Verdict. KortanaFX is not a firm a trader can evaluate on its rules, because it is not operating. Its homepage has carried a "temporarily paused" notice since at least January 2026, its official Telegram channel…
Rebels Funding review: no consistency rule, but a…
Verdict: Rebels Funding suits patient, low-frequency discretionary traders who want a phased evaluation with no clock on it and who can live inside a hard 1.5% cap on risk per trade. It does not suit…
USD/CNH to 6.65 by year-end: the fixing-gap case
USD/CNH reaches 6.6500 by December 31, 2026 in the base case, 6.5200 in the bull case and 6.9200 in the bear case. The mechanism is the widening gap between the People's Bank of China (PBOC)…
SuperFunded review: two documents, two countries of incorporation
Verdict. SuperFunded is the prop desk of the Eightcap broking group, run through its Seychelles securities dealer, on TradeLocker, with cheap entry ($33–$1,469) and a genuine 90% ceiling. It suits discretionary swing traders on the…
Maximum raises $30m seed to rebuild core banking…
Two companies set out to replace the same piece of software this week, and investors priced the bets in opposite directions. Maximum, a US start-up building what it calls an AI-native operating system for banks,…
Circle’s 11 Arc validators are the settlement establishment
Circle named the founding validator cohort for Arc on August 5, and the list reads less like a blockchain genesis set than a roll call of the plumbing that already clears global markets: BlackRock, The…
Decade raises record $85m seed for AI wealth…
Decade, a pre-launch Brazilian wealth advisory business founded by two former Nubank executives, has raised $85 million in what it says is the largest seed round ever closed by a Latin American startup. The size…
Kraken parent buys Magic’s embedded wallet arm behind…
Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has agreed to buy the embedded wallet business of Magic Labs — and the most revealing number in the deal is the one nobody published. Payward paid…
OFAC sanctions Shelbit and Aban Tether over IRGC…
When OFAC sanctions landed on four Iranian exchanges on June 2, 2026, they captured most of the country's on-chain economy but not all of it. TRM Labs attributed $7.7 billion of 2025 volume to Nobitex,…