's an enormous fall. ...
The Global Payment Network May Not Look Like What You Think
For decades, moving money across borders has meant moving through a chain of institutions. A payment can pass through banks, correspondent banks, payment processors and currency-conversion systems before reaching the person on the other side. That system works. But it can also be slow, expensive and difficult to access. Now a different model is being tested. Money is moving on blockchains. And Stellar is one of the networks trying to build the infrastructure behind it. The Interesting Part Isn't Just XLM When people hear Stellar , they often think about XLM , the network's native asset. But the bigger story is the network itself. Stellar can transfer different assets, including stablecoins such as USDC. Its payment infrastructure is designed for 24/7 settlement and supports remittances, payroll, supplier payments and treasury operations. That changes the way we should look at XLM. The future of global payments doesn't necessarily require everyone to use XLM as t...
Bitcoin Made a Huge Mistake in 2026
Bitcoin has spent years building one of the strongest identities in crypto: digital money. Simple. Scarce. Permissionless. But in 2026, Bitcoin is facing a debate that could shape what the network becomes next. And the strange part is that the debate isn't really about Bitcoin's price. It's about what Bitcoin's block space should be allowed to do. The Fight Over Bitcoin's Block Space A proposal called BIP-110 would temporarily restrict certain forms of non-financial data from being stored in Bitcoin transactions. The proposal specifically targets techniques associated with things like Ordinals, BRC-20 and Runes . The argument from supporters is straightforward: Bitcoin's blockchain should prioritize being money. Large amounts of arbitrary data can increase the burden on people running full nodes and move Bitcoin further away from its monetary purpose. But critics see the situation differently. They argue that if someone creates a valid transaction,...
The Dollar Is Winning Crypto’s Biggest Battle
Crypto was supposed to challenge traditional finance. Bitcoin introduced a form of digital money that doesn't depend on a central bank. DeFi promised financial services that could operate without traditional intermediaries. Yet one of the biggest winners inside crypto is something very familiar: the U.S. dollar. Not paper dollars. Not money sitting in a traditional bank account. Digital dollars living on blockchains. Today, the total stablecoin market is around $310 billion . USDT alone represents roughly 59% of the market, while USDC sits at more than $73 billion. The interesting question is no longer whether dollars belong in crypto. It's which digital dollar becomes part of the financial infrastructure of the future. Why Does DeFi Need Dollars? Bitcoin and Ethereum are valuable assets, but their prices move. That makes them less convenient as a unit of account. Imagine borrowing $10,000 worth of an asset today and discovering that its dollar value has fallen 30...