Money Never Sleeps Radio

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 blockchain and offers Nasdaq type of order book and […]

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 derivatives ecosystem grew into one of the most active […]

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 beyond Binance. The reality is that major exchange hacks […]

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 incident had an estimated impact of approximately $6.3 […]

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 prominence because they solved a fundamental […]

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 to companies without substantial revenue streams […]

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 and begins acting on their behalf in financial […]

Few corporate reinventions are as striking as the one that played out on Nasdaq this morning. As the opening bell echoed across Times Square, the company formerly known as CEA Industries marked not only a name change but a wholesale redefinition of its purpose. Now operating as BNB Standard Corporation, the Nasdaq-listed firm used the ceremonial opening bell to signal its evolution from a company […]

The NFL has always been a league obsessed with certainty, yet every season serves as a reminder that certainty is often an illusion. This weekend’s slate of games delivered another chapter in that story, producing results that strengthened the cases of some teams, exposed weaknesses in others, and further demonstrated why professional football remains one of the most unpredictable and […]

A fundamental shift is quietly reshaping global finance. While public attention often remains focused on cryptocurrency prices, exchange-traded funds, and market speculation, some of the world’s largest financial institutions are concentrating on something far more profound: transforming how investment products are issued, managed, transferred, and settled. Increasingly, asset managers, banks, […]